- > I do not think that home ownership is what most people want.
I think this is a ridiculous statement. I don't know your background, but I grew up in extreme poverty (by Canadian standards). In the welfare complexes I lived in growing up, living in a home you owned seemed like an unattainable dream. The ability to choose between owning a home and renting a home is representative of a degree of economic freedom that is becoming unattainable for many, many people.
There is absolutely merit to the idea that choosing to rent is a good choice for many people, but in most cases the people who would make that choice are inclined to do so because they either desire or require mobility in terms of relocation, and frequently the reason people desire that is the opportunity to pursue better economic opportunities (jobs, investments, etc).
- Yes. There are e-bikes that look like motorcycles or mopeds that can be pedaled, but are uncomfortable, and there are e-bikes that look vespa style scooters that have pedals but it's completely impractical to pedal them - the pedal operation is there to qualify under specific requirements to be classified as an e-bike.
- You didn't actually include the score condition, which is that a player advances to each base and then the home plate!
- Yes, natural sounds do trigger it (for me). The difference is that if it is a natural sound, it becomes a problem to be solved - intermittent dripping from taps, the noise of the wheel in my daughters hamster enclosure, or something tapping a window are specific cases I can cite. Those incidents resulted in a) me learning how to replace a leaking faucet assembly (the taps and faucet were one unit) , b) upgrading to a better, quieter hamster wheel, and c) trimming a tree.
When people are the cause it becomes more challenging. People feel attacked when you tell them they are chewing loudly, or they think you are weird when you complain about the sound of the specific pen they are using makes when they are writing on the paper bothers you. Couple misophonia reactions with ADHD justice sensitivity and the emotional reaction can overload my rational comprehension that it is quite normal to make, tolerate, and ignore those sounds to make the stupid fucking meat between my ears feel like I am being targeted by whoever is making the noise. 95% of time I can manage it, but when it gets overwhelming my reactions can be suboptimal (like, wildly inappropriate when I was a kid, but as an adult pulling an Irish goodbye and just leaving, which can be a career limiting move when you are in the workplace).
- This is pretty interesting!
I am curious - who are you, and why should I (or other Canadian information security professionals) trust this data over other threat intelligence sources?
I admit to only doing a casual, cursory check, but the website, github and linkedin account all appear to be configured to conceal who is behind the site, and the only third party credited is an American company.
- Heh. I worked remotely for most of my career (~20 of 25 years). In that time I frequently worked 50+ hours a week because I actually enjoy the work that I do (application security, including security testing, and the joy of popping a shell never gets old). RTO has impacted the amount of hours I work because I head to the office, and then when my work day is done, I pack up my computer and head home. Unless I am paged or have a meeting to support someone outside of normal working hours, I don't crack my work computer, it's easier to just sit at my home workstation. When I WFH my home workstation had my work computer set up, and I would default to logging into that, unless I was playing a video game or other working on explicitly personal stuff.
There are folks who abuse WFH/remote work (see the overemployed groups on reddit and other places), but companies are losing access to alot of extra, effectively unpaid, time by imposing an arbitrary start and stop time for people based on physical location.
- > So understand that when one of us comments "I'm so tired and disillusioned," we do so after years of resisting, and those words are not uttered lightly.
My great-grandfather fled France with his family during the second world war. My grandfather fought in the second world war - essentially after he got to Canada, he enlisted and headed back to fight against fascism. He eventually came back to Canada because the rest of his surviving family was here.
I get tired of fighting for privacy, and standing up for users, and pushing back against some of the most egregious abuses of tech companies, including the tech companies I work for. When I think that it's not worth fighting, or I think that I could probably get a promotion and way more money if I just suck it up and start building ad-tech or surveillance tech, I think about how disappointed my grandfather would be with my decision.
Stoicism isn't the shitty memes that folks post online re-enforcing toxic masculinity, it's getting up in the morning after taking a break from the good fight, and continuing to push back despite being tired. Understand that when you wake up in the morning, or feel the need to comment "I'm so tired and disillusioned", remember that there are many, many other people tired and disillusioned along side you or OP continuing the fight. Take a break if you need to, and come back to keep fighting.
- That's the great thing about open source. If you are not satisfied with the free labour's pace of implementing a feature you want, you can do it yourself!
- Canadians have Freedom of Expression, which is a stronger protection than Freedom of Speech, but the Canadian legal interpretation of that freedom allows for constraints based on hate, obscenity, and a few legal constraints that are common across most "Free Speech" jurisdictions (libel, defamation, etc).
There are cases where people have been charged, fined, and even jailed for "expression", but those are largely limited to cases where folks are promoting violence against specific groups (including hate speech, for example, teaching holocaust denialism, promoting anti-semitism or pro-racist ideologies calling for violence).
There are certainly cases where there has been government over-reach, but that is why we have courts, and in general, the courts in Canada tend towards a more broad interpretation of Freedom of Expression. Are there specific cases in Canada that you can cite where people haven't enjoyed Freedom of Expression (including freedom of speech, which is protected under the broader umbrella of Expression).
- At an estimated 3.45 billion Chrome users across virtually all platforms, that places the value of a Chrome user at $10.
Anyone can fork a browser (and many unqualified or underfunded teams do), but acquiring control of the primary surface for Internet access of nearly half the planet? $34.5B seems pretty cheap.
- Good luck with that! Most of the relevant model providers include similar terms (Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistal, basically everyone with the exception of some open model providers).
- Before you think this is happening quickly, do note that public institutions have been under attack from the right for generations, including publicly funded education, public broadcasters, public health and social programs.
These attacks are not unique to the United States; there is a coordinated effort across many countries by public policy groups and private interests. The United States are highly visible due to their ownership of global media, but the Republican party has been pursuing these objectives publicly and clearly for more than 30 years, and has made incremental progress to the point where they were able to re-engineer the Supreme Court and lower courts, as well as elect far right politicians who would tear up the rules to make it happen.
This is the sharp upwards curve of increase in velocity that is the result of sustained accelleration over the last few decades. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and not just in the United States.
- Because Adblock doesn't just block ads, it also blocks invasive trackers that I consider malware.
Paying to remove Ads means I don't want ads, it doesn't mean I consent to all of the other invasive tracking they do.
- Sigh. Covid was a serious illness. We were lucky and able to leverage science that had been in development for a long time to vaccinate against it. We have a deep understanding of many immune mechanisms, and can effectively treat people against some diseases. Vaccines are super effective (until the virus evolves and then they aren't).
This is also happening with other types of pathogens - antibiotic resistant illnesses are on the rise because we used quickly created defenses to eliminate all but the strongest versions of them. We have very few effective anti-fungal medications, and most of those are very risky.
If we were good at developing defenses for homogeneity, farmers all over the world wouldn't be fungi destroying the monocultures we depend on for modern agriculture (bananas and corn are really great examples). Estimates are that as much of 30% of global crops are lost to fungal infections; I sincerely doubt that homogeneity is the panacea you assume it is.
- Probably because of this: Delandistrogene moxeparvovec was approved for medical use in the United States in June 2023.[3][7] It was developed by Sarepta Therapeutics, together with Roche, and is manufactured by Catalent.[8]
- This is already a highly successful model in Canada. We have many, many Crown Corporations as well as arms length, publicly owned corporations. Several of these crown corps have become successful enough that they are sold off to become private sector businesses as well.
I think a good balance for public sector and publicly owned corporations would be to mandate that any publicly owned company is given oversight by a different level of government (for example, Federal crown corps/publicly owned corporations should have an oversight board appointed by the provincial governments, provincial crown corps should have oversight appointed by municipal governments or federal government, etc), and there should be regular reporting and quarterly statements similar to what we would expect of publicly traded companies, even if they don't have the same fiscal accountability requirements.
- The question you are asking opens up a whole other field of questions. The amount of AI and robotics "in the field" is only going to increase. As that increase comes do we want to continue to build for a human capabilities and limitations, or do we want to build for machine capabilities and limitations.
I think the ethical approach is to build for human capabilities and limitations. We have already seen what happens when we allow business to optimize for the lowest common denominator, and that is why we have regulations that emphasize accessibility. If we allow or encourage businesses to build robots that lack human capabilities and limitations that operate in the real world alongside humans, then even if those robots are assistive in nature (either a prosthetic robot hand, or a full blown humanoid robotic assistant), we will displace or redefine what humans are capable of, and diminish the role of and respect for human beings in our society.
- Many streaming services will offer lower fidelity options if DRM is not enabled due to licensing agreements with third party content owners.
- Signage is ineffective in addressing short term environmental or visibility impacts. Sure, it might be easy to see during the day with clear visibility. What about at night? Fog? Snow or rainstorm that is restricting visibility? Some dropped a storage pod on the road that obstructs the view of everything except a yield sign?
YMMV, but if you aren't loving the hobby element anymore and the itch can be scratched by reaching for a product, that's a shift in what you are enjoying, not an indictment of hobbies :)