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by pkd 4y ago
I love paper books too but e-readers solve the transportation problem so well that I read a lot on my Kindle as well. Plus you get the highlighting, notes and progress tracking that you can integrate with other tools like readwise.
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by pkd 5y ago
It is not easy. But it is varying levels of hard depending on your background. You are also required to spend over half the year every year in Canada and it expires every five years. I'm not sure why permanent residents shouldn't
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by pkd 5y ago
True, I have not seen them used anymore but the documentation still refers to them ( https://guides.rubyonrails.org/plugins.html ) and the rails plugin new command still exists (on rails 6, at least. Don't have 7.x on th
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by pkd 5y ago
> If you always win, then you’re probably doing something wrong. Unless the objective is something other than winning, this is by definition incorrect.
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by pkd 5y ago
Confusingly, Rails also has plugins as a separate concept.
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by pkd 5y ago
Thank you for this recommendation. I'll probably pick this up for French writing practice!
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by pkd 5y ago
Who do you trust?
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by pkd 5y ago
There are many many low income housing buildings in Centerrown. It's interesting to me that you characterize the condo inhabitants as rich people while it's actually cheaper to buy a condo downtown than to buy a house in Barrhaven
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by pkd 5y ago
I don't see what makes you think it's retroactive in the act. The government has also said it's not going to be applied retroactively. https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/what-ottawa-can-do-n...
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by pkd 5y ago
If you listen to the next question, it seems like he was talking about people in the U.S. donating to the movement.
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Morel: A Functional Language for Data(blog.hydromatic.net)
2 points by pkd 5y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 5y ago
I think invoking the act is well within the democratic framework. The act mandates that there be an inquiry after to assess the validity etc. That will all come in time and I am sure lawsuits will follow too. That said, there is definitely
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by pkd 5y ago
Fair. That was the term that came to mind in the flow of writing the comment.
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by pkd 5y ago
The context of my comment was the claim that there was "loss of mandate", not whether freezing bank accounts of any group is legal or advisable.
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by pkd 5y ago
Indeed, but we are not talking about bringing down an undemocratic government here. There are democratic ways to replace a government in a democracy.
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by pkd 5y ago
Being asked to take their mask off in a belligerent way. We can argue about the relativity of violence all day long - but the fact is that this behaviour was not really heard of before the protests began and can be traumatising. My friend w
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by pkd 5y ago
Yes, I wish he had gone through with his promise (he still has time), but till that happens that's how the democracy has chosen to function.
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by pkd 5y ago
I said there was "no greater vote". I don't see how your comment relates to that. Do you think this protest is a more valid representation of Canadian democratic opinion than a federal election?
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by pkd 5y ago
You wish that Trudeau opened debate with people who demanded that his government be deposed and replaced by the protest organisers?
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by pkd 5y ago
The military is explicitly not being used in this measure.
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by pkd 5y ago
You didn't actually link to an article on Angus Reid. Here's one: > As the country rolls into another week of uncertainty, nearly three-quarters of Canadians (72%) say the time has come for protesters to “go home, they have mad
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by pkd 5y ago
His father used the War Measures Act. This act was enacted to chisel down the powers of the WMA and has never been used since it was enacted.
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by pkd 5y ago
Are you friends federal government employees? If not, then the vaccination policy is enacted by the corporation they work for, not the government. I'm glad you have felt at home at the protests, I'm sure if you tried to ask critic
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by pkd 5y ago
My friend was accosted for wearing a mask on Saturday in a restaurant. One of the two downtown grocery stores had to close because the employees were being intimated by the protestors to let them inside without a mask. A neighborhood ice cr
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by pkd 5y ago
There is no loss of mandate, if the opinion polls are anything to go by. Besides, the Canadian people chose the government in the middle of the pandemic last year. Is there a more comprehensive definition of a "mandate" than a fed
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by pkd 5y ago
Canada had a federal election in the middle of the pandemic restrictions last year. People chose this government. There is no greater vote possible.
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by pkd 5y ago
Technically modern lenses are way more accurate than vintage ones, but photography is only partly about technicalities. Lenses are so sharp nowadays that now you can spend hundreds of dollars on "black pro mist" filters, which int
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by pkd 5y ago
It does seem like everything has been invented! It's possible that he arrived at the puzzle independently but what's more puzzling that this is the first time I'm hearing about this Dutch game show given the sensation that Wo
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by pkd 5y ago
I am Indian and I've never heard the "day of the week as nickname" thing. Nicknames are generally shortened first names or (in hindu cases) based on some astrological calculations that are too detailed to explain here.
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Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces(microsoft.com)
4 points by pkd 5y ago|0 comments

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