Canada currently has relatively low employment (just googled for a graph)...
So the idea of translating some of the low paying jobs to higher paying jobs might be worth while... Sure unemployment might increase a little in the process, but if unemployment keeps going down it'll eventually strangle the economy too.

When unemployment is low, encouraging automation by increasing minimum wages seems to make sense.

Note: from a human perspective having a living minimum wage always makes sense.

Besides it's not like the US has a lack of low paying jobs... In fact unemployment isn't high, it's just many of the jobs are low paying.

Too low unemployment isn't healthy either, it might worthwhile translating some of the low paying jobs into fewer slightly higher paying jobs when unemployment is low. If unemployment is too low that'll hinder growth too..

My guess is google is making a nice profit from this... And you don't go around gambling with you golden egg.. Especially, not on the mobil market which is and has been in huge growth..

If bing got the traffic google has they might be able to improve search results and suddenly google might have a real competitor... That is a HUGE risk, 3B/yr is probably not that bad to offset any chance of real competition.

There is price, 20 different fees, customer service, and a long list of other variables to consider..
And you're asking why customers in the free market don't always buy the best option? Too many variables, ads, distractions and other things.

IMO, we should have stronger regulation to simplify prices, fees, etc. (Note. the EU usually does a good job here)

Yeah, that's exactly what I think to myself, whenever I hear sugar-tax, fat-tax and other super specific tax schemes...

I think cars, gasoline and energy are such massive specialized industries that taxing them individually makes sense... Same for housing, but for many other products the administrative overhead and complexity of enforcement, just seems to make it pointless..

As with software, you need to keep your systems simple.

A must-see hit is the not the same for everybody... Having a must-see hit for various different people is what matters.

Arguably, netflix probably can facilitate broader content... That said, it's still sad to see a future full of silos.

is that global warming will never cause a single sensational news story that will cause people to wake up.


At least not until it's far too late...

Or we'll see old phones resold as low end phones...

But yeah, you can't do this without some negative side-effects, it was probably the same with RoHS... With any luck though customers will never notice and half the world will adopt the standards because making products they can't sell the EU is bad business.

You forgot to mention the countless stories of cops seizing cash under civil forfeiture...

But if you do get robbed, which to be fair is rare, having cash is usually a good thing as it makes the robber go away. Trying to explain to a robber that you don't have any money is not necessarily the best way to de-escalate and resolve the conflict :)

When I graduated HTX, akin to technical high school, in Denmark, my average-grade was multiplied by 1.02 in the application to University.. This was a tiny bump given to students who applied for an education within 2 years... Intended to encourage people to move on quick.

I don't recall if it was on my diploma or if it only affected my application... In practice it has little effect, but encourages people to move on, because everybody is talking about it :)

I went to study CS which has so few applicants that anyone who graduates high school is guaranteed admission, so it made no difference to me (In Denmark most University slots are allocated by average-grades; with some ~25% allocated by an interview process -- money buys you nothing)

Note that you canceling netflix makes exactly no difference... Other forms of action is necessary.

Note: I'm not pro piracy, but it doesn't seem to be that much of an issues since streaming services showed up and became easy to use... And I'm not exactly enthusiastic about the measures corporations takes to limit piracy, then tend to hurt the internet.

One could also imagine 24x7 on-demand doctors appointments with emergency room like capabilities... But with some Uber-like must make an appointment to get around regulation that you have to accept everybody in an emergency room... Hence, effectively creating an emergency room service that is unavailable if you don't have insurance or ability to pay your co-pay.... there by lowering the cost of running the emergency room.

Note: I kind of hope such startup doesn't happen... But some of the Silicon Valley style disruption like Uber, certain has a backside to it...

As it should be... If someone sets your house on fire and the fire-alarm doesn't work, you first blame the guy who lit your house on fire... Rather than blaming the fire-alarm.

On topic of regulations it makes no sense to argue that they are all bad, or they all stifle innovation or competition.. Lots of regulation have positive effects. It's just that Americans have a hard time seeing it as anything other than black/white.

Sorry, the world doesn't reduce to good vs. bad.


In field of medicine US regulations says new drugs must be better, EU regulations says they must be better or equal. This has pros/cons, you can bring newer drugs to market in the EU, even if they are just cheaper... In the US it's not enough to be cheaper your new drug must better.
Obviously, the intention is to force development of better drugs. Granted the downsides is higher burden of proof.

Well, the study says it was corrected for this...

It largely wasn't relevant...
Lots of the internal emails where people calling other people stupid or using in-elegant wording...

Besides most people don't know anything more than "emails and leaked" and assume that there must have been something... When it in fact there wasn't much.

Timing and smear, was effective, whether it was the deciding factor is hard to tell. But for foreign agents to secretly interfere with an election is not cool.

If a foreign state have information that they need to share with the American electorate, they should do so publicly.