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by cal5k 7y ago
I'm quite torn that privacy protection tools, which I use liberally as a consumer, can foil fraud-detection tools that I also rely on in my business. Browser/device fingerprinting is one of these things... bad when used to track y
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by cal5k 7y ago
> For far too long the greedy, unethical food corporations have been profiting off our health. Nonsense. As knowledge of nutrition has advanced, companies have adapted to demands from consumers to produce healthier food options. See: sal
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by cal5k 7y ago
I thought I was alone on this! I ended up going to a local hardware store instead because I couldn't figure out what was trustworthy. These days I typically do product research off-Amazon, not on Amazon itself.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Exactly. Most policy issues are way more complex than people think, and the proposed solutions way too simplistic to actually work.
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by cal5k 7y ago
This we can agree on. You'll note that I never said "global warming isn't real" or that "we should sit on our hands". I criticized this particular policy proposal as being both ineffective and economically puni
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by cal5k 7y ago
It's tautological only insofar as you are intentionally ignoring context. If we were talking about the rising price of yachts or some other niche item it would be irrelevant, but almost all working Americans commute. To address negativ
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by cal5k 7y ago
I completely disagree with that method of promoting renewables, so there's no "we" here. The people who would be most impacted by rising petroleum prices would be those least able to afford it. America is built on the automob
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by cal5k 7y ago
If it works anything like it does in Canada, the issue is nowhere near as cut and dry as you make it out to be. I'm going to draw comparison to the Canadian situation to illustrate my point. First, the many native bands in Canada have
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by cal5k 7y ago
I had to delete Twitter from my phone - I found it would make me angry for no discernible reason, and I'm generally a pretty even-tempered person. Not healthy. Once you detach, you realize quickly that much of Twitter represents a tiny
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by cal5k 7y ago
Ballistic parachutes. They've been a safety feature in composite aircraft like the Cirrus SR22 for a long time. Useless on commercial aircraft, great for small, lightweight personal transportation vehicles.
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by cal5k 7y ago
I live in downtown Toronto so it's rarely more than 2 minutes. But even when travelling it's a rare day when it hits 10 minutes.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Sure, and it might arrive in 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, or never. It's an awful experience.
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by cal5k 7y ago
MITM? You don't need to MITM something that isn't even encrypted... anyone with a modicum of technical ability can use WireShark to grab these files if they're transmitted over public Wi-Fi. And probably cellular connections,
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by cal5k 7y ago
Maybe for some products that are merely isomers of existing off-patent medications, but biologics are pretty amazing - Hep C is basically curable now, for example.
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by cal5k 7y ago
This is actually not true. Healthcare is a provincial matter in Canada, not a federal one, and there is no broad-based pharmacare program. Many Canadians have private insurance covering the cost of pharmaceuticals.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Strictly speaking, this is not true. The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board does set prices based on comparable prices in other countries, but the actual purchasing happens by a wide variety of public and private payers. Most working Can
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by cal5k 7y ago
Fair enough! But anglos also pronounce it with a french accent in Montreal, which I find particularly endearing.
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by cal5k 7y ago
It takes a long time to die of starvation. That can't have been a pleasant 4 months by any stretch of the imagination.
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by cal5k 7y ago
My favourite has to be Quebec's "depanneur", or "dep" for short. It's one of those Francophone words that is also pervasive in Montreal english... like "terrace" for patio.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Does anyone know if the Librem 5 has some sort of secure element for storing encryption keys?
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by cal5k 7y ago
Exactly. I absolutely detest the fact that my carrier can remotely activate my phone's baseband processor to conduct surveillance. Without a hardware kill switch there's basically no way to prevent this other than, perhaps, using
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by cal5k 7y ago
There's a reason I don't own one :-P
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by cal5k 7y ago
Well no, here's another inaccessible bit of information: face-to-face conversations where there are no recording devices present. Hence the importance of testimony in a criminal investigation. Should we now require all buildings to, by
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by cal5k 7y ago
What on earth did I just read?
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by cal5k 7y ago
Yes, a "dodge so that the far right can get their views in front of people" that also happens to be a constitutional amendment from 1791. The idea of handing the power to determine what speech is "insulting, racist, or oppres
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by cal5k 7y ago
I can’t pinpoint exactly when the shift happened, but in the recent past the tech industry was always the first to defend free speech and the open exchange of ideas. Today it seems to be increasingly beholden to a loud minority of employees
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by cal5k 7y ago
That's fair, although those boundaries are pretty foundational to day-to-day life in America.
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by cal5k 7y ago
The constitution (including amendments) does place strong limits on what states can do to curtail individual liberty, a topic that's covered extensively in The Federalist Papers. So I don't entirely agree with you on this.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Didn't you just make the same argument for why a federal minimum wage would be unprincipled?
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by cal5k 7y ago
How has it demonstrably failed? America is the wealthiest, most successful, most powerful country in human history.

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