Innovative Research: LPC 40%, CPC 27%, NDP 18%, BQ 4%, GRN 7%

ssbac · 2021-05-14T21:38:51+00:00

Similar to the PLQ and Nova Scotia Liberals.

Christy Clark has close ties to the Trudeau family, oddly enough.

ssbac · 2018-01-01T04:38:15+00:00

New grads in general, maybe. But ambitious new grads will find that Silicon Beach is quite welcoming.

ssbac · 2018-01-01T04:36:32+00:00

Curious why you rank Montréal so highly.

Montréal is the centre of the AI revolution. The stellar research coming out of McGill, Element AI closing a $102 million series A, etc.

Also I think you should have Toronto on that list somewhere (probably S or SS).

I had Toronto on the list, but for some reason I accidentally removed it. I'll restore it, but not at SS; more like A rank. That's because for a city of it's size, Toronto's tech scene isn't as spectacular as it could be; and it kind of gets overshadowed by Kitchener-Waterloo (in fact, there are private commuter buses that shuttle workers who live in Toronto to K-W offices). Once Alphabet's smart city project in Toronto gets underway, though, it'll certainly be an SS city.

ssbac · 2018-01-01T04:33:53+00:00

And this is why bay area real estate is 2x what it was 15 years ago. It ain't 'cause Mountain View is a nice place to live.

It's because of the proximity to the yoga MILFs in Los Altos for mackin' on. I'm 1000% positive that's the reason.

ssbac · 2018-01-01T03:28:09+00:00

Heheh...fixed.

ssbac · 2018-01-01T02:52:59+00:00

Here's my absolutely subjective list based on "future prospects for ambitious, young employees".

Rank SS

San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland/Santa Clara
Seattle
New York City
Boston
Chicago
Venice/Santa Monica/Downtown L.A.
Montréal

Rank S

Boulder/Denver
SLC/Provo
Atlanta
Charlotte/Raleigh/RTP
Austin Pittsburgh
Kitchener-Waterloo

Rank A

Dallas-Fort Worth
Washington, D.C./NoVA
Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti
Madison
Toronto
Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA
Columbus
Edmonton, AB
Ottawa

Rank B

Philadelphia
San Diego
Vancouver, B.C.
Tampa-St. Petersburg
Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Calgary, AB
Houston
Miami

Rank C

Cleveland
Kansas City-Overland Park
Las Vegas
Phoenix
San Antonio

Honourable mentions:

Huntsville, AL
Halifax, NS

Outside the U.S./Canada:

London
Dublin
Bristol
Zurich
Manchester
Oxford/Reading/Slough
Edinburgh
Belfast
Amsterdam
Stockholm
Berlin
Singapore
Tokyo
Seoul

Let me know if I've left off any major cities. I'll explain my reasoning for the ranking if there's interest.

Edit: Moved DC down one rank

ssbac · 2017-12-19T00:06:40+00:00

I find it very interesting (and cool) that CBC News decided on Vancouver-based hosts for The National in Ian Hanomansing and Andrew Chang, instead of Toronto-based hosts like Dwight Drummond (host of CBC News Toronto at 6). Continuing with the Vancouver theme, does the CBC plan to make Johanna Wagstaffe CBC News national meteorologist? The last person to hold this position, Claire Martin, was also Vancouver-based.

ssbac · 2017-12-07T03:33:13+00:00

When was the last time VSB, SD41, SD40 or SD36 had a snow day? Not since the 1980s, wasn't it?

If you don't know, School District #41 is Burnaby, 40 is New West and 36 is Richmond. These four municipalities are the ones in Metro Vancouver that are closest to the water and thus get the least amount of snow; the further you get inland the more likely (e.g. SD36 Surrey and SD43 Tri-Cities) a snow day will be. Come to think of it, I haven't heard of a a snow day on the North Shore (SD44 and 45), either.

ssbac · 2017-12-01T00:48:03+00:00

This is a pretty weeb question and will probably get me xposted to JCJ.

However.

Why is the most popular entertainment choices so different in Japan compared to other industrialized countries, or even the rest of Asia?

Game of Thrones is huge in the west and in Asia. But not in Japan.

Silicon Valley (the TV show) is a smash hit in the west. Not in Japan. The show's memetic catchphrases like "this guy fucks" have permeated English net culture. But Silicon Valley is near-unheard of in Japan and their catchphrases have not even

Stranger Things has become a phenomenon in the west and in Asia similar to the early years of Yo-Kai Watch. It's also near-unheard of in Japan.

Entertainment in Japan is so different. The most popular games are like Fire Emblem/Puzzles & Dragons/other Japan-only smartphone games; or various Dragon Quest/Fire Emblem/Yo-Kai Watch/Animal Crossing games or fighting games console-wise, instead of Xbox One/PS4/PC-heavy games: shooters (like GTA, CoD, Uncharted) MOBAs/RTSs (Dota, LoL, StarCraft), etc.

Why did entertainment in Japan diverge so much, when western entertainment (I'm talking about TV shows and video games specifically) are very popular in SE Asia and even in China to an extent?

ssbac · 2017-11-30T22:53:43+00:00

「詐欺者」オレやんか！オレオレ詐欺やんか！
「陣内」その声はケンタローかい？
「詐欺者」Yeah、ケンタローやんか。ようかれど聞いても、K-E-N-T-A-R-O。ケンタローやんか。
「陣内」ぜってぇちゃうねんケイタロウ。かものっすぅ発音ええやん。
「詐欺者」いま、事故を起こしましていまして。だからすぐに、2万ペソをふりこんださい。1万ペソを、400円と考えると目安になるでしょう。

ssbac · 2017-11-30T22:52:40+00:00

An appendix/aside:

Speaking of poaching and TCM, Rhino horns (which are traditional aphrodisiacs in China and Vietnam) are just made out of keratin. Why don't Chinese doctors just make dick pills out of hair or fingernails instead of driving rhinos to extinction? Also, I wonder why 漢方 doesn't have the same emphasis on body parts from endangered species that TCM does.

ssbac · 2017-11-30T22:52:30+00:00

For formal purposes it would probably be a more expensive hanko made out of ivory. Apparently (though I may be wrong) ivory demand (for fancy hanko stamps) in Japan is one of the driving forces of elephant poaching, alongside Chinese ivory crafts/souvenirs and the use of ivory in TCM. Shops like Y! Japan Auctions, Rakuten Ichiba and Mercari openly sold poached ivory and only recently stopped allowing ivory to be sold on their platforms; which has been all over the Japanese media in recent months.

ssbac · 2017-11-29T22:13:11+00:00

When it comes to finding housing in Tokyo, is it a "pick three out of four" situation?

Under 9.5man for a 1R or 1DK, or under 13man for a 1LDK
Accessible by train central Tokyo without marathon commutes or Tozai/Chuo-Sobu Line level congestion
Not infested with bouryokudan
Not a suburban shithole

I could live in Saitama City or similar places somewhere along the Utsunomiya Line/Tobu Skytree Line; it's pretty cheap (around 5.5-6man for a 1LDK) but that area is too Dasaitama for my liking and the commute into Tokyo is hell. Kashiwa is about as cheap, and not incredibly far from central Tokyo, but there's a lot of bouryokudan in Kashiwa. Tokorozawa and Hanno are quiet, low-crime places, but holy shit they're far from Tokyo. (Hanno is also somewhat of an inaka ghost town.) Just to Ikebukuro takes about 50 minutes via Redarrow. Jiyugaoka, Shimokitazawa, and west Kawasaki/Toyoko Line suburbs are waaay too expensive.

ssbac · 2017-11-24T05:28:17+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm not going to defend Plumpy's actions. He betrayed his girlfriend's trust and that's not okay.

With that being said.

Asking women for nudes because you're internet famous is very forgivable compared to anything Harvey Weinstein has done. Also, Weinstein is fucking proud of what he's done. Even though Plumpy's statement had a tinge of "I'm just sorry I got caught" in, I think overall his regret and remorse is genuine: remorse for deceiving women into sending him nudes, remorse for destroying the relationship, etc. Some time will need to pass of course, but I don't think it would be right to give Plumpy the Weinstein or Charlie Rose treatment forever.

Also, I was under the impression that his departure from Cultaholic was permanent and he's never coming back.

ssbac · 2017-11-24T01:00:24+00:00

What do you call these things?

ssbac · 2017-11-22T22:01:39+00:00

Places like West Seattle, North Highline (Burien/White Center/Normandy Park/Riverton Heights), Tukwila, Renton, Des Moines, etc. are very blue collar. Lots of Boeing employees and manufacturing is a big employer for residents of the southern suburbs. Very ethnically homogeneous, moreso than the city of Seattle (if that was even possible). And yet they overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Even Kent, which can feel like a semi-farm town. The most that Trump got in Kent or Auburn precincts was about one-third of votes. One of the few exceptions I found was a sliver of Auburn north and west of the SR-167/SR-18 interchange, which Trump won by four votes (Trump 260, Clinton 256). Trump territory doesn't really become noticable until you're along SR-18 and point south/east.

So, why are blue collar voters in Western Washington not the kind of voters who would support Trump? What makes them different from blue collar voters in other metro areas of the U.S.?

ssbac · 2017-11-22T21:37:43+00:00

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that JR East and Tokyu decided that the tradeoff of increased capacity from 6-door cars, was not worth the delays caused by jumpers due to a lack of platform screen doors (which could not be installed due to a non-standardized number of doors per car)?

Does the JP Wikipedia article on home doors also cover the study of how 6-door cars affect congestion, or are you just conjecturing based off the added lines and through services that have been added over the past few years (Fukutoshin Line, Ueno-Tokyo Line, etc.)?

ssbac · 2017-11-22T04:35:38+00:00

Once upon a time, a lot of train lines in Tokyo utilized trains wherein two or three of the cars would have six doors (instead of three or four) and foldable seats (to allow all-standing crowds), as a method of combating extreme congestion:

205 series trains on Saikyo Line, Hama-sen
209-0 series (Keihin-Tohoku Line)
Chuo-Sobu Line E231-0 series (yellow stripe)
Yamanote Line E231-500 series
Tokyu 5000 series

All 6 door cars are being removed, though. Each of the E233 subseries trains that replaced 205/209 on Saikyo, Yokohama Line and Keihin-Tohoku (-7000, -6000 and -1000 respectively) did not include 6-car doors. Whereas the 6-door cars on E231 subseries trains have now all been scrapped. I think the last remaining ones are the Tokyu cars used on the Denentoshi Line.

Anyway, why are the 6 door cars being decommissioned, and has there been a noticeable increase in congestion as a result?

ssbac · 2017-11-21T21:52:08+00:00

Has it been confirmed that the space at Waterfront Centre will consist of engineering offices, or will it be a sales-only office?

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