@DanWMcLean So we will be paying 44% in 2030 than what we are today (because of compounding interests) for the same services. There needs to be a reckoning at city hall.
@ClinkerScott@DanWMcLean You’re assuming that the taxes aren’t compounded. But will that be the case?
Normally it’s compounded from one year to the next. So 15% * 9.8% * 7.6% * 6% = 44% increase in 2030 from today.
According to @CBC honking truck horns in Ottawa is "stochastic terrorism" but murdering 3000 people (including 19 Canadians) by hijacking planes and ramming them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon is NOT. 🤡🌎
In light of the CBC News’ grotesque rewriting of history, which insults the memories of all who died that day and all who sacrificed in Canada’s longest war since Korea, I expect a full throated condemnation by our Prime Minister, as as well as an expectation that he treat CBC News leadership with the same level of contempt and issue the same threats of committee hearings that he levelled at the former CEO of Air Canada, following his unilingual misstep after the accident at LaGuardia that killed two Air Canada pilots.
@CBCNews@cbc@MarkJCarney
CBC can't get anymore ridiculous right?
New memo tells CBC journalists not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack.
What do you think of this?
https://t.co/qjl1S8zp48
Elon Musk was asked why SpaceX barely files patents.
His answer flips everything business schools teach about protecting ideas.
"Patents are a recipe book for your competitors."
The room expected the standard answer. Patents protect innovation. Patents are moats. Every startup lawyer's first advice is file, file, file.
He explained why that's backwards for SpaceX. A patent is a public document. You file one, and you've published your engineering solution to the entire planet, with diagrams. Your only protection is your ability to sue whoever copies it. His primary long term competitors are in China. He said suing there would be pointless, so a patent filing would simply be handing over the blueprints with extra steps.
So SpaceX protects almost nothing on paper. The protection is velocity. By the time anyone reverse engineers the current rocket, SpaceX is two generations ahead. The moat isn't a document. The moat is speed.
Think about what that reveals. He'd rather rely on outrunning everyone forever than on a legal system defending yesterday's work. Most companies protect the past. He decided the past isn't worth protecting because he's never going back to it.
Secrets are for companies that stopped moving. If your advantage needs a lawyer to survive, it was never an advantage. It was a head start you wasted.