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prodigalsorcerer

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  • Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia

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  • If violent dictators can't trust that you're making a deal for peaceful resolution in good faith, then a lot of people are going to die to achieve that transition. If the only way out is death, they're going to take as many people with them as possible. Is that worth it, just to kill one rich guy?

    Peaceful transitions of power always involve compromises. Here, they agreed to spare his life in exchange for the future lives of countless citizens. If they didn't want to agree to those conditions, they shouldn't have made the deal. It just makes it harder for this situation to play out peacefully in the future.

  • Liberal MP says it’s time to stop the clock on daylight time

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  • Did New York say that? I thought Ontario and Quebec had passed bills that would end it as soon as NY also did it.

  • The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 9 will start on October 5th

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  • The Canadian show follows pretty much the same formula. You don't need to have seen anything; there's no continuity outside of the individual seasons.

    I think the quality of baking is higher in GBBO, especially in later seasons, but that doesn't really change how the show works. It just makes judging (and guessing who's going to lose) harder.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • The theory is that students need jobs and money leading to an oversaturated market of gig workers. So delivery companies (whether it's packages or food) can offer terrible wages and still find people willing to work those jobs.

    I do believe there is some truth to that, but the problem isn't the students directly, it's that our labour laws aren't strong enough to protect these workers.

    If Amazon and Uber and Skip all had to pay their drivers as actual employees and give them benefits and cover vehicle and insurance costs, they'd be a lot less competitive compared to all the other businesses (like Canada Post) that are providing those things.

  • Why Local-First Apps Haven’t Become Popular?

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  • I read the article. It says it's actually pretty easy to solve (I disagree with last write wins, especially given their example, but it's pretty simple to implement), and doesn't talk about capitalism at all.

    The answer to the headline is just capitalism. It's not technical difficulty, and this didn't need a whole article. Every developer already understands this. It's just not a business priority.

  • U.S. threatens action against foreigners praising Charlie Kirk killing

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  • It's weird. This is the first time I found myself agreeing with jkr, and I had to read it a few times to make sure I wasn't missing something.

  • 2 more Toronto speed cameras cut down, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab'

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  • How does that improve road safety

    Presumably, after paying all 10 tickets, this person will never speed there again. Slightly different because it was a temporary speed limit, but hopefully this person will just remember their 10 tickets and never speed in a construction zone again.

    Cameras work by existing. They don't immediately fix the issue, but after everyone's received their initial set of tickets, speeding should be way down from the "regular" drivers in the area. Manned police traps only work as long as someone is there. If there's a cop there every Monday, people speed on Tuesday-Friday. If there's a cop there very infrequently, people speed frequently and just put up with a ticket every once in a while. But what happens most of the time is that there's just never a cop there, and people speed all the time.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • What's the contradiction?

    Tesla sales are dropping and BYD are increasing. Tesla can still be first while selling fewer vehicles since they had such a huge lead in the past.

    Your article covers January through June, and the parent article covers July. So if Tesla started out the year with a normal volume, but it dropped after Trump did Trump things, then that's a couple months of good sales.

  • PAX Cooking #2: Homemade Biscuits

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  • Can you explain to me what is so great about self rising flour? It's not common here, but as far as I can tell, it's just white flour with baking powder and salt.

    It really doesn't seem necessary.

  • Electric vs. Gas Car: Try Our Calculator (Because the Math Is About to Change [in the US])

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  • What are the subsidy rates on these vehicles? How much should the market value of a Seagull be?

    I'm Europe, the BYD Dolphin starts at 23k Euros, so that's probably pretty close to the nonsubsidized price.

  • Thousands Of Tesla EVs Can Be Located In Real Time, Security Researcher Finds

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  • You have to be pretty close to use Bluetooth to identify a car. If you're that close, you can likely identify the car by looking at it and uniquely identify it with its license plate.

    Like, this is technically an issue unique to Tesla, but it's so very close to what license plate readers can already do that I don't really see an issue with this.

  • 'It's ridiculous': Why some Canadian youth feel ready to tap out of tipping culture

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  • Also, even when server wages were a thing pre 2022, they were within a dollar of minimum wage Canada wide. It wasn't the $2/h Americans have, it was $16 instead of $17.

  • Ontario man charged after confronting intruder inside home allegedly used knife, court docs say

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  • Any act of physical violence should have a trial

    Any act of physical violence should have an investigation. There are plenty of straightforward cases that don't need to go through the time and expense of a trial.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • Off the top of my head, I think L1 is like 75% efficient and L2 is closer to 95%, so it's a pretty significant efficiency drop. For me though, it's a similarly difficult install, and I've just got so many other other projects on the go that I've just never made it a priority. Maybe one day if I ever get solar installed...

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • I have a 2019 Tesla, which I bought specifically due to their charging network. That network is now open to other manufacturers, and most have signed deals with Tesla for integration. I've never had an issue with charging, and the longest I've ever had to wait for a charging spot was 10 minutes, and that was when half of the chargers at that stop were offline for some unknown reason.

    While I don't particularly want to support any of Elon's companies at this time, Tesla did do pretty much everything right regarding charging infrastructure, and like you said, the alternatives are very iffy.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • I've owned an EV for 5 years, and I still don't have a level 2 charger at home. It works for me, but it mostly depends on your daily drive.

    It is less efficient than a L2 charger, so I am spending money on electricity that just disappears as heat, so I'll probably get one installed eventually.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • I actually like the forced stops. I personally never want to drive for more than 3 hours without stretching my legs, so it's pretty convenient for me that the my car's range lines up with that.

  • 88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

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  • I don't think it's necessarily important that they get paid directly for all hours, as long as they think that their compensation is fair. If they got $1000/hour flight time and nothing for pre and post flight, I'm sure they'd all be happy. They might even be fine with a fixed yearly salary tied to a certain number of flight hours.

    However, they're clearly not happy with the current arrangement. My understanding is that their pre and post flight duties have increased over the years, and their hourly wage for flight time hasn't kept up. An hourly wage per hour worked is probably the easiest way to handle this, and I'm not really sure why they haven't done so.

  • Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, sending them to binding arbitration

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  • There's about 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants. Dividing the CEO's salary would give them each about $1200. It's not nothing, but it's nowhere near enough money to "fix" the strike.