skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets assume that the only cost associated with covid is lost work. So lets weight death rate by age group and years to retirement i.e. if you're in the 50-59 age group you have a 1.3 percent death rate and we'll say 10 years till retirement, 20-29 0.2% and 40 years (we'll exclude people from 60 up as they obviously contribute nothing to society and their deaths are meaningless especially in a economic sense /s). We'll ignore age distribution as we're talking about Canada which has a population pyramid which is pretty much square accross ages 10-60 (similiar to US FYI).

So as a napkin calculation how many normalised years of lost labour do we have from the deaths... 0.13 years from the 50-59 year olds, 40-49 0.08, 30-39 0.06, 20-29 0.08, 10-19 0.1, for a total of 0.45 years of lost labour from deaths if the whole country caught covid.

In a world were all economic activity can be turned on and off like a lightswitch it would make economic sense for Canada to flick that switch and leave it off for up to 5 months (of absolutely zero economic activity which is not the actual level of lockdown as essentials still run) to irradicate covid, from the impact of deaths on work produced alone.

So yes as a general rule I would argue that locking down entire countries can make great economic sense if you can lower your death rate (say by using the time where covid spread is reduced by rolling out a vacine that would reduce the lost time to 0.0045 years if everyone got it). Though of course you'd need to get into the nitty gritty of stunted business growth and if killing off 8% of people over 60 is a good way to reduce taxes needed to support them to have a definitive answer.

NB: I'll add that I'm replying to your question on the economic sense. Personally I find reducing the pandemic to this view deplorable but as some do argue it I thought I'd argue the countercase along those lines. I.E. Even if you're a heartless bastard only interested in money you should still be enforcing strict controls until your population is aproaching as vaccinated as it's going to get.
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He pushed the company in the wrong direction. The company could've been worth a lot more if it hadn't been investing in IoT nonsense.

Sure, the valuation went from 33 to 66bn, but could've done a lot better. Just because you made money doesn't mean you didn't do something stupid.
Honking regular horns? No. Annoying, but not violent.

These were train horns that were well over 100db outside and still over 80db inside people's apartments. Loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage. So yes, if you're doing something that can cause lasting damage, it's violence.

There's a wide gulf between honking loudly enough to annoy and honking loudly enough to injure. It's really not that hard to not cross it, but they did, for days on end.

As I said - they seem to be behaving better now. Maybe it's petty and vindictive, but I don't think it's okay to just let that kind of thing pass without consequences for the perpetrators.
Actually they had them in the 90s. They were great weapons that probably caused more injury than anything I can imagine.
> Society would feel more free if every police officer's DNA was stored in nationally searchable database and indefinitely retained.

Would it? Usually the criticism I see of police is that they protect each other even when there's clear evidence (e.g. a video) of a police officer committing a crime. Police officers already have plenty of technical ways to investigate each other, but what good is that if evidence of misconduct is buried or they refuse to arrest each other?
Thank you gammarator, you are correct, that is how it initiated. I believe what I'm recalling, and I apologize for not remembering specifics as clearly, was a couple different events after CHAZ was...let's say "established". I believe there was more than one armed stand off, one in particular a organized force (but was it national guard or city police?) and the mayor (in my previous comment referred to as "the city") directed officers to yield the area. The occupiers formed an armed militia and the city ceded control of the block to them. I unfortunately misremembered the timeline and characterized it by stating it the way that I did. Thanks for pointing that out.
Before I answer that, let me give another wrong answer: We do not measure it by how well it advances a conservative agenda.

That should expose what the problem is. The referee should not be one of the players, on either side. "Progressive progress" is the opposite of how we should judge the Supreme Court, just as "conservative progress" would be.

And that should tell us the answer. We measure how well the Supreme Court does by how well it impartially judges based on the cases and the law, not based on any agenda.

Now, judging that is obviously hard. Everyone is inclined to think the Supreme Court is biased against their position whenever it judges in a way they don't like. And maybe that's the only way to really measure it: If both sides think it's biased against them, then it might be doing rather well.
That did not happen "in the past few years"
Does that justify the doxxing? What about the informations of Canadians? Collateral damage?

Law enforcement has enough tools to investigate stuff like this. The public doesn't need access to everyone's information just in case it's "helpful."
I once tried an 8K monitor and it was amazing how big a difference it made. The tiniest differences in fonts were easily visible. It was like a high quality glossy print that could move and update.
There you have another reason: the pricing needs to account for those who prefer paying with devtools coupons.
How it 'backfired', if it is going to do an IPO? Post IPO its market value could be much higher than acquisition price of $31B.

Failure to sell to Nvidia at 2X the acquisition price is not a failure, it was an honest attempt to make a profit.
Some day... some day. I'd like a desktop toolkit that's designed around CDI / but more generally the Dependency Injection pattern. Imagine being able to break your application into chunks and @Observe events from user inputs.... ah, one can dream. But in case you get bored ;) I'll put that bug in you ear
There certainly are good reasons to discriminate based on race, this just happens to be one where there’s a wide variety of opinions about whether the reasons are just.
> Meanwhile, Canada spent the last two years stomping on charter rights: mobility (provincial borders closed, unjustified quarantine requirements even for vaccinated Canadians), free expression (court orders to silence anti-vaxxers), and free assembly (unvaccinated in Quebec are unable to attend weddings, funerals, religious services or pretty much anything with over 25 people) to name a few. Ironically, a lot of these are the things that actually caused the protests.

Apart from the quarantine requirements and possibly your point about free expression (though I'm not sure which incident that refers to and you provided no references), none of the rest of that list is under the purview of the federal government and is instead decided upon by the provinces.

In case you aren't familiar, Canadian provinces have near total control over most areas, with the federal government typically stepping in only in areas that were explicitly granted to it. The provinces, for instance, are responsible for all healthcare related decisions within their borders. The federal government licenses drugs and treatments as a centralized body for all provinces, though I believe here too the provinces can take some steps on their own. Provinces can equally ignore the charter rights of citizens for a set period of time by invoking a specific clause when passing legislation (it's been done several times recently). Provinces wholly own their mineral rights, including into the waters on their borders.

The point I am making with this explanation is that the issues the convoy began protesting (that truckers had to be vaccinated to cross the US/Canada border) made sense to protest federally. Once it was apparent the US had implemented the same rule (coming into effect before Canada, if I remember rightly), the protest became about other mandates. These other mandates are purely provincial jurisdiction and the federal government could only hope to convince the Premiers to do what they ask. The protest is misplaced in its entirety at this point, which is why there is no cohesive direction.
So our government is so weak it can't do anything about peaceful protesters blocking roads, so it invokes this act that will no doubt simply be used to keep the restrictions going forever. Meanwhile inflation is running rampant but unlike the US, wages don't seem to be budging, our hospitals are clogged with homeless drug addicts but the population gets blamed, our GDP is literally held aloft by nominal housing price gains and the government wants to take away more freedoms while the rest of the world is opening up... Seems par for the course. No wonder most of the educated people I know left Canada already...
It's a very easily spotted fraud.

What if this was based on telephone interview?

What if remote, and one would be none the wiser?

As long as results happen, things move forward, are we not all happy?

What if the remote role was ostensibly being done by one person, but in fact they delegated to a team of people? A team of people that themselves come and go but all get managed into the same bodyshop? Does that matter as long as the work's getting done? What if, to mitigate potential loss of IP, a third-party information security policy needed to be agreed? Is it then turtles all the way down?
what you're describing is "tyranny of the majority" and not how democracy works.

the minority is retaliating because they feel their rights have been violated.

i'm not taking sides and i'm not asking you to, but you're kidding yourself if you think these truckers are a greater existential threat to you and your way of life than your government with its self appointed "emergency" powers.
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The people I know who bother to look at yelp are planners and often choose a restaurant to meet at quite far away because it's special. The people I know who decide things spontaneously don't bother checking yelp.

Since you tried condescending at the end of your comment: I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app. It can be pretty great.
We are there now. It’s nice if people keep asking ‘how can we prevent this’, but at some point you have to say ‘we cannot’.
Question was "are there any major success in their portfolio?", time period was not specified.
> Never going back to android!

Android has every feature you mentioned too - https://proandroiddev.com/android-12-privacy-changes-for-loc...
That and banks don't seem to really try very hard nowadays, at least for retail customers. Maybe rich people have access to a better class of safe deposit boxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/safe-deposit-box-theft-mi...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/widow-heart...
CHAZ/CHOP comes close. BLM and antifa decided it was better to just light federal buildings on fire with the intent of killing police inside.
One can also use Airpods with ear sensing disabled to spy/listen for private conversations on people (within Bluetooth range), even people who have never used an Apple product.

Wait, what?
> which Musk recently bragged could cost as little as $1 million per launch.

Didn't realize you could brag about things that haven't happened
The spotlight was always on people who had some exemplary role to play in the ideological conflict of the day. Mandela was a figurehead of the anti-apartheid movement, which drew both praise as well as condemnation. He was considered a terrorist and communist by a non-trivial amount of the US well into the 2000s after all, very exciting stuff.

Navalny or flat out most dissidents today have no ideological relevance, and nobody cares about 'ordinary' dissidents, who vastly outnumber pivotal historical figures. It's not a converted effort that prevents the media from reporting about jailed journalists in Turkmenistan, it's that nobody reads it.

Pussy Riot was popular for a minute because the media could put some hot naked women on the cover of their newspapers, but that's about it.
To people who think this act is justified, this act was used in World War I, World War II, and in 1970 when Quebec had a terrorist group doing bombings, kidnappings, and murder. It’s insane, absolutely insane, to think these are equivalent. This protest is about anti-vaccine mandates... with bouncy castles.

Part of me thinks this is political theatre to show how strong Canada is, with the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict.
These seem like a great way to write simple, high-performance code that is easy to write (because you just think about your actual problem vs. what someone who wants to ignore the problem wants -- what arbitrary slice are they expecting your code to cover?) and easily tested with simple integration tests that use quality fixtures which exercise your code thoroughly.

Endless classes of bugs eliminated through these "anti-patterns".

Guess what: if unit tests pass in an OO system, it doesn't mean a fucking thing, especially dynamic languages where simply changing a name in a large codebase is a risky operation.

And fuck virtual methods.
Ottawa resident here, this is so far off base I’d call it propaganda.

Fireworks in the downtown core nightly. Air horns for days on end. Harassment, assaults and intimidation targeted towards minorities or those wearing a mask. Public urination, defication.

Even “it’s not illegal to park on public roads” is false because they’re parked across all lanes, blocking north/south access to several blocks.
Old people can’t work. They’d better be rich enough to sustain their lifestyles on investment income, otherwise they’d just die.
At the end of the day, at some point the police are not going to do things they don't agree with.
> It's not forcible if there's no contact.

Lol, ok then. You can redefine words to mean different things than is commonly accepted all you want, but good luck trying that with a judge.
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YouTube TV is currently implementing a sleazy dark pattern to try to trick you to upgrade to 4K (an additional $20 per month after promotional period expires). Here is how they are doing it. If you follow the Warriors you can direct TYTV to automatically record all their games. Well, for todays game, which is being broadcast on the NBATV channel (which is included in YTTV) the auto recording has been disabled. The game on NBATV has been renamed to Center Court, which doesn’t appear on the Warriors feed or the NBA feed. Instead, on these feeds YTTV is helpfully (sarcasm) advertising that you can upgrade to 4K, which will allow you to record the game. I almost signed up for the free trial just so I could record this game before I realized it was actually being shown in non 4K on the normal non 4K NBATV channel. By disabling recording for this game they are just trying to trick you into signing up for 4K. I know that Google/YouTube employees read this board. Please tell you bosses this. The American consumer is tired of this underhanded dishonest conduct. Knock these dark patterns off.
Unless everything drastically changed since the previous weekend, it's outright lie.
I like it except for the ligatures with the < and /'s. Thanks for the recommendation, it encouraged me to revisit my font choices.
How strange! I'm constantly complaining about how we build everything with these inhuman, objectionable square corners! And everyone seems to think I'm crazy (for that). So I assumed we were trained to love square corners.

And the article offers no proof more compelling than my own anecdata. So I haven't changed my mind yet.
The style is sometimes called 'Alegria art' or 'Corporate Memphis' [1] and is explicitly aimed at being inclusive. But megacorps have overused and it's cliche, garish and bland now. Luckily, there are communities dedicated to erasing this aesthetic scorch from our zeitgeist [2].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart/
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> Please, let’s use “censorship” as the word was intended: to mean the total restriction of content.

In a faraway land, a new law has just been enacted: all public criticism of the government is now a crime. However, the law contains an exception – it will not apply in designated Official Government Criticism Zones, which will be established in convenient locations throughout the country. Would you say that, since government-critical content is not being totally restricted – it will remain legally permitted in government-designated locations – it isn't being censored?
North America is behind Europe on EV charging infrastructure. Part of the reason is because North American EV sales are currently one third the volume of European EV sales. Another part of the reason is the lack of a common charging standard that all charging companies can build to.

The new US charger subsidies require the use of CCS Type 1 Combo on the chargers. Hopefully this will be enough to get the last remaining non-CCS EV maker (Tesla) to switch to CCS on their North American chargers and their cars via adapters at first with CCS plugs and inlets to follow.

With the certainty of a common charging standard more chargers will be built out more quickly.
Maybe you want to read the comment again?
Sounds about right.

I blundered my home address when initially setting up my cable internet installation. The installer called from the other house and I redirected him. He told me just to call customer service to have it corrected.

Multiple attempts, there is no way to change the billing/service address of an open account. Web says to call, customer service agent says to use web..

I've set to paperless billing and figure for any service visit, the tech will call me confused from 2 doors down and I will redirect them. Easy enough. Two year going now, so far so good.
I see this come up more and more in calendar widgets. They don't allow any manual entry so if you are older than 30 and the year of birth picker is some ultra custom SPOS it takes old people like me literally 30 seconds to enter my birth year.
Can you find where they said that? Because their press release says otherwise: https://www.ottawapolice.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?page=2&n...

As noted in the release, blocking a public road the way they've been doing seems to be a violation of section 423(g) of the Criminal Code:
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-423.ht...

Note that the Criminal Code defines "highway" as "a road to which the public has the right of access, and includes bridges over which or tunnels through which a road passes."

There's also mischief - section 430(1)(c): https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-430.ht...

They've certainly interfered with Centretown residents' lawful enjoyment of their property.

Not to mention Highway Traffic Act violations. Plus other Criminal Code violations for the train horns (and while we're at it, even by-law violations). The reality is that the Ottawa Police have had plenty of tools at their disposal but have chosen not to. I don't mean to blame the individual officers - I've seen quite a few of them on the live streams trying their best. I see it more as a failure of leadership.

And I get that during a protest, it's better for police to err on the side of not nailing people for every infraction they can. But it seems like they have the tools to do a lot of than they've done - and have had these tools available since the beginning.

Also, in fairness - it could be they have intel about weapons like the ones the RCMP seized at the Alberta blockade today. That would explain their reluctance, and would mean they are really stuck between a rock and a hard place because if they step up enforcement and kick off an armed conflict, they'll get blamed for that, too. So it might be a bit of a no-win situation.

But if that's the case, it's not very visible from the outside - making the whole situation understandably frustrating for citizens who feel like they are paying $350mil a year and not getting enough protection in return.
I'm continually surprised that people trust Brave. It's got shitcoins baked right in; the definition of a scam.
> . 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.

The good news for Mozilla is that the task of trying to inform the public on privacy issues doesn't fall to browser makers alone. Many businesses spanning multiple industries are offering services for people looking for better privacy and they're working to convince more people of the need. There are also several non-profits and online communities which are spreading the message about the importance of privacy and security. The news media also often reports on abuses of our data as they are discovered. As more and more people become aware of how they're being screwed over as a result of handing out the intimate details of their lives like candy the market will grow.

The bad news is that the largest and most powerful companies are making money hand over fist exploiting our private and personal data and they're working hard to normalize it and shield themselves from legal responsibility. The influence and money they possess, along with support from the state which also benefits by taking copies of that data for themselves is no small hurdle to overcome, but the entire system isn't sustainable if we really want freedom and equality so at a certain point the tide has to turn or we fall into total oppression.
I like some like ff, but </ is too far.
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This brings one of my favorite features from https://hackmd.io (a site that I still love for early collaboration). I still love hackmd for its "gists on steroids", though I wish it had included git hosting.
My personal strategy is to keep an old phone around that I load up with apps I need. When I’m not using it (which is 99% of the time), it stays powered off (usually with an empty battery) in my closet.
> So I guess you don't need to act astounded any more.

Consider that the verbiage chosen is very easily construed as snark, or at worst a personal affront. If you meant neither, better words could have been chosen.
Can you name a protest of this size that hasn't had a little bit of violence?
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you :)
Getting protesters at Parliament Hill arrested, fined, bank accounts frozen, and other people who support them (fining those who brings food and gas), isn't authoritarian?

Can't you make a distinction with the bridge blockade and the rest?
Why is it wrong? When Indian farmers started theirs money poured in from all over the world. When Nigerians started theirs same thing happened. Why should Canada be different?
I mean, it’s a bit of a meme at this point.
Every stupid process in social services is driven by the NY Post and similar outlets.

Q: “Why did nobody notice the baby is sick?” A: Babies are weighed in every interaction, which is humiliating to parents.

Q: “Why didn’t you stop Sally from enrolling for benefits in 2 counties?” A: Fingerprint indigent beneficiaries, at their expense.

Q: “Why should people on drugs get welfare?” A: A family loses crucial benefits because mom smoked weed.

Bureaucracy builds walls out of process to remove individual agency. But politicians design programs to meet different goals, and social services law was no different.
It's not just the servers. You also need a CDN that won't shut you down, a host that won't shut you down, and so on. That was a problem for them early on since they started with Cloudflare. Even if you're within their policies, this is a prime target for DDoSes.