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  1. Comment on Apple TV+ coming to Amazon Prime Video as an add-on subscription in ~tv

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    Amazon Prime is becoming the new cable network.

    Amazon Prime is becoming the new cable network.

    14 votes

  2. Comment on The unlikelihood of being complimented as a man in ~life.men

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    Someone told me “I like your sweater” in passing. I barely held back tears because I wasn’t expecting to hear something like that ever, let alone from some stranger in the grocery store.

    Someone told me “I like your sweater” in passing. I barely held back tears because I wasn’t expecting to hear something like that ever, let alone from some stranger in the grocery store.

    11 votes

  3. Comment on Israeli military announces ground invasion of Southern Lebanon in ~society

  4. Comment on Canada cannot afford another lost economic decade in ~society

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    The article lays out its case about Canada's "lost decade" based on a part of charts: GDP per capita and R&D spending as a percentage of GDP. Wealthsimple's tl;dr just this morning published an...

    The article lays out its case about Canada's "lost decade" based on a part of charts: GDP per capita and R&D spending as a percentage of GDP.

    Wealthsimple's tl;dr just this morning published an article asking if Canada's economy is broken, in which they discuss GDP per capita and R&D spending. This makes me think that their article is a rebuttal, though they don't link to the hub, they do link to an op-ed by Andrew Coyne in the Globe and Mail that makes a similar point, though notably without mentioning R&D.

    Wealthsimple's argument about Canada's GDP per capita seems to be well-reasoned. The chart in the original Hub article plots Canada's GDP per capita and nothing else to give context. Wealthsimple starts by plotting the GDP per capita of both the US and Canada, which certainly seems to support the hub article's point as it shows the US far surpassing Canada. That is until they plot the same again but with more countries for context; namely Australia, Germany, the UK, France, the EU, and Japan. In context, we see that every country follows roughly the same curve except for the US, which is the clear outlier pulling ahead of the rest.

    However, Wealthsimple's argument about Canada's R&D is much less convincing. They admit that Canada's R&D spending per capita is falling short of other countries, as the Hub article's bar charts show, but argues that Canada has more R&D researchers per capita. And that a third of the US' R&D spending is the result of a handful of tech giants. This just convinces me that Canada needs to spend more on R&D and foster an environment that encourages companies to make risky R&D investments.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on The spectacular failure of the Star Wars hotel in ~movies

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    I’m a native English speaker and a published author, and it tripped me up. I had to read the whole comment to pick up from context what they meant.

    I’m a native English speaker and a published author, and it tripped me up. I had to read the whole comment to pick up from context what they meant.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk