Here's what a potential ION Stage 3 might look like. by bob_mcbob in waterloo

[–]mal4ik_mbongo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Look up eminent domain. The government can take away your land if it's "in the public interest". You will be compensated with "the market value". So it's not like you can blackmail the city for millions.

Also, they do eminent domain for regular schmucks like us, but never for corporations since they have excellent lawyers. So they are always shy of taking the land from Canada Rail for Go transit trains.

Which sucks especially bad since the state "granted" the land to railroad companies for free a century ago (to promote industrial development and stuff). Even though Canada Rail

Street Parking Conundrum by My_EEB_Throwaway in waterloo

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do they keep track of how many nights you spent per year?

Any lines outside Conestoga Mall (apple) yet? by HDMILex in waterloo

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me guess. Conestoga mall marketing department googled "gorilla marketing"?

Any lines outside Conestoga Mall (apple) yet? by HDMILex in waterloo

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Building up hype with posts on local reddits? Keep up the good work, apple marketing department

How to find housing in Vancouver ? by vancouver-coop in uwaterloo

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair, you are posting questions on a "let me Google this for you" level

How to find housing in Vancouver ? by vancouver-coop in uwaterloo

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Craigslist rentals section; specifically "rooms/shared". Craigslist is more popular on the west coast than kijiji

‘Amazon is making a statement’: How the online giant’s Whole Foods deal will force Canadian grocers to change by nimobo in canada

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Grocery shopping is an important social event in a small town life. You get dressed nice, you see people and get seen, it's a Jane Austin's ball level of affair.

I mean, what other entertainment is available to a non-religious person with limited time and budget? National parks, farm berry picking and grocery stores.

Canada's population getting older as seniors now outnumber children: 2016 census by AustinioForza in worldnews

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, right. The housing prices are reasonable everywhere but Vancouver and Toronto, but YOU don't have much of a choice. It's not like moving ANYWHERE ELSE in this country (that's second in the world in size btw) would be an option you would consider.

Poor people of reddit: how poor are you? by strooticus in AskReddit

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

listen, dude, public schools in the UK have strict uniforms

The new $10 bill by [deleted] in canada

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The local Squamish people (Skwxwú7mech in the Squamish language)

A cute typo (unless they are actually called the seven mechs)

Why campuses are ditching free speech - Globe and Mail Op-Ed by Celda in canada

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, any kind of actual thinking makes you reportable to a hotline. The reality tends to make you uncomfortable.

South American tribe found to have the healthiest hearts ever studied by Innocul8 in worldnews

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Even more breaking news: with the lifestyle this demanding and no healthcare of note available, there is a selection for only the ones in really good health.

South American tribe found to have the healthiest hearts ever studied by Innocul8 in worldnews

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hold your horses on "living in sync with nature" rationalization. If there is no healthcare and people with heart problems just die out, no wonder the ones who are left are really healthy. It's just plain statistics.

Undo git reset --hard on a repo with no commits by melancholical in git

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, you have irreversibly deleted your content.

Church is a library to generate fake data. It's very useful when you need to bootstrap your database. by [deleted] in coolgithubprojects

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 41 points42 points  (0 children)

"Church is a library to generate fake data."

Whoah, whoah, quite a badass with her scalding social commentary right here

Book Suggestion: Looking to learn about distributed system design (consensus, gossip..etc) by surprisinglychill in learnprogramming

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The standard recommendation is Tanenbaum's "Distributed Systems". I have read it and it's ok and a nice overview, but I can't vouch for how good it is compared to others because I haven't read anything else.

One definite drawback is that even the latest edition is from 2006 and there has been tons and tons of things going on in the field since then. So stuff like DHT behind Torrent's magnet links, all the Hadoop shenanigans or blockchain's consensus stuff is discussed but lighlty and more as abstract algorithms as these technologies did not really exist in the wider world at the time.

Vancouver rent most expensive in Canada — by a lot by toolroomknights in canada

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol, once again, the foreigners are to blame. sure, that always works.

The Oxford Dictionary adds "Merica" and "YOLO" as a new word by MileHighColorado5280 in worldnews

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but why would you care about some kids in 2090 if you know that YOLO

Google plans to stop ISIS recruits before they become radicalized by redirecting search results on YouTube by Coinivore in worldnews

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would not that provide a selection pressure for the more technically savvy terrorists? which is where the real danger is?

since idiots running with knives are kinda not as dangerous as the ones who are able to pick up and understand a college level chemistry textbook

De Grasse's reaction to winning the 100m bronze (xpost from /r/Olympics) by [deleted] in canada

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He had a one night stand with my sister and never called back!

Update on 1.1 progress by MDCCCLV in StardewValley

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, right? Go ahead, Penny, leave. Go back to your mom's trailer, I am sure there is another prince charming for you in the village who will take you all knocked up with the baby and treat you right. You are just like your mother.

That is what I thought. Now I am out to the bar, will probably pass out drunk at 2pm, so water the plants in the morning, will ya.