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by nikitaga 2y ago
Clearly, eh? Spoken like someone who didn't get debilitating whiplash for years from being rear ended on a highway. My friend's vestibular system has been shot for 8 years and counting from that accident, and she still can't
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by nikitaga 2y ago
EDIT: Sorry, I think I misread your question. Let me answer it more directly: Driver insurance in BC is offered by ICBC, a "crown corporation", i.e. a monopoly run by the government. You have to buy this insurance to drive in BC.
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by nikitaga 2y ago
In the old system, you only had to sue for compensation if / when the government wasn't offering you what you were due. It was entirely the government's choice to drag so many cases through the courts instead of paying. But a
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by nikitaga 2y ago
> This is why I have doubts about self driving cars, it changes the accountability from the driver to the manufacturer. And I have a hard time believing the manufacturer would want that liability, no matter how well they sold. Under curr
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by nikitaga 2y ago
It wasn't any more "rude" than repeatedly throwing vague insults and insinuations at me without providing the real reason. But I don't see you caring about that. We both know why. Because "rudeness" is not your
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Bias against what? I have no idea what you're talking about. Try making an coherent argument, if you have any, instead of throwing vague insults.
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Welp, unfortunately it's too late to fix my comment. I didn't mix them up on purpose, and I won't pretend to be an expert on the taxonomy of the various Pacific Islander ethnicities. Yes, the article does mention Melanesians
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by nikitaga 2y ago
That's an interesting, well sourced article, I'm glad I've read it. I honestly didn't know that the full-size straw-airplanes were fakes from a movie. They're the face of this metaphor. That said, the article would
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by nikitaga 2y ago
The latter. Conservatives have shown no serious interest in reducing immigration. Their politicians get all the same profits from the crisis, plus the votes of socially conservative immigrants on top. Canadian politics is full of weird alli
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Just saying "speculation" doesn't really paint the picture of what's going on. In 2010-s everyone here blamed foreign speculators hiding in the shadows, but we live in a different, worse, world now. This country's h
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Do you reckon this would become available to third party clients via the API, or would it be exclusively a chatgpt.com feature?
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by nikitaga 2y ago
> That puts paramotoring in the same safety category as hang gliding and base jumping in my mind. Base jumping is NOT in the same category as the other two. It is riskier by one or two (or more) orders of magnitude, depending on how you
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by nikitaga 2y ago
> in time it does work out largely in that direction To be fair, that's usually thanks to government interventions and regulations, not thanks to free market staying free. Markets fail for very known, very well described reasons. Wh
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Nice! If it was a two seater, it does not legally qualify as an ultralight in the US, see FAR 103.1(a) [1]. Back in the day, some older ultralights were designed with a very wide seat ("loveseat"), that physically but not legally
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Definitely not "key". On the ground fatalities are very rare, perhaps 1%-2% of all general aviation fatalities [1]. One massive restriction on ultralight airplanes is that you can't carry passengers. Again, on paper, because
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by nikitaga 2y ago
> It feels like the real problem in this industry is lack of competition. There’s a chicken and egg problem: planes are expensive because so few people buy them, but so few people buy them because they’re expensive. Lack of competition i
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by nikitaga 2y ago
> I believe Fuschia and usage of Dart for projects like Flutter grew out this back-and-forth legal rigamarole between Google and Oracle over Java. I'm guessing nowadays Kotlin plays this role? Its multi-platform nature means that th
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by nikitaga 2y ago
That's manufacturing of solar modules , specifically. Is it safe to assume that most of them are made from Chinese solar cells ?
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by nikitaga 2y ago
I'm not 100% sure that they used drop stitch, but the company Prospective Concepts developed a few more modern designs of inflatable wings for various applications. https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object&#x
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by nikitaga 3y ago
If you want to do "the right thing" – implement your proposal as a library, AND convince people to use it on its own technical merits . Then when everyone uses it (because it's so obviously "the right thing"), you
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by nikitaga 3y ago
Why does it need to be a part of the language? This could be a library. There are such libraries. They are small, so including them in your code is no big deal. Adding this to the language should not even be a goal . Thinking that the cu
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by nikitaga 3y ago
> To characterize it as a call to privatize 90% of the land based on race is bonkers. Nobody means that. And who are you, to make that claim so confidently on behalf of First Nations, to put limits on them? We used to have a treaty proce
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by nikitaga 3y ago
You say it like it's a good thing, but it's not. Specifically, the fact that our country's foundational document is so vague about our fundamental rights, is a very bad thing for everyone involved. If it was more specific, ou
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by nikitaga 3y ago
> might makes right That's how it works, sadly. Everywhere, not just here. The part you're missing is that "we" – the people living in Canada today – did not steal anyone's land. Certainly neither myself nor my a
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by nikitaga 3y ago
You claim that I am "dreaming up", yet you refuse to say what exactly do you suppose indigenous sovereignty could look like. Everything you just said is not sovereignty, it is already the status quo in 2024, yet there are zero Fir
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by nikitaga 3y ago
This isn't about treaties – BC signed very few treaties, unlike other provinces. The rights to fish come from a couple of very vague paragraphs in the constitution and the royal proclamation. They are very much free to interpretation,
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by nikitaga 3y ago
> I don't really see how this is that challenging. "Not challenging"? Ok, suppose you split the province of BC into 100+ of these independent indigenous-run jurisdictions, or maybe a bit less if any First Nations decide to
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by nikitaga 3y ago
"Unceded land" means that because 100+ years ago the British settled as they wanted without asking for permission, the land actually still belongs to indigenous people, and not to Canadians, not to the people who currently live on
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by nikitaga 3y ago
What treaties? BC signed very few treaties, unlike other provinces. That's why those lawsuits are even considered. We can thank a bunch of long-dead British guys for that. And let's not pretend that this has anything to do with th
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by nikitaga 3y ago
> Since first nations metrics along the lines of economic status are still below the national average, it's clear we're not there just yet. Instead of rushing for race-based policies, how about implementing policies that would

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