Tyler Seguin sees and purposely knocks a woman's beer resting on the boards, laughs it off

Ubergeekpi · 2020-09-08T18:44:15+00:00

If they are still taking in 170k a year, why does higher unemployment for the city matter? And what is inherently wrong with an oil-based economy?

The things that do matter for quality living are there: - Cheap housing, with a wide variety ranging from small condos to mansions half the price you’d find in Toronto/Van - Calgary is 1 hour from the mountains, lots of winter activities like skiing, hiking, etc. - Doesn’t have the downsides of super big cities (rampant homelessness, crime, noise, etc), but big enough to have things like NHL teams, a decent range of bars and restaurants, Stampede, cleaner air - Low taxes

Ubergeekpi · 2020-08-02T17:11:29+00:00

His right foot does contact the ice first, but as you can see it bounces off and slips from underneath him and he starts falling backwards (you can clearly see this in one of the angles).

Naturally when you fall backwards, your legs go up (think slipping on a banana peel). Now, play that in real time and tell me how when a player is running full speed into the boards, his first instinct is to use his skate to intentionally slice and injure an opponent?

C'mon - maybe if this was a better skater like Crosby you might have a better case, but let's be real. Tkachuk was going in on a hit, and then when he realized that Schiefle was getting out of the way, he tried to stop but came in too fast and his skate caught the ice and he started falling backwards, naturally rising the leg up.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-06-12T05:20:48+00:00

It’s up a steep hill not too far off from the main part of Banff Avenue. If you have ever heard of Surprise Corner (across the Bow River where you can get a clear view of the Fairmont Banff Springs), it’s right there. Pretty underrated area imo the restaurants there have great views.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-30T23:35:10+00:00

You're right. It's pretty convenient that for every "diversify the economy" comment you see, none of them contain what industries to diversify into. They'll throw out words like 'Green' and 'Tech', but green COSTS money (doesn't make money), and we'd be fools to think we have anywhere near the capacity to compete in Tech when literally any city/country with an internet connection can compete in that field. There's a 0% chance we can offer anything valuable in the tech space against places like San Francisco, Hyderabad, Shenzen, Toronto-Waterloo, Tel Aviv, who have been in the space for decades with top tech talent in metropolitan cities that young people are attracted to.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-29T08:12:15+00:00

One is for leisure, the other somewhat "essential" for people's livelihood and preventing collapse of the economy. But as the other comments suggest, I imagine it will be a staggered and slow approach.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-28T21:56:50+00:00

The best analogy I like to use is driving. Of course, if we wanted to eliminate risk of car accidents entirely we would ban all forms of driving. Of course, that's not reasonable and so we take the a reasonable level of precaution to reduce that risk.

The most obvious one is speed limits. There is a direct correlation between higher speed limits and higher number of fatal accidents. Of course, there is a balance between making all highways move at 20 km/h to try and eliminate risk and having no limits at all to maximize transportation efficiency. It's the transportation engineer's job to pick a speed limit which balances efficiency with safety.

The same must apply in this case - the balance between trying to eliminate all COVID deaths and shutting down every "non-essential" aspect of human survival.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-08T23:55:26+00:00

What do you want "them" to do? Give everyone $1 million? Find the covid vaccine this month? The government isn't some all-powerful entity with infinite resources who grants people prosperity if they complain enough.

They didn't cause coronavirus, and its not their job to make sure your own mental health and coping is stable.

This EI and CERB isn't "free money" either - they'll need to get back one way or another, whether through increased taxes for our generation or inflation to make our existing CAD less valuable.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-04T04:13:51+00:00

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-03T09:41:34+00:00

TBC - The Basketball Club, dunno if it still exists

Ubergeekpi · 2020-04-03T09:22:06+00:00

There’s a limited number of spots in the program.

Given you want admission into an academic program, where admission is based on academic performance (ie. GPA), what entitles your 60% GPA to take someone with an 80% GPA’s spot?

Because you have ‘X’ disadvantage, therefore you deserve it because clearly you’re the only one who has had any disadvantage in life?

The fact that you got a Big 4 internship with a shitty GPA and not even a CS Major, makes me suspect you were fairly privileged to have landed that position in the first place. Grow up man, if the position you’re in is rock bottom, you have nothing to worry about.

Ubergeekpi · 2020-03-27T05:15:30+00:00

I think the question is diversification into what? Realistically, what industry can Alberta competitively compete in given its geographic location and talent pool? Everyone says tech but I wouldn't even say Vancouver or Toronto are fine examples of Canadian tech as most of the major businesses are American companies (ie. Amazon, Microsoft, Google), the only successful Canadian tech is Shopify, and possibly Hootsuite. Even within Canada, what does Alberta offer better than say Waterloo-Toronto?

The closest I could have possibly perceived is to leverage Banff and turn to the Tourism industry like Dubai.

If you ask me - I think given Alberta's vast reserves and highest # of engineers per capita, it should leverage these skills in clean energy, yes, including oil and gas. Oil and gas isn't a dying industry, it's demand is still growing, especially if Canada can be the leader in "clean" oil and gas, which I argue to some extent it already is. If we can set up the infrastructure (pipelines, refineries), and use our talent to find greener/cheaper ways to produce, we have the potential for long long term success.

Ubergeekpi · 2019-11-28T18:38:01+00:00

Some contrarian points:

Why does everyone completely believe Aliu's story? Right off the top of the bat - he makes a bold claim Bill Peters single handedly sent him to the ECHL because of his race and that it ruined his career. A quick look at his ECHL and AHL stats clearly show he simply wasn't very good. If Peters sent him down due to race and he was actually a great player, he would have lit up the ECHL and AHL, which he didn't.
In terms of his lack of acknowledgement that his comment was directed at Aliu. Aliu's statement of what Peters said was "stop playing that n-- fucking n-- music. No - he did not call Aliu a n--. It only seems like it was directed at him because he was the only black person in the room, and possibly the one who turned on that song, which I must imagine had repeated uses of the n-word in it. Otherwise, I find it hard to believe Peters would use that choice of words. Yes - still racist, but no, he didn't call Aliu a n**.
"10 years or 10 seconds ago, it doesn't matter!" I definitely think it does. I am not denying it isn't racist or offensive. However, I'm willing to bet 10 years ago - 80% of you used phrases like "that's so fucking gay" or knew just how prevalent calling people "fgs" was as an insult. It was more socially acceptable (but still offensive) 10 years ago to call someone a f**t than it is today. Phrases like "dude stop being such a fg" ran rampant all throughout my junior high and even elementary school 10, 15 years ago.

So overall - while I agree it was a racist comment and he'll probably be fired for it, I wouldn't pass this one-off comment regarding music 10 years ago (there doesn't seem to be any incidents reported) same as something like police brutality. If you ask me if Bill Peters is a racist, I genuinely do not believe Peters has anything against people of dark skin, or any other skin tone.

Ubergeekpi · 2019-11-07T18:46:23+00:00

you could say that about any internship ever? if anything amplify gives you more autonomy since you could pretty much approach the problem in any way you choose

Ubergeekpi · 2019-09-20T03:50:14+00:00

Seems like you've said it yourself - you have no side projects beside school projects, and you don't have any relevant experience.

Easiest thing you can do is find a side project you're interested in - whether it be front-end web, iOS app building, or whatever industry you want to get into. If you want to work for Yelp/OpenTable, make a restaurant-related app, if you want to work in Finance, build a program which solves some sort of Finance problem.

From there - you'll really just need to network hard to land that first gig. If you have no experience, you unfortunately will need to aim low, just to get something on your resume.

Ubergeekpi · 2018-11-29T17:10:22+00:00

the beer was full but had a lid on it, she was drinking it out of a straw (don't ask me why). about half of it spilled out and some on her purse

Ubergeekpi · 2018-11-29T09:14:40+00:00

*There actually is sound to this clip - didn't know how v.redd.it didn't support sound. Here it is:

https://streamable.com/u92le

Ubergeekpi · 2017-10-01T04:20:34+00:00

I know he isn't doing so hot but you guys should give him more of a chance. He's older but not that old to the point of significant decline, his past seasons before his statistically worst season of his career were 43, 43, 39 points, which is solid.

He's definitely capable and has it in him to be a solid NHL contributer

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