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by pseudo0 5y ago
Were businesses pressured to close by the city and the police because people were allegedly flouting mask mandates, or to deny the protestors food, water, heat, and washrooms in -20 Celsius weather? The business closures advised by the city
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by pseudo0 5y ago
As we saw with Tumblr, trying to sanitize a platform to make it corporate-friendly can also be a great way to shoot yourself in the foot. If the operators are smart, they will be happy with a target audience of "just" 75 million p
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Are there even any studies that have done an effective job of examining this phenomenon? Most analyses seem to just look at the original platform's metrics, note a drop in reports and complaints, and conclude that deplatforming works w
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by pseudo0 5y ago
What are the odds that they still count those unused accounts towards that crucial user growth metric?
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I submitted this because I found it to be an interesting first-hand account by someone living directly next to the Ottawa trucker protest. As a data scientist working for the federal government, the author details his experience interacting
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A Night with the Untouchables(maybury.ca)
5 points by pseudo0 5y ago|1 comments
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by pseudo0 5y ago
All of those "crimes" result in a ticket, not the person in question being hauled off to jail, and they typically aren't enforced on protestors. The government could direct the police to crack down, but that would just throw
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by pseudo0 5y ago
GoFundMe's original plan was to force each donor to file a claim for a refund, with the remainder going to unspecified charities instead of the original cause. They amended this to automatic refunds after a massive backlash.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Freedom of expression features prominently in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is included in Section 2, which details fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of assembly. It s
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I called 911 during one of those summer 2020 riots and got put on hold for close to 10 minutes. Tough luck for anyone who had a heart attack or stroke during those riots I guess?
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by pseudo0 5y ago
The page title was: "Why don't I see any Brave Ads after enabling them?" The Brave ads are entirely optional, requiring user opt-in, and it is hard to criticize them for defaulting to not showing ads if they suspect the user
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Clickbait editorialized title, and their system seems pretty reasonable. If they suspect someone is farming BAT (eg. using a bunch of VMs with different VPN endpoints to look like separate users) they simply won't show those "susp
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by pseudo0 5y ago
The whole point of police training is to give a baseline level of competence to all officers. While they may not be perfectly fungible, any officer enforcing a "mean tweet" law already has the necessary skills and qualifications t
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by pseudo0 5y ago
They seem to require a phone number for all new accounts. My guess is that they A/B tested it, and locking accounts after creation had better metrics than requiring it during the sign up process.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
> I have dedicated a lot of time to researching this and as an expert in the field of internet culture having been active within it for 25 years, a B.A. in Media Studies, with many credentials, I, and many others, feel very confident the
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by pseudo0 5y ago
How does the original hospital even have a leg to stand on? I didn't realize that it was even possible to "unlawfully poach" an employee.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
From the article: > Shepard, whose apartment is in the Atlanta suburb of Brookhaven, who told the television station that the couple woke up on Jan 16 to the sound of more than 30 gunshots coming from an apartment complex directly behind
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Yeah, for reference the median household income in the US is under $70k. Of course cost of living depends a lot on the locality, but 90k as a single person goes pretty far anywhere other than the Bay Area, NYC, or a few other expensive hu
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by pseudo0 5y ago
The corporate sponsors list sure looks a lot longer than the individual donor list... Too bad they don't list dollar amounts or ranges. https://media.npr.org/documents/about/annualreports/2019_Ann...
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I'd guess that the main issue they were highlighting was the "30% of GDP" part, which was actually more like 34% pre-covid ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=8fX ). There has been a consistent upwards
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by pseudo0 5y ago
It is of course smart to use caution when downloading anything from an unauthenticated source, but this has become a pretty minimal problem the last few years. AV heuristics and OS security features today are miles better than 5-10 years ag
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Isn't Arden's government considered fairly neoliberal? Her and Trudeau are the two that seem to be most frequently praised in legacy media for winning reelection despite the recent surge in populism.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
> it was not anticipated that civilians would be able to own weapons of war) That was in fact the entire point ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246 ). > (a) The militia of the United States co
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by pseudo0 5y ago
> People who do well on IQ tests will flock to threads about intelligence etc. Are those people who are smart, or those who think they are smart? Because those two groups tend not to overlap as much as one would think. https:/&#x2F
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Looking at the original PIAAC data source ( https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/skillsmap/ ), it looks like the level one or below counties are pretty strongly correlated with proximity to the southern border...
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by pseudo0 5y ago
> Here in Germany, we have an entire bureaucratic apparatus (the Ministries of Education) to hold school staff accountable. For me, the US system is simply incomprehensible because it is plainly visible that the system can be commandeere
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Because parents are the primary stakeholder group for public schools, and elections provide a mechanism for a modicum of accountability. Although it's rare for parents to get outraged enough to actually turn up en masse for school boar
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by pseudo0 5y ago
That really isn't accurate. The National Post is Canadian center-right, but it's generally a pro-business perspective rather than a socially conservative perspective, as it inherited much of its readership from the Financial Post.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Merry Christmas and Joyeux Noël HN!
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In the case of workplace conditions and such, sure. But there's a huge issue of moral hazard when it comes to unions lobbying or influencing public policy more generally for their own benefit, for example with prison guard unions oppo

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