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by dismalaf 5mo ago
This is the absolute dumbest decision imaginable. The only people hurt by the removal of free trial software for Linux are students and amateurs. Even Apple, possibly the greediest company in the world, knows the importance of cheap hardwa
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
It won't have the same effect as in Quebec, because staying in Canada is a bigger business risk than Alberta seceding, since the biggest business in Alberta is oil and an independent Alberta will be significantly better for foreign oil
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SBCL – Struct by Value Final(github.com)
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
No, it's because your education is western-centric and Islamic invasions took over the east. Eastern Christians have been subjected to genocide at the hands of Muslims for 1300 years. Edit - really, someone is asking for a citation th
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
> There is a clear phase in our history which was long and no progress was made "Dark age". The Dark Ages are kind of a myth. The Eastern Roman Empire (aka. Byzantine Empire) existed through the whole time period up to the beg
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
I mean, I guess they could just stop training new models and coast, but they ARE training models so you have to include those costs.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
No. It's pretty clear that the Liberals have achieved dynasty status, only 25% of Canadians are net taxpayers, the rest live partially or fully on handouts, or are government employees whose income comes from taxes in the first place.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
> Quebec separatists were outraged at the thought of First Nations and pro-Federalist geographical areas turning their new entity into ''Swiss cheese''. It is highly likely that Alberta separatists would face the same
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
> want to be able to analyze and modify You literally can if you want, it's just JavaScript and CSS, you just can't redistribute it as your own.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
https://github.com/ric2b/Vivaldi-browser Someone mirrored it.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
They're protected by the laws of their country. Foreigners aren't. That's the point. Americans corporations have shown they'll just pull out of countries if the law comes down on them too hard.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
Are you reading the same article? > "can't be arsed to meet the quality standards of the free software community". Lol literally all the code is visible. Also all the Firefox forks I've seen are low-effort forks that
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser... It's open in all of the ways that matter, basically they just want to protect their look and feel.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
It's a joke but Visa and Mastercard are American corporations so Americans can feel relatively secure using them. If you live in another developed country, relying on the whims of American entities feels less secure than something sub
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
I used Mercurial back in the day too. I agree, it was better. That being said, GitHub was better than other similar services which no doubt helped git win and now, git is ubiquitous.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
Bias affects sentiment regarding future performance. And it does mean things if you understand the meaning of the terms in the context of "finance".
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
It's not. It's an incredibly common strawman used in discourse on this topic (obviously it's relatively new to HN). They know it's a bad faith argument but it's used over and over to paint Albertans as illiterate
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
The saying "the market is rational" simply means that assets are priced using all currently available information.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
They just got elected a 4th time in a row this is what the average Canadian wants...
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
> Yes. But you’d have to pay for your own border, army, customs, etc, etc. And? $45 billion of the Federal government's revenues come from Alberta. Another poster put the estimate of all these things at $26 billion. Sounds like a
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
> I don't actually think most people mean this when they say it. It's this kind of deeply insulting and patronizing attitude that illustrates exactly why so many Albertans do want to leave Canada.
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
Your argument is against a strawman of your own creation that you're using to hand-wave away the actual topic. If equalization is of no net benefit to anyone why does it exist? And why not just let Alberta leave? The two links explain
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
Since you don't seem to want to write in good faith here (or maybe you just don't understand, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt), from the horse's mouth: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
> Alberta does not "pay into" equalization payments. Provinces do not "send money to other provinces". That's simply not how the program works. You're being pedantic. Income from Alberta workers gets taxed a
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by dismalaf 5mo ago
1. Alberta has a wealth fund. 2. The amount Alberta has sent in equalization payments would have allowed us to have a far larger wealth fund than Norway has. Also, you are aware that, no matter who exploits the oil, the Alberta government
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by dismalaf 6mo ago
Economic simulation in Common Lisp.
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by dismalaf 6mo ago
Nice article. I always think it'll be fun to write a programming language then inevitably stall because most of the things I want already exist or are gargantuan tasks. Whenever I think I want to make a statically typed procedural lan
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by dismalaf 6mo ago
Nice. I'd love to see the source of an actual state of the art MLIR program.
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by dismalaf 6mo ago
I haven't been to Poland but have a second home in Czech Republic (my wife's country) which has the same phenomenon. It has nothing to do with economics or poverty and everything to do with people. Young people move to where the
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by dismalaf 6mo ago
Who elects the policy makers? Fact is, only ~25% of Canadians are net tax payers. The rest work for a government, are unemployed, disabled, retired, or receive more funding from the government than they put in. So yeah, it's the boom

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