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Comment Re:Travelling away from home (Score 1) 117

The people who refuse to pay for Netflix, but happily borrow a password, were NEVER going to pay for Netflix..

You're looking at it backwards. You, as a subscriber, agreed to terms when you signed up for the service. Lending out your account to others is an abuse of that agreement.

At any rate, the "they weren't going to pay for it anyway" argument is such a tired excuse. If one isn't going to pay for something, one isn't entitled to it and it isn't one's right to consume it; do without.

Comment Re:Units (Score 1) 111

For daily use, metric is completely arbitrary just like imperial units

You need 1 calorie to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree C. Totally arbitrary.

but worse than imperial in some situations like temperature because Fahrenheit is more precise and accurate than Celsius.

That's an interesting claim. I'm guessing you have not heard of decimals? Or SI? I've heard the same argument for feet and inches in carpentry, and it's equally questionable. Celsius is as precise and accurate as you like, and is not based off of the temperature of Henry the 8ths bunghole.

Comment Re:Maybe (Score 4, Informative) 213

IIf WHO transparently accounts for fine, if not fake news.

Did you even read the summary?

"The measure used by the WHO is called excess deaths - how many more people died than would normally be expected based on mortality in the same area before the pandemic hit. These calculations also take into account deaths which were not directly because of Covid but instead caused by its knock-on effects, like people being unable to access hospitals for the care they needed."

Comment Re:Fuck Safari (Score 3, Funny) 74

Just start checking if the browser is Safari and display a page explaining to the user that your sight doesn't work and why.

Why single out Safari users if your sight doesn't work? You'll be more likely to get a hit from an optometrist if you display a page for users of more popular browsers.

Comment Re:I hope the law passes and google stops using CB (Score 1) 71

It actually fails fair use pretty seriously. One of the criteria for fair use (fair dealing in Canada) is whether or not the derivative work will have a negative impact on the commercial value of the original. News aggregators allow the reader to skim the headlines without ever actually visiting the news site, making it impossible for the news outlets to collect advertising revenue—all while Google and Facebook are free to slap their own ads on the page. Charging social media companies is completely consistent with the principles of copyright law.

CBC provides a mechanism for news aggregators to get the content (https://www.cbc.ca/rss/) as does Global (https://globalnews.ca/pages/feeds/) and CTV (https://www.ctvnews.ca/more/rss-feeds-for-ctv-news) so I'm not sure how there's a negative commercial impact, if they gave it away for free in the first place.

I do however feel that Facebook and Google should not be allowed to profit from that.

Comment Re:Clickbait title? (Score 1) 258

I don't care about bits of the bridge, I care about how he is going to compensate all the people whose lives were disrupted by the abnormal bridge closure.

Compensating all the people impacted... fantastic idea. Given that it's a train bridge that hasn't been used since 1993, let's pay all zero of those impacted 10 trillion each.

Comment Re:Lolz. (Score 1) 219

So Google are you willing to share your data for say Google Maps to Apple to help them fix their Apple Maps so it is just as good if not better than Google Maps,

The problem with Apple Maps isn't maps itself. Navigation is great.

The problem is Apple relies on Yelp for business information, which is absolute garbage outside of the US (and probably garbage in many places in the US.)

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