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C'mon Alphabet, bring this to Halifax! The land will be much cheaper, we've got a huge problem with students fleeing for greener pastures, and we have one of the best connected cities in the country.
Best connected in what way?
Crazy. People on Hacker News are still upset at Google for shutting down Reader.
"Sidewalk Labs has discussed creating an entire micro-city or district that could showcase the company’s ideas for urban planning...." all great, until Google decides to stop funding /working on the project.
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you realize they shut down like 80 percent of what they start? or atleast abandon it?
80%? Post your analysis and let's find out the real percentage. Don't worry, I won't be expecting a response.
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I think this is it, and it does nothing to help the tech companies' reputations to move these jobs. The "immigration bullshit" was in response to outsourcing, immigration, and exploitation of visa programs to exploit cheap labor and keep wages down. By shipping these jobs overseas at the first sign of a worker/employer leverage shift, it shows us that these companies don't care about providing for its employees, they…
It's because people don't understand that if you make it difficult to pay software developers who may be citizens of a different country $80000 to work in the US, companies can just as easily outsource to those same software developers, in their own countries, but instead pay them $20/hr instead. Essentially, America was able to use its mythology as a land of opportunity and equality to convert $20/hr being sent else…
I disagree with you there. This push is really showing people how little these multinational corporations care for them. The economy has been growing, but instead of passing that growth down to its employees, it's keeping wages down or shipping jobs overseas. If we shift gears as a country and limit outsourcing and immigration, there will be a period of time when large companies leave ship, but chances are good that the lower and middle classes would finally start seeing their wages go up.
Out of curiousity and so we can all concretely imagine how Sidewalk Labs plans to transform cities, can someone explain what are the speicific changes and associated benefits in this new kind of city? It mentions, autonomous transit, ride sharing, cheaper housing (how?). Can someone paint a fuller picture of what will be new and how it will be beneficial. I'm not skeptical at all, in fact I'm very hopeful. I just wan…
That's certainly more than enough land to build something interesting in. Otherwise, that area would just go to another boring condominium development. But the only autonomous transit is going to be elevators and the inflamed fantasies of journalists who don't check all the primary sources.
Now, if there was a bid for doing something interesting with Ontario Place, that would be a discussion.
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For reference, the average salary for a software engineer, in Toronto, is close to $71,000 CAD/year. Taking into account the current CAD/USD exchange rate, brings it to approximately $52,000 USD/year. Each country has different costs, taxes and otherwise, for both employees and employers. The effects of those costs have not been included with those figures.
I'm from Toronto, good senior engineers that aren't working in a sweat shop make $100k CAD or more, you can rent a nice apartment downtown for $2k per month.
I can't help but notice right now that Toronto's name has been increasingly pushed as some sort of "next tech centre" (well, many cities in the world want to be something like that). Can someone who's actually there fill me in on what's happening there? How does Toronto's scene compare to say, New York or Seattle?
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More and more companies are turning towards Canada after all the immigration bullshit the US government is pulling.
Throwaway for anonymity, but the quickly growing startup that I work for is opening a Toronto office because it will help us retain existing talent, and recruit talent on an ongoing basis, particularly if immigration to the US becomes more challenging.
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I'm from Toronto, good senior engineers that aren't working in a sweat shop make $100k CAD or more, you can rent a nice apartment downtown for $2k per month.
Sorry for the nit, but is that $2k CAD?