wasimanitoba

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by wasimanitoba 7mo ago
I think the difference is that you can specify independently verifiable criteria for the selection process and require participants to decide based on those criteria alone without forcing them to become political actors who must directly be
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by wasimanitoba 9mo ago
Physical Health, mental health, the economy, social disorder, family; we can influence these things that cause stress but often we can't "control" them.
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by wasimanitoba 1y ago
I'm relieved to see another educated person doing this. It's gotten worse for me lately, where I keep mixing up train stations and locations with similar names or characteristics, so I can totally imagine hearing Thailand and thin
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by wasimanitoba 1y ago
Meanwhile, they forced AI Copilot bloat into Notepad, whose singular use-case was supposed to be that it does one thing well without unnecessary features.
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by wasimanitoba 1y ago
I appreciate your response, even if the other poster doesn't.
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by wasimanitoba 2y ago
He was hilariously brazen in his attempt to sell a Senate seat. His attempt to claim it was all a conspiracy against him was even more hilarious.
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by wasimanitoba 2y ago
But that leg must weigh more than a person because their total biomass of 12 megatons is "more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together".
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by wasimanitoba 2y ago
Their answer to me is "but you called us ", which is fair, but they could just rephrase the message to "WE WILL NEVER CONTACT YOU TO ASK FOR THIS CODE"
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
Assuming the drop in social program expenditure doesn't already compensate for the drop in tax revenue.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
You cannot give away some thing that doesn't belong to you. If I accept stolen property which I know to be ill-gotten, then I am as responsible as the thief. A Jewish state could've been established peacefully somewhere out in Uta
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
- The British offered land that didn't belong to them because of colonialism - They offered land to Zionists to further their imperialist goals - The British enabled Jewish immigration to Palestine when it was clear that Zionists inten
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
No group would or should have to tolerate a foreign state being established on their soil at gunpoint by colonial powers. > the Arab countries decided to wage war in Israel after the UN proposed the two state solution - That doesn't
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
That isn't a very accurate characterization. At the time, there was no significant population of settlers in the area. Most people were either fully or at least partly Indigenous like the Metis. The goal was to protect First Nations fr
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
Only if we could restrict the questions to the facts of the case, but my phone has a lot of unrelated personal stuff on it and so does my brain.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
.... and once that problem starts injuring as many people as driverless cars, then we might start looking at it as a public policy issue.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
"Okay, but couldn't we at least make the game fun anyway?" "No! It has to be just barely fun. If the game was TOO FUN then there would be no reason to MICROPAY in order to make it MORE FUN!"
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
> Practically everybody against the idea confused a hash false positive with the system’s false positive. Doesn't the system output the result of the hash? What is the difference?
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
The American and European auto, agriculture and aerospace sectors are all so dependent on subsidies that the same could be said for them as well, and yet those industries remain the bedrock of global capitalism.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
2/3 of Canadians living in a home their family owns is still far from a situation where a critical mass of voters are demanding pro-renter housing policies. Even those living at home with parents will be benefiting from the status quo
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
National Geographic's audience might not tend toward the lowest denominator. There's a good chance that people who read that magazine have a higher average reading level.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
To add to my reply, it appears that - rather than "plummeting" since 2011 - homeownership went up even more recently and actually peaked in 2019: > About two in three Canadians lived in an owner-occupied home in 2022. Since 2
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
Your chart shows home ownership recently peaked at 69% in 2011. The current 66% is (a) not that big a change and (b) still high compared to historical averages so it's not so much "plummeting" as it is "reverting to th
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
> A courageous member of the British parliament named Samuel Plimsoll tried for years to get legislation passed to improve safety and maintenance on ships, and to regulate the overloading of cargo encouraged by greedy owners to maximize
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
you are correct in that the Wikipedia page specifically states that legislative change came after about three decades of this (and suggests it was at the behest of insurers): > They were generally eliminated in the 1870s with the success
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
It says a new coat of paint over a rotting ship would suffice in those days.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
I wonder if you've ever seen this classic video mocking such marketing claims which is called "MongoDB is Web Scale": https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
every concept will eventually have been expressed or referenced somewhere , so we have a system where every single possible scenario becomes a "trope" with a tidy label. what - aside from gibberish or nonsense - isn't a tr
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
See also "co-determination", i.e., where unions have representation on corporate boards.
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
Britain is currently governed by the UK Conservatives and elsewhere this was already taking place under previous centre-right governments (enormous increasing in housing costs took place under Trump in the US and under Harper in Canada)
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by wasimanitoba 3y ago
it's this comment where the user suggests that dropbox will never be successful because it's "trivial": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26753850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

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