jonawesomegreen

For those that don't know some details about Canada dairy supply management [2]:

> The model, which matches domestic demand with domestic supply through a quota system, is particularly well-suited to a commodity like milk, where 40 percent is consumed locally. Supply management is designed to even out the peaks and valleys of producer income, and in this endeavour, it has been successful. It also allows farmers to plan for the longer term, which is particularly important when producing a commodity subject to the whims of the cow’s natural production.

Despite supply management going against free trade ideals most of the farmers I know do like it. It lets them keep the lights on and maintain family farms that have been running for generations, but on the other hand it costs consumers both in their pocketbooks and variety of choice.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-supply-management-ex...

[2] https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/cigi_paper_30...

> The reliability and robustness of SQLite is achieved in part by thorough and careful testing. As of version 3.23.0 (2018-04-02), the SQLite library consists of approximately 128.9 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of "Source Lines Of Code" or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank lines and comments.) By comparison, the project has 711 times as much test code and test scripts - 91772.0 KSLOC.

Plus they have a whole page on their site about testing [1]. Which is more then you can say about a lot of open source projects.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/81-604-x/2018001/t/tblc....

One of the stronger public teachers unions is in Ontario. For Ontario the pay starts out at $51,904 and tops out at $95,794, which is some distance from $140,000.

The best for teachers is Northwest Territories, likely teaching in remote fly in/out communities. Teachers in NWT start at $78,600 and top out at $111,883.

Weighted averages for all of Canada based on the number of educators getting the salary gives a pay scale from: $53,163 - $88,746

I think the inability of politicians to have a real conversation about costs is a big part of high construction costs. Without this sort of difficult conversation it's hard to plan and try to mitigate things that might cause ballooning costs because you need to pretend that don't exist in the first case.

Seems like the vulnerability is somewhat old with a published date of 04/03/2018. Any reason this is coming up again today?

I think this is a great blog post / talk (not mine) about the topic: https://snarky.ca/setting-expectations-for-open-source-parti...

"Here's a bit of real talk for people: I think working in OSS has made me more bitter and short-temperated".

Best wishes to the maintainer, hopefully time gives some perspective on the problems in the community and perhaps some ways forward.

I've been recently working on a project in digital book distribution for libraries, and the terms that publishers want to force on libraries for digital distribution are pretty harsh and enforced by DRM by the publisher. Things like you can only loan this book 50 times before renewing its license.

IMO thats what this is really about, trying to undermine the clever work around of digitizing physical works and loaning them like a normal library would so that is can be replaced with a more revenue friendly model where publishers can dictate terms using DRM.

“Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth is a book by Iranian-American writer and scholar Reza Aslan. It is a historical account of the life of Jesus and analyzes the various religious perspectives on Jesus as well as the creation of Christianity.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealot:_The_Life_and_Times_o...

> Kallmes performs vertebroplasty, a surgery he has helped to develop and standardize, that involves injecting medical cement into the fractured bone to stabilize the fractured area and relieve pain. He says he gets great results from his patients, and teaches the method to other doctors at conferences.

> But here’s the thing: he has no idea why vertebroplasty works. So a few years ago, he decided to test it against a placebo. Kallmes found that pretending to perform vertebroplasty – making it seem like he was injecting a needle into the spine but without the cement – had similar effects. About 40 percent of both groups experienced immediate relief from pain after the surgery. He published his results in the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/real-doctors-fake-medicine...

> Merck's Jakub Simon, MD, MS, addressing a session at the American Society of Tropical Medicine's (ASTMH) annual meeting here, showed two charts tracking Ebola during this past spring's outbreak in the DRC's Equateur province and the subsequent one now raging in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces. In both, health workers on the ground have been using the Merck vaccine in a so-called ring vaccination strategy to contain the epidemic. Although not yet formally approved for marketing, the vaccine has been cleared for emergency use.

> In Equateur, immediately after vaccination began with the Merck product, the outbreak petered out.

> But the experience in North Kivu and Ituri has been quite different. Although new cases dropped significantly after vaccination began in early August, they never approached zero, and 2 months later they rocketed back to the level seen before vaccinations began.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/astmh/76018

Contrast: I think the functionality of the application is very useful. The UI is really lacking, especially when doing X, Y and Z. I really like the Q feature it would save me some time.

With: The UI sucks.

I've heard this called the shit sandwich. Good news, bad news, good news. Helps to break unpleasant news in all kinds of situations.

Nothing interesting there yet.

  Cars & trucks 5.75 deaths per billion miles
  Commercial airlines 0.06 deaths per billion miles

In my own personal case I put about 10,000 miles on my car each year, and I travel about 50,000 - 80,000 miles on an airplane. So airlines are still safer as I don't travel 2 orders of magnitude farther on them.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/13/news/economy/train-plane-car...

In my experience that isn't that case. I TAed CS101 while I was in grad school and there were a lot of folks that had a really hard time with the concept that a missing semicolon or comma would make the program not work. I heard: "why doesn't it just know what I mean" more then I would have thought possible.

I think learning the strictness and structure of programming is actually harder then you think when people have never done it before.

Lots of crazy things get submitted, and never looked at again. In order for drafts to stay alive they need to be updated with comments every 6 months. Sometimes they lead to things, and sometimes they don't. Usually some IETF working group has to be interested for a draft to go from a draft to an actual RFC.

You can see the status of this draft here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/status/89166/

You can find a list of current drafts here: https://www.ietf.org/download/id-abstract.txt

Given the lack of comments on the draft, and the fact its not actually attached to an IETF working group, its fairly safe to say that this isn't actually going to become a real protocol anytime soon.

I think the norm is not to have term limits, but I could be wrong.

Thats not how these things work. Grand re-writes rarely work out in massively complicated systems. We make incremental improvements as we move towards the ever shifting goalposts. I think its naive to look at a massively successful system and think I can rewrite that, make it better and do it in a weekend. Which is a sentiment I hear all the time. If its that easy then just do it!

Thats not to say things should't be made better, and that user experience isn't important, it is. But to realistically accomplish those goals working within the system, and understanding the complexity is necessary.