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Disappointingly, the answer from the article is "I don't know." This article could be condensed to a table.
The reason is that Canadians are spoiled, entitled, house-horny, financially illiterate morons who willingly enslave themselves to the banks that run the country. You're just not allowed to say that in print.
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The reason is that Canadians are spoiled, entitled, house-horny, financially illiterate morons who willingly enslave themselves to the banks that run the country. You're just not allowed to say that in print.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait here. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which country they have an issue with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Please don't post nationalistic flamebait here. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which country they have an issue with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I knew I couldn't say it in print, thanks for confirming. Am Canadian, btw.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631138
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408887
I've banned the account accordingly. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you want to review them.
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I knew I couldn't say it in print, thanks for confirming. Am Canadian, btw.
Between this comment, your GP comment, and these two, it seems clear that you don't want to use HN as intended: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408887 I've banned the account accordingly. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're at https://news.ycombi…
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Seems like laws need to be drawn up to make this unprofitable. It should be easy enough to get out of paying people standing around not behaving in a "competent and workmanlike manner." Or even the entire company. If it doesn't happen, why pay? As you've described, what is going on is corruption due to lack of oversight.
Similar to the coordination problems among different trades, I think there's a lot of interplay between competing interests that make something that seems simple on the surface much more complex. Take crane operations for instance. An organization may require union crane operators as a means of oversight to help guarantee trained and certified operators for a hazardous operation. However, this often has unintended co…
These problems seem complex and may truly be, but if they lead to payment for nonperformance then that needs to be addressed. I expect the market can figure it out from there.
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Similar to the coordination problems among different trades, I think there's a lot of interplay between competing interests that make something that seems simple on the surface much more complex. Take crane operations for instance. An organization may require union crane operators as a means of oversight to help guarantee trained and certified operators for a hazardous operation. However, this often has unintended co…
Corruption is a moral issue that exists besides the law. If the payment occurring produces no net benefit then I see no reason to consider it just. These problems seem complex and may truly be, but if they lead to payment for nonperformance then that needs to be addressed. I expect the market can figure it out from there.
Even while I have libertarian leanings, I would be hesitant to "expect the market can figure it out" largely because of asymmetries of information and the tendencies of present bias in making decisions, especially those with a profit incentive.