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Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

ottawacitizen.com
426 points·by friendlydog·4 jaar geleden·1,351 comments

Tell HN: Bloomberg reports that Russia invaded Ukraine

7 points·by friendlydog·4 jaar geleden·14 comments

Ask HN: If Meta dies will React follow?

34 points·by friendlydog·4 jaar geleden·95 comments

Ask HN: Effect of Posting CandyCrush to Facebook

1 points·by friendlydog·4 jaar geleden·0 comments

Ask HN: Why do we still get Spam Voicemail

1 points·by friendlydog·4 jaar geleden·0 comments

Ask HN: What Mashups Are Likely with Activision Blizzard Microsoft Merger?

2 points·by friendlydog·4 jaar geleden·7 comments

Companies are forbidden from interfering with your right to unionize

nlrb.gov
2 points·by friendlydog·5 jaar geleden·0 comments

Ask HN: Reduction of Commercial Air Travel to one day a week

1 points·by friendlydog·5 jaar geleden·3 comments

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friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Egypt, Chinese, Phoenicians, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Ancient Israelites, Sumerians, Mayan, Incan and a host of others predated the Romans and documented the process only to be overtaken by the next civilization. The Romans were aggregators of ideas and took the tools from their conquered peoples using what worked and abandoning what didn't. It is highly doubtful as to the claim.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but the facts on the ground are that the constitution is broken all the time without anyone being punished enough to stop them from doing it again. Unless you outline penalties or protections such as qualified immunity for defending the constitution it becomes meaningless.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Some parts of government should be immutable, and putting safeguards to ensure constants are constant makes a lot of sense to me.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Instead of just getting these shutdown how about an opposing act which puts penalties for lobbyists and politicians who back this kind of thing?

I don't want to keep fighting zombie bills like these, because we will eventually miss one.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Adobe is now blocked from the networks I control. A page pops up with links to Inkscape, Gimp and other open source alternatives.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30218394
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
It would be poetic justic if he did, and it merely inconvenienced him, rather than having him brutalized. I walk out if I am not seen within 20 minutes of my appointment and drop the doctor if it happens twice. Doctors who don't respect your time aren't qualified to treat you.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Swapping the blue circle for black would give them the alignment they seek. Filling the full circle so there is no gap between would be a nice step as well.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Embrace, join the open source community, and buy github. Extend, add exclusive features private repositories which do not notify copywrite holders when packages use copyleft software which mandates publishing source.

Extend, add repositories which profit from copyleft software which mandates publishing source, but github enables the thieves to hide and exploit the original developers work.

Extinguish, community now works with the thieves and contributes to parasitic repos instead of open source repositories.

Private repositories and paywall repositories are absolutely not open source.

Github must have independent auditors review private repositories and paywall repositories to prevent theft of opensource or be treated as part of the theft itself.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
"sponsor-only repositories, that is, private repositories that only sponsors will get access to" is this open source? Will this help open source? I don't believe so. This fragments the open source community, and creates a paywall for innovation. Further it restricts the ability to enforce open source licensing. Where is the protection for code behind a paywall and which uses copyleft source.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE) has always been the plan.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
He paid for a ticket, he was seated. Airline is in the wrong overbooking. Everything that happened after that is on them.

Refusing to deboard and getting injured isn't a smart idea in the real world.

Imagine this was any other industry. You can't rent your apartment complex to more people than can fit and have the police shoot their dog and flash bang their kids when they refuse to sleep under a bridge that night because occupancy rates are higher than you thought and you needed to evict them.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
He was on Kids in the Hall, Newsradio, and had his ex wife demand more money than he could make.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Ah, the old appeasement trap. The censormongers who demanded their collection leave Spotify aren't going to come back now that Spotify has caved. And the people who wanted Spotify to have Joe are going to be pissed off and leave. This is a no win scenario now for Spotify. I have never listened to old Joe, but I can tell you I have paid Spotify for the last time. My small contribution doesn't mean anything in the context of their user counts, but if they were going to fold they should have done it immediately so they didn't lose the first half of content.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
When you are the best person on the project. Use the project to learn from your coworkers.

Other times to quit:

When risk of failure is a career stain, and success does not mean promotions and pay raises.

When the project is almost out of funding.

When the manager doesn't value your contribution.

When it harms humanity.

When a better project comes along.

When you put your health, family, or quality of life at risk.

When it interferes with posting on HN.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Precovid pandemic, yes. Coffee shops, music gigs, gaming at the local gaming cyber cafes, board games at semi local shop, meetups for coding, meetups for electronics.

PostCovid, no, occasionally I'll go out to a meal by myself, but lots of places closed or are empty.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
People are weird. A person shooting random npcs in GTA likely isn't a murderer in real life, and someone that does awful things to a bot probably isn't a documented sex offender. When it is real people interactions consent is important, until AI gains sentience this is no more or less creepy than people who have inflatables.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Most any Craptop will do, but one with a styless is better for drawing.

Install

1. GCompris

2. Gimp, Inkscape

3. Rosegarden

4. https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/

Don't install a bunch of games.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I believe it will. This is not a rejection of right to repair. Farmers with tractors they cannot fix and electronics in landfills outweigh the cost to business, but it is troublesome. A patent industry paradigm shift must happen, perhaps shifting the burden to pay to Amazon, Walmart and other retailers when they sell knock offs which violate patents.
friendlydog
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Without right to repair we throw away the first two "R"s in reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.

Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.