totony

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by totony 5y ago
>because other protests do not greatly impact the ongoing lives of random unrelated citizens in the city who just happen to live in the area for weeks on end. From my experience this is not true. Protests mostly involve discomfort to nor
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by totony 5y ago
>it can be proven The emergency act removes that requirement, which is what is scary. Not only can you not prove it, they don't even have to hold a trial (afaict) Also that law was clearly not intended to be used against protests. S
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by totony 5y ago
ML is already applied to spam mail, maybe it could be applied to JS runtime behavior to detect this kind of tracking. Fight ML analytics with ML
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by totony 5y ago
That's a specific order, to a specifics individuals. Plus, this is a legal matter and can have a back-and-forth in court. The emergency act allows freezing assets of anyone without a judge having its say. The scale is not the same.
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by totony 5y ago
>Why not make the protests less liveable? Protesting during multiple weeks in winter is already unliveable. I live in Canada and would probably not do that unless the issue is life-or-death. Using extra-judicial means to quell opponents
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by totony 5y ago
People that argue this seem unaware of how dreadful freezing assets can be. 30 days without funds means you can't pay any debt, can't pay for food, can't use transportation, etc. I don't believe "The goal is to prev
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by totony 5y ago
Licensing software accomplishes that, but you lose the freedoms OSS provides. You also have to take into account that companies use OSS to gain adoption and pull off once they're established. This is why GPL and AGPL are essential. It
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by totony 5y ago
Nor should it, that's what OSS is about. Why should they not do what they want with your software? As long as it stays open it's OSS
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by totony 5y ago
Does that justify the doxxing? What about the informations of Canadians? Collateral damage? Law enforcement has enough tools to investigate stuff like this. The public doesn't need access to everyone's information just in case it&
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by totony 5y ago
Couldn't they theoretically be forced to work with the emergency act? AFAIK it could be argued that they are providing essential services
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by totony 5y ago
If only he enacted the policies he said he would enact instead of triggering all the emergency acts he can find. I'm still waiting for proportional voting (it's been 6 years)
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by totony 5y ago
I'm eager to see passwords leaks as well as all the other personal info leaks for the last decade be exposed then. Remember the Desjardins leak a few years ago? Is that OK? I fail to see why a leak is considered "public informatio
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by totony 5y ago
Nitpick but parent said "no building were burnt down" and not "no crime was comitted"
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by totony 5y ago
>we're at around 90% vaccination rate Vaccination rate doesn't relate much to mandates support. >Reality shows otherwise - we'd be talking about an election if this was an actual problem politically, and an election sim
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by totony 5y ago
EdgeQL seems like a custom graphQL. Any reasons you did not follow dgraph's DQL or graphQL-compatible language? https://dgraph.io/docs/get-started/
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by totony 5y ago
I may have misspoken, you can change the default branch after the fact, my issue was with the "auto-create README" feature
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by totony 5y ago
As @zerocrates mentioned, it's about the github auto commit feature when creating a new repo. This makes bootstrapping using terraform more complicated.
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by totony 5y ago
Yeah, ive had issues with repos on github having master and new ones having main. Github api seems to force the default branch to main (on new repos) making fixing this harder as well. It's not that big of a deal but sure is a hassle.
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by totony 5y ago
I think the premisr of the proposition is that UBI makes housing assistances superfluous, since UBI should cover basic needs.
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by totony 5y ago
A lot of countries nationalised these services since they're essential. Nothing stops the US from doing the same.
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by totony 5y ago
The chart shows a slight negative for the very poorest (that are eligible for benefits - it doesn't seem to take into account the people that don't pay taxes, aka the very very poorest, who would presumably not see such a loss). A
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by totony 5y ago
In an ideal world you would subsidize mental/physical assistance instead of giving them more money. It's both easier to do and fairer to those affected.
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by totony 5y ago
This is hyperbole. Removing loopholes and taxing the top 5% more will not destroy society. Just like taxing the middle class didn't make them stop working, or made them work shitty jobs just to not pay taxes.
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by totony 5y ago
See this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248741
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by totony 5y ago
>The reality is that there aren't enough upper class people to generate sufficient tax revenue for a meaningful UBI. What makes you think so? There are a lot of discussion online about the costs/benefits of UBI. This article ha
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by totony 5y ago
>So we are going to raise taxes on the middle class to give free money to people that choose not to work? 1. UBI aims to streamline redistribution of wealth and remove a lot of bureaucracy around it, reducing a lot of the cost of the cur
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by totony 5y ago
Essential business. So now that person needs to rely on other people for groceries?
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by totony 5y ago
Yeah, I "log in" a few times a day to answer messages. I don't think that should be considered a user since I'm not consuming anything facebook-related, just responding to messages because everyone is on facebook
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by totony 5y ago
>walled garden >links medium blog post which can only be accessed behind a login
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by totony 5y ago
Have you read that link? I'm not familiar with all the intricacies, but from a cursory look these seem relevant: >Certain areas of government action - some of which have become priorities over the years - are not specifically identi

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