There’s a pattern in almost all great media. They are all about or deeply tied to love in one way or another. Interstellar? Love story Evangelion? Love story Witcher 3? Love story Blade Runner? Take a wild guess The essential part of being human is what makes great art

Sorry but “We didn’t commercialize the technology” is weapons grade cope language The correct translation here would be “we didn’t take risk and didn’t put effort into obtaining process knowledge required to make this work in the real world at scale”. Many such cases

Infrastructure like high speed trains has second and third+ order economic benefits aside from first order $ like ticket sales. The right move is to build this cheaper and faster. This is not the way

how it feels to be a white collar machinist (R&D engineer without enough money to get parts made by someone else)

Investment in your future only matters if you have a contested riding “Minister of Industry” in Canada means “Minister of tactical vote buying”

It is amazing to me that the Liberal Party of Canada has become the “advocate for wage suppression party”

The LPC also believes in other “good things” like importing poorly vetted cheap labour (who themselves are getting scammed) to suppress wages for Canadians

Vevor are killing it

another day, another YC AI mechanical drawings company

Every time I go to Walmart it’s to wait 30 minutes for a 5$ item that has been shoved behind a glass display while the store staff do god knows what

Nothing would make me prouder than Canada developing its own native reusable heavy launch capacity. That the spaceport is currently an empty lot isn't a problem in itself. You need to start somewhere. The location was apparently chosen because 1) launch trajectories are over the

Exactly correct. This is why I've been pushing back against the pile-on over the pad. There are real concerns that the whole thing is just a grift, because that's all the Laurentians know how to do. But people saying 'it's just a concrete pad' or 'rockets can only be launched

The future looks different than the present

The provincial government is Minecraft-griefing Toronto’s waterfront

“Just ship new tech in volume first” is often repeated by figures in tech, but rarely put into practice Here’s a real example of someone putting it to practice

First Semi off high volume line

You get good at anything by doing it a lot. Just do things a lot It's not time spent. It's volume of doing. Make sure the time it takes you to do a single thing is as fast as possible. Your cycle time is sacred

Yeah guys here’s how we are going to make Canada prosperous again: 5 more dashboards and 2 more KPIs