A programmer, was a molecular biologist. UBC and McGill Alumni.
Vancouver, Canada
Joined March 2009
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WonderSteve retweeted
Quick 🧵 on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Traditionally, it was mostly used to find farm workers from abroad. That's still a big aspect of the program.
But increasingly, it's used to find low-wage cooks, cleaners and construction workers.
WonderSteve retweeted
Apple took longer to finish the China Cycle, but it eventually did.
WonderSteve retweeted
Remember that Beijing Olympics ceremony controversy when Yang Peiyi (L) wasn't considered cute enough so her singing was lip-synced by another girl (R)? Postscript: Yang apparently kept singing, excelled academically, started a band, and recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill.
WonderSteve retweeted
It really just takes less than 1 minute on the Xitter to see the lack of brain cells dominating the conversation… #JasperWildfire
WonderSteve retweeted
A popular Japanese post notes that Japan's economy was once so strong that they got Janet Jackson to speak Kansai dialect in a phone commercial.
WonderSteve retweeted
With inflation decreasing, one presumes that the Trudeau government must have dramatically cut spending? And the same must be true for the US with inflation going down there too? Or, perhaps, inflation had other causes?
WonderSteve retweeted
Japan to reduce speed limit from 60km/h to 30km/h on roads less than 5.5m wide from September 2026. Given how many kids run over by speeding drivers in recent years and no footpaths, good
Japan to reduce speed limit on residential roads to curb accidents mainichi.jp/english/articles…
WonderSteve retweeted
Yesterday, John Rustad announced a plan that would take $4 billion out of healthcare. People will pay the price for that.
We’ve hired thousands of doctors, nurses, & other health workers in the last year but there’s much more to do.
Let’s strengthen healthcare, not cut it.
WonderSteve retweeted
CrowdStrike has performed the largest ransomware attack in history.
Accidentally.
WonderSteve retweeted
So if you see a technical or efficiency critique of the capital gains tax increase on gains >$250K that *doesn't* propose an alternative, that writer is telling you that you need to adopt *their* preferences on inequality.
That's not how I approach things....
WonderSteve retweeted
If you read the pieces criticizing the capital gains increase for those with >$250K of gains, what they *don't* do is to propose an alternative tax measure that will push back on inequality.
They don't propose any because they don't care about inequality. It's that simple.
WonderSteve retweeted
I've seen a few opinion pieces criticizing the capital gains tax increase for those with >$250K of gains.
They note a few problems here; a shortcoming there. Fair enough---no real-world tax measure will be perfect.
But there's a "tell" in what these pieces *don't* say....
WonderSteve retweeted
As we look at the video game industry's layoffs, burnout, abusive microtransactions, prioritization of short-term profits, risk aversion, rapidly increasing budgets, endless development cycles, and studio closures, it's important to highlight the real problem: too much diversity
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China’s Huawei is secretly funding research at US universities including Harvard through an independent foundation
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
WonderSteve retweeted
FED'S POWELL: OTHER COUNTRIES CONSIDERING RATE CUTS ARE NOT EXPERIENCING THE GROWTH THAT THE US HAS.
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The entire clip of Musk nodding is to depict him him as showing the proper deference to the CCP officials present and have the viewers assume that he's listening to his betters.
It seems China's CCTV has edited together all the shots of @elonmusk nodding and turned him into a nodding machine. By the way, why was Elon not wearing dress shoes? A high fashion? a protest or he just forgot to bring dress shoes?