Happy father, Computer Science professor at Dalhousie, Haskell lover, avid cyclist, allergic to willful ignorance
Halifax, NS
Joined September 2013
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Indeed, making money has very little to do with true innovation and learning. Sad that in this world everything is measured in $$$.
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THIS 👇
ALT Picture of a chimney stack spewing pollution with a tweet over it saying "I'm hearing too much "recycle, compost, go vegan!" and not enough "100 corporations cause 71% of emissions."
I couldn’t have put it any better.
My take on taxes, the social contract and giving people a hand up.
First, I don’t think anyone *likes* paying taxes. Well, except for @mcuban.
In the ‘90s I didn’t pay taxes since I was mostly reliant on the state. I had a couple of kids and was raising them mostly alone. /1
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Let's sit around the camp fire and hold hands, loving and caring for each other like we always do. I can't remember how to spell naiveté.
Nova Scotia #CMOH Robert Strang comes out of hiding!
"We're not going to have restrictive measures, but we need to do a better job collectively as Nova Scotians of taking actions we can take to protect each other."
Story @KyleMooreCTV. #nshealth
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/n-s…
This. Math literacy is the key here.
We forget food & rental increases are compounded. An increase of 10% one year and 5% the next is not a decrease in price. Unless or until you get a negative number, you're not getting ahead if wage increases are below price (now). Media tends to make lower % sound like a gain/win
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When "we" needed to "harvest" resources on a mass scale, what did we do? We built fly-in fly-out communities with accommodations and food for works, and great pay. Forestry, mining, oil and gas (my brother did that for years). The job got done in a big way and fast /n
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Undergrads make a classic mistake when picking their courses
They’ll go for the “modern” ones (web dev, big data systems, mobile computing, <insert shiny object> here) when they should actually be going for the hard, fundamental courses (operating systems, computer architecture, transistor design, etc.)
All the “modern” stuff can be self taught pretty easily. The fundamentals, however, take time and effort to master
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There are *a lot* of things that someone can learn that they will never actually need to know, but in doing so enriches their life somehow.
The idea someone should only learn something if they can use it to make money is pretty new, I think. And seems laughably stupid tbh.
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Profits should never be guaranteed.
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“I'd rather die of #COVID19 than live the rest of my life fearing it.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this. At four years into the ON-going pandemic, watching people everywhere slowly whither away with new medical conditions, I’d rather die than let people continue to perpetuate this straw man argument.
You don’t have to live in fear. You have to respect the virus and protect yourself, family, friends & coworkers against it.
In 2022, 3.3% of workers had to work part-time due to “illness, injury, or medical problem or appointment.” That’s the highest level on the chart dating back to 1976.
Living with Long Covid has been described as a fate worse than death. It comes & goes, but it’s 32 flavors & then some, of fatigue, pain, dysfunctional agony and organ failure. It’s unrepairable cognitive impairment. It’s being unable to stand up all day. It’s different for everyone & everyone eventually fears the unpredictable.
It’s inevitable if you maintain the attitude that “if it was that bad, surely someone would do something.”
No that’s not happening.
…And the slower it takes for you to realize you need to defend yourself from this increasingly likely scenario (as opposed to say a house invasion to which I’m sure you’ve armed yourself against), the longer it’s going to take humanity to get back on track again.
bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/7-8-mi….
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My son has just started calculus, and I asked him what the relationship was between the gradients of the tangent and the normal to a curve at a given point. His first reply was, "They are perpendicular." I've noticed many times that something one gains with experience ... 1/7