This is a great answer.

The other aspect is even if you do these, the US venture capitalists go “we’ll give you money, but you have to headquarter in Silicon Valley so you’re close to us”

Then they funnel their other startups and companies on to your product, so you get funding and customers.

We do need to clean up the small business process. Hell, as a hobbies I find getting data out of stat can such a pain in the ass, while the US has a ton of open data.

We also need to build a viable investor culture here so that these startups aren’t squashed in the germination phase.

Cambridge Analytic was just a bit past when I got rid of it

What happened in 2013?

This would make me want to do even more degenerate things in the game

The stupidity of the formula when they have access to sone of the best central banking economists and economic models in the world does shock me.

Clearly they’re not leveraging anyone credible to do this. Even if it’s a terrible idea, flying it blind is even dumber.

Yeah I used to cynically buy shitcoin volatility…

I’m kind of bagholding some btc right now though.

Crypto is scammy for sure

I’ve never liked the argument crypto is good for diversification.

A lot of the studies on it are from pre-Covid when crypto was on a rocket ship, so the lack of correlation is actually a false signal.

I do own a bunch of crypto, but not as a diversification tool.

Yeah, in that case we have two vehicles: TFSA which is a tax free growth account (similar to 401k), and an RRSP, which is a tax deferred growth account (offsets your taxes now, withdrawals taxed as income later, no tax on gains).

Young people should be contributing to TFSA then RRSP, depending on life goals/events. CPP withdrawals are automatic unless self employed.

In Canada the CPP is paying into an annuity you get after retirement.

You’re not just paying in for the current seniors, you get out based on what you put in (up to a cap)

I lost a lot of money today, but I’m still up from 6 months ago.

This is going to last a long time and the recession is when they’ll buy.

Conservative leader says his government would push for an urgent renegotiation of CUSMA

Because Donald Trump respected CUSMA so much the first time, right?

Looking at any individual poll isn’t a good idea.

Polls can and do use population adjustments to account for demographics bias, but it’s very difficult to accommodate unknown response biases.

538/338 style models that use polling error to rank pollsters and reweight them based on objective biases to election outcomes. 538 famously was one of the best forecasts of 2016 because at the time this methodology was uncommon, and they had given a forecast of 1/3 which is an entirely viable event.

Trump 2016 was an outcome that most traditional election signals missed, which 538 and 338 models also include.

Trump 2024 had an over 50% chance of winning by most forecasts.

Anyways, all that to say, I have a background in stats and forecasting, I have a lot of faith in these models, but they’ll never account for everything like how Trump’s tariffs have shifted Canadian opinions and preferences.

Republicans: Manifest destiny is back!

Canada: okay, Alaska is joining us

Republicans: Not like that!

I would love if Quebec scheduled a meeting and then didn’t show up

I’ve worked with people like this who dismiss data like this and fuck them, they’ll reject anything that doesn’t fit their narrative then blame you for it.

TIL

And that’s officially a trade barrier to our domestic francophone population!

I like to think he just doesn’t have any advice.

Lol they’re trying to mess with the Québécois. Good fucking luck with that.

I’m 100% with the Quebecois, get fucked USA, you don’t have jurisdiction here and you don’t get to dictate to us.

Edit: the US lacking bilingual packaging and documentation is an illegal barrier to our trade. They don’t even have an official language, so how can vis be a barrier to them. Maybe they should learn French.

No, never forget that.

They have a chance to stand up now, if they’re completely rotten they won’t take it.

They’ve had other chances too.

The government should step in, how is this legal or allowed (those are two different thresholds).