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New comment by snapplebobapple in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

snapplebobapple — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 13:10:51 +0000

I dont think anything is better to do in Canada except for stuff you cant do in usa. Ie resource extraction or housing third worlders that cant get into the usa for usa subsidiaries

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

snapplebobapple — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:57:52 +0000

The greater fools was on the business selling side aka investors turning paper gains into hard currency. Your description would fit something you could start in canada because you dont have outside investors. You can do a worse job making them money because they do not exist. That being said, i wouldnt start that in canada either because every aspect of it is better in usa for that too on both the manufacturing and consumer side.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

snapplebobapple — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:03:07 +0000

Its the population density and tax regime. Usa has high enough population density to have real wealth pools and low enough taxes that those wealth pools can create new billionaires when they invest in good ideas. Europe could do it if they dropped their tax rates and crazy labour protections to get more dynamic, but i think the current rich there like that the system aborts new billionaires before they are born.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

snapplebobapple — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:58:24 +0000

Its always what the greatest fool will pay. Usa has way more fools, at way more levels of company development leaving way more out opportunities. In Canada be prepared for 7 to 10 years slog to get to where you can list on a low scam stock exchange or be sold to an international company at a discount. Better hope nothing happens in that time to tak your 10x to 100x return to zero. Vs usa if you have strong growth or strong cash flow you can usually get out within a year of starting to earbestly look no matter what stage you are at usually without the discount applied to being a Canadian company. The only things that make sense to do in canda is resource extraction and cheaper north american holding of foreign workers us companies dont want to leave in the third world but who cant get into the usa and canada has not yet impoverished itself enough to get the idiots in the east that control everything to allow major expansion in that. Basically this place should be a no go for startups except for very rare exceptions.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

snapplebobapple — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 06:21:30 +0000

the downside of canada is the capital market. You need to take things ridiculuosly further to get less money for them vs usa. Plan on twice as long for exposure and possi ly having to go public to get any value. Just hope a us company doesbt steal your idea and do it better over that whole extended exposure period. I dont do any angel investing in canada anymore because of this.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W"

snapplebobapple — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:23:32 +0000

Eleventy billion:watch snl celebrity jeopardy.

^what every advertiser will do if we actually do this lol

New comment by snapplebobapple in "A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines"

snapplebobapple — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 19:40:59 +0000

Its as if nobody knows about the hario switch and everyone loves wating money....

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Budget offers $50B jolt to help Canada double its electricity grid"

snapplebobapple — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:49:31 +0000

cultural misuse is code for "I don't like it because it might make something I like to do unprofitable, so I'm going to trick myself into a more palatable reason for hating this than that I am lazy and am afraid of change." Go read some history. Every time something begins to happen that changes the labour market so entrenched interests lose power and things get a lot more efficient you guys come out of the wood work and start moaning about "cultural misuse" or "inauthenticity". Basically insert nonsense here so that the person spouting the nonsense can keep lying to themselves about their real reasons for not wanting something.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Budget offers $50B jolt to help Canada double its electricity grid"

snapplebobapple — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:46:01 +0000

Data centers are great and this concern over them is insane though.You should be more concerned about how the government is going to waste your money here, because they will, because they have for decades now and inefficient meddling is worse than effective meddling in most cases. For example, the bulk of this appears to be going into the clean electricity investment tax credit, which is a 15% refund on eligible capital costs that has some questionable requirements (like abiding by dumb prevailing wage laws rather than focusing on the correct thing, getting the project done well for as little expense as possible).

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick"

snapplebobapple — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:31:08 +0000

this all seems like wasted cycles to me. Why dont we just strike the name from common parlance after someth*ng falls off the frontier of science? The focus on caring about who figured it seems foolish vs figuring the next thing, especially when everybody is probably dead or has dementia by now.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures"

snapplebobapple — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:58:43 +0000

Thats the only good thing to come out of this. The rest of it really highlights how we acrewed up violating personal liberty with overly agressive zoning and other regulation.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks"

snapplebobapple — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:05:24 +0000

Good thing everything on the lan side is fully patched all the time. God bless those vigilant smart device manufacturers, especially the tv guys

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks"

snapplebobapple — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:03:34 +0000

Does ucore hace a patch yet? I justfinished moving all my stuff off ubuntu to ucore last week

New comment by snapplebobapple in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

snapplebobapple — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:16:08 +0000

Meh, a strong reason to not retire to the south of france.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Fair Use Benefits Everyone"

snapplebobapple — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:57:07 +0000

This is a good sentiment but wrong idea. The natural state of the world is everyone copies everything. This is hugely beneficial once something is discovered/created. Copyright harms everyone after the fact because of this. Before the fact, credibly limiting copying (i.e. copyrights/patents) may increase discovery/creation. That makes the correct question what is the minimum copyright/patent to get the most increased output for the least cost in lost copying? The answer is a small fraction of current copyright, almost certainly. so there are many decades where fair use now matters when it shouldnt because no copyright should exist at the time fair use is contemplated

New comment by snapplebobapple in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

snapplebobapple — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:03:49 +0000

Where exactly do you see under regulation? Everywhere i look i see massive over regulation. If you mean under enforcement of antitruat law so obviously stupid oligopolies are rampant instead of shattered into hundreds of pieces, i guess i could agree with that but thats not regulation, thats destruction of the bad end product of capitalism so that the amazing middle of capitalism can thrive.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B"

snapplebobapple — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:53:11 +0000

So? Price carbon correctly and stfu

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Git for the US Code"

snapplebobapple — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:37:27 +0000

It's slightly more complex though isn't? Because the actual problem is how to limit the reach of political power while still having an effective government.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet"

snapplebobapple — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:32:24 +0000

https://github.com/bonjourservices/awesome-jmap#clients

Pretty much all of that I had never heard of and many of them looked decent so I figured I would share.

New comment by snapplebobapple in "Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet"

snapplebobapple — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:19:14 +0000

you mentioned a secrets vault in the blog post. Is there something specific you like? I'm looking to eventualy move off bitwarden.