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Mathieu Labonté

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Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 参加日 Eylül 2014
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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@irbrodie @MarcLevesqueEco His job is to convince the average person who is being squeezed by an unproductive and bloated corporate Canada that the reason their life sucks is because grandma gets healthcare and immigrants don't starve. It's only possible because we don't have proper competition.
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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@irbrodie You and @MarcLevesqueEco don't get it at all. PP's wrong; it's not monetary policy that's creating wealth transfers. State aided price fixing, risk rules are the drivers. People legitimately feel squeezed and PP taking advantage to push for "more pain means more better" view
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Ian Brodie
Ian Brodie@irbrodie·
The difficulty is that by engineering high inflation, monetary policy makers did rather massively transfer wealth to those who owned property. Mr Poilievre predicted this at the time when some policy types poo Poohed him.
Marc Lévesque@MarcLevesqueEco

I really wish Poilievre would stop this class struggle rhetoric. He sounds like a Socialist. Replace « elites » with « bourgeoisie » and it could have come directly from Karl Marx. It certainly doesn’t sound like it comes from a conservative. Is he trying to pick up NDP votes?

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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@fordnation Ban municipalities from signing exclusivity deals for taxpayer funded venues.
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Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen·
The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.
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kache@yacineMTB·
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Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@CDNPolicyHawk Too many professional politicians, not enough people with real sense of how to get results.
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Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@CDNPolicyHawk *final assembly The way to fix this would be to split the contract: one competition for design, another for production slots, with multiple shops getting a piece (no all or nothing contracts)
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
Colt Canada is specifically contracted with maintaining a domestic small arms manufacturing capability for Canada. We just awarded them a $307m contract for rifles. But it's only generating $50m in GDP for Canada. Something doesn't add up.
🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk

The CAF needs new rifles, and I'm glad to see a contract awarded. But at a time when we're supposed be building up the Canadian defence sector, I have questions about the disconnect between how large this contract is vs how little economic activity its claimed it will create. 1/

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The Grand Californian
The Grand Californian@dartinguphill·
My shop is better than your shop. Why you ask?? Me:
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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@supertrucker Marginal utility theory says there's a cap on Jevons paradox. More importantly, anti-competitive behaviour is going to prevent it to an extent (leading to sub-Pareto efficiency)
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SuperTrucker 🚛💨→💻
What Huang and everyone else who assumes autonomous trucks are months/a few years away is hoping for is Jevon’s Paradox, but for transportation. Basically, automation drives the cost of moving something to near absolute zero, and demand for transportation goes hyperbolic. Huang is also wrong on there being a truck driver shortage.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Everyone is afraid AI is going to eliminate their job. Jensen Huang says the opposite is true. Huang: “The fact of the matter is PCs made us more busy. The internet made us more busy. Mobile devices made us super busy.” Every technology wave in history that was supposed to destroy work instead created more of it. Not different work. More work. The pattern is consistent enough that dismissing it requires a real argument. Not just anxiety. Jensen has one more point before the fear narrative even gets started. Huang: “We are millions of truck drivers short. We are tens of millions of manufacturing workers short. Employment is very high, and yet many companies don’t have enough labor.” The current economy is not suffering from too much automation. It is suffering from not enough workers. Robots do not arrive into a world of abundance and displace people who have jobs. They arrive into a world of shortage and fill roles that cannot be filled any other way. Huang: “Robots will fill in that gap. As a result, all of our country’s economy will grow. And when the economy grows, most companies tend to hire more people.” The logic is clean. Shortages constrain growth. Growth constrained means wealth not created. Companies not scaled. Jobs not added. Robots remove the constraint. Economy expands. Hiring follows expansion. That argument is historically airtight. But history has also never seen a technology that could perform cognitive work at this scale. Every previous wave automated physical or mechanical tasks. This one is different in kind. Not just degree. The labor shortage is real. Jensen’s pattern recognition is legitimate. And the honest answer is that nobody knows with certainty whether this wave follows the same arc as every previous one. What is certain is that the people who bet against technology creating more work have been wrong every single time. So far.

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@aryanlabde Hot take: hackers think vibe coding is great because all of these unsecured servers create an abundant volume of computing power to steal.
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OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical·
Iran’s strike last night wiped out 17% of Qatar’s natural gas export capacity, repairs are expected to take three to five years -Reuters (Based prewar market estimates, Iran managed to destroy ~3.5% of global LNG capacity in a single strike.)
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In the classroom, IQ is correlated with disruptiveness, and boys are more disruptive than girls; so, high-IQ boys are about as disruptive as average girls.
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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@BenWoodfinden Emperor's new clothes. Look at how we keep running the same politicos saying the same thing, but as soon as someone starts challenging conventional wisdom they're dismissed out of hand.
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Ben Woodfinden@BenWoodfinden·
"Canada’s story gets even more depressing when only young people under 25 are counted. The country then falls to 71st, another new low. Young people were once, on average, the happiest Canadian cohort; now they’re the most miserable. And when compared to 136 countries, that 10-year drop in life satisfaction is one of the largest in the world, placing Canada just four slots from the bottom."
The Globe and Mail@globeandmail

In the country’s worst-ever showing in the 14 years that the report has been published, Canada ranked 25th out of 147 countries in the life-satisfaction standings. theglobeandmail.com/life/article-c…

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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@FreightAlley Choking the world off would lead to them figuring out how to never get caught in that situation again.
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Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@FreightAlley This would be economic suicide. Sure, you get a bump. But look at the 70s embargo. It only lasted 6 months and yet in 2026 US per capita oil consumption is still below 1976 highs. Heck, total consumption is >20% higher than 1976, despite US population growing almost 60% since
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Mathieu Labonté
Mathieu Labonté@voteLabonte·
@ColinCa92604304 @joelspov @EricDLombardi @BisonTrample Things that normally wouldn't be considered base sector fit the role because we people come to Sudbury for what they can't get at home. ~60% of patients going through Health Sciences North are from outside Sudbury. People drive ~8 hours to come load up at Costco.
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