Canada Uses Excel as Random Number Generator for Immigration Purposes(gizmodo.com)
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Canada Uses Excel as Random Number Generator for Immigration Purposes
https://gizmodo.com/canadas-random-immigration-lottery-uses-microsoft-excel-1826711895
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Excel's pseudorandom number generator is weak: Agreed. The claim that someone, presumably a well-situated person in the Canadian government, might be able to put their finger on the scale for this applicant versus the others seems reasonable. Otherwise, the notion that a bad PRNG, even the one in Excel, will "favor" one group over another, or one person over others, seems a stretch.
Ah yes, North America literally has massive expanses of land just waiting to be cultivated by small, remote-only startups based in rural areas...
... and we literally block as many people as we can from coming here.
... and we literally block as many people as we can from coming here.
That's not exactly honest.
There's a reason there's no small remote-only startups in those massive expanses of land; there's nothing there to begin with.
If you're only interested in growing an economy — as opposed to growing a society — it makes sense to give that land to businesses who will pay taxes.
Become the Uber for Ostriches, while only being 70 miles from the nearest grocery!
I thought this was a tech startup forum. Since when did meatspace have any effect on a startup's success?
Even if you're the only employee in the company living in that place, if it's not somewhere with basic conveniences like stores within 20-30 min drive, that sounds like a huge tradeoff.