Mahtab Soin

Building enterprise voice agents for training high performing teams

I enjoy talking about tech, business, economics and geopolitics.

[Mahtab Soin @mahtabsoin]

Serious question - in our technologically enabled world, why do we even need representative democracy anymore?

[Anti-Boomer @mapleblooded]

Steve MacKinnon yesterday: “Mark Carney has a deep reverence for Parliament.”

Mark Carney today: “My MPs are only useful for votes.”

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@boomerbillf Just one home in Florida?

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@nejatian not a free market economy (hence the lack of productivity). and increasingly, not a democracy.

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@fchollet Inertia is definitely a thing.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The hardest part of any task is overcoming the activation energy. The rest is just riding the momentum.

[james hawkins @james406]

seriously be careful out there everyone

i had 2 Microsoft Copilot licenses in my car, and someone broke in and left 4 more

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@ScottRCarpenter What if he's also trying to protect certain investors on the West coast? Vancouver model anyone?

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"Ottawa is now a democracy theme park" mike drop

[Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast @thesovereignceo]

🚨Elizabeth May says after working in parliament with 3 different prime ministers this is the worst she’s ever seen.

Democracy is slipping away.

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@AzizOmarFalatah @BillAckman This is a refreshingly honest perspective. How do you see the future of US in the Gulf evolving?

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Inflating away the debt won't be this easy. At some point, the bond markets will demand higher yield for higher risk.

[govt.exe is corrupt @govt_corrupt]

a $0.70c dollar means Canadians get to pay a 40% tariff on anything imported from the USA.

And who is to blame for such a weak dollar? This lands 100% on the govt and Bank of Canada.

Life has never been less affordable than it is right now.

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@arpit_bhayani Implementation is still not free. It takes extreme taste and judgement to build something useful. 90% of effort is not writing code.

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@FoodProfessor Are you thinking Trump will formally withdraw to negotiate a bilateral deal within 6 months?

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You can't fix brain drain without fixing a 3x pay gap (not even accounting for higher CoL and taxes, and other factors like healthcare access, weather)

[James Cao @jamescowjam]

The Canada vs US pay gap is probably one of the craziest parts of the Waterloo CS profiles.

In 2023, new grads working in Canada reported around $128k CAD mean and $105k CAD median first year total comp. Outside Canada, mostly the US, it jumped to around $372k CAD mean and $300k CAD median.

That is roughly 2.9x the Canadian median.

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It depends. I'd say it someone started the company and successfully recruited others to their mission, that's a worthy distinction in itself.

If someone owns a much bigger chunk of the company than the other founders, that's a worthy distinction too.

There's actually no need to mention "founder" titles. The job titles matter more in a fundraising deck

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@MPelletierCIO But this is not an ordinary man.

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Out of this world.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Elon Musk is now nearly $1 trillion ahead of the second-richest person in the world.

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Isn't GCC the Gulf Cooperation Council?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: VP JD Vance just DEBUNKED a MASSIVE FAKE NEWS report that America is paying Iran a "$300 billion reconstruction fund"

The GULF NATIONS would fund Iranian reconstruction ONLY IF Iran upholds their side of the deal.

I can't believe ANYBODY thought this was in question!

There are *NO DOLLAR AMOUNTS* in the deal, per Vance. Sanctions could be discussed as they comply

"[$300B reconstruction fund] is the sort of thing they could have access to funded by the Gulf Coast Coalition so long as they honor their end of the obligation!"

"I think that one of the things you're going to see it and people have to be skeptical of this is that the hardliners in the Iranian system will overemphasize the benefits that Iran gets while under emphasizing all the things that they have to concede and all the things they have to provide in order to get these benefits."

"So we absolutely are open to the Gulf Coast countries investing in the reconstruction of Iran, but only if Iran ends their nuclear program, ends their enriched stockpile of material, and it's really open to an inspections and enforcement regime that gives the American people confidence they're never going to have a nuclear weapon."

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Civil engineering opening ranks from 2025 to 2026:

- IITB: 2666 → 385
- IITD: 3030 → 179

These ranks normally could get you CS at almost all the IITs

Fears of AI's impact on CS are making students prefer physical over digital