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It's not just for compromised passwords. Some systems require regular password changes.

What about things like root@localhost?

While the user did ask why it's legal, I think it's clear that the question is "why is it /ethical/ to discriminate in this case and not that?".

Saying that Law X exists answers the literal question, but not the implied actual question.

Okay, so not death. But other health issues? Can you point me to a relevant meta-analysis on PubMed or something? Because all I'm seeing from national dietetic organizations is support for the diet.

> A healthy vegan diet can meet all your nutrient needs at any stage of life including when you are pregnant, breastfeeding or for older adults. https://www.dietitians.ca/Downloads/Factsheets/Guidlines-for...

How long do you suppose vegans could go before they die from lack of protein? A month? A year? 10 years?

Gerrymandering, preference distortion through no proportional voting systems, Duverger's Law. I mean, I'm glad people are working on the problem-space of democracy, but I'd guess that other issues more greatly effect voter disenfranchisement and apathy.

Hey, I'm from Toronto and I also hate the ROM's redesign. For one, it looks like sci-fi fungal growth, whereas the the Notre Dame glass design works in concert with the original. Second, the ROM's redesign somehow failed to take into account Toronto's weather. Icicles form along the exterior edges, often directly above the path into the ROM. Areas are sectioned off as "dangerous to walk under". Poor planning!

I think the implication is that unnecessarily killing sentient creatures is immoral. The link is between potentially discovered sentience and abstinence from an industry that inflicts upon them suffering and death.

I get that a single-winner voting system can't satisfy all criteria, but the contortions Range/Approval voting advocates go through to rationalize its failure of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_criterion is concerning.

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In so much as Google added to "the burden of refinement", in some ways it didn't go far enough. If someone I know posts cat videos and boardgames reviews, and adds me to both Google+ circles, how am I to subscribe to one and not the other?

This problem is bidirectional: which posts of yours will you let me see and of those, which do I want to see. But this is an even heavier ask.

The problem might be made notably more difficult when accounting for non-monospaced fonts and rivers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

I think how convincing a piece of media may be is at the crux of this issue. Photoshopped heads of celebrities on porn actors' bodies have been around for some time now and isn't, to my knowledge, illegal. The key difference here is that people hold video to be more trustworthy. Given the advancements in CG and now more recently with deep fakes, perhaps that's what needs to change; People should stop trusting video footage.

I'm on the fence on this one. If I draw a stick figure and put your name above it, is that unethical? What if I add a speech bubble saying something risqué? What if I'm a talented artist and I draw something pretty life-like? I don't see the lines here being too clear without claiming down on all expression.

And Spaces: https://get.google.com/spaces/

Oh, that one's already gone. Why on earth would anyone jump on board a new Google product when they have the lifespan of fruit flies?

Given that Casablanca was filmed in 1942, one might argue that the actors' emotions in that scene are more timely than one might first guess.

I'm with you on Condorcet methods producing more equitable results between tactical and non-tactical voters, and I'd love it to be used for the election of singular positions (e.g. a mayor, a president, etc). But all single winner systems distort outcomes in parlimentary bodies (house of representatives, Canada's parliament, etc). Look instead to MMP or STV.

Why give a 6 when you could give a 0 or a 10 depending on advance polling data? Score voting devolves into approval voting for sufficiently informed and tactical voters, and provides less impactful ballots to the tactically naive.

No, a new single winner election system is a distraction. What we need is proportional representation, to ensure that more people actually have representatives in proportion to their political desires.

An easy enough solution might be to take a cut when money is moved in to or out of Flattr, but to take nothing when moved between Flattr accounts.

The vast majority of the crops we grow end up feeding livestock. If you're concerned by suffering caused by agriculture, we can counterintuitively eat more plants to reduce our total plant needs. See biomass transfer efficiency.

Is the implication here that meat-reduced diets are less ecologically sustainable in your opinion? Considering that biomass transfer efficiency typically sits around 10%, it's likely still better to eat the majority of our crops directly.

Hey, long-time vegan here and pro-GMO. Not looking for "purity", however that might be defined. Happy to answer any questions you might have.

I think this article is missing the next step: collaborative filtering. I only care about the ratings it received from people that rate thing like I do.

Not so. Assuming by "ranked choice voting" you mean IRV (the term ranked ballots doesn't say which algorithm is used to aggregate those ballots into a group decision), Johnson would be eliminated at the first step as he has the least votes. A Condorcet -compliant single winner voting system would likely elect Johnson in your example, as he seems to represent the best middle ground given the presented ballots. In actuality, voter preference is rarely so linear (one dimensional).

There are many multi-winner electoral systems worth considering and a significant body of work studying them (STV and List PR are two examples).

But I'd be very careful with off-the-cuff systems like the one you've proposed. Voting algorithms can behave in surprisingly unintuitive ways when people start voting strategically.

Yeah, I don't recall where I saw something that suggested fair use. https://lop.parl.ca/ImportantNotices-e.html#Copyrights doesn't speak directly to that issue, but it's probably easier to just cite my sources and not bother with the revenue side of things. It's more important to me that this data be freely and easily available than it is for me to turn any kind of meagre profit.

I'm working on collating as many sources of Canadian federal data into a single relational database, and exposing that data via a public API.

https://api.iscanadafair.ca/

Given the sources of this data, I'm pretty sure I'm not even allowed to profit off of this. Not really a problem as I'd be doing this in my spare time anyway.

The data-visualization side of it (e.g. https://iscanadafair.ca/data-visualization/example-usage/) isn't my strong-suit, but it's fun to muck around in regardless.

It takes way more plants to raise animals for our consumption than to just eat the plants directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...

That, and economy of scale. Were omnivores less that 5% of the population, no doubt we'd see higher prices there too.