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Comment · 1 year ago
Sci-hub stopped updating a few years ago due to an ongoing lawsuit in India: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/205911/why-did-...
Comment · 1 year ago
There is still a DOM hack to allow installation by re-enabling the "Add to Chrome" button on the linked page. See "Download and install uBlock Origin in Chrome" on this page: https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-turned-off-ublock-in-ch...
After the install, Chrome will disable the extension on the next restart but it can be re-enabled .. for now.
Comment · 1 year ago
Daft is an unfortunate choice of name.
Comment · 1 year ago
Beware of talk about benefits without mention of drawbacks.
Connecting grids could significantly increase the fragility of the system resulting in higher risk of large-scale power outages. Some of you might have experienced the 2003 blackout in northeast North American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003), which luckily happened in the summer. Tail risks should not be swept under the rug.
Even a single widespread event could completely wipe out the benefit gained from connecting grids.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you want to run an up-to-date version of Docker, look into https://github.com/telnetdoogie/synology-docker/. It is a script that will back up the existing docker binaries and replace them with the latest. (Note the "First Time" upgrade information of switching to the "local" logger from "db").
I have forgotten why I originally wanted to update but I have had no issues with the updated system.
Comment · 2 years ago
> This is bizarre but maybe I see the reason why. If it's to restrain foreign ownership of rental properties.
The reason is that the government wants its tax money. Since the cash flow is coming from the renter they are also responsible for it. There is a similar situation with employers who are responsible for remitting tax withholding even though it is the employee who owes the income tax.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think this Globe and Mail article about the recently publicized case to be better read: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/article-montreal... (https://archive.is/fPNZT).
The renter in this case was responsible even though he claimed he did not know his landlord was a non-resident since she left Canada during the time that he rented. The Canada Revenue Agency disputed that claim since "[the landlord's] phone number on the lease was an Italian phone number; she had used an Italian e-mail address to correspond with [the renter]." The landlord had also asked the renter to start paying her sister who was still in Canada before she left for Italy.
I am curious about what would happen if the renter could genuinely establish that he did not know their landlord was a non-resident. Based on the defense lawyer's claim that "Whether the CRA could have collected the rent in some other way does not impact his liability under the law. The CRA and the Tax Court have to apply the law as it is written." [Note there is a mistake in this quote the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) collects taxes not rent].
Comment · 2 years ago
The reasoning provided by YC is in the subsequent tweet: "It's pretty rare for YC to fund solo founders, because startups take many years to get big and it's very hard to stay motivated for that many years without a cofounder helping."
YC has been reticent to fund solo founders since its inception.
Comment · 2 years ago
And the author of the post is named Cliff L. Biffle, which is one of the best names I have ever heard.
Comment · 2 years ago
Excellent tips. As a corollary to #1, strive to make your own driving predictable to other drivers, e.g., turn signal on before changing lanes or braking to make a turn.
Comment · 2 years ago
While it's appealing to believe Pinker, his treatment of statistics and probability of war has been debunked. For a mathematical analysis of the history of war see Cirillo and Taleb's paper "On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflict" (https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/violence.pdf).
From the paper: "Accordingly, the public intellectual arena has witnessed active debates, such as the one between Steven Pinker on one side, and John Gray on the other concerning the hypothesis that the long peace was a statistically established phenomenon or a mere statistical sampling error that is characteristic of heavy-tailed processes, 16] and [27]–the latter of which is corroborated by this paper."
Comment · 2 years ago
I always thought the intention was to get the same deal as Australia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550. It's not a surprise that Canada's media industry wanted the same deal and the government was willing to go to bat for it.
The BBC article from 2021 linked above even says "The law is seen as a test case for similar regulation around the world."