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Honest question, how is it better for health? Isn't time essentially arbitrary anyway?
Circadian rhythms: your body needs light early in the morning to reset your sleep cycle:
There are noticeable health effects on people even with-in a timezone depending on whether they live in the eastern or western part of it. For every 5˚ westward (~20 min later sunrise) you are, you have an increased chance of all types of cancer (n=4,000,000):
Findings suggested that pDST and pST offered health advantages compared with the current twice-yearly clock changes, but the health benefits of pDST were lower than those of pST by a third. Notably, the comparative benefits of pST were greatest in northern regions of the continental US, which are similar to the latitudes in which most people in Canada reside.
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A PQ spokesperson told CBC that the party plans to hear from experts during a parliamentary committee hearing on adopting permanent daylight time or standard time.
The experts have spoken at length this: they recommend permanent standard time.
- https://www.chronobiocanada.com/official-statements
- https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commission_on_DST.pdf
- https://srbr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SRBR-Statement-on-DST.pdf
- https://sleepresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/zsac236.pdf
- https://www.ama-assn.org/public-health/prevention-wellness/sleep-doctors-orders-use-standard-time-365-days-year
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0748730419854197
- https://sleepresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/zsac236.pdf
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.00944/full
Findings suggested that pDST and pST offered health advantages compared with the current twice-yearly clock changes, but the health benefits of pDST were lower than those of pST by a third. Notably, the comparative benefits of pST were greatest in northern regions of the continental US, which are similar to the latitudes in which most people in Canada reside.
There are noticeable health effects on people even with-in a timezone depending on whether they live in the eastern or western part of it. For every 5˚ westward (~20 min later sunrise) you are, you have an increased chance of all types of cancer (n=4,000,000):
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Im dec 2nd.
Next meeting is December 9, then January 27:
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Hazel McCallion served as Mayor of Mississauga until the age of 93.
And IMHO Mississauga was the worse for it. Complacency and a lack of new ideas every few years meant the same formulae for decades.
And now that most of the land has been filled up, and all the developer fees that funded initial growth have dried up, its left with dealing with a lot of infrastructure to maintain on a low-density tax base:
- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020-5-14-americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020
- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020-8-28-the-growth-ponzi-scheme-a-crash-course
(Not to say that someone else wouldn't have just also followed the same 'suburban playbook' also.)
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"Nonce" is British slang for a paedophile.
Must be awkward for cyber security people:
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Landing fee is $1000 for "Fixed Wing Aircraft 19,000 kg or less (flat rate per arriving movement)":
One'd could also cause a great annoyance depending on the size/speed of the plane, as you could hold up other planes. If someone would do this it may be considerate to call up the tower and ask about it: perhaps come in after midnight (less busy) and see if you can do 'just' a touch-n-go and maybe not have to pay the fee.
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God could make the world an easier place to follow him.
To follow Him means being full of love for one's neighbour (and even enemy). What changes to the world could be made by God so that: you would feed the hungry more? clothe the naked more? forgive and love other people more? What is stopping you, right now, from doing more of those things, whether you believe in God or not?
God could avoid homosexuality being a thing, for example.
There's nothing "bad" about being homosexual versus "good" about being heterosexual, it's one's choices and actions that determine morality: one person can be a gay and chaste and another could be straight and promiscuous. Who would be a "better" person in a Catholic framework?
But pick any sin you want:
When something good happens to someone else, how many are happy for the other person and how many envious (that it didn't happen to them)?
When something good happens a person, do they feel entitled or grateful?
If someone attractive walks by, how many people can 'just appreciate' beauty versus lusting after that person?
If a person (perhaps accidentally) says something inappropriate, how many will forgive that person for the indiscretion versus hold a grudge?
Things (good and bad) happen in life: how you choose to react is the main question.
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Regular person tries and fails and doesn't have the chance or resources to try again.
Gracie Abrams (daughter of J. J. Abrams) goes over this in an interview a little while ago:
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Everyone on the staff team wants some form of pension compensation; some what a defined benefit (not going to happen, we are too small, and it is just too much a burden for our business)
A while ago charities and OPTrust (who run OPSEU) got together to create a pension system:
It is a "sector-specific" pension for non-profits (like HOOPP is for health care in Ontario, so individual hospitals don't have to each have one).
Depending on the industry your organization is in, could there be a sector-specific option available? Is there an sector-wide advocacy organization that you could suggest this to and they could work on something? There's an organization for just about everything nowadays, e.g., car dealerships:
Those that want the defined contribution say a matching RRSP is just a flat compensation increase that is locked away in a LIRA (be it 4 or some other percent). They don't see that as meaningfully better than a flat pay increase […]
Not wrong on the first part, but isn't that true of most pensions as well? A large part of why pensions work is that the money is taken off your pay cheque no matter what. You have no flexibility or choice in the matter: you are always paying your (future) self first, as Dave Chilton wrote in The Wealthy Barber. RRSP matching is something, which is often better than nothing (I've had group RRSPs, RRSPs, pensions, RPPs, etc, over the years, and appreciate whatever effort is done).
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The exact text is:
Many Canadians employed outside the public sector, including self-employed individuals, gig workers, and employees at small and medium-sized businesses, have no access to a workplace retirement savings plan.
This is entirely accurate: many of those types of workers have no plans provided by their employers.
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The first article claims self employed and gig workers don’t have to contribute?
The exact text is:
Many Canadians employed outside the public sector, including self-employed individuals, gig workers, and employees at small and medium-sized businesses, have no access to a workplace retirement savings plan.
This is entirely accurate, many of those types of workers have no plans provided by their employers.
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Also, Canada's sustainability at 66 when the USA is at 57 seems ridiculous to me. Like, our pension is going great while America is heading toward a crisis.
If nothing is done then US Social Security will not be able to cover 100% by ~2034, but will still be able to >80%
One of Canada's issues is the growing amount that OAS is taking up of general government revenues. There having been a number of calls for reform there (e.g., (household) income means testing adjustments):
- https://www.buildcanada.com/memos/rebalance-old-age-security
- https://www.gensqueeze.ca/new_publication_delivers_evidence_for_oas_reform
- https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/economics/economics-publications/post.other-publications.insights-views.oas-rethink--june-24--2026-.html
- https://www.canadian-accountant.com/content/thought-leaders/oas-clawback
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It's available for manual download for me at (14:47 EDT; 18:47 UTC):
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The pacing in Part 1 made me feel more emotions while Part 2 felt rushed at times.
Even in the book, "Part 2" was over the course of years: Alia was 2 (?) in the final battle in the book, whereas she wasn't yet born in the movie. In the book it was Alia that killed the Baron.
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You gonna sacrifice that 3% to stick it to Rogers?
Not every decision has to be made in a spreadsheet with ROI considerations. That kind of spreadsheet-thinking is probably why Rogers is doing this in the first place.
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The city literally offers a program so seniors can defer property taxes until they sell their home in the future.
Sure. And folks feel comfortable going into debt once they're retired.
For anyone curious about the program:
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As a property owner: if you can afford to own property in this city, you can afford your taxes.
Not applicable to many seniors: if you bough 40+ years ago, and now you're retired, you may have land but not much cashflow.
And given the prices of any property, even many condos, it's not like downsizing will get you ahead much. Further, you have much more uncertainty with fees and special assessments from condos, versus having control of expenses and major purchases for your own property.
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Why didn't Idris Elba just go below the above? Is he stupid?
Are either of these two options better or worse than the upside down?
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See also perhaps /r/k12sysadmin
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The book has more time to spend on the details of the science, and that's good, too.
And a lot of the details Weir worked out are not in the book but kind of 'background'. During his press tour for PHM, one of Weir's interviews was with Becky Smethurst ("Dr. Becky") and he literally pulled out the spreadsheets he had during it:
Also "Andy Weir on Balancing Science and Story":
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AI has seemed to make great strides in mathematics, biology, coding, etc.; however, should we expect it to also make progress in philosophy?
What does "progress in philosophy" mean? In 2022, SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade that there was much hullabaloo about it: lots of folks went on about church/religion versus state, etc. But was any question "answered" in the ruling? What question(s) is being asked in that debate?
Not many people bother stepping back a bit:
One significant philosophical question at stake here is the moral status of the developing child. Is the fetus already a person, and hence deserving of the same rights and protections extended to others? If it is not a person at conception but becomes one at some later point, what is that point, and why?
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It is possible, of course, to acknowledge the personhood of the fetus and still defend abortion. Half a century ago the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson, conceding that the fetus becomes a person well before birth, famously argued that the personhood of the fetus does not make the mother's decision to kill it unjust. Killing the fetus is unjust, Thomson argued, only if the mother first agrees to carry it. But this, again, is a philosophical question. Do we owe others only what we agree to owe them?
Some philosophers, like Thomson, think so, but very many philosophers disagree. If I live alone in the woods and wake one day to find an infant on my doorstep, am I obligated to care for it? Or may I simply step over it and go on about my day, until it dies from exposure and neglect? To think I am obligated in justice to help it, as a great many people (philosophers and non-philosophers alike) do, is to think we owe things to other people simply because they are people. And if we can owe things to other people simply because they are people, then Thomson's argument falls apart. If the fetus becomes a person long before birth - as even Thomson concedes - and if we can owe things to people simply because they are people, then we can owe things to the fetus as well, long before birth.
Is there a "right" or "objective" answer to the question 'When do people become people?' or 'What do we owe to other people (if anything)?' or 'Are people/humans any different than animals (or even plants): i.e., more than just some chemical processes?'.
What does it mean to say "progress" has been made in answering any of those questions?
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[…] how much federal subsidy they get lol.
The other countries ranked highly in the Happiness Report do not get subsidized by anyone but rather have high tax rates:
And the highest ranked ones don't even have the top rates, which belong to lower ranked countries:
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Transfer payments will do that.
The other countries ranked highly in the Happiness Report do not get transfer payments and have high(er) tax rates as well:
And the highest ranked ones don't even have the top rates, which belong to lower ranked countries:
In the US, you can but it from Apple TV and Prime Video: