ycombinator is shit lol

Some kind of crowd-sourced tagging would be a cool anti-troll technique. A lot of less experienced websurfers struggle to spot “inauthentic behaviour” (bots, astroturfing, etc) so it could be beneficial. Reddit has a huge problem with sleeper accounts though, where they build up reputation with low-effort comments over years, then activate when a campaign needs them. The social media marketers seem to sometimes use the same techniques as the state-sponsored troll farms.

I’m going to test out Lunanode, thanks for the recommendation. I’m currently playing around with Xenyth Cloud too and so far so good. I’m keeping a spreadsheet of the sysbench scores of all the Canadian VPSes I’ve tried and I’ll try to post it once I have a decent set of data to share.

Does anyone know of any other Canadian VPS providers? (from companies based in Canada)

The pricing seems super reasonable. It looks like it supports a calendar too. Anyone know if their webmail client is decent?

this is the saddest, stupidest, low effort troll account - see comment history

If we can somehow entice Chinese car companies manufacture here

I think that’s part of the point of auto tariffs.

It’s not about software or data. It’s about control over the supply chain - cars are essential to our economy and way of life in North America (like it or not). It’s the same reason we protect the milk supply. You don’t want another country to be able to turn it off in a conflict.

The thing is, if Trump wants to kill Canada’s role in US car manufacturing, then it will cost him the car markets in Mexico and Canada. If there’s no jobs here to protect, then we’ll just drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs. (This is speaking like 20 years down the road). We’ll all be driving Chinese cars in that scenario. The tariffs are a total lose-lose situation, so dumb.

I’d be way more concerned about whether it’s a deathtrap than whether or not the touchscreen has good UX, lol.

Sweet, thanks

Awesome, will take a look at them next time I order!

The Filaments.ca house brand in PLA used to be Made in Canada but I don’t see that advertised anymore, so it might not still be the case. It actually still says “Made in Canada” in the HTML <meta> description for their Econofil line but I don’t see it on the page.

IIRC their house brand was also the same as 3dprintingcanada.com. All my information is from about 5 years ago so it could be totally incorrect today.

Does Anki come with content? Like where do I get the flash cards from for a certain language? The website makes no mention of this

Have baked with Camino chocolate before, it’s a really good choice. Edit: It’s also vegan!

Bitwarden is open source though. Self host, if you can. But yeah, looks like 1Password is headquartered in Toronto.

Totally fair. One thing that’s super clear in this country is that the tax laws favour the rich. IMHO even RRSPs are of greater benefit to people who don’t pay rent or have paid off their mortgages.

It’s great that you’ve pointed this out and I hope there’s more awareness about it. In practice, it’s not hard: Buy from candian-owned small businesses who manufacture in Canada.

In my not-at-all-humble opinion, most of your examples are all shit you shouldn’t be buying in the first place:

• We have copious amounts of local craft beer. Never buy the big brands, they’re all swill. If you actually drink craft beer, you’ll know which brands, like Creemore and Millstreet, are fake craft.

• Nobody should be buying anything from Coca-Cola in the 21st century. We’ve known pop is terrible for your health for like 50 years. They’re a shit company who is the biggest polluter of plastics in the world.

• Canada Goose is for tools with no taste. By the time any trendy fashion company gets bought out, it’s not cool anymore.

All we have to do as a nation is just put that little extra effort into learning about what we’re buying and making different choices, and it’s actually great that we’re all doing that because we should have been doing it all along.

You’re mad about the wrong thing. He’s going to pay an effective tax rate of about 25% when he exercises those options. (Capital gains)

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.