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What Safe documents should I use when seed funding in Canada?
Hi,

I am seed funding in Canada. I can't use the y-combinator safe documents (http://ycombinator.com/documents/) because they are US specific. I am looking for a document that has both a CAP and a discount. I started to look for some official or reputable safe documents for Canada.

This seems promising:
https://www.nacocanada.com/commondocs/term-sheets/canadian-safe/

Does anyone know if there is a standard set of templates in Canada that I could use and trust?
I wonder if the sort of people who produce these sorts of thought-pieces have ever considered the societal consequences of tossing out entire skillsets. Pre-colonization, an Indian craftsman could carve an entire complicated scene in a single elephant tusk with his bare hands. Who can do that now? What about the sense of pride one feels when they see their output admired by others - a major part of the human condition.

Nah, the world's proto-bureaucrats have decided that the world's middle class must buy Ikea, iPhones, drink Starbucks and drive to and from a white-collar job in a Toyota.

Everything and everyone must be assimilated!
Why is asymmetric intellectual property protection a form of friction here?
Ha! That was me. Looks like I am the only one who holds that opinion around here.
Sorry man, but that's dangerous thinking. I might understand if all rooms in the mansion were occupied by family members, or if the house was small such that the housemaid didn't have a room to stay in. But having her sleep in the kitchen of a huge mansion is inexcusable.
And, you know, they don't work as well in lower-population-density places.
On the other side of things, there are certainly laptop computers without active cooling-- the new MacBook, for instance
Actually yes, I think they very well might be a better steward of the world. I don't think it would be terribly difficult to put their historical behavior on the world stage up against that of others and conclude that they are a more ~moral culture.

Indeed, they are in many ways sacrificing (working to death and discarding) a couple generations of people in exchange for world dominance, but they are doing an incredible job of it in my opinion.

During the last election in /r/the_donald there was this recurring them of Donald playing chess while everyone else was playing checkers. Whether or not that was true (he did win the election), I feel the very same thing is playing out on the world stage. But really, it isn't that complicated when everything in the west is run by corporations that have no concern for anything but themselves, and a typical time horizon of a few quarters. Western society seems to me to have the tendency to completely ignore long term ramifications in exchange for short term benefits (see: the environment). Meanwhile, "racial guilt" from past transgressions is such that it's near impossible to even have a conversation about some of these issues.

Despite what the majority of the west believes, the people running China are fucking smart, but you don't even need that when you're taking candy from a baby.
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> A single 737 sold for $50M is not equivalent to $50M spread around 10 small manufacturing suppliers building tens of thousands of devices.

Correct - it's many more than 10 suppliers: http://www.b737.org.uk/suppliers.htm
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This is a classic HN conversation, a bunch of people trying to reason about something off the top of their head from their own personal experience.

Childcare in businesses is a solved problem. Thousands of businesses do it, as do many government agencies. Here in DC there are in-business childcare centers at places like the Smithsonian, Holocaust Museum, FDA, World Bank, HHS, etc. Heck the public middle school in my neighborhood has an attached childcare center for the teachers' kids.

Patagonia, one of the most-admired businesses in the world, has a huge childcare center on campus, and encourages other businesses to do the same thing.

Whether or not to offer on-premise childcare is a choice every business can make for itself, but let's not pretend it's some risky idea that is hard to work out.
Let's hope they are electric. Because self driving cars will obviously make single person in a car transit cheap. And therefore cities will be chock-a-full of these things.

I think there should be a law that these cars are no bigger than a Fiat 500 (a little bigger than a bumper car).
> ...time is going on, and we know what it means to say that time is going on. I don’t know what it means to say that time really doesn’t pass and it’s only in virtue of entropy increasing that it seems to.

I always thought the same and guess most practical scientists do as well. There is nothing in thermodynamic puzzles that indicates there is some problem or insight to be gained on the 'nature of time', whatever that is.
what has decreasing parking limits per employee (especially in middle of nowhere, so it's not like they are gonna park on nearby streets) to do with company being monopoly? somehow I fail to see there any relation, it might as well be company with 200 employees challenging dumb rule

it's not about business dictating rules, it's about 9000 parking spots for 12000 people, which sounds for someone from Europe completely insane
This explains why Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was such a hit. The easiest way to write a bestselling book is to tell people what they've heard a hundred times before.

It does call into question the feasibility of the book's objective of correcting human biases and cognitive errors. We've been trying to do that for 2500 years.
Cool name. "The Biz is back, baby"
Just because something could be built it doesn't mean it should be. I, for one, applaud the fact that they rolled it out when they were good and ready. Shows a steady hand at the steering wheel.
It's funny how many people here claim to support "the free exchange of ideas" but forget to mention the caveat "only if I like them".

It's almost like there's a bunch of gaslighting that makes it okay, regardless of opinion, to modify voting algorithms to promote certain political opinions.

FYI this is the behavior the brown shirts exhibited. We're not so far from those times again.
Probably true enough, but isn't very useful information to me: I don't live in the US in the first place, so it's not easier for me to pick a US city than one anywhere else. :)
Yeah, a lot of people would act like you, a lot of people also wouldn't. Just because others are pussies doesn't mean I have sympathy for you being a pussy.
why not? you rather suffer out of principle? what difference does it make if it's company or local citizen chalenging stupid rule? I fail to see difference if it's something majority will benefit from
An example for full time ownership is chaining trips together. If I am planning to go to multiple stores over the course of the day (one before work, two at lunch, and one after), I don't want to have to load and unload my purchases each time I have to get a different car. Or if I plan to do an activity after work that requires lots of equipment home is not along the way, I will bring the gear with and leave it in my car for the day.

These are just two examples from my own life but I am sure there are other reasons to own a private car.
If I remember correctly SS7 was proved ridiculously insecure ages ago by a guy who did a talk at DefCon it was quite the interesting talk, will see if I can find it and add it to my comment

EDIT: wasn't a defcon talk I remembered, but a 25c3 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEcW4HlrpYE from 2010 :)

EDIT2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wu_pO5Z7Pk newer version of the talk
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Why would you car-share and not just hail a ride when you need one? EVs can't do long road trips so owning one for the occasional vacation isn't much benefit; you'll likely need to rent a gasoline-powered car anyway.
The Merlin engines are using plain-vanilla technology, but the Raptor is going to be bleeding edge with a full flow staged combustion cycle.
You don't, of course.

But owning your own car means:

1. You can leave your stuff in it and only grab your stuff when it's convenient.

2. You always have access to your car and are never stuck during high demand times.

3. You can go to places that aren't in dense population areas without either paying a premium or waiting a long time for a ride to come pick you up.

4. Potentially prestige or personal style things.

It's a luxury (but so is owning a car today). If the price of the luxury is low enough, lots of people will pay it.
Public-service advertising campaigns similar to those used for cigarettes. If we can convince the public that sugary/processed foods are icky, deadly, and pushed on an unsuspecting public by Big Evil Corporations, we might have a chance.
As with basically all software design questions, the answer is "it depends".

Writing a LOB app with 4 expected users all located in the same location, and expected storage requirements of a gigabyte a year? Go with a traditional DB, add replication if you need high availability, make and test your backups, done.

Writing the new Facebook weknoweverything app that captures smartphone audio and video continuously for all users at all times, automatically transcribes all conversations and produces AI-driven summaries of all video, all of which are saved forever and highly searchable? You're going to need a highly customized data storage architecture to have a prayer of keeping up with that data.

Somewhere in between? Some of those are good candidates for Spanner. Some aren't.
Could someone explain how population migrations work in this model? For instance, if I am born in rust-belt county A but die in technology advanced county B, where is my data placed?
NAFTA was begun as a Bush 1.0 initiative. Clinton just signed off on it.
If you want to be fat, please raise your hand. Those who think being fat is fun or desirable, hands up.

Nobody? Really?

What you're proposing is to pile additional hardship on people who are likely already unhappy with their current situation, and may also feel powerless to fix that part of their lives. On its face, your proposal lacks both compassion and efficacy.

It's also horribly authoritarian, and would likely discourage people from seeking preventative health care, just because the nurses weigh you at your office visit. Think about the potential unintended consequences before firing off a glib, "fix it with market incentives" proposal, paired with reasoning by [car] analogy.
Preferably from a raised platform of sorts.
I made no comment on whether it was or was not inexcusable. This isn't about what I believe is correct.

Merely on the paradoxes and hypocrisy in this rather large stream of replies.

What exactly makes it inexcusable to you though? The fact that the owner of the house could but did not, and the proximity of the rooms?

That's what I'm talking about.
Self-driving, plug-in Tacoma = dream car.
The last 1 Infinite Loop?
those programs are just a justification to fire people more easily most of the time.
Have you got a different first hand experience in the company that you mentioned?
Every time one of these is announced you know the people who worked on the Palm Foleo feel vindicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo
Yeah, all I could think of reading that was "If I found out my friend kept a slave (outside a consensual BDSM context), that person would no longer be my friend."
There's something appropriate about this being his final work. It's beautiful and complete in a way that's challenging to do in any work.
"more money"? They've yet to make any money.
Yeah, I also took issue with the author's point that branding and marketing was so easily swappable. I'd say it's much easier for a global brand to swap where their factories are or who is running logistics than it is to just "create a new brand".

Still, as another child comment of your post mentioned, branding doesn't employ the same number of people as manufacturing, so the US is shifting the share of job quantity to other countries. A lot of those middle-skill jobs get picked up by the still-growing service industry (which we can never outsource), but I'm pretty sure we're still exporting more lower/middle-class jobs than we're importing.

Ultimately, tons of non-service jobs will get automated anyways, so in the long term I don't think it's enough to say, "Just keep the jobs here!" That just means robots do them instead of cheap foreign workers. I'm a big proponent of investing more in adult re-education to help retrain people for new jobs as their old ones disappear. But even then, who knows if that's enough. It's a very complicated issue.
Shout out entirely to Cory at CNC router parts. They designed it, I assembled it. Their electronics are REALLY nicely done, too.
and what's wrong with influencing municipal policies for good?

that's like saying that chain of nonsmoking restaurant is bad bad company if they try to push stricter local nonsmoking laws. that brand of electric vehicles is bad bad company if they try to push ban on old polluting cars. that bike company is bad bad for trying to influence city to build more roads

I fail to see what's wrong with anyone trying to influence local policies for better. Company is not some imaginative entity, in the end it's people after all.
Obviously, you are a family man.
I was struck by the stories about what made Bell Labs so unique this week, and the contrast of fortunes with Apple and Xerox....
I can't find any information on how you manage backups? Can I restore to a point in time?
Foxconn is automating heavily. Terry Gou says "Managing one million animals gives me a headache".

It's striking to look at videos of textile plants in Bangladesh. The Toyota jet looms are cranking out cloth at a thousand rows a minute, with few people present. No more hand weaving in the successful shops.
Am I crazy or does it look like you're not sitting in a open-plan office/farm? And you have your own lounge chair by the window?
> And your friend is no feminist or idealist.

No Scotsman either!
Except that the land use of Silicon Valley makes cycling dangerous and distances often too large to be practical for many.
From what I can recall, Craigslist didn't create their Erotic Services listings to profit off erotic services, but rather to stop escort advertisers from spamming their posts into arbitrary unrelated Craigslist sections. Having one forum that was "for that" allowed Craigslist to ghettoize those advertisers, allowing people who didn't want to see that sort of thing to avoid it. Worked quite well.

After Craigslist was forced to drop the Erotic Services listings, the volume of such postings didn't decrease at all—it just shifted back to being posted on random other sections, to the detriment of everyone.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA / "Obamacare") allows medical insurers to give premium discounts to members who keep their BMI at a health level. We could expand on that. Some people do respond to financial incentives.
The imprecise overruns because you'll draw over it is a clever optimization.

It's interesting to compare and contrast these techniques from other excellent sources, like Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book, Special Edition [1].

Thought my technical knowledge topped out somewhere in the middle of the 'Quickly Drawing Tiles' section, the prose and algorithmic detail is lovely, the rationales and code is welcome, and the visualization is excellent.

[1] http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#chapter-40-of-so...
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From one of the cited papers:

"Ezzati et al. used Internal Revenue Service tax records that record movements from county to county to explore how much migration might explain disparities. They found that in general individuals moved from high life expectancy to low life expectancy communities and not the reverse. While their finding suggests migration may not be a major factor in the national patterns, it could be an important factor in selected counties that have experienced substantial in- or out-migration. On the other hand, net immigration of young Hispanic adults with lower mortality could have tended to increase life expectancy at birth for some counties and the nation as a whole."
Great work, congrats!
Iirc Kaby Lake still doesn't support LPDDR4 which is what will be needed for apple to add a 32GB option.
I'd like to see the feedback on this as well. It seems very promising but I wonder what the real-world performance and dev/build/release experience is like.
> EVs can't do long road trips

It's possible that a car-share would set up a system where you can swap out the battery of the car at a stop and continue driving; similar to stopping at a gas station.
Can this be used with a wired keyboard and mouse on most phones?
I am surprised to hear there is any company that just quits you on stock cold turkey.

The expectation everywhere I have been is that you will get refresher grants not just at the end of year four but earlier than that. Anywhere from 6 months to 2 years.

Either way I don't care what they do. If my compensation changes for the worse for the worse (knock on wood has never happened) or my stock isn't performing then I deal with it then.

I value options from every company that gave me them at zero and 2/2 I was right. Hell they had negative value at one since I exercised and I really think I will be lucky if I even get that money back. Getting crammed at every financing event sucks. Live and learn I guess.
It's common in Europe. Residents get a special (yearly) discount. Road and sidewalk are not property of the house owner.
Is requiring every adult to spend thousands of dollars a year to fully engage in society and strictly limiting how property owners use their land to maximize ease of driving your definition of 'individual liberty'?
Google Hangouts eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Yes, except as a full grown adult, the author never reported the situation to the authorities, took this 'secret' to the grave and even 'inherited' his slave from his parents. He said he paid her an allowance (which didn't sound like much) and also didn't make her work after she lived with them, but that's a token effort to right the injustice of decades of work without pay.
Look at Rosie - from the other coast, but a spiritual successor at least

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf5R6KZ2JDZKjR2-CjgCnEw
I just wanted to see how others performed and what type of UI/UX they were using. I think Snapchat would be perfect to test out. Thanks!
PAL vs NTSC perhaps?
It's understandable and not expensive considering the quality of the offering - however startups and even teams within large companies prefer and have gotten used to seamless easy scaling from small accounts so that they can test and like the product first before committing to it completely - especially one that is built into GCP and not portable.
Could theoretically be the older model (Cinema Display) which is Display Port. Then it would be HDMI > DP and should work ;).
Akamai can do that for you just fine.
well hurting someone (by pushing your seat on their legs) unless it is necessary (which it is not in case of reclining, you can just sit as fine without reclining) is impolite by standards of most civilized countries

but maybe in your country causing unnecessary discomfort to other person is being polite...
Is anybody else worried that a security-vulnerability in a popular family of internet-connected self-driving car could allow a worm that could cause casualties on the order of millions? I mean how many people would die if e.g. every late-model Ford in the US started aiming for pedestrians?
It does not have interactive sharing. You still need Screenhero for that.
Pretty high. It is a primary source of long-chain hydrocarbons, a primary feedstock for chemistry. Most biologically active chemicals produced by industry rely on oil as the chief starting material.
The problem with phone computing is that it's still the weakest option:

Phone < Laptop < Desktop

I used to have a Sony Vaio that I would hookup to big screens at each work space.

Now I use dropbox to sync desktops. My main machine has a GTX 1070 running a 4K @ 60Hz with an m2 SSD, and it was half the price of my laptop (I had to build it, but I had fun doing it). It's ten times as fast. And no more laptop hugging.

I think the key is working with the premise that any Maru user will have a main laptop or desktop. For example, if I could work with my phone in a window on my desktop, that would be amazing. And where I don't have a more powerful machine, I would just connect my phone directly to the monitor. Also dropbox is a must.

I'm surprised my Android doesn't do this already though... How hard would it be for a smartphone to double as a ChromeBox?
For the Mega Drive/Genesis the framerate depends on the region, matching the local video standard. The European Mega Drive uses PAL with 50Hz.

As the biggest part (but not all) of the demoscene is based in Europe, most demos target PAL hardware. The same is true for our demo group. NTSC ports can be very difficult if not impossible as PAL often does have a slight advantage in CPU cycles per frame. This is also the case on the Mega Drive.

Porting the polygon renderer shouldn't be a problem as it renders in an off-screen CPU RAM buffer. In the worst case it would have to skip more frames, having a lower effective framerate.

A lot of the other effects have very critical timing though. I've been told that porting some of them to NTSC is just impossible.
Hmm. Thanks for the description. I'll see what I can dig up.
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For the uninitiated, could you explain the difference?
yeah people running China are so smart. SO SMART that they

- have destroyed their water/air/land for money that was printed out of thin air by other countries, and those money are now fleeing China to US, Canada, Australia, etc.

- have leveraged their debt level to 300+%. not including shadow lending

- have built rails to nowhere or barely used, built cities that are not lived, or barely lived, and have to maintain them all

- have managed to piss off most of their neighbors (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, etc)

- have a crashing economy that needs capital outflow restrictions just to barely survive

- have not managed to create any global brands

- have managed to not create any innovations

- encourage its members to flee to US, Canada, Australia
What is its license? It is not clear to me.
> when China with a combination of technical sophistication, developed local economy, and sheer population reaches parity and then surpasses the US as the new leader of the world

I don't think that this is a foregone conclusion. In the 80's, Japan was going to take over the world too. While the situations aren't entirely equal, China has followed quite a bit of the Japanese playbook.
Most of the guys I went to engineering school with were Indians (Brahmins), and they'd frequently mention how the jobs here paid more, but they still wanted to go back to India because they'd have to treat their servants "differently" here. I just assumed it was a payroll issue. Perhaps I assumed wrongly.
Are you an actual paying GCP customer with a support contract?

There will always be some cases of bad customer service but our support interactions have always been quick, relevant and helpful.
SpaceX has managed to get such a big boost to the F9's performance, they can already do much of what they originally intended to do with Falcon Heavy. Is it really going to be cheaper to loft sats with a reusable FH when a disposable F9 will do the trick? I'm skeptical.
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The MacBook isn't a very strong machine. Wouldn't be surprised if A10 beats it even in single-core performance.
H1B is biased against high salaries. Immigrants are not aware of local salaries and can't change companies.
Can it be considered open source?
Whew. Amazing work. Nothing else to add. Thank you.