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by 542458 5y ago
I mostly agree, but I do dispute one thing. While technologically there’s no difference between the Russian government disabling their Internet routing and ICANN doing it, politically it’s wildly different.
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by 542458 5y ago
That they have nuclear weapons changes little. The point is that men like this cannot be appeased. What does Putin want for? He’s one of the wealthiest and most powerful men on the planet. Yet he’s still seeking more wealth and power, and h
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by 542458 5y ago
We famously tried policies of appeasement for dictators in Europe looking to expand their borders in the past, without success.
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by 542458 5y ago
Fun fact (and not to detract from your allegory), agent orange was widely used by Ontario Hydro from the fifties to late seventies to clear trees from around power lines. The people handling it weren’t really well-informed of what exactly i
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by 542458 5y ago
I don’t think is true. Functional design may not be optimally pretty in some cases. However, the eye finds things like readability, organization, and visual hierarchy to be visually appealing - so functional design can very well be pretty
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by 542458 5y ago
I mean… they did, and called it an iPad. And they’ve sold 350 million of them so far, so it seems like it was a decent idea.
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by 542458 5y ago
I feel that if the stalker is buying dedicated stalking gear online there are “better” options - you can get actual compact GPS trackers that report over cellular for $10-20.
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by 542458 5y ago
Legislation invoking the clause has been enacted only five times across all of Canada. In one of those cases no rights were suspended and invoking it was unnecessary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Ca
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by 542458 5y ago
The charter is explicitly part of the Canadian constitution. The notwithstanding clause or override is only very rarely invoked (and in many provinces has never been invoked).
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by 542458 5y ago
My link is to the section from our charter on the freedom of assembly. Our freedom of assembly and freedom of speech are understood differently than yours.
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by 542458 5y ago
Again, Canada is not the US. > Section 2(c) guarantees the right to peaceful assembly; it does not protect riots and gatherings that seriously disturb the peace: R. v. Lecompte, [2000] J.Q. No. 2452 (Que. C.A.). It has been stated that t
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by 542458 5y ago
The person who was fired appears to be non-OPSEU, so she’s not an employee of the Ontario government. My understanding is that she’s the employee of a political organization (in this case, the organization that acts on the behalf a politica
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by 542458 5y ago
Canada’s protest laws are different (and much more limited) than those of the US. Any protest that significantly disturbs the peace is not protected. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl&#x
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by 542458 5y ago
In the category of “no universal truths for babies”… my partner and I were hesitant to use pacifiers due to some of the negatives around jaw and mouth development (zero judgement for people who do use them). We agonized over whether we were
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by 542458 5y ago
For what it’s worth, they were parked when the spill happened. But agreed re:McDonald’s behaviour. I believe the jury was also deeply unimpressed, which is why the punitive damages were so high at first.
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by 542458 5y ago
I suggest you go and read the details of that case. The store was knowingly serving coffee at temperatures too hot for human consumption, and had received prior complaints of injuries. The cups they served coffee in at the time were also kn
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by 542458 5y ago
One problem is that at a certain point you can’t just lose logs - for example, somebody might pay you per ad impression or click. Losing logs can mean losing evidence that those impressions/clicks happened. Logs aren’t just a debugging
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by 542458 5y ago
There are only about ~180,000 people with gender studies degrees in the US. I don’t think that’s responsible for an entire generation’s struggles. Furthermore, the average wage for somebody with such a degree is ~83K, which is pretty respec
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by 542458 5y ago
Fair, it's not a windows issue. I only use windows, so I've only experienced it on windows and I didn't want to overstate - but obviously that was poor wording on my part.
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by 542458 5y ago
Honestly, BGR is mostly fine. I was apprehensive when I bought mine, but so far it's only a small handful of things that don't play nice.
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by 542458 5y ago
Irritatingly, some windows applications implement their own subpixel rendering. As somebody on a 1440p BGR panel, those applications become extremely obvious to me as the aliasing is exactly backwards to what it should be. One irritating ex
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by 542458 5y ago
I live in a place with similar laws (Ontario, Canada) - I can’t remember the last time I saw a tobacco ad. During my lifetime too we’ve banned tobacco displays in most stores (dedicated tobacco shops seem to be exempt?) - the packages are n
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by 542458 5y ago
I’m not aware of any cases beyond that one - however, that case is still due to the failed electricity grid. When power went out and homes began to freeze, Texans fired up cars and generators to keep heat around. Harris county alone saw alm
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by 542458 5y ago
Right, but that doesn’t necessarily equal a good time for consumers. It’s a common gripe among PC gamers that every major vendor wants their own launcher, some of which are borderline spyware.
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by 542458 5y ago
Or Nintendo/Playstation/xbox? Hmm, what about smart TVs?
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by 542458 5y ago
While I do agree that having money put to use is preferable to not, the argument that any spending is therefore good seems somewhat absurdist. We wouldn’t apply that logic to government spending, for example - the government gold-plating Ai
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by 542458 5y ago
I think the parent comment refers to how the cost of this vehicle could instead prevent around one hundred thousand deaths from maleria*, or uplift several entire communities out of poverty, or provide education to thousands of children, or
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by 542458 5y ago
127m being meters, not millions (although heaven knows how much this thing costs). And the dismantling being limited to temporarily removing the center span of the bridge as well, in case that was ambiguous. I don’t have any affection for B
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by 542458 5y ago
Speaking of old pancake recipes and the Times, I’m very fond of the NYT 1966 Dutch Baby recipe. It’s said to be Amanda Hesser’s favourite recipe. https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1477263398303932420 So
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by 542458 5y ago
I’ve actually found crisis lines to be fairly helpful. Sure, they have little real world power but the people I have spoken to have been calm and reassuring, which more often than not has been what I needed. A few people I’ve spoken to have

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