Wow... I did not expect to see the comments filled with a bunch of Canadian hate.
Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
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Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
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It's mediocre, but for me, that's acceptable. Having spent significant time in the US, I'll take the mediocrity over the faux-meritocracy.
Fair, I don't like everything about the US but I do wish we had a bit more of their hustle and ambition. And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling.
> And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling.
It's strange to hear this complaint after a comparison to the States. I would dare say a vainglorious attitude doesn't seem to be helping.
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
#23Wow... I did not expect to see the comments filled with a bunch of Canadian hate.
One thing that younger Canadians and foreigners don't seem to grasp is that Canada's economy is basically a handful of abusive corporations pretending to be a country.
The Maritimes are dominated completely by the holdings of a single family. The West is dominated by resource extraction and banking. Ontario and Quebec are owned by banking and manufacturing families. And then there's Robellus...
But that said, there's also that raising Canadian capital is historically a fool's errand. Raising loonies is so hard it's basically pointless, it's almost always better for entrepreneurs to register as American corporations, pretend to be American, and raise American money.
Because, at the end of the day, every party in Canada is beholden to their campaign financiers. Every party. And no money wants to flow outside of the proven channels.
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair, I don't like everything about the US but I do wish we had a bit more of their hustle and ambition. And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling.
> And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling. It's strange to hear this complaint after a comparison to the States. I would dare say a vainglorious attitude doesn't seem to be helping.
That point is different than the other point. If you're not Canadian you wouldn't know that all our government institutions are way worse than they were, say, 10 years ago. Trying to access healthcare, trying to contact the CRA, trying to get a passport, etc... All these institutions have gone to shit fairly recently.
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling. It's strange to hear this complaint after a comparison to the States. I would dare say a vainglorious attitude doesn't seem to be helping.
That point is different than the other point. If you're not Canadian you wouldn't know that all our government institutions are way worse than they were, say, 10 years ago. Trying to access healthcare, trying to contact the CRA, trying to get a passport, etc... All these institutions have gone to shit fairly recently.
My experience is that these institutions were largely fine pre-COVID, certainly I never had any issue getting seen at Service Canada or contacting the CRA. Things have certainly gotten worse in the last 3 years, but it seems likely that these are the same pressures causing issues in other comparable nations. The UK passport office, for example, is struggling in much the same way [0], and I believe that is also true elsewhere in Europe.
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
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>Canadian society and culture is generally incapable of excellence. Avro Arrow? ATI? Yoshua Bengio?
I'd say these examples would partially prove their point, the first being defunct since 1962, and the second having been acquired by AMD (an American company) for over 15 years. For Yoshua, well this excerpt from Wikipedia may be useful here: "In October 2016, Bengio co-founded Element AI, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence incubator that turns AI research into real-world business applications. Having failed to…
Damn. Bengio!? I thought the dude had integrity. Why did he not threaten to resign if those employees weren’t at least somewhat compensated?
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
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>Canadian society and culture is generally incapable of excellence. Avro Arrow? ATI? Yoshua Bengio?
I'd say these examples would partially prove their point, the first being defunct since 1962, and the second having been acquired by AMD (an American company) for over 15 years. For Yoshua, well this excerpt from Wikipedia may be useful here: "In October 2016, Bengio co-founded Element AI, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence incubator that turns AI research into real-world business applications. Having failed to…
Well more recently we have startups like Shopify and Wealthsimple? D-Wave is also Canadian. Canadian game studios produce some of the most critically acclaimed titles, studios like Relic, BioWare, Eidos-Montreal, etc - admittedly many of these were either started as subsidiaries or have since been acquired, but the talent absolutely exists in Canada.
As someone else has mentioned, Canada has 1/10th the population of the USA, less still compared to the EU, and about 1/2th of the UK. I wouldn't say we do badly...
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
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Because of course, failure of a government program is telling us that the whole Canadian culture is mediocre? What a great take.
Canadian culture IS mediocre. Everyone's ambition here is to do what everyone else does. Restaurants are mostly the same. Businesses don't innovate, they merely do what someone else who was already successful did. The parent may not have elaborated the reasons perfectly but everyone here knows it.
Kind of sad to equate culture with capitalistic endeavour. There’s a lot more to the world than that.
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
#29Interesting article, but the one footnote reads: “It’s interesting how ‘Solid State’ and ‘Tek’ as an abbreviation for ‘Tech’ have disappeared from common use”
SSDs would like a word
Re: Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canadian culture IS mediocre. Everyone's ambition here is to do what everyone else does. Restaurants are mostly the same. Businesses don't innovate, they merely do what someone else who was already successful did. The parent may not have elaborated the reasons perfectly but everyone here knows it.
If given the chance to work and live in the states for $50k more, or in Europe for the same amount or less than I currently make, I might choose the latter for the novelty, but not the former to climb a ladder, so what's the comparison worth? That said, I'm not about to move to the suburbs where everyone and everything is pretty bland and same.
The difference is far from $50k in tech, it's far, far more and you can live in an actual city called new york unlike all of canada?