EdTsft

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by EdTsft 4y ago
That interpretation of rights is not universal and in my experience seems to be a philosophy mainly coming from the US (presumably reinforced by the language in the American bill of rights). I view rights as describing the actual (implicit
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by EdTsft 4y ago
"A total of 173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times the world's total energy use." [1] We have a long way to go before humanity's heat out
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by EdTsft 4y ago
I have a hard time believing this, are you suggesting that it is perfectly legal to run pirated software so long as you never entered a license agreement with the creator? Or that the existence of a license you've never interacted with
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by EdTsft 5y ago
As a Canadian, discussions like this threat make me slightly wishful of better options for national forums or censorship of foreign speech. Of all the comments decrying how horrible this is, how many of you are Canadian or at least familiar
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by EdTsft 5y ago
YouTube is very convenient for hosting and sharing recordings of talks. You can't put a video recording in a mailing list or a paper journal, and journal/conference websites are generally not in the business of hosting video recor
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by EdTsft 5y ago
So all the more reason not to send data to the US to not make it easier for them
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by EdTsft 5y ago
It's interesting how the US has such a different cultural view of rights than other English speaking commonwealth countries that you'd expect to be culturally similar. I can't speak for other countries but as a Canadian I vie
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by EdTsft 5y ago
Only the US sanctioned Cuba and while it was pretty harmful, they were still able to trade with most other countries. North Korea has China right next door as a big trade partner, and can trade with many non-US countries as well. As for Ira
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by EdTsft 6y ago
I'm not sure that it would. The Earth isn't perfectly spherical so the gravitational field will be different at different times in the orbit. Then because it is orbiting you'll also have to deal with tidal forces (bits slight
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by EdTsft 6y ago
And during the time that takes you're suffering the consequences of a viral infection. Majormajor was replying to a comment suggesting that it might somehow have been possible to evolve the equivalent of a COVID-19 vaccine, which allow
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by EdTsft 6y ago
That sounds like an excellent way for the US to torpedo their relationship with Canada, as if the trade war and COVID response isn't doing enough already. Canada's stance on the arrest is based on its legitimacy and the impartiali
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by EdTsft 6y ago
On mobile Firefox (at least for me) nothing appears below the intro message. The last line I see is "Made for you by ...".
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by EdTsft 6y ago
I'm a Torontonian and I was looking forward to the project. I'm sad to see it cancelled. (It's a big city with many opinions, I don't think you can fairly claim that quote about "thousands of Torontonians" is &
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by EdTsft 6y ago
I find it surprising that anyone would disagree with this. What do you view as the purpose of government? Isn't any other role just instrumental to ultimately benefiting society? Or are you just disagreeing with the part about contract
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by EdTsft 7y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect the average consumer to research the worker quality of life (and the product safety history, and the environmental record, and the political donations, and the tax evasion tactics, and ...)
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by EdTsft 7y ago
I think the Globe and Mail article referenced at the end [0] is a much better source. The BoingBoing article has less info and as far as I can tell their claims that these ideas are/were planned for the Toronto development is unsubstan
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by EdTsft 7y ago
As far as I can tell all that articles says is that there are languages that use a single term for green/blue, not that speakers of those languages are incapable of identifying the difference between the colour of a leaf and the color
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by EdTsft 7y ago
Thanks!
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by EdTsft 7y ago
Because Stellar is using that term in a document they're asking me to agree to and it seems likely that their intended meaning is similar to the IRS definition. But I'm not 100% sure that it's meant to exclude (almost) all no
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by EdTsft 7y ago
But what about people from countries other than the US that are are not sanctioned by OFAC? "further you agree you're not a non-resident alien of the United States" Going by this [1] definition of nonresident alien, I am not
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by EdTsft 7y ago
Am I correctly interpreting the clause as saying that pretty much only Americans are eligible? I'm confused because if that is the intent then the clause is really burying the lede when it starts out by excluding "users in certain
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by EdTsft 7y ago
I'm confused by the stellar sign-up terms. "6. WE ARE UNABLE TO HELP DISTRIBUTE SDF LUMENS TO USERS IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES. By activating this wallet you agree you're not in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, Crimea, or any
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by EdTsft 7y ago
Why is half an orbit late? Admittedly, my knowledge of orbital dynamics mostly comes from kerbal space program but isn't half an orbit exactly when you'll have the most maneuverability relative to the collision point? 1/2+n o
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by EdTsft 8y ago
Canada had those terms removed from the TPP after the US pulled out. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/01/canada-successfully-stand...
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by EdTsft 9y ago
Also FATCA [0], the US is happy to write laws for the banks of other countries. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...