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Holy shit this is embarrassing. How can someone who is so easily manipulated hold a security clearance? I’m a veteran and I hate it when people abuse their uniform like this.

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Calling for genocide is illegal in Canada so why is it necessary to cover it in school policies? I wouldn’t expect murder to be included in school policies either.

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The data does not support the argument that an increase in immigration leads to an increases crime. As a side note, I’m an immigrant and I come to a complete stop at stop signs and drive the speed limit. None of my Canadian born friends do 😅

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most people are terrible about rolling stops, its insane

The stop signs seem more like a polite suggestion here 🤣 And why don’t they just increase the speed limit to 120 already.

just because the data says one thing DOES NOT in any sense preclude the existence of severe outlier data points

That’s why we should rely on the data, decisions shouldn’t be based on anecdotal outliers. No one is excusing the horrific acts of Ali Ibrahim or any other immigrant. It’s just that their immigrant status doesn’t have a causal relationship with crime so immigration status is irrelevant. We all want to reduce violent crime in Canada so lets focus on identifying real causal relationships so that we can support at risk individuals.

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Why wasn’t he required to have a surety/translator?

That’s a valid question no matter where they were born. I’m not arguing that there were no failings in this case, I’m arguing that those failings are not related to the original citizenship of this individual.

As I said earlier

We all want to reduce violent crime in Canada so lets focus on identifying real causal relationships so that we can support at risk individuals.

Let’s identify at risk individuals (both possible victims and possible attackers) instead of scapegoating non casual and even non correlated attributes of individuals who commit violent acts.

re: traffic laws in Canada. From my experience, it depends where you are in Canada (and what number plates you have). Driving the speed limit on Toronto highways is dangerous but going 10 over with Ontario plates in Quebec can get you a ticket 😅 There are lots of unwritten road rules here, it was difficult to learn as an immigrant. Especially coming from a country littered with speed cameras where 7km over will get you fined hundreds of dollars. And don’t get me wrong, I think Canadian drivers are generally really good, it’s just the laws don’t align with the reality which can be confusing.

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I wonder how this news is affecting midgard.com, the 100 year old lighting shop. My guess, they’re receiving abusive emails while also selling loads more white lamps

You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?

You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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The way your society currently discriminates and segments humans is not universal

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These data centers consume water for cooling systems

How does a data center consume water? Doesn’t every liter that enters as freshwater leave as slightly warmer freshwater? What am I missing here?

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That’s unlikely in a closed heat exchange system. Maybe some additional evaporation because the water is slightly warmer. But unless I’m missing something, it seems very misleading to suggest that a Bitcoin transaction uses 16 kilolitres because of evaporation. Napkin math, it would require about 10 megawatt/hours of energy to evaporate that much water (please correct me if I’m wrong). I’m not a Bitcoin fanboy, I just don’t like BS.

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From your perspective, how does the current situation in Israel and the territories that Israel controls differ from Apartheid South Africa? I’m trying to understand your world view.

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I’m trying to understand how it is different in your eyes. How is the Israeli government’s segregation different from the Apartheid South African government’s segregation? Obviously you see a distinction but it’s not obvious to myself and I want to understand your perspective.

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Me speaking to my mum: Get off Facebook! They’re just trying to sell you shit you don’t need!

Also me: oh, I should replace my robot vac with this fancier one!

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This isn’t an Large Language Model, it’s an Image Generative Model. And given that these models just present human’s biases and stereotypes, then doesn’t it follow that humans should also be kept far away from decision making processes?

The problem isn’t the tool, it’s the lack of auditable accountability. We should have auditable accountability in all of our important decision making systems, no matter if it’s a biased machine or biased human making the decision.

This was a shitty implementation of a tool.

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Depends what you’re using it for

Any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship?

I used to have a really cheap domain from Namecheap before, and I used Cloudflare as my DNS. I’m going to buy a new domain, and Spaceship seems to be the cheapest registrar for my domain right now (I’m only buying for one year), however they seem really new. Are there any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship, and...

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Thanks for sharing! Out of interest, why did you decide on dedicated hardware instead of a virtual machine?

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Source?

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But why wouldn’t the OP post that link?

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My guess is they’re using an AWS free tier VM to host a VPN. It’s not a bad option but it can be insecure unless you know what you’re doing

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The parks in my area have far more bottle caps on the ground than bottles

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I use Reddit for niche communities like my local city’s sub and some veteran subs that aren’t yet active in the fediverse

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Healthcare is provincial here so it varies. I’m in Ontario, the largest province in Canada. Hospital emergency wait rooms have been fairly short in my limited experience. Accessing a doctor is free but getting a family doctor can be difficult. My daughter was delivered at a hospital in a smaller city of 50k. The staff and amenities were great. They had lactation consultants on staff etc. All free to use.

My biggest concern with the healthcare system in Canada is medical staff burnout. I hope they get the staff get the support they need

Would you be buried alive for 48hr for a million dollars?

You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?...

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Is it a comfortable coffin? And can I wear fake fangs and pretend I’m doing vampire cosplay?

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Unless you’re trapped at the horizon of a black hole but I don’t think that’s really relevant in this conversation

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We live in the most peaceful time in history and we carry the collective knowledge of humanity in our pockets. We have many problems to solve now and in the future but some perspective is useful.

Edit: this thread screams ignorance

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Study history. The chance of dying violently is the lowest in history. And evil people have always been in charge.

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We have many problems to solve now and in the future but some perspective is useful.

From my original comment ^

Don’t straw man. Obviously we have problems today. I’m not arguing that things are fine today. I arguing that from a historic perspective, today is a good day. Nostalgia for the past is such a bullshit privileged belief from non marginalized people. Study history so we don’t make the same stupid mistakes again.

Your original post sounds like you think millennials are the first generation to have problems when in reality, our generation’s problems are trivial in comparison to past generations.

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I’m sorry to hear about your situation. That’s really rough. I hope you can get the support you need and deserve.

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What am I missing? I’m assuming this is not new for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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TIL: Thank you 🙂

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They’re not my rules!

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I thought we only made five Canadarm ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I don’t even sit when I shit

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I cancelled my subscription once all my water turned to jello

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On the flip side, transplant given to person who follows medical advice

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Don’t forget that autism anti vaccine movement was fueled by fairly intelligent well educated people who were tricked by one flawed study. We shouldn’t assume people are stupid if they’re anti vaccines.

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No. I reverted back to Windows 10 Pro for my gaming machine after Windows 11 Pro prompted me that it was “international bubble tea day”. Don’t get me wrong, I love bubble tea, I just don’t care for these distractions when I’m trying to use my PC.

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You aspects of Reddit’s toxic culture have you observed on Lemmy?

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B for sure. Consider a long pole (stationary relative to the track) entering the portal at the front of the trolley, it would leave the portal at the speed the trolley is moving.

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To be fair, fire is dehumidifying

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This smells like burnout. I would suggest taking a break. Can you take a semester off? Maybe go travel? Working holiday somewhere?

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I don’t believe in security by obscurity

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No sorry, I was just lucky and persistent

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Third party (you) tracking the user

I’m not tracking users, I’m tracking engagement. I’m not Zuckerberg

Hiding the true target from the user

99.99% of website use a reverse proxy, the target is nearly always hidden. I don’t think you understand how the internet works.

Destroying any attempt at content archival

Who would archive a shortened URL and not follow the link to its target? It’s not my fault if people don’t know how to archive my content.

URL shorteners are not inherently bad.

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Whose engagement?

The engagement with my presentation for instance. I don’t care about tracking specific users.

It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.

Where the user-facing URL points can easily be changed! For instance, changing the DNS record or changing where the reverse proxy points. I really don’t think you understand how the internet works under the hood.

Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.

I’m not going to optimize my content for lazy archivers. Check out web.archive.org for an example of how to properly archive, they update the URLs so links don’t break

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I’m not talking about the validity of an argument as no argument is made in either statement. So maybe validity was a poor choice of wording. Which statement would you trust more?

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You initially claimed that mentioning expertise was an ad hominem fallacy. That’s what we’ve been discussing. Can you now appreciate that mentioning expertise in this case is not an ad hominem fallacy?

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