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It all sucks, but it does make sense. The water was essentially homesteaded just like the land when white settlers first entered the area. If you were the first to use the water, you owned it.

I guess theoretically the state could take the water and redistribute it using eminent domain, but then they would have to pay the current owners for it. I have no idea what that would cost.
The "cleared infection + vax" is statistically similar to "cleared infection" btw.

Also natural infection antibodies have been shown to last for at least 20 months. We know vaccine one wanes in 3-6 months.

There's also some evidence on those with prior infection having higher chances of side-effects, though more research is needed.

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/vaccine-after-effects-more-co...
It’s not about who is protesting, it’s about what they are protesting (and about how they do it).
This is a weird compliment. He is blind, not mentally challenged.
I think only last week I learned that my superpower is being able to solve problems that others find hard with surprisingly simple/compact solutions. I didn't realize how I was able to do this until I connected it to my motto: "What the simplest thing that could possibly work?" That sounds kinda dumb and short-sighted but really it's a corollary to "As simple as possible but not simpler."--if it were simpler than possible it wouldn't work.

After practicing this my entire career, I learned to instinctively find the smallest possible solutions. What this means is that as the problems get larger, I'm dealing with a much smaller solution space than others trying to solve the problem in a larger solution space. The other trick is not to limit the dimensions of your solution space, everything is fair game and 'in play'.
Everyone has a right to assemble, not every piece of heavy machinery.

Pedantic wordplay aside, the right of assembly is limited to humans, not arbitrary objects.
I recently paid an electrician to do the exact work discussed in the article on my home in Austin, TX. Total cost for installation of the inlet, 50 amp breaker, and interlock kit as well as a 25 foot heavy duty cable with 6-50P that hooked my generator up to the inlet was about $1K.

A 8500W sustained 11000W surge generator from Northern Tool that’s enough to power my whole house for 3 days or so with two 5 gallon jerry cans was another $1300.

If you do go generator shopping, sizing is important, but it’s also important to look for a generator with low Total Harmonic Distortion (<5%) if you plan to use it in your house else your sensitive electronic devices may be damaged. Surprisingly, a large majority of generators on the market, including the ones sold by Costco, don’t have low THD. GeneratorBible website is a good resource for comparison shopping and education.

We mainly made the purchase for peace of mind after last year’s “incident” (even knowing that it was a once in 30 year storm).

Transfer switches are another alternative, but are more expensive and can only handle the 4-6 breakers you assign to them. Interlock kits can use any breaker. So at higher expense you get less functionality in exchange for a solution that is slightly more foolproof.
Canada's Terrorist Financing rules now cover crowdfunding and cryptocurrencies
Similarly, American ash (white ash) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_americana

I grew up in a neighborhood full of beautiful mature Ash trees. In the past 20 years, almost all of them have died and been cut down due to the emerald ash borer.
Free billion $ idea: Get your MBA in car while commuting.
There isn't a clearly marked line to cross. It's more of a fuzzy wide wiggly line.

But in general something is essential when it is required to participate/function/exist/live/thrive meaningfully in society. These days lots of governments require that you have a smart phone to check in when you go somewhere or to show a digital vaccine certificate. Before that some big social media platforms (which is a big part of society) was either exclusive to mobile or designed to work best on mobile. Some services requires using a mobile app to interact with said service (account management). My current bank is mobile only as an example.
>What would the pros/cons be if we did the opposite, if everyone at birth had a DNA swab taken and recorded.

Then I'd have my baby at home with a midwife.

>Apply strict rules about individual viewing access for criminality only with clear logs and then it was open at some anonymised / grouped level for research.

Like the strict rules we have here in the United States preventing the CIA, the FBI and the NSA capturing and sifting through the communications of US citizens? Rules that are routinely violated and ignored with no criminal penalties or sanctions ever handed out?

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-and-h...

>It kind of feels wrong but why?

Because if history has proven anything, it is that people in power are above the law. They can not and should not be trusted with our genetic information.

>Are the risks focused around bad implementation of the system and/or slippery slope type arguments?

No, rather the total opposite. In every single case where information is available to the government and/or those in power, that information has been accessed, shared and data mined, without exception, without regard to the law and without any legal sanction to those who break the law by illegally accessing this information. From, "parallel construction" to the Snowden revelations to the recent abuses cited by Senator Wyden, only willful ignorance can possibly allow anyone to trust the government and the powerful to follow the law.
Your users may benefit from using import mode rather than direct query mode.

Under the covers Power BI is running a tabular Analysis Services Cube, so import mode will be optimized for reporting regardless of the source database indexing.

The PBI dataset can be shared across users, so only 1 connection is required to update it, instead of dozens of users hitting the db directly.

Also as another person mentioned, reporting is usually done on an separate database to production applications like an operational data store, data lake, or warehouse.
Both types of action aren't stupid. One is, because it would have deleterious consequences with little benefit; one isn't, because it has very positive consequences with little cost. I already said that, but maybe if I say it again it'll register?

Frankly, I'd be more than happy forcing everyone to inject saline once if it saved everyone $10...but I do well, I'm not especially concerned about "a few tax dollars" and I'm happy to pay my taxes. But inflation from printing money hurts everyone, as do cuts from other government programs meant to help those in need, and both are likely. Maybe over-taxing the rich would too, but that'll never happen, so I'm not sweating that. Still, I think it's disgusting that you'd rather let people be homeless, starve to death, or die from lack of access to medical care than that we just demand that the members of society stop being anti-social. Alternatively, I think it's disgusting that you think you're entitled to everyone's money for treatment that a simple 15 minute trip to the pharmacy could have prevented, which you avoided just to spite all of those people who now have to pay the tab. If we could exclude the voluntarily unvaccinated from COVID-related medical treatment, that'd be a good and fair compromise, but for some reason anti-vaxxers throw a tantrum when that's suggested too.
Recent case in point: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-manchin-build-back-better...
Yes but...

The Federal Governme t has almost no control over, well, anything related to health, or covid related mandates.

The provinces rule here.

The truckers had issues with border crossings, and that's federal, one rare area the feds handle here.

So in reality, the last federal election had very little to do with mandates, or validation of mandate response.

More about fiscal response.

That said, I find this protest a bit loopy. Only provinces can revoke mandates, which they created, about closed businesses, masks, vaccines, etc. They're literally protesting the wrong government.
Only two out of ten registered voters voted for his party. Vaccine passports and mandatory vaccination weren't in the campaign.
Apparently Netflix's CEO designed the processes in his company to avoid just this trap.
> Notarization and code signing has hardly posed a problem for malware on either platform so far.

It's big business. They buy EV certs from what I've seen and no one in the industry cares about anything but the money.
Ask HN: Why do I have to use two sliders (system+app) to adjust volume in 2022?
lol the cortex a7 is still the go to low power arm cpu.

how a vast company with all the funding in the world can "bet on iot" but fail so miserably to make any improvement or change at all for so long is something i don't think I'll ever understand.

dont get me started on how impossible to purchase most chips are, how inaccessible/non-existant the docs are, how vendored the frak up the screwball drivers are. what a devolved old world 80's style trashfire of computing arm has been.

open source is finally building up real traction bringing light to this dark mushroom hole, Google is too exhausted & the public opinion wearing thin from unsupportable shortlived high tech devices, but what a slow slow painful march it's been dragging arm & such a broken industry into a respectable place.
None of these is the main reason. Sharp corners feel artificial, round corners feel natural. You might find objects with a sharp edge but it is very abnormal for a geometric object like a square wood or a three sided broken rock to have all the corners be sharp, at least one is chipped or worn out. They are also more comfortable to touch and interact with when round. This is why car stereo buttons aren't usually sharp cornered as well.
A few with your overall point, though it's worth noting that smokers pay a lot of tax to help offset their costs. A $15 pack of cigarettes in Ontario has about $9 of tax included in the price.
Hence most of these systems are so shitty, like that both sides of the aisle benefit. Bus shows up only every 120 minutes? One side says "we told you it wouldn't work", and the other side says "at least we tried".
These truckers did nothing other than grease the wheels of authoritarianism anyway.

This is the last real protest in Canada. Next time, these "emergency" powers will either be immediate or these new powers are just new permanent government powers.

2/3rds the citizens will practically be demanding that this never happens again.

A lesson in why Ben Franklin said that democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
I can only guess what your question is (sorry, bad grammar), but I’d rather not guess. What exactly is the question?
i dont see canadian citizens as pawns. Support isn't going to go past the aligned interests
It's basic scrutiny of an article. If a company primarily sells fitness watches, publishing articles on fitness will net them sales, whether it's true or not. The incentive to be correct isn't there, unlike more rigorous sources of information.

It's the same reason you shouldn't blindly believe the marketing words on the back of a box of cereal.
The idealism to cynicism pipeline. Unfortunately, it's often true, even if you try to do something against it.
Over 900k dead in the US alone from covid. Sure, that's a minority, but can you really shrug your shoulders at that number and say it's just a minority, no big deal?
It's a culture war topic.
Great list, though Canada being in the top 10 might make some people shake with rage.
The issue is that individual medical decisions impact the community. Individual decisions, in aggregate, impact the community and those most at risk.

The various vaccine mandate restrictions really aren't about protecting the young and healthy. We'll be fine. It's about limiting the most dangerous, transmission risk areas (eg. bars) to people who are best able to handle the disease (ie. are vaccinated) as others are more likely to die of the disease and more likely to catch it in these places.
....and the truckers in Ottawa haven't? Did this protest not start over 2 weeks ago?
Energy efficiency in computing will absolutely be needed on 5 years as climate change worsens and arm is well placed to deliver.
I came back and now realize that this is just what's in their privacy policy. I have no idea what the location reasoning is within the AirBNB iOS app's prompt that developers have to fill out.
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I don’t think blocking up and honking in a random city where the politicians don’t actually live will do all that much, just expressing frustration at other citizens who have done nothing to harm them. I think those citizens in turn are right to be angry and upset and feel they are being disrupted because they are. I don’t begrudge them this and I don’t think it has anything to do with social betters or not. Having spoken to folks who live there, it apparently really is super disruptive, one person reportedly couldn’t get chemo because of the disruption.
Chicken and Snowdrift are two names for the same thing, yes.
> dissolution of the current democratically elected government

Basically means "a no-confidence vote"
They have been actively supporting the protesters. It's not a coincidence that almost all the protests have been in Liberal ridings.
Yeah, and it’s annoying even for Mac users (my use case is literally to have a 5k external monitor to use with my MacBook Pro).
They are being forced against their will, their will being to live without onerous restrictions on their livelihoods and the livelihoods of others. That's my understanding, hopefully it clarifies the word usage?
I think "plain text" in most cases really just means that it can be read and written by a human in a basic text editor. It is not mutually exclusive because parsers can be written to handle more freeform text than just csv and markdown.

"Plain text" is like a carrier wave that can hold a format like CSV or markdown, or loosely conventioned prose that the right kind of parser can make reasonable guesses about.

Your semi structured blob format and mine are still plain text. They are comprised of the basic set of characters from 32 to 126 maybe and 13 and 10, and maybe multi byte things these days. Plain text just ain't what it used to be anymore!

They may not be standard formats, but they can be read and learned about in standard tools.

But your cautions still ring true, as I have created several such formats and have yet to hit on something that is easy to write, and somewhat easy to process, and ticks all the other boxes.

Good luck with your upgrade!
You can blame Walmart and later Amazon for this. The lowest-price-at-all-costs is why I try not to shop at either of those places.
To preface this, I am not bought in on the way the mandates have been done. I think there's huge room for improvement, and it feels a bit ham-fisted rather than well thought through. That said...

> In Ontario, today, the majority of ICU cases, hospital cases, and cases cases are among the vaccinated.

Looking at https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations right now, the population of the ICU is 117 unvaccinated, 15 partially vaccinated, 150 fully vaccinated. Over 90% of Ontarians age 12+ are vaccinated. This says to me that the unvaccinated 10% of the population is making up over 40% of the ICU cases. While what you've said may be technically accurate, I think it's basically saying "most people are vaccinated" and the numbers suggest unvaccinated people are hugely more likely to end up in the ICU.

Am I misunderstanding the numbers? Or are we working off different numbers?
Getting a standing desk with a riser for my monitor really helped my back pain and doing planks and push-ups to strengthen my abs and back fixed my posture and eliminated the rest of it.

When I sit down, I also kind of switch it up. Desk chair, couch, high top chairs, and sometimes my bed so the angles don't get too familiar
The main organizers published an MOU before arriving in the capital and that organizing group still represents the occupation in Ottawa as their defacto leadership and by all accounts appears to be in control of the allocation of resources.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/what-the-truckers-want-and-...

Every protest movement encounters the problem of leadership and managing consensus but the core group is quite small that stays during the week, if they were not aligned with the self-appointed leadership it would be very clear to any outside observer.

There are public declarations of moderation but the Zello and Telegram channels operated by the leadership consistently offer assertions of positions consistent with the original MOU., culminating in efforts like this:
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/governor-generals-off...
I’m sorry you had to go through that. If somebody came to my home on my day off to try and get me to work I would be livid.
If you mean obfuscating an answer to a plainly asked question, you might be correct ;>
Just like Intel discrete GPU its 1000000000x better, but you cant buy it for ermm reasons!
The 90% imposing unwanted hardship on the 10% is also easily described as tyranny,
unless you're arguing that the interests of minorities don't matter?

I should clarify that I don't mean to say that this makes the protest valid, just that the argument that protest is only acceptable if an arbitrary number of people are involved is not all that good.
Another thing about rounded edges and corners is that they're less prone to breakage. I know this from both homemade furniture, stringed musical instruments, and the homemade speakers that I use for amplifying my instruments. A softened edge will take a knock without chipping.

Glass optics (lenses, mirrors, etc.) will usually specify "protective bevel on all edges," and the fab shops know exactly what to do. The beveled edge is resistant to chipping.
You can still run firefox as normal app, and it's rock solid.
I think we should treat web "sites" and web "apps" as two distinct things... Because they are two distinct things.
While I agree with the author in principle about human processes, as someone who has done a lot of virtual interviewing lately, I think it's worth rethinking the virtual interview and hiring process from first principles. Much of the virtual interview experience is built on the traditional interview (so much so it's always being referred to as a "virtual on-site"). You think asking for an ID is hostile? I'd argue virtual interviews are already hostile in many ways.

I believe the "Ask for ID" is a strawman that wouldn't be helpful, but there are likely non-invasive steps we can take if we spend more time thinking about it. If nothing else, it may result in a less hostile experience for all involved.
Long ago I worked tech support for a company that supported some mainframe equipment.

Eventually after some incidents they introduced “special instructions” for customers who we had to gather extra troubleshooting data for because of some complex issues they had.

Then a few more customers had special instructions… and a few more.

Eventually these involved things like “Send the account manager an email for each call, this customer is very sensitive.”

After just a year EVERY account had special instructions.

Many people oriented instructions were impossible to follow “Page Jim.” Jim didn’t carry a pager anymore and when he did he would never respond so you couldn’t do step 2.

Some involved gathering loads of memory dumps for issues long solved. Others would have you follow program pointers to memory that didn’t exist so you would start over and over until you gave up and decided failing to do your job was preferable to losing your mind at 4am….

Some instructions were multi page word documents expected to be read every time the customer called. After reading it a dozen times a week it almost became impossible to notice if it had a slight change or not.

One clever account manager trying to make sure tech support “noticed” his special instructions tried using a <blink> tag… entirely ignoring the issue that upon noticing the instructions they would be hard to read. Thankfully the tag failed to work.

As you can imagine eventually there were exasperated executive meetings about how nobody follows the special instructions.

This is the world of protecting against corner cases.
In fact, the Canadian federal mandate does not prevent the unvaccinated truckers (and other Canadians) from going to the USA. It’s the American mandate that’s doing that.

The Canadian mandate prevents unvaccinated truckers from coming into Canada.

Which is to say, it’s preventing unvaccinated Americans from coming in, because there aren’t any unvaccinated Canadians allowed into the US from which to return.

And even if an unvaccinated Canadian trucker were to somehow get into the US, they’d still be allowed back, because the government can’t prevent a Canadian from returning home.
>Yes, one cound imagine an alternate world where strong controls meant data was never abused and government had a history of honestly protecting people.

I have a very good imagination but I cannot imagine this world.
I’ve had family members killed in an attempted coup. Coups involve people with guns. Asking existing government institutions to draw on their reserve powers is not a “coup.”

Both the Canadian Senate and the Governor General are, in principle, there to be a check on the House of Commons. Even if asking them to override the actions of the Trudeau government in this context isn’t legally viable, that doesn’t make it an attempt to “overthrow” the government.

In the US, our Supreme Court exercises sweeping powers to strike down acts of Congress based on perceived individual rights. That’s not an “overthrow” of the government.
I remember something vaguely similar, but don't think that's accurate. New CODIS DNA draws are done when CODIS entry is triggered (after conviction or IRO retention in confinement, for qualifying offenses). You can even get CODIS entries expunged if there's a non-criminal disposition (e.g., accused retained in confinement at IRO later deals out via SILT or NJP/board waiver).

If I had to guess, the accession DNA draw is solely for identifying remains, and CODIS is maintained entirely separately, though I don't have anything to back that up off the top of my head.
On the bright side, you no longer have an account with a wildly incompetent company. Same IP? Unless you are on a campus with statically allocated addresses or something...
There aren't 92k individual donors - some people donated multiple times. There's 90,030 unique emails listed and 2 entries with no email.
Civil rights protests against segregation, for example, would see protesters filling up or blocking restaurants that would refuse to serve black customers. Basically - you won't serve black people, we will put you out of business. Sometimes the police would come and arrest people, and that would win sympathy for the protesters, because even people who thought "Maybe black people shouldn't eat be allowed to eat at restaurants" might feel pangs of sympathy at seeing people arrested for just sitting at a restaurant counter.

Now, you can say "The trucker protest isn't as important as civil rights" but that's just a "You shouldn't be protesting" argument. Racists thought civil rights protesters shouldn't be protesting too. If the protesters believe their cause is actually important then it makes sense to protest. But, it only makes sense to protest in ways that are likely to result in changes. Symbols are fine, but empty symbolism isn't enough for something you think is really important.
Absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing this.
from her Wikipedia page

> Baker was trained as a lawyer. She coordinates business and policy issues.

I don't know of any lawyers running a successful tech company.
What FF mobile fiasco are you speaking of? I am using FF mobile happily and have been for years. I haven't noticed any issues with it. Was there a business level fiasco or something?