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Yet government wrongs normal people who have done nothing daily. Subjects them to crime through ineffective justice, taxes them, criminalizes behaviour that rational people would consider not to be criminal, etc...

In my country they'll try to prosecute you for longer jail sentences if you criticize the government than if you kill someone...

No, a healthy society shows mercy to the innocent, and enacts justice on the guilty.

Lol there's no such thing as an EU associate member. The EU has to come up with and agree to what the term means.

The same EU that still hasn't ratified CETA; 10 members still blocking it.

Trade barriers are trade barriers. Free trade means no barriers, not no tariffs specifically. Anything that makes doing business in another province more difficult than regular operation in your own province is a barrier to trade.

> There are no tariffs between Canadian provinces and never have been.

Did I say there were?

Well, let's say you sell online, no matter what you're selling, you need to apply the PST/HST of the province the buyer's address is in. And then you need to file a tax return for every province you sell to. Now some provinces have a sales threshold under which you don't need to do a separate tax return, others don't. Some have an HST collected by the Federal government, others don't. And all the PST/HST rates are different. This also applies to digital goods, SaaS, etc...

The US has higher thresholds in every state and no federal sales tax, and buyers pay the duties.

Of course the 2% of items not included are pretty substantial; agricultural products with strict quotas.

There's also strict country of origin rules so if too many materials are sourced outside Canada, even if its made in Canada it can be subject to tariffs. Not to mention needing to adhere to EU standards.

Canada doesn't even have free trade internally... It's literally easier to sell to the US or EU than to another province.

> That depends on what you mean by compatibility.

Emacs Lisp...

> I'm not actually convinced at this point on the value of a lot of the extant elisp out there.

I agree but lots of people probably don't.

Sponsor button works though ;-)

> Why these companies are allowed to damage others with impunity

Because investors have pumped hundreds of billions into AI and real consequences put that money (and growth) at risk.

Why? There's no point having a typed config/scripting language...

Lem's focus seems to be on being an "emacs" in and for Common Lisp. Lem throws away any attempts at compatibility with GNU Emacs.

This is trying to be compatible with GNU Emacs.