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It seems like these protests ought to be solvable by the police, using normal police powers, without resorting to emergency measures or doing things like freezing accounts and suspending truckers' licenses.

Why not do the obvious thing: send the police in to arrest people who won't leave. Tow their trucks. That worked at the border the other day -- why wouldn't it work in Ottawa too? It's not like the Canadian police haven't dealt with large protests in the capital before.

If that approach doesn't work, then it might make sense use emergency powers. But why go straight to emergency powers without trying to clear people out the normal way?

For me the main takeaway from the protests so far is that the Canadian police are either afraid to, or unwilling to, enforce the law, and the government at all levels is afraid to make the police do their jobs.
A better question: will there even be a trial?
Interesting you are getting rate-limited for showing this.
The current ruling coalition includes the Bloc Quebecois and NDP, and they in total have > 50% of the electorate.

Welcome to a parliamentary system where coalitions are often required.

So yes, Trudeau has the will of the majority. Plus 2/3 of Canadians want the protest ended even with military force.
I'm not sure if you understand that if any of these things had the sort of arbitrary restrictions and lack of competition as the phone space, you would definitely be seeing government intervention. If Amazon was only one of two online retailers that would imply monopoly breakup or serious regulation. If FedEx or UPS stopped working or imposed random and unjustified restrictions on their deliveries you'd see quite a few angry lawmakers and senate meetings on the topic.
It critically depends on what you mean by "impose", I think it's a well known lesson by now (and actually very low-status and cliché to bring up) that masses can be convinced of anything, so the deciding factor is often who has the most efficient consent-manufacturing machines.

You could argue that consent, as traditionally understood, doesn't even meaningfully exist in a population above a certain threshold (say 10^6). Consent implies knowledge and understanding, in a population of 10^6 and up, in even a moderately complex environment, there is no way even 1/10 of the population understand more than their own very narrow slice of what their environment and society are doing.
It's not that simple.

"Imagine a hundred-yard dash in which one of the two runners has his legs shackled together. He has progressed ten yards, while the unshackled runner has gone fifty yards. At that point the judges decide that the race is unfair. How do they rectify the situation? Do they merely remove the shackles and allow the race to proceed? Then they could say that “equal opportunity” now prevailed. But one of the runners would still be forty yards ahead of the other. Would it not be the better part of justice to allow the previously shackled runner to make up the forty-yard gap, or to start the race all over again? That would be affirmative action toward equality."
I don't know that you'd ever find a poll that claimed Canadians are "happy with masks and other restrictions." Believing something to be necessary to minimize death toll and being happy about it are VASTLY different things.
I use emacs every day and while it's technically true that emacs can do email and web, the experience is awful.

Emacs is great but it's not a panacea. There are some tasks for which it is ill-suited.
I'm pro-protestor (in this case) but this guy makes a valid point and I don't see why the comment was dead (downvotes maybe?), so I vouched for it.
I've bought three Protectli servers/routers and put OpenBSD on all of them with great success. (With coreboot!) I highly recommend taking a look at https://protectli.com/product-comparison/ though they do cost more than the microtik routers.

Another option if you don't need tremendous performance is https://pcengines.ch/ which also runs OpenBSD very well.
I thought so at first, too. Read mikis reply and you'll see why it was a good compliment.
Ear plugs and fire arm ear muffs on top would probably be enough to get to sleep. But you would still hear the horns through it.
Damn, the United States, yet again, got out-ranked by every one of the top libertarian countries[0].

[0]: Denmark, Finland, Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Iceland (everyone forgets about Iceland!)

...

(But seriously... who is this list even for? Why would you possibly care about a Freedom Number™? What does that do for you? This is like those stupid LinkedIn top 100 best companies to work for lists. Its like... you sure did gather up some numbers and do something with them... but why?)
Except Trudeau lifting the mandate would not change anything

So it causes no harmful change for Canadians in general, for as you say, nothing changes.

So... why not give in to this demand then?

As an aside, forcing truckers to get vaccinated makes no sense. They mostly work in isolation, and it isn't like blocking the virus at borders really helps these days.

I support forced vaccination for front line health care workers, those caring for the elderly, where it matters.
How short the memories of our would-be overloads are.
If you go to the subreddit directly without googling for it.
https://imgur.com/a/5ecdV1q
I feel like I've experienced similar situations with post mortem and sprint retrospective processes. Sometimes shit goes wrong in a sort of unique way and people go too far with wanting to have the outcome always be "we will do X to make sure Y never happens again", even though X is more costly than Y in terms of engineering effort and business value. So I think this is also applicable to software design.
I used to on occasion back in elementary school. It's -30 where everyone was required to be inside
> a world without CORS would be a world where those rights are always granted.

We’ve already seen a world without CORS, and that didn’t happen. Cross-origin restrictions were brought in almost immediately after the introduction of JavaScript and existed for over a decade before CORS was introduced.
I think what the parent comment is suggesting is pregnancy (and sodomy) overwhelmingly impact the people directly involved with it. It's extremely unlikely (though still possible, technically) that one person sodomizing another will transmit HIV to a third, unrelated party.

I think it's a bit like second hand smoke vs. first hand smoke. I think it's entirely reasonable to object to second hand smoke (refusing vaccinations while insisting on participating in society) in all forms while supporting an individual's right to first hand smoke (pregnancy/sodomy).
Sure, because we know that "strict rules" are never broken.

I guess I'll take the Godwin point. What if the Weimar republic had a lot of strict rules to build such a DNA database? That would have "helped" a lot of folks in 1933 to speed things up.
How do you travel anywhere, book a flight, hotel or rental car, navigate anywhere, or even get a list of local restaurants? (and when you say 'no proprietary apps', does that include Google Maps?)
God. Even more than this. "Why should people, who's profession is driving around transporting goods intercity and internationally, be required to get vaccinated?"

I wonder

I wonder what the reason could be.

Wow what a pickle.

Well I just can't figure this puzzle out.
Statistical bootstrapping techniques are the ones I ran into.
Early 40s: I hate all computers and want to send my phone into Lava.

Oh, sorry, real answer. Early 40s: So, I built and sold a consulting company starting in my early 30s. Business is hard. Computers are easy. Business is leadership and being able to build marketing, sales, etc as needed.
While Apple's sign on sounds good on the surface, the reality is more user confusion.

For each app, you have a new button to consider / remember which one you used:

* Login with email

* Login with Google

* Login with Facebook

* Login with Apple
Is it actually completely painless?

YMMV, but for me I found that there were many unsupported parts of Numpy I had to work around which meant I was effectively doing a full rewrite.

Especially assignments using boolean masks and working with multi-dimensional arrays in general is really tough
As someone who repairs electronics, who has 2 mechanics as neighbors (farm/small engine and car/truck), I get the sense that I could spend a lot of time on a site like this, but I'm not sure that most things I'd speak to are even worth other people reading.

For instance, sometime after 2010 nearly every small engine switched to plastic parts inside, with some brands and models cutting so many corners that there's no bearings on the main shaft at all.

Short of "find an old one and fix it up" there isn't much you can do to prevent this, or even find an alternate brand. Your choice becomes: garbage, refurbish, commercial; with the price being logarithmic across. Commercial stuff may last a while or be easier to repair for commercial entities, but being 10 times as expensive at minimum really hampers my enthusiasm.

I lost count of how many extension cords, axes, rakes, trash cans, hoses, sprinklers, outdoor lights and cameras, etc etc I have rusting or trashed for breaking at this point.
Govt literally banned 1) commerce 2) restricted citizens access through borders

Europe is opening up. I guess Science different in Canada.
I agree, there are a variety of plotting library options in Julia but they aren't nearly as developed/robust as matlab (e.g. quiver plots). There are a number of plotting functions that have completely changed how they work across versions and generally lack descriptive documentation. There have been several occasions where I had to give up and export my data into matlab to generate a plot. I also think the image analysis libraries are underdeveloped.
The Act does not in fact allow him to suspend civil rights, that is not what this law does, its predecessor did but it is no longer law. You can read about it in many places, its invokation has inspired a lot of explainers!

I am familiar with the protests in India but I did not see any that occupied the downtown of a major city for weeks on end or choked off the most important transport link in the country for over a week. I welcome more information on that front. My view is that if the parade on 26 January 2021 had remained in the city for weeks then it might be somewhat similar, but as it stands that is not my impression.
70 million Germans can't be wrong.
Trump wasn't the president of Canada, was he?
The irony is this is exactly why the US is a republic and not a democracy.

Direct democracy is 100% mob rule but no one really cares to read the Federalist Papers or the mountain of thought that was put into this at the start of the US.
For my part, while I do blame the unvaccinated at least in part, I place even greater blame on all the anti-mask and anti-social-distancing insanity we’ve seen in both Canada and the US. (In many cases these are the same groups of people, it seems... But I believe in being specific in my accusations.)

While we developed vaccines at an impressive speed, governments royally screwed up the rollouts and logistics. Had we all done real proper lockdowns and taken public health recommendations seriously for a few weeks, and had governments been properly supportive (ie.: enabling) of that, our current vaccination uptake might have been enough to eradicate covid-19.
We view this problem so wrongheadedly. Disinformation, in all manner of forms, has always been with us. From fraudulent Victorian business prospectus, from yellow journalism, to today's social media. The responsible observer has always needed to discriminate.

To attempt to free the observer from the need to discriminate is to treat him like a child.

The real problem is that our education systems have let our children down. Restoring classroom education at all levels is the best, and only solution. Disinformation would not be a problem with a critical mass of an educated populace.
You and I remember Budapest very differently.

In Portland Oregon, BLM spray painted buildings, burnt many things in the middle of the road and sidewalks, destroyed property, physically assaulted, broke windows, and ripped down bus stops and statues. They formulated an incursion into a state building putting the lives of Oregon's law officers in jeopardy (Molotov cocktails throw at them).

Depending on your persuasion, you might argue some justification occurred in Minneapolis Minnesota. But there are clearly limits when destruction of property and looting fall far outside of any tenuous reflection of social unrest. (Target?)

Seattle Washington was worse. Much much worse. The city directed their police force to yield a central block of the city to armed rebellion. People, one as I recall completely innocent, were shot and killed.

There was not the immediacy nor the widespread arrests to match the level of violence and destruction in these three locations. In terms of accuracy and spirit I believe you have missed the mark in your description of action and response.

There have been some good points in this thread otherwise and I'm still thinking about them. But you would be better served by re-evaluating your position on this topic.
It's interesting that you see "disrupting the banking system" as "ground-breaking" and obviously positive, while at the same time being uncertain as to how any new system that replaces it will actually take shape.

Why do you assume that the replacement will be net-positive?

Likewise, you reference "decentralizing finance" as a positive thing that's occuring. However, to-date, this has been nothing but a mirage--as illusory as fractional-penny transaction fees and other promises.

We're not even on a path to decentralization, and it's not a temporary aberation to be sorted out. It's actually the design, despite the ruse that tries to focus us on the idea that anyone could operate a node. Crypto is at least as centralized as traditional currency/finance. It only seeks to displace the incumbent financial class with a new one.
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> The person you drove over doesn't get to give an alternative story to this necessity, nor do they have to be somebody that you're fleeing from.

Agreed. This is one of many reasons why rioting is awful—it creates these dangerous scenarios where ordinary people have to make split second life-or-death decisions. Frankly, I wish rioting was prosecuted more aggressively rather than blaming people who are stuck in situations where they have to defend themselves (“but they don’t need to be there!” <- people have the right to assemble in public, but rioters don’t have the right to create dangerous situations).

> I don't think it's reasonable to defend yourself from somebody by going up to a passer by and shooting them

This is an embarrassingly obvious straw man. No one is arguing for the right to kill a third party to defend oneself against another, the argument is that people should be given a pass if they accidentally hit someone while fleeing for their life. It’s one thing to disagree with that, but it’s an entirely different thing to lie about the law or the argument.
Said like someone who has gone deep down the hole, fixing the fix that made the fix work for the problem which solved the bad problem
temporarily.
Even if Firefox gained all of Vivaldi's users, it wouldn't really change its overall marketshare.
It's like saying that locking you inside your house is peaceful, because all I did was put a big truck in front of your door which didn't physically harm you.

You're only including direct physical violence as part of your "not peaceful" definition. But blocking major road arteries and bridges that are essential to the economy and to bringing in/out services and goods to the people of Ontario is also an act that a peaceful protest wouldn't do.

I'm very pro-protest by the way. Including for people I disagree with. A few broken windows, some small contained fires in trash cans, and just the general side effects of having a thousand+ people in a small city space all protesting I'm absolutely okay with, even a few little breakout fights, I still would consider that a peaceful protest.

Blocking major roads using heavy machinery with no alternate route that can meet the needs of the local population, that goes beyond peaceful in my opinion.

P.S.: I've also watched live streams, I always do, I've seen BLM protests first hand for example, and all media always exaggerate a protest, so I'm the last person who'd believe the headlines at first. In this case though, I know even the truckers probably don't think it's that big a deal that they have their trucks blocking roads, but given the already stretched crisis of the Pandemic, the second order effects on supply is a big deal. Please keep protesting, but don't block those major roads. Move to smaller roads even if you want.

They know what's coming, when they decided to block those roads, they knew they didn't leave people a choice, they are cutting off a supply line, this is beyond protest, it's an attempt to say, if you want your supply back, do what we want. I'm sorry, that's beyond: We won't stop voicing our concerns and expressing our rights to protest.
Foreign money funding ‘extremism’ in Canada
I guess I meant that the restrictions are justified based on the harm prevention to your neighbours, rather than to yourself (I didn't mean to imply that it's based on some ratio).

In that sense, if a vaccine purely reduced transmission even without offering any other protection, mandating it could still be justified for certain activities, just like a driver's license is considered reasonable today.

I'm sure driver's licenses were considered very controversial restrictions on personal freedom back when they were first introduced.
You seem right based on Oren's Quora answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339069

And then, some months later, Pixar rewrote the film from almost the ground up, and we made Toy Story 2 again. That rewritten film was the one you saw in theatres and that you can watch now on Blu-Ray.
> The 3rd point they include as "completely wrong" is not wrong

It is:

> With cURL, no CORS takes effect, so the attacker has direct access with the full rights of the user.

The attacker has direct access with the full rights of the user because this is not a situation where one origin is making a request for a resource from another origin, so there’s nothing that says this shouldn’t happen. It’s got absolutely nothing to do with CORS at all.
Then write to your selected member of parliament and complain about it, help campaigns and candidates next election who better align with your view, or run yourself!

But you might be better served to first examine the reasons why so many Canadians are in favour of various restrictions that have been introduced (and eventually once again withdrawn), by every party and every level of government in the last two years. It's mostly because we have much more faith than our American counterparts that our institutions will do what's right for all Canadians.
Same here. I just started Firefox now, UAC prompt came again. Restarted, pocket started showing me random stuff, tabs open.

I do not want any of this.
Affirmative action isn't racial discrimination, it's an attempt to correct for racial discrimination.

The figures cited above are with affirmative action. They would be a lot worse without attempting to correct for it.

But of course correcting for historic and systemic inequities is more obvious than just letting the status quo happen. That doesn't make it morally reprehensible, anymore than the status quo, in which white students are advantaged, isn't morally superior.

If you think white students aren't privileged, even now, I suggest you consider the figures regarding folks who get in who are recruited Athletes, Legacies, Donors, of Students of faculty members and staff.

less than 16% of Latino, Black, or Asian students are from the ALDC groups, but 43% of white students are. Of the 43% who are, 75% would have been rejected if treated as white ALDCs.

Source:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-...
Don't beat yourself up. It didn't make sense and neither did the reply.
It was losing tons of users to Chrome long before that changed. And Firefox was significantly slower and taking longer to integrate new features due to that customization around the old extensions model.
I was born blind, so this is just my experience interacting with others who lost their vision later in life. It's likely your friend will want to focus more on counseling and therapy to adjust to the fact that they will be totally blind in a short time. Instead of figuring out if Voiceover on Mac OSX or NVDA with Windows and WSL is better they should get the help they need to figure out how to do all the daily things they used to. How are they going to be able to cross streets, go out to a restaurant or bar on their own and navigate around, etc. How will they match clothes, cook without being able to see the stove or microwave, etc. All these things are possible although with the lack of info on your friend's location I have no idea what government or private support there will be for this kind of rehabilitation service.
NVDA with WSL2 and VSCode is what I use for development, Mac OSX and XCode was a garbage fire last time I tried it four years ago. Some of that may have been the fact that I was not nearly as comfortable with Voiceover but Apple made no effort I could see to interact with the accessibility community at that time. My understanding is that iOS development is more accessible with Swift UI but I"m not spending $1000+ for a secondary computer to try it out.
Because it's least susceptible to reporting bias, and being an extreme, also offers a base point for interpolation, to independently estimate numbers of lessor crimes, especially violent ones.
This is why I will use iOS, all my location services for apps are set to “while using the app” and I can uncheck precise location or outright block locations on a per app basis. Never going back to android!
Off topic and feel free to ignore but here goes: do you know of any low hanging fruit stuff I can do on web/front-end UIs that will help me get my sites/apps more accessible, that many developers miss? And secondly, do you know of a way to quickly simulate the experience a visually impaired person has without learning/using a screen reader? (As a solo developer, I don't have the time to dive too deep)