Parveen Kaler

Canadians argue constantly about whether their MPs are honest and transparent in Parliament. So we measured it. We ranked every MP in Canada's 44th Parliament on one question. When asked something directly, did they actually answer it? Built from 10,000 real parliamentary exchanges and three AI models. 68 MPs scored. Grades from A to D. canada-central.com/scorecards 1/7🧵

“Only MPs who answered 20+ exchanges are ranked.” Of course the useless @HedyFry is not ranked.

@allbombs Product vision starts with the eyes! You gotta go to the actual place and see the actual thing! Genchi Genbutsu!

One of the biggest challenges with vibe coding is feature bloat. Just bc you can, or Claude suggests it, doesn't mean you should Product vision comes from your head and heart, not the models

I've had a guy in my DMs trying to get me onto his podcast for a few weeks. On the surface things looked legit. Followed me from a 10 year old X account, put me into a group chat with other real looking industry folks. Still smelled fishy. Premise was a Capital One podcast for crypto builders. In 2026??? Googled him again this morning and of course the whole thing is an elaborate social engineering scam. Many thanks to @Ben_deWaal for taking apart the exploit and publishing detailed findings. Stay vigilant. The North Koreans are everywhere. @yttriumox/i-was-targeted-by-a-sophisticated-malware-attack-disguised-as-a-podcast-invitation-36ad6c9ea076" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@yttriumox/i-w…

@patrickc @tempo Do you have a concrete example of use cases that are working today?

Machine payments are starting to work: very small N, but we're seeing consistent, "real" daily use across a number of Stripe businesses. A number are also powered by @tempo, which is working well in production. Our machine payments support is currently in private preview because we want to go deep with partners to understand their use-cases as we refine our APIs: docs.stripe.com/payments/machi…. Register on that page if interested. We'll get back very quickly.

Note that Adam Beck was aware of stylometry and would have thought to change styles. And code switching is a thing. For example, I wrote a lot C++ for video games during that era. I wrote Application Hungarian at work but more of an STL/Stepanov at home.

Picking wxWidgets is also a choice a Windows programmer would have made. UNIX programmers at the time would have picked Gtk or Qt.

Strong agree. Satoshi’s style is “Application Hungarian Notation” which is distinct from “Systems Hungarian”. This is a deliberate choice. Unix programmers would write a more K&R style or more like STL/Boost/Stepanov or Sutter or Alexandrescu.

@MilkRoadAI @grok What’s the wear and tear on the battery? Does the battery need to be heated ahead of time?

The last excuse for not going electric just died. China just solved the only real problem holding electric cars back. BYD unveiled a system called Megawatt Flash Charging. Their new chargers deliver 1,500 kilowatts of raw powerthat is three times what Tesla's fastest Supercharger can do in the United States. The result is almost impossible to believe, a dead battery goes from 10% to 97% charge in nine minutes. For comparison, filling up a gas tank takes five to eight minutes and BYD just matched that number for an electric car. BYD rebuilt the entire system from scratch. New battery chemistry and new silicon carbide chips with the highest voltage rating ever put in a production car. A 1,000-volt architecture running through every single component, they call it the Super e-Platform, and it is the first of its kind ever mass produced for passenger vehicles. Here is what makes this more dangerous for Western automakers than any price war. BYD makes the battery, the charger, the chip, and the car all in-house. The charging stations are not even hidden in parking garages, they are built to look exactly like gas stations, T shaped canopies, pull-up lanes, liquid-cooled guns that start charging ten seconds after you plug in. In America, fast charging means 350 kilowatts and a 40 minute stop while BYD is doing 1,500 kilowatts and nine minutes. That gap is not closing but rather widening. By the end of this year, BYD plans to build 20,000 Flash Charging stations across China, Tesla took years to build a fraction of that globally. The question is no longer whether electric cars can compete with gas. The question is whether American and European automakers can compete with BYD and right now, the honest answer is no.

@marissenmark @CamdenHutchison Construction starts in 2030. First ride in 2035. Completion in 2040. That assumes that construction is on time in the very efficient and non-corrupt province of Quebec. Just in time for a majority of vehicles to be electric and self-driving. x.com/kaler/status/2…

@CamdenHutchison It would be built where we have the population density. Where 50% of Canadians live.

Japan is a relatively small country with very high population density. Canada is the geographic opposite.

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

If one has: 1. Tried FSD 2. Two eyes on their head to look 3. A teeny bit of imagination to extrapolate exponentials Spending $90B on rail is a terrible idea. Most vehicles will: 1. Drive themselves 2. Very very quickly 3. Be electric 4. Be very safe by the time it’s built.

Today is the leadership convention of the NDP, Canada’s socialist party The crowd at the convention chanted “Eat the Rich” in unison and then unironically elected a private school educated multimillionaire. Socialists are fun like that.

Jevon’s Paradox: The more you refer to Jevon’s Paradox the more you refer to Jevon’s Paradox.

@levelsio You might want to read up on a concrete example. Robert Munsch is a beloved children’s book author. He’s been approved for MAID but has not picked a date, yet. cbc.ca/news/entertain…

Yes seems fine I don't think young people with psychiatric/psychological issues should have easy access to this though Terminally ill and old and sick is fine though, reduce end of life suffering

I had to re-read this and double check it Canada had 326,779 total deaths in 2024 16,499 MAID deaths / 326,799 total deaths = 5.04% So 1 in 20 Canadians per year now die from medically assisted deaths! 1 in 20!

@tobi @sandeeptodi Tax engine, time & attendance, deductions, reporting, employment agreement compliance, scheduling, federal/provincial/municipal regulation compliance, pensions, etc, etc. And you must cut over at tax time. It’s on the order of $100m complex but not on the order of $10B complex.

Share a bit. I don’t want to belittle the category of software. People did amazing work in the world of payroll software (agile manifest etc). But at some point a csv is created and it has a row per payee and it happens twice a week. Shopify pays out millions of businesses and moves billions a day. And we took 20m of financing ever before we went public (and had it all still in the bank when we did). The scale of nonsense that’s happening with government bespoke software is just unexplainable without fraudulent intent. But it also tracks with everything else you hear about government efficiency (minus maybe military). It’s not that it costs 10b to make a payroll software that is the problem. It’s that it costs this much for anything that the government tries to do itself. The only conclusion is that the government needs to do a lot less.

I built enterprise scale payroll. I’m supposed to know a thing or two about how payroll evolves, scalability (100s of 1000s of paystubs), accuracy, compliance. And the cost of building and maintaining these systems. This is shocking by just about any yardstick I can think of.👇

@CastroPodcasts Can we get networking fixes? The main UI thread gets blocked often. Network requests should happen on a background thread.

2026.3 out now with sideloading fixes

2025 GDP growth was 1.7%. We need to get to 2%. And then to 3%. And then to 5%. And then we will find that all of our troubles are solvable or solved. THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS GDP GROWTH

The above is not an Outcome Tracker. It is an Activity Tracker. The Outcome MUST MUST MUST MUST be GDP Growth. 1 singular clarifying North Star. Then activities like making housing more affordable and streets safer align with GDP Growth.

This is great work. BUUUT This has the same problem that tracking company OKRs have. Too many priorities. There should be 1 and only 1 top priority: Eliminate cross-provincial tariffs. This is because it would increase GDP by 7% and dwarf all other initiatives combined.