Absolutely people have right to protest all they want, infact people are still protesting on side walks. But they don't have right to block whole city blocks for weeks, blocking paths of ambulances, jam 911 and block critical infrastructure.
You sort of have to, if you want to actually make an impact.
Look at what they did in Euromaiden, or the recent protests in Kazakhstan (200+ dead). If Ukrainian people resorted to peaceful protests, the pro-Russian government would have easily cracked down and suppressed the protests.
If you want another even more brutal example - look at the Tiananmen Protests. Do you think peaceful protest will convince an authoritarian communist government to magically give up its powers?
The government rarely listens to its people (yes that includes democratic countries). If you want the government to listen, you gotta make a lot of noise.
Thank you for that perspective, fully support your right to peaceful protest.
We live in a democracy with representatives. We may be approaching Kazakhstan but not there yet. Protests in Canada were allowed for weeks to go on without much interruption from government and there are still protests going on.
I am against mandates, against vaccine passports, also against debanking people. I would argue better approach in democracy is to call your representatives phone rather than jam 911. You can also vote them out in the next election (there is an election coming up in Ontario, Canada, if you feel that mandates are wrong make sure people running for election understand that you don't want mandates).
I hope we can see there is a way to peacefully coexist, by using tools available in democratic process.
I think this is reasonable, but it's also problematic when the subject of the protests invokes emergency powers to deal with his critics. That's not a precedent you want to set over people blocking streets, never mind the functionally weak position the government was attempting to defend (vaccine mandates).
I really wish that people would have protested without going overboard, the support would have grown a lot more. (Not making blanket statement that everyone who was part of protest went overboard)
I am not supportive of vaccine mandates and fully support people's right to control what is injected in their bodies. I don't support people getting fired because they are unvaccinated and all the other negative consequences of mandates.
We are in terrible and disappointing situation and can only hope that saner heads will prevail.
There is a lot of talk about inflation. But isn’t inflation most of the time a temporary phenomenon, because productivity and innovation catches up. When there is inflation its the perfect time for people and businesses to pivot to disruptive technologies and products.
For example, in late 2000s oil went up as high as $150 per barrel, gas was super expensive. People started talking about electric cars and renewable energy, companies like Tesla took advantage of that. Also fracking started coming online after that period and oil became relatively cheaper over a long period.
Aren't these restrictions getting out of hand? There are large populous countries which have survived Covid-19 without these kind of restrictions. Canadian population is very well vaccinated and that was suppose to trigger loosening of restrictions.
The blog post is about allotment so not a fair comparison. However, its supply and demand, extremely high demand and influx of people who want to live in Toronto.
There are places outside of Toronto, Canada which are affordable and have better price to comfort ratio. London Ontario, Gatineau Quebec, Regina Sask, Calgary Alberta are quite affordable and have all the modern life style options available.
That's true of essentially everywhere. The Bay Area is something of an outlier--partly because of geography--but there are a number of large expensive metros that you can still get to pretty affordable housing by driving an hour or two. (Or even taking a commuter rail in some cases.) To say nothing of the many metros that aren't especially expensive.
London is better than Toronto, but I'm not sure I'd call it affordable anymore. Real estate prices for a basic detached home have more than doubled in the last 5 years.
Sometimes I wonder, why does SQL syntax has select at the beginning. The Query execution order is FROM -> WHERE -> GROUP BY -> HAVING -> SELECT -> DISTINCT -> ORDER BY -> LIMIT.
Isn't it more intuitive to write?
from stringList where s like '%Tutorials%' select s
SQL was designed back when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_... was a thing. One part of that was a preference for "more natural" syntax, in a sense of mapping closer to regular English. The rationale was that a sufficiently high-level language with "natural" syntax can be easily taught to non-programmers, so that they can make reports directly etc.
This supposed benefit was never actually realized; instead, we got a language more convoluted than it had to be, and programmers specializing in solving hard problems with it. This seems to be one of those cyclical things in the industry where each generation of engineers has to re-learn by repeating the same mistake - witness all the "low-code" and "no-code" buzz today.
Yes you own the device but it comes with Apple's software and services which you don't own. As long as you are updating the software on the device you will have to live with how it interacts with Apple's online services.
You can install your own software on Apple's hardware if that is possible and then use the hardware as you feel fit. Or you can take Apple to court and get a judgement to stop them from scanning your data.
You and I both know how incredibly difficult that is. And that it simply doesn’t have to be this way, but Apple wants the control and they are going to fight to keep it. The phone duopoly you must exist within if you want a modern device is untenable for society in my opinion. The few of us, as technocrats, are the ones who have to speak up and advocate for those who can’t go as deep on the technical issues as we can. It’s all spiraling to a user hostile, corporate controlled world.
Great donations, we need more bridges among different groups of people, and we should all work to make hunger a problem of the past, around 800 million people sleep hungry every day.
The issue imo is that it shouldn't require philanthropy from a billionaire to fund these programs, it should be built into the support system provided by a functioning and compassionate society.
Problem is a lot of people aren't compassionate. And many of those that are-- when they finally make a fair bit of money-- instantly cease to be so. So this is nothing more than a delusional pipe dream.
Yes, depending on the condition of the house, and how temperamental it is. I was lucky with my last house, in 5 years of ownership only spent $6000, I took care of the lawn on my own. Roof was changed a year before I bought it so never gave me an issue and was under warranty. Water heater was a rental and was taken care by the company I was paying $20/month. After I sold the house, furnace gave up a week before the closing date so I got it fixed for $500. There was a water issue in the basement which cost $5000 to fix, but it still didn't blow the budget.
Just a datapoint, but sometimes $2500/year is a reasonable budget.
