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by ygjb 1y ago
This isn't just good for Americans - I want to know what goods are tariffed and why. I am Canadian, in Canada, and until the 51st state BS stops, I want to know and validate the region of origin I am ordering stuff from and if I might
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by ygjb 1y ago
I don't know why you are trying so hard to carry water for a team of engineers at a company that has the history to know better. The team that built peerd had the good sense to consult with the author of Spegel before moving forward wi
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by ygjb 1y ago
> Still, to me it's not even clear if "substantial parts of the code" were copied. What the article shows is really small snippets of pretty generic code. Ok, it keeps the original comment and the overall form. But if it&#
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by ygjb 1y ago
Your argument is fairly asinine. When you fork an open source project under the MIT license you have an obligation to include the original license in all copies or substantial copies of the code. The author of the fork may also sublicense
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by ygjb 2y ago
This illustrates a misunderstanding of how CVE functions. It's a repository of data about disclosed vulnerabilities (even if some disclosures are embargoed and not yet published - if anyone but the bughunter and dev team that owns the
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Probably right for everything except dollar stores - too much dependence on foreign manufactured, low-cost items.
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Not to get too political, but the US is built on expropriation. From Indigenous peoples, the British, Mexicans, and a variety of other folks. It's baked into laws and policies like eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture. The bigge
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by ygjb 2y ago
Yep. As a former Canadian soldier, it was a pretty shit afternoon when I had to explain to my kids what annexation meant in practical terms, and the role that Canada has played in preventing and repelling similar actions in other countries
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It's a real thing, my family would frequently travel to SeaTac from Vancouver to travel to sunny destinations because airfare was substantially cheaper, and there were more direct flight options, especially to the Caribbean. We also t
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My point was really that American style gun rights are not popular in Canada, and the theoretical tyrannical government isn't an adequate justification. You can argue the merits for or against, but more than 60% of Canadians support ou
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by ygjb 2y ago
Not to be too glib, but rather than citing a theoretical need to stage an uprising, why not measure something more direct and practical, like the number of mass shootings. Some stats - https://www.healthdata.org/news-events
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Alot of Canadians are requesting that. Not just about retaliation, but in many respects (battery swapping terminals, feature sets), Chinese EVs are pulling ahead of North American vehicles. Canada did a lot to support US industry because i
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For most of recorded history that was because we didn't have access to food, clean water. The process of preparing alcohol, tea, coffee, and other beverages was part of making water safe to deinkt. Alot of the world still doesn't
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No one is going to launch a nuke in defense of Ukraine. Russia might launch a nuke as an offensive tactic. If they did that, it's the end of Russia, and depending on the escalation, the end of the world as we know it. No one can cont
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by ygjb 2y ago
Well, yeah, not from some rando, but that's not some rando, they are an employee of the government department that is trying to gut the government. That aside, the work product that is the result of an alaysis of open data can absolut
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by ygjb 2y ago
And days after the election he started threatening potential military force to acquire Greenland and Panama, and economic force to annex Canada. The reasons he was elected are irrelevant, only his actions since being elected and taking powe
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Because Shopify leadership supports Trump, and it's CEO specifically stated that Canada should have "de-escalated and not retaliated" on tariffs that are being imposed arbitrarily. https://x.com/tobi/stat
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> Do you consider Cloudflare agreeing with the speech on 4chan by allowing them to use their services? Yes I do; it is a choice to profit by delivering services to different communities. Over and above being a good company and having lo
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*your Constitution. HN has an international audience.
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Shopify has never been a woke company - Shopify and their leaders have a history of defending hosting hateful content under the guise of freedom of speech.
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Agree to disagree; first, I am not American, and don't buy into the notion of Freedom of Speech - I am Canadian, and we have Freedom of Expression, which includes the notion that while people should have freedom of expression, there ar
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by ygjb 2y ago
Are you surprised? Shopify and Tobi Lütke have strongly defended "freedom of speech" to continue platforming hate groups in the past. They are happy to platform truly awful people as long as they get their cut.
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by ygjb 2y ago
> They were british subjects, who identified themselves as british subjects, fighting under the british flag for the british crown. No canadian fought in the war of 1812. No canadian flag existed then. No canadian nation. No canadian ide
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by ygjb 2y ago
>The war of 1812 was actually between the UK and the US Yeah, lots of people say this, but the folks who fought the war were the people who lived in Upper and Lower Canada. The Boston Tea Party is considered by many historians to be an
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We are hoping the electorate in the US doesn't want to find out. US leadership has threatened Canada and other countries with using economic or military force for annexation. Canadians are hoping that saner heads will prevail, but it
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It was a pretty effective strategy during the last Trump administration
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The poster asked if you played the game, and acknowledged that you don't have to like it - that's not a fallacy, it's a clarifying question. The game has had clearly observable and measurable improvements, in terms of feature
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While it was generally well received in contrast to other similar bills in the past, it still had flaws. Either way, this bill died with prorogation of parliament in Canada on January 6, 2025. It could be reintroduced if an amenable govern
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Trudeau is the currently elected Prime Minister, and it appears that Singh and many other Canadian Federal MPs and provincial leaders are aligned. There is an upcoming leadership race, and then an election. Calling an election now , presu

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