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In Toronto there's a giant cooling system for downtown buildings that uses cold lake water pumped downtown from 83m underwater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Lake_Water_Coolin…

I'd like to take up a different view on this issue, in the hope that this discussion helps to understand this issue from a different vantage point. Neither of us make any rules for…

Some contract law is codified in the United States: the UCC.

There are other codes in Canada too, even outside of Quebec, like the Criminal Code of Canada.

Who not both? Just because it’s normal that low level workers are fired and get nothing doesn’t mean that’s how it has to be. Severance could be generous enough to make this work o…

They don’t even make most of that 95%. It’s licensed from wire services like Reuters and AP.

Searching by hash, where the hash is locally generated and then sent to the server, avoids this sort of surveillance issue. It doesn't stop the issue of forced changes to code that…

The Supreme Court of Canada in 2009 specifically recognized a defence related to defamation as being one that's broader than "journalists" in the sense of employed people who work …

Wouldn't that be a great outcome? Cheap cars or cheap cola? That's better than more expensive products (because of the cost of advertising that's turned into billboards and banner …

Rules on paper aren’t rules in reality. Enforcement of law, and the way it’s experienced (or not) is far more important than what’s written in the law books, and the enforcement pa…

Neat idea.

Searching based on hashes of the words is one improvement on the status quo that you could do. Hash every token in the documents, then when a user does a search it hashes the words…

Companies buy a combination of goods and IP (patents and trademarks). The goods come from a developed country and the IP is licensed from a tax haven. The goods are sold at near co…

Because everyone in charge owns a house.

“Transfer pricing” is why this doesn’t work out.

The "Personal Health Information Protection Act" (PHIPA) in Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/04p03 .

I’ve done this over the last year on a tiny scale for my own needs: gorillafind.com. It’s from scratch and just for government sites to sidestep some of the challenges (but so far …

This is an impression that TV and Twitter give. But politicians in all countries often say positive things about policies and ideas they like. But that’s not newsworthy so it appea…

Features: “map” of how keywords appear in results, screenshots, exact keyword matching using local hashes for greater confidentiality, not built on an existing index (doesn’t use G…