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Beside the NT4 servers we had SunOS 5.x and Digital UNIX (later upgraded to Tru64 UNIX). Yes, from sysadmin point of view they were way more consistent performance wise and less pr…

> They definitely managed to create a lot of reliable products. > Windows NT was one of them. Disagree. I was admining NT4.0 boxes back then and it was 1. very slow 2. constantly l…

I have no say in this process. Of course taxes are based on land and building assessed cost. Montreal and suburbs chose to assess condos at a market rate and even higher, while to …

> The reason why nannies are affordable in China is because those nannies aren't paid very much, and consequently enjoy a much lower standard of living than their employers. In Net…

> Property Tax revenue Property Tax revenue is surprisingly tiny from data centers in Quebec. Some how DCs have low assessment for the building, like way lower then their resale va…

I mean a bribe is rarely publicly announced I would guess. Therefore Occam's razor reasoning is valid mental model.

> It worked great for the last several hundred years. No, it did not. > E.g. In a country of 100M people, if 60% agree with a bill and it becomes law That's not how that law was ad…

More interesting that that mostly childless politicians are in favor of such things. That's makes sense since those legislations are NOT about children.

> The defence against this is widespread truly peer to peer messaging services Spain would label you criminal for merely using alternative Android builds: https://www.androidauthor…

Surely that not the case. Check any public BGP looking glass: Arelion/Telia uses RIPE space in the USA, Lumen/Level uses APNIC space in Europe and so on.

It doesn't feel like that for me. I reached professionally assessed B1 in French about 6 years ago and I don't feel I've reached B2 yet.

Interesting fact. Is there a list of local government mx servers?

> If one has ever tried to announce an ARIN IP in the EU or a RIPE IP in the US they will send warnings that the allocations will be pulled back if that is not fixed. Who are "they…

People born yesterday are alive today and will be alive in the next ~70 years mostly.

With a such rapid demographic growth they have no choice. The population of Egypt doubled in last ~35 years. (quadrupled in the last ~60 years)

Indeed. I live in Canada and while USMCA benefited some industries it did not others. Also as a Canadian I suspect the new agreement most likely will be even less beneficial to Can…

https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/202... "The Court replied that it is irrelevant whether or not the broadcasting of the prohibited content takes place in th…

https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

It can't find any major event happened in Canada in the last 10 days.

What 'big money' you have in mind in this very specific case?

I feel the same when visiting a doctor in Canada. In that 2 minutes I have with they in one appointment per year I hear a standard text.

> selectively giving away free money to big business is straight corruption Liberals in canada call that 'making housing affordable', https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbi…

"What Andy Giveth, Bill Taketh Away"

> One pattern I saw repeatedly was a contractor being let go, only to return via a large outsourcing provider. That's 'normal' in Canada and France.

> wiping out competition by undercutting them using state subsidies The same tactic is in the USA. Like every new AI datacenter has ~10 tax waiver + explicit subsidies + favorable …