I worked in call centres for Telus and Shaw. I’m a white guy from southern Ontario. I’ve had at least 100+ calls where a customer went on a racist tirade directed at me. I think you’re underestimating how much of a role racism plays

Their revenue was up 22% in 2025 to over 200B. This seems like it really is being driven by AI investment

It's really encouraging to see these kinds of success stories. I really hope people who are concerned about affordability start to view things from more of a "yes and" point of view. We can work on reducing the barriers to building more housing of any kind while also advocating for more social housing development.

> We can work on reducing the barriers to building more housing of any kind while also advocating for more social housing development

One of the NIMBY lobby's greatest wins was putting these options on the ends of a policy spectrum.

They're not. They're complementary. If it's cheaper to build, it's cheaper to build social housing. And if you have a vibrant construction sector, you can build more public housing faster.

They're not always complementary. For instance, IZOs are a social housing intervention, and work against the goal of increasing supply.

> IZOs

This [1]?

[1] https://dhcd.dc.gov/service/inclusionary-zoning-iz-affordabl...

Sorry, yeah, IZO/IHO --- rules requiring some margin of AMI affordable units in new developments (which makes new development harder to pencil out, while giving warm fuzzies to locals who want to genuflect to affordability while still fencing out new neighbors).

Probably the best thing you could do in terms of social housing construction would be to have the government put up some capital to buy land and build new housing on that land, then immediately sell it and use the proceeds to do it again and again with exponential growth because it's actually profitable.

But that's also what construction companies would be doing regardless except for the subsidy, at which point you might be better off doing something like exempting construction companies from property taxes for two years if they at least double the number of housing units on their land in that time.

Could also just exempt the value of the buildings from taxation

Do you facilitate the domain registration or do users bring their own? And if you do facilitate it, do you retain ownership of it?

Users bring their own :) maybe this changes in the future though

In the context of the the lack of confidence investors seem to have in Intels long term vision this makes sense but it really doesn't feel like a good sign for their future

Weather data is incredibly important to a huge number of activities and to the general safety of the public, which is why the government is providing it in the first place. Debt to fund it is almost certain to economically productive. The republican controlled congress is cutting taxes and raising debt levels. A similar argument could be made that we should continue to fund services and raise taxes to reduce deficits instead

Companies can and do offer data for a fee. In the same way that private toll road existing doesn't mean we should get rid of the highway system, a paid option doesn't mean the government should stop providing a publicly funded option given the immense value it provides to society

If the government option successfully creates a government monopoly, maybe we should?

In this case we simply don't know what the market needs or market value of these services are because no one is incentivized to compete with the subsidized government program.

How have they created a monopoly? This comment is on a post about a company that charges for this data, not to mention competitors like foreca or the weather company

I've noticed this user has a habit of asking these "questions" and then suddenly falling quiet when pressed more closely. (I think they are concern trolling)

I'm deeply worried about the number of people I see online who don't understand what Vanguard (or Blackrock, State Street, etc.) do and develop conspiracy theories instead. I think it presents a real risk for ETFs going into the future.

Oh thanks for the new rabbit hole. I took a peek inside and it seems to be:

Since they have so many shares of so many companies, they are secretly the shadow owners/operators OF all those companies.

Being able to navigate back within the page history of a tab is the major reason I keep them open

This is the primary reason I keep so many tabs open instead of just bookmarking things or copying URLs into my project notes.

Is it common to refer to Virginians as being Yankees? Growing up in New England I would have assumed they’d avoid the term by being in the Confederacy

Per E.B. White:

"To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast."

Growing up in Vermont, this was clearly written before Red Sox fandom took over

No, they're both south of the Mason-Dixon line and Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy. Texas is considered less South, culturally, than Virginia.

No. Outside DC metro, VA is the south (or Appalachian, which can be similar, but is distinct).

These days, it’s not really about the Confederacy, just culturally.

I can see parts of Virginia not feeling culturally like a lot of the rest of the south but I’m still intrigued by the use of yankee. Like is someone from Wyoming a yankee because they aren’t from the south or is it more cultural to you?