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>Some of the rules appear to be punitive towards people who have chosen not to be vaccinated, and not designed to curb the spread of the disease; that is why hypocrisy is being called out.

If more of the population were vaccinated the spread of the disease would be curbed (there are still places under 60% vaccination in the US, for example). It would not be sufficient, but yes the point is to create spaces where you have less risk.

The rule is designed to get more people to be vaccinated. It is accomplishing that objective.

(more nuanced is that I don't believe "vaccinated means everything is OK" is the right position either, and that "vaccinate, but also try to do stuff at half capacity" etc etc would be better but...)

A room with 100% vaccinated people is going to be safer than a room with 100% of people showing up with day-old negative covid tests. (EDIT: actually not sure of this as much now that I'm thinking about it...)

Ultimately the rules forcing vaccination are a result of a huge part of the population refusing vaccination, which is the single most effective policy. It's roundabout because governments don't have the courage to just force the issue (or waited too long and now there's a coalesced movement against it).

Sorry if unvaccinated people feel bad because of it. If they cared about not getting people sick they would vaccinate. Taking covid tests every day doesn't improve your immunity.
> At what point does not getting a vaccine become negligence?

I don't know and I don't care as I said in my previous comment. When does not quitting smoking become negligence?

Negligence is bad, but they don't deserve to die if they can't afford health care.
> We have seen how easily people are manipulated via misinformation campaigns.

I'm also not against a small amount of natural selection. People choosing their own fates helps to keep everyone happy and some Darwinism is probably a good outcome for humanity in the long term.
Strange how the police seem totally unwilling to act in the case of a much more severe blockage
Although not as well as they did on previous variants of the virus, the vaccines continue to work extraordinarily well against Omicron. For example, consider the latest data from California (https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/):

* "From January 17, 2022 to January 23, 2022, unvaccinated people were 5.9 times more likely to get COVID-19 than people who received their booster dose."

* "From January 17, 2022 to January 23, 2022, unvaccinated people were 11.4 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people who received their booster dose."

* "From January 10, 2022 to January 16, 2022, unvaccinated people were 21.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who received their booster dose."
Truckers in Canada should Pull an Ayn Rand: Stop working. Move your families to the United States, stop working in Canada.
> FPTP is really quite common in the western world.

I don’t think this is true outside the English-speaking countries. Most “Western” countries are in Europe and have systems with some degree of proportionality where coalition governments are the norm.

> Your comparison to North Korea casts doubt on your sense of proportion.

It was an intentionally extreme comparison to show that “operates according to the rules” is not sufficient for a system to count as democratic. Of course Canada is much closer to counting as a liberal democracy than North Korea is, but for reasons other than “it operates according to its own internal rules”.

Perhaps a better analogy would have been Hong Kong a few years ago (before the situation there became worse and things became more directly controlled by the central Chinese state). Hong Kong has never been a democracy by any reasonable definition, but did have robust rule of law and liberal rights, despite elections being basically rigged due to the functional constituencies system.
If there was a free test of COVID that could judge with a high degree of certainty tell if you were infected or not, this would go a long way to assert your point. But since rapid tests are expensive, hard to come by, and not free (for the gov), we have to live with trade-offs.

The sad point off this is that you're contagious when you're still asymatic, so even those wanting to do the right thing cant prevent accidental spreading. All we can do is reduce our transmission rates as low as possible. Vaccines did a great job of that pre-omicron and though Omicron seems to spread just as freely in vaccinated populations, those with vaccines had far better health outcomes. Who knows what date will throw at us if/when another significant variant mutates into our lives.
Those restrictions being earning a living or shopping.
Pretty simple to answer this. Passports work. Car safety regulations work. Seatbelts protect you.

COVID vaccines, however, are not effective at preventing the transmission of COVID, this is well established science at this point. So, that said, why the mandate?
Example of my usage in an old job.

We would submit jobs to a cluster. That cluster would have a queue, and there was a command to see the state of all jobs (waiting, running, etc).

So I'd invoke it with the "watch" command so I can see the status of all my jobs and know when they've all done executing.

I'm sure there are hundreds of other uses.
Honestly, Friday deploys are the best deploys. You’re extra motivated to get things out, fewer people will be around to complain if things are going wrong (at least if you mostly make money in the week) and you want to go home so you’re motivated to just do it efficiently instead of hesitating. There is a risk of rolling bugs on the weekend but there’s also a risk of having to spend your Mondays fixing twice as many (on average) bugs from bad rolls as well as other issues that may have been discovered on the weekend. The best trick for deploying on Fridays is to not write bugs, write software that is easy to roll back, and/or spend your weekend away from any kind of mobile signal.
Subject to the charter, subject to the bill of rights, subject to parliamentary review, and mandatory public inquiry afterwards. It's a very sensible law.
I don't think we can have a productive conversation, but I thank you for teaching me the word "parochialism" (though I disagree with your characterization).
It's also trivial example with 3 boxes. A more complex diagram with curved lines will start to look very inconsistent without a graphics designer cleaning things up.
Wolfgang Engels
His party had the largest percentage as compared to other parties.
The police (who carry guns) have shut down events for mandate violations in Canada, and arrested people. (There was a particularly stubborn anti-vax pastor in Alberta IIRC.)

For private disputes, it’s also not uncommon to have an armed officer help enforcement. Consider an extremely common private contract dispute - an eviction - where the police may come to remove the tenant.

The “barrel of a gun” is of course a metaphor, but first order enforcement can be closer than you think.
Certainly yes. You are fined. If you accumulate several fines, you will eventually be arrested. If you resist the arrest, you will find where the barrel of the gun is ;)
nice is a different UNIX command :-)

Wonder what an "hnice" would look like.
Not as much as you think. Just look at the Super Bowl, in LA, and all the celebrities not wearing a mask.
For what it's worth, the parties to the right (Conservatives and PPC) only received 38.7% of the vote combined.
Speaking of semantics, CDC definition of "vaccine" was changed in 2021 and WHO definition of "pandemic" was changed in the late 2000s.
The context of the thread:

> Two-thirds of Canadians support military force to end Ottawa protests
The 1918 (Spanish) flu has descendants still circulating. During its peak it killed up to 5% of population (statistics vary, usually numbers land between 1 and 5%, in some places much more).

Obviously it is no longer still this deadly.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/1918flupandemic.htm

With all the covid talk, it is hard to quickly find a good source for the theory and verification of the evolutionary dynamics of diseases I mentioned, but as can be seen with variants (and how Omicron clearly wiped out Delta by overcompeting it) evolution of viruses absolutely does not need thousands or millions of years.
I can’t tell if this comment is implying African Americans have not experienced racism or negative systemic impacts in their own lifetime.

Or is this just pedantry that an individual can’t live for hundreds of years, and ignoring the actual point of if your parents are uneducated dirt poor then you will likely be uneducated dirt poor. Which is what I’m talking about.
I am CPTSD survivor and made Vortle – games to help in fight-or-flight times
Hey folks. I am a C-PTSD survivor and I've made Vortle - games designed to help through fight-or-flight episodes. Free. Work offline. Available on Google Play and Apple App Store.

There is quite an amazing reception of the App on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/traumatoolbox/comments/srokw9/hey_f...
I think there is still fallout from this. A lot of their core users had their long time workflows alienated

The announcement of XUL removal started a time of uncertainty for community developers that led to increase in addons bugs or being abandoned, that webextensions still struggle to match in quantity and quality

Together with constant UI changes, tab groups removal, occasional serious bug, bookmark bugs, firefox sync bugs, and in general being slower, just created a too unstable environment. And people were slowly forced to look at alternatives, forks or chrome like, palemoon, waterfox, icecat, librewolf, chromium, iridium, ungoogled-chromium, brave, opera...

I am still thinking in changing back to Firefox, as it is better with x2go which I started to use recently, but my main day to day is still in Iridium until I get time to change it
BlockFi has already blown its chance to provide full and reliable information on its own. The complaint here isn't that BlockFi made full disclosure but just forgot to check the S-1 box. The disclosures they have made were _false_. They wouldn't be paying $100mm otherwise.

And it doesn't matter whether BlockFi has paid its loans so far. If misrepresentation of collateralization is penalized only when loans aren't paid, then it can never be penalized at all.

I can easily believe that US accounting practices have problems with crypto; do we even have GAAP for this stuff? And it's easy to complain that SEC filings are complex and time-consuming. But at the end of the day there must be some sort of accounting of how these companies and products work.

I suspect that a lot of crypto products won't meet SEC disclosure requirements because they can't meet any real disclosure requirement. And if that's right, then no, they shouldn't be available.
There are a couple of rather large exaggerations in your post.

It wasn't the "entire CN rail network" (instead it was the Eastern Canada segment, comprising maybe 15% of CN's network). They don't claim that rail carries three times more than trucks do, but instead simply note that one rail car carries as much as three trucks.

And the blockade lasted approximately 2-3 weeks. Not sure what you mean by "after almost a year".

But let's be clear -- most of Canada was enraged about that. It was hugely expensive to Trudeau politically, and was a tenterhooks [edit - thank you fennec] situation because of the aboriginal file. Yet most of Canada absolutely wanted a stronger response and it hurt Trudeau in the election.

I honestly don't get these "but the rail blockade" or "but some BLM protest in some US city" responses.
FYI In many cases of

> "touchless" car wash

the car is actually touched(!) — just "less".
> The ‘blockchain accelerator’ chip is also claimed to be more energy efficient, one of crypto’s biggest criticisms

That's hilarious. Do they know what they're even writing about? The difficultly will automatically scale as soon as this hardware is in miners' hands. It only means that Intel also gets to profit from the fall of global electricity and waste from power production.
I'm speaking for myself only, etc.

> Does it not nag you to be employed by one of - if not the most - ethically disgusting companies in the world?

I'm sorry - I don't work for a "defense" contractor[1]. That said, a lot of societal problems are pinned on FB. IIRC, YouTube moderators also suffer from PTSD, I suspect the same goes for Twitter, and Vimeo[2] - and I believe more should be done - saying this is a FB-specific problem is just dishonest, but convenient.

Getting rid of Facebook will not fix the deterioration of social fabric and degraded, that is a convenient lie people tell themselves. Go ahead and look at YouTube comments, misinformation, or Twitter threads, and and ragebait purveyed by - lets see - everyone. Society is fucked and cannot be fixed, at best, it can only be mitigated.

This is not to excuse Facebook, but just setting the tone on where we are as a society. The reason it's hard to legislate a fix for this because the required changes are going to affect everyone in ways they don't like, therefore we can't even come to a consensus on what the solution ought be.

Getting to your question, FB is a big company, and there are a lot of orgs that do great work that benefits humanity, those don't get as much media attention. That said - I really was "radicalized" on HN: I am a minority, and for years, I've witnessed the cavalier attitude or outright disdain shown by HN towards the more problematic areas of our industry (racism, sexism, etc). What can I say, the "Fuck you, got mine" attitude is infectious[3].

1. I'm being snarky, but I think writing software to take lives is the most disgusting thing fellow SWE's do.

2. Does Vimeo they even moderate? All the gore/"watch someone die" links I have not visited were exclusively Vimeo

3. It's also the best solution to iterated prisoners dilemma scenario
Unfortunately there are forces deliberately spreading vaccine FUD, so it's not solely negligence to still be unvaccinated.
It's hilarious you say that, since that's exactly how we eradicated smallpox: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/
As a Canadian I disagree.
Awe, the script version doesn't have ligatures. Some people think I'm a weirdo but I really like having my keywords in ligatured script and the rest of the code normal.
One prevailing thought at the time to fight chestnut blight was to cut existing trees down to prevent the spread.

A counter thought is that this action reduced the odds of finding trees that had natural immunity.
Not all assholes are denying rights from others, there is plenty of equal opportunity assholes.
-1 from me then? I actually had a silent wow moment for that demonstration.
Liberals are major police supporters, and the NYT is just that. They have run a ton of pro-police propaganda using police officers as their sources.
The science says get vaccinated. It is not required to be vaccinated to deliver goods domestically because that would mean imposing the vaccine on citizens of their own respective countries, which is a can of worms neither government wants to open.

But requiring foreign visitors to have certain vaccines is much less politically fraught. If you don't like it, tough, you don't get to enter said country.

Asking what is the science behind these decisions is being disingenuous and you know that. Please stop.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm curious how changes in graphical user interfaces of programs and operating systems over the years have impacted your workflows. Do you develop on Windows or the command line?
The U.S. is exactly as foreign to U.S.-Canada border policy as Canada is.

Do you also think Governor Whitmer was meddling in "foreign" affairs when she spoke up?
People didn't stop using it in a vacuum. There were powerful internal and external factors for those reasons, and unless they can stabilise the internal factors (which are the only ones they can control), they are a sitting duck.
Windows XP in the Browser
Assembly Four announces closure of sex-work-friendly social platform Switter
It is especially annoying on a seldom-used machine where the browser will typically be outdated every single time you start it up. To make things worse, the machine is rarely used and only gets powered on when you actually need to do a task right away, so the bullshit update notifications are infuriating. I can put up with the updates themselves for security reasons, but intentionally getting in my way for no functional reason is too much.
They recently signed a new deal with Google, and those deals more or less completely fund the development of Firefox, so I don't see a change there happening any time soon.

I think the major problem with a privacy focus from a business perspective is that not enough people care. So you have to spend both a lot of time and effort _being_ better at privacy and then also a bunch of time and effort trying to convince people that it matters.

For a minute there Firefox was running significant advertising against Chrome along these lines, and touting its improved speed, but I don't think it really moved the needle for them.
> “several attempts to burn down residential buildings full of people”

Sauce?
Technically, the Governor General calls the electuin, but in practice it's not his or her choice, unless something unusual happens. Just a rubber stamp.

If a majority of Members of Parliament vote yes on a no-confidence vote, that will trigger an election. Otherwise the prime minister chooses when an election will happen, within 5 years. If the government is a minority, it is likely it will call an election within a year or two if they're confident they could get a majority (this happened last year). Otherwise, with a majority government, they tend to wait longer before calling an election.
And they are wrong to do so. This is the West. Not the East.
If we’re arguing technicalities, a gun is not strictly speaking required. If it’s you against 20 cops they can just physically subdue you and throw you in jail. At no point they even need to threaten to shoot you. So a threat of physical force - yes. Actual guns and deadly force - not in every situation.
All the comments here are "they don't have support", "it is a small minority", etc. Popularity doesn't prove what is right and wrong, nor will it dissuade those from doing what they think is right. These tactics of "its just you, go home" will not work, because the people using these tactics do not understand their enemy. I support the truckers. I support people having freedom over what they inject in their own bodies. I don't care if I am the only one, I don't care about the threats.
You can be vaccinated and not support government mandates of vaccines. I don't get why people can't comprehend this. Trudeau's handling of the convoy is not popular, and he's underwater himself on approval rating (despite previously being fairly popular.) The polling on the protests ranges from 44% to 25%, that's not a majority but it's not a number you can just ignore. Foreign money floods into the US for movements that happen here via GoFundMe, etc, and I've never really heard it as a complaint or something the government actively has said they would freeze.
The linked article is much better. This event happened right about the time I left Pixar and I heard about it long ago. In the end, much of what was recovered from Galyn's workstation wasn't used. Some time after this event, it was decided that the film was not working and a huge rewrite was done. John Lasseter stepped in as director and, through Herculean efforts, the film was completed on time.
Reminds me of a friend from my youth who started out pwning the school computers, and the last time I saw him in person (at age 18) we were in the local Apple store rolling our tits off on E when (without warning) he took down a large domain registrar from the demo laptops and we had to leg it.

Good times.
>One perk of joining the party is apparently that you are trusted to explore mildly "dissident" ideas for your own benefit, and even discuss them among party members in a quasi-democratic way, without this being considered "rocking the boat".

Consistent with the perks the nomenklatura had in the Soviet Union, including being able to obtain Western and rationed goods at special stores.

The intellectual permissiveness extended to the highest ranks. Stalin was probably the most powerful man on Earth during his lifetime, but even he didn't always get his way in the Politburo. Sometimes Stalin was on the losing side of a debate. But win or lose, the Soviet leadership emphasized speaking with a unified voice regardless of whether one had supported or opposed the outcome.
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 was with a group so they were able to handle the situation but there have been incidents of things going worse.

Moreover, the mask mandates are provincial, not federal. If people are opposed to that, they should go heckle at Doug Ford, the Ontario Premier in Toronto, not at Trudeau in Ottawa. The fact is that the protestors don't have a common coherent narrative.
We have our own embarrassments, where arguably we ought to be able to do something about them, unlike poor Navalny.

The US is still trying to extradite Julian Assange, and the UK is still imprisoning and torturing him. Barrett Brown was imprisoned in the US for publishing a URL. Chelsea Manning keeps getting thrown back in prison. The Espionage Act is now routinely used against legitimate journalism.

What can we do here?
Odd I thought the mainstream position was updated that cloth masks are largely ineffective. I’m not going to get into an HN citation war though.
Apply this to any other minority and tell me how it reads.
Casey does as well:
https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/2/6/peek-a-view
That was a great article, thank you for the link!
The number of comments on this that are just fine with wild authoritarian abuses like this "because vaccines are good" is astounding. People have such idealogical myopia and are shocked and appalled when the same measures are used against their interests.
> Reaching for a mandate 'just because', is poor government.

This is exactly what happened with the TSA. If people don’t stand up against mandates, like people failed to do after the War on Terror, we’ll still be wearing masks at airports and proving our vaccine status decades from now.
depending on how the survey was asked, just because 1/3 supports X it does not necessarily follow that 2/3 are against X
You mean convoy has so little support even Police officers exercised civil disobedience?
Practically speaking, a heckling and laughing at from a large group of angry protesters against a single person minding their own business is basically an unspoken threat of violence. It is definitely intimidation.
Cuck is a little more specific. A cuckold is someone who spends resources raising someone else's offspring. It's the other end of the derisive term "welfare queen".
Yeah. Use fresh ssh keys, and don't train with sensitive data. If that's an option for you, vast is great.
They're too few in number to have an impact by striking, which is the reason they are conducting blockades and occupations.

They already haven't worked in a few weeks. If they keep not working, it won't change anything.