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`high-speed internet` is not necessary a fiber though.
As recent as 2025 Videotron had been receiving subsidies to build cable network in a newly constructed neighborhood.
> cable can get up to 1Gbps, and probably higher, so it's a distinction without a difference.
Heavily disagree.
There is a distinction with a big difference. Currently deployed by Videotron cable solution is 940Mbps down and only 50Mbps up.
That's an abysmal upload speed.
Of course Videotron is aware that cable is dead end. (even though they still building it on subsidies).
That's why Videotron is offering to switch to Bell's fiber in some locations.
Tobacco and alcohol are scientifically proven carcinogens, yet they are sold ubiquitously in the [western] world. I would argue they are more dangerous than social medias. Yet we don't see any push in banning tobacco and alcohol for 'everyone'.
We won't ban any of all these things because there are people with political power that make fortunes out of them. Whether that's alcohol, social media, tobacco or otherwise.
We will not go for the proper solution, not because it's not the proper solution but because powerful people won't allow it.
If you do look at the things we have indeed banned, you will find that they are mostly coming from outside our countries. It's not cut and dry, but it's very geopolitical pretty often.
Alcohol story is a lot more than just it being a good business, in vino veritas and all. There is a huge cultural aspect around it for better or worse.
You can't ban alcohol because it's been proven that it doesnt work or have you forgotten about the prohibition era?
You can't ban the sale of tobacco either because its been proven that any attempt to soft-ban it like they have done is Australia by raising the prices enormously has simply created a black market that the government has no control over.
Finally, the war on drugs which has cost hundred of billions of dollars worldwide has completely and utterly failed. You can get drugs delivered to your door step in any major capital of the western world today. The quality is better than before and the delivery is fast and discreet.
Thanks for sharing. It was that bad back then? As a consumer user the stability brought by the NT kernel was great back then, but maybe enterprise wise it was a different story? I never worked as a sys admin so can't say.
For the last point what was the golden standard back in the mid-late 90s, if we don't include mainframe/minicomputers? Was it Solaris or BSD?
Now that I think about it, I feel sad that I do not have the technical prowess to compare operating systems :/
Beside the NT4 servers we had SunOS 5.x and Digital UNIX (later upgraded to Tru64 UNIX). Yes, from sysadmin point of view they were way more consistent performance wise and less problematic to operate in general. BSDs were not 'approved' but nonetheless we were running DNS and some other internet facing stuff on OpenBSD 2.x if I remember correctly.
> The reason why nannies are affordable in China is because those nannies aren't paid very much, and consequently enjoy a much lower standard of living than their employers. In Netherlands, nannies are relatively expensive, but you the employee is much closer to the socioeconomic stratum to that of their employer.
In Canada there are people making peanuts and living very poorly while technically inequality is low. The problem in Canada and other developed countries is excessive taxation of salaries.
That's an orthogonal to wealth problem.
> The problem in Canada and other developed countries is excessive taxation of salaries. That's an orthogonal to wealth problem.
I'd argue it's part of the same problem. Salaries are excessively taxed in developed countries because wealth is so lightly taxed. People with wealth have outsize influence in law and policy. They can make all sorts of fancy arguments for why taxing wealth is bad. But money for government services has to come from somewhere.
Property Tax revenue is surprisingly tiny from data centers in Quebec.
Some how DCs have low assessment for the building, like way lower then their resale value even.
> they are not a drain on services like schools, roads, fire department, police department etc.
Police - definitely not.
Roads on other hand, DCs are hauling new equipment / decommissioned equipment daily.
I'm in fact in favor of DCs, but tax revenue from them is not impressive at all. At least in Quebec.
I have no say in this process. Of course taxes are based on land and building assessed cost. Montreal and suburbs chose to assess condos at a market rate and even higher, while to assess detached house way below the market and assess data centers below the costs it was recently resold.
The corollary would be that, in all likelihood, bribes are documented as rare because you are incentivized to ensure that a bribe is never made public. Has Memphis done this before? Is this strange behavior to allow such a construction project to move forward while harming its residents then slow-rolling solutions?
Either way, this is a forum and not Academic Decathlon.
More interesting that that mostly childless politicians are in favor of such things. That's makes sense since those legislations are NOT about children.
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