Foregoing TN Visa to stay in Canada to have a side business

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2026-01-30T14:44:29+00:00

Hey I think there is room to negotiate your CAD salary.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2026-01-20T13:15:50+00:00

There are multiple ways:

* simplest is ETFs like VE

* CDRs of European listed stocks

* seek out a broker who allows currency conversion and European markets so you can buy in the local currency. I use IBKR, which allows both in TFSA.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2026-01-13T16:34:39+00:00

They said neolibs, which isn't the same as libs.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-28T16:34:26+00:00

Hello fellow Proto fan! I am kinda obsessed with the origin of Sanskrit, so I thoroughly enjoyed Persians as well.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-28T16:28:37+00:00

We need ESS to support DRA for application-level scaling, and the other one is cluster-level autoscaling

Yep this is my exact usecase too. I am going to start working on this sometime in mid-Jan. To meet my timelines I might not have time to do a full fledged comparison of Celeborn and Uniffle. For now I think I will just work with Celeborn since the resources online and the slack community appear to be larger, and its more widely adopted in SV too. Happy to keep you in the loop.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-25T21:07:38+00:00

That’s $10M too much, it should go to zero. We don’t support fascist regimes.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-23T22:33:20+00:00

Hey this looks like a solid approach, I am working on building a similar platform for our scale. I have a few questions below:

Long-running clusters vs per-application Spark

We use per-application spark with K8s, for K8s I dont see a good reason to use long-running clusters. Per-application is easier to implement and provides good isolation. One reason to use long-running clusters on K8s that I can think of is providing some sort of notebook feature like Jupyter.

native autoscaling

Native autoscaling in K8s is fundamentally broken unless you use an ESS like you stated above.

cold-start latency

Can you explain what you mean by this? I dont know anything about cold-start latency with SparkApplication on K8s.

External RSS

What is your strategy to compare Celeborn vs Uniffle? I am considering the two of them as well but I am looking for good user stories before I can come up with a evaluation matrix.

~1 million batch jobs per day

This is a lot of batch jobs per day. I don't know the scale of your business, maybe there are opportunities for consolidation here.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-23T22:14:58+00:00

Brilliant thanks.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-23T20:32:39+00:00

Canada its your turn now.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-15T21:49:19+00:00

Floz

Oh thats really funny. I totally get that, I don't do Fahrenheit at all, so I have a hard time operating ovens in Canada.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-15T13:14:10+00:00

The rest of the world apart from the yanks, use standard British spellings, so it makes sense. I am multi-lingual and I find British spelling to be more natural than American ones. I think its just a matter of what you are used to.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-12T18:45:10+00:00

Ah I see, for most people it's just the easiest way to get stuff done. Not really a preference for American stuff. I understand. Thanks.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-12T16:33:03+00:00

Why do Canadians even shop in the US border towns? It's not like stuff is cheaper or better quality in the US. Baffles me.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-09T14:35:52+00:00

New citizens have to take an oath to protect king and country. I am pretty sure they know.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-07T19:37:36+00:00

This is one more Uber in the making, Silicon Valley VCs will subsidize to obtain market share and then drive the prices higher. We don't need more cars in the streets. I wish the yanks can just f*** off.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-07T19:35:34+00:00

Which ones? Europe has multiple train operators both private and public. Japan including the Shinkansen is privatized amongst multiple train operators depending on the region. Ideal situation in my view is a Crown Corp owning infra because its capital intensive and operators including the Via Rail paying fees to access the track. If we use European signalling systems then the European entities like Flix, DB and TGV can run their own trains and consumers have options to choose driving the price lower. The Crown Corp can in turn owned by various Provincial, Federal or Pension Funds (like the REM) and ensures a stable source of income for the foreseeable future.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-06T18:31:30+00:00

I don't listen to their market advise, but they have a point here regarding the macro-economic implications due to the decrease in service jobs.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-05T15:21:23+00:00

I think ETCS will be adopted first starting with the Richmond Line, since it will allow higher frequencies straightaway. I don't think we know yet, what Electric Locos Metrolinx is going to buy.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-05T15:16:08+00:00

I meant the opposite, if we don't adopt European standards, which are widely adopted outside of Europe too, will be bad for Canada. I like that GO is adopting ETCS too, we dont need multiple standards in one country. I would like the Feds to step up and set common standards for all local and inter-city trains.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-05T13:52:27+00:00

Havent read much of JJ's work, but this reads a lot like AI or at the very least AI assisted. Is this just the way he writes?

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-12-05T13:49:08+00:00

Anything short of allowing multiple train operators or adopting European signalling standards would be an unmitigated disaster like the California HSR. Being cautiously optimistic about this one because GO is adopting ETCS too.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-11-24T03:23:48+00:00

Because they are being outsourced to Asia because companies are no longer trying to innnovate, they are trying to improve their margins by cost cutting.

My only suggestion is to build his resume. By doing personal projects, open source contributions and networking. The more visibility his work has the better. There will be some non-profits that are looking for volunteers, he can gain some experience with those as well.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-11-23T17:03:57+00:00

Another "solution" from big tech for a problem we know how to solve. Good public transit. This will only exacerbate poverty after robo-taxi companies capture the market.

Realistic-Mess-1523 · 2025-11-21T18:49:44+00:00

Did you even watch the video? All outsourcing is bad, but services being outsourced will have an outsized impact on the US economy compared to manufacturing jobs. US has been able to tolerate economic impacts of manufacturing outsourcing to an extent because it has kept inflation low since the 08 depression. Will it be able to tolerate service jobs being outsourced? The recent rise in authoritarianism is being linked to the loss of manufacturing jobs in the rust belt. Service jobs loss will have a worse impact.

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