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If the goal is equity of outcome above-all-else, ignoring for any differences derived from the data, then why are we bothered investing so much time, money and effort into this area?

This might have been true 18+ months ago, but not now. HN now more closely resembles, and more closely acts like, Reddit in 2018 than HN in 2016.

>While obviously not a bad deal, it's a far cry from options/RSUs and other standard annual bonuses offered at other tech companies.

Nobody is forcing people to work there.

You can't vote in Canada unless you've citizenship. You've to be physically present in Canada 3 years of every five to retain PR, not so with citizenship.

>personally I'd say wait until profitable or >100 engineers

Personally I'd say delay until you can find an area causing such a performance or scalability issue that it justifies its own repo(s), build pipelines / devops / ops, deployable artifacts, and team to hold the context on it.

Without that, your profitability or engineering team is best invested into extending your offering to better service your customers.

There's no shame in wanting to differ from the status quo maintained since time immemorial, but don't pressure others into it.

Valid?

It's disappointing, but not surprising, that the focus seems to be entirely on the "wrong" side of the "desired" outcome.

At this point it amounts to fighting very hard to find any reason to undo a democratically determined result.

I'll put it in a mildly hyperbolic manner, to match the quality of the source this article came from:

Toronto gets the sloppy seconds of America's tech industry; the Canadian tech grads who couldn't move to the US, the Indian tech migrants who couldn't get US visas, the "startups" who couldn't get US VC funding, tech conferences etc. etc.

That some companies are seeking to lower their costs but retain "North American culture" by transferring some functions to Toronto is not an indication of the strength of Toronto, but its weakness. Cheap dollar, far cheaper salaries, cheap(er) office spaces, far cheaper politicians to buy if necessary, etc.

When anyone in the North American tech industry can name 5 bustling Canadian startups from the top of their mind, then maybe we can talk about the Canadian tech industry doing well. Until then, it's about as relevant in tech as Bangalore and jobs there are as relevant as any of those located in other outsourced, cost-reducing "tech centres".

>Jesus, this paper is so biased it's palpable

Absolutely, but I don't think any media entity is portraying itself as unbiased these days?

Regardless, their desperate banner ads begging for $1 warms me inside.

>Did the media write about email being used negatively when it was taking off?

When email was taking off, the media was still making vast amounts of money from print editions.

Now that this part of the industry is rapidly dying, it has pivoted to outrage-driven ad-clicks for revenue and their content has tailored itself appropriately.

I got about 3 paragraphs into the article and tired of the "white folks be like... but black folks be like" narrative.

Do better.