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by vivekd 3y ago
No your statement is incorrect. We do have safe supply in Canada. The CBC even wrote an article defending our safe supply program. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7071004 And this is a pa
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by vivekd 3y ago
Without the moralism, harm reduction is a vague term. Here in Canada the government has been pushing safe supply as a part of harm reduction. We still get the same number of overdoses but our cities are now filled with tent encampments an
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by vivekd 3y ago
>For me, I haven't had a job for almost a year, nobody's hiring, nobody will be hiring, rent is increasing, I'll almost certainly never own a home or be able to retire, and I don't think having kids would be feasible
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by vivekd 3y ago
Plastic is only cheap because it's a byproduct of oil. It'll stop being as cheap and plentiful if we stop producing oil and we'll naturally move to cheaper substitutes Although I don't think oil use is going to end anyt
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by vivekd 3y ago
Well front page of HN right now is an article about how AI aided in the development of a new antibiotic
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by vivekd 3y ago
I mean maybe not the single most important development, but definitely a very important technological development with the potential to revolutionize multiple industries
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think even the worst climate change is something we can survive. And there's no question we can survive without fossil fuels - there are more expensive alternatives. Running out of stuff like copper or sand I don't think we can
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by vivekd 3y ago
You're just not following the point - for example we could make laws requiring all cars to have pedestrian safety monitoring and driver attention detection. That would be safer. We don't because of cost. With airbags we're j
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by vivekd 3y ago
That's what I thought initially too, but reading the article, it seems like it's just requiring age verification for accessing adult material. If we are concerned about censorship - I have to say that ship has long ago sailed. I
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by vivekd 3y ago
Why is there even a debate? What's the goal here get 100% of the population of the world to vote in some climate measure? Isn't that the most ridiculous possible approach to solving the climate issue?
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by vivekd 3y ago
If you think the current system is motivated by the public good our values are so different there's no point talking. This is the system that gave rise to the corporations and abuses some claim to hate. But if you agree it's not
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by vivekd 3y ago
You're getting lost in words not touching substance. I can distill it to this - If private contractors did warrants we'd be better off because there are no ideologically driven zealots who will defend and excuse it if they had we
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by vivekd 3y ago
How would google lose money if stalkers broke into my Gmail? No it's because in every other area besides government we have standards of security because government is the only place where people tolerate, accept and even defend massi
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by vivekd 3y ago
You don't need a standard procedure followed all over the world. You just need some authentication procedure that's better than an easily forgable signature. I gave a few examples of the top of my head in the parent. This is why
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by vivekd 3y ago
Seems like the government's fault. In every other area of even marginal importance we have better and more advanced authentication systems. Yet governments the world over continue to use signatures. I mean something as simple as a pi
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by vivekd 3y ago
These discussions are exasperating for me because I always go where? Where in this world is this strong government that's controlled by the average joe and not by the rich or high born. It seems like some enlightenment era utopian fa
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by vivekd 3y ago
That was my initial reaction, I mean was the PSF going to stop sponsoring all conferences in America when Trump won because they think building the wall makes Latino's feel unsafe? Singling out African nations like this does reek of c
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by vivekd 3y ago
Yes thank goodness those monopolies are gone and our cities are all clean and safe from fires and our sewage and road infrastructure is in top condition
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think he means the Republic (Roman democracy). The non democratic Roman Empire would continue to on for some time after that
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by vivekd 3y ago
I don't think people voted for Trump because he promised tax cuts for the rich. I think it was the other stuff like building a wall and appointing anti abortion judges to the Supreme Court. I hope no one other than a strange fringe mi
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by vivekd 3y ago
I mean wouldn't you fire her? Imagine someone in Ford's board wrote an article criticizing Ford's approach to cars and saying that Mazda was doing a much better job
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by vivekd 3y ago
There's a huge portion of people here that really hate our government. I'm one of them. This whole law was a result of legacy media lobbying for that law, a lot of smaller Canadian media outlets and small content creators oppose
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by vivekd 3y ago
Canadian here, many Canadians oppose this law and have a negative view of the CTRC. Many did not agree with the level of control over online news content that the Canadian government sought with this bill.
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by vivekd 3y ago
This looks like a capitulation for the Canadian government to save face. The goal was to provide continuous money for Canadian media (based on clicks not a 100 mill lump sum to an organization representing all media) and more importantly t
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by vivekd 3y ago
Well the debate aside it seems like the culture is moving away from tipping. Younger generations don't seem to do it. So it seems that legislatures are going to have to start accounting for this in their min wage requirements
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by vivekd 3y ago
I checked trust piolt Fresha seems to be doing well and no such complaint. I think the start is we shouldn't jump to conclusions >We've written to fresha.com's technical support as a show of good faith but we fully expect
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by vivekd 3y ago
I go cashless for one simple reason, going to the bank to withdraw money and making sure I carry the right change is inconvenient. I think to get the purported freedom cash entails you'd also have to not have a bank account (which gove
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by vivekd 3y ago
well all tech is imperfect, you can't have perfect tech or anything that works 100% of the time. The question is what is the false positive rate. If getting a false positive or break in the tech once a year or less dramatically reduc
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think this bill is a good idea and a good safety measure. That said to me when a law requires kill switch if it detects drunk driving - that would seem to me as qualifing as "true" any statement that says "the law requires
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by vivekd 3y ago
It's easy to find these things in retrospect. It could be that ethical breaches are common and it's easy to ascribe lapses and wrongdoing to someone after a scandal. For the model to be useful we have to show it can be used to co

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