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Tuition in Canada is heavily subsidized, 80% of the cost is covered by tax payers.
Re:Cloudflare and FastMail: Your info is safe on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:39AM (#13730661)
FastMail scores pretty well on this comparison of email providers based on privacy:

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-email-comparison-chart...

I use a password manager which generates a random password for my accounts (and I don't take my computer with me), would they turn me away at the border?
Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:08PM (#13576415)
I think the factors that make, or break, an online community are: The number of active users, the visibility of posters (so reputation is at stake), and the ability for the community to self-moderate.

There seems to be a magic threshold when the user base size crosses it and suddenly people are more disruptive. Based on my observation of a few online groups I've participated in.

Download link is broken.

Alternative ways to download:

a) Use brew: brew install Caskroom/cask/disk-inventory-x

b) Another download link (same link used in brew/cask)[0]: http://www.derlien.com/diskinventoryx/downloads/dev/DIX1.0Un...

0: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...

Re:Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source on Saturday December 05, 2015 @09:13PM (#10684097)
Could you recommend a few articles?
The practical reason for this is that you don't lose you friend in a crowd.
Re:Ask HN: Would Java make it if introduced today? on Sunday May 03, 2015 @12:42AM (#9479962)
If Java was released today, it would still be valuable. Java is a small, well defined language (without many surprises). Java runs on an open source platform, OpenJDK. The JSR's are incredibly well designed -- Web programming (Servlet, JSP, JSF), Message Driven Beans, JMS, JPA, and JAXB.

If you look at benchmarks of web applications/frameworks, Java-based ones are blazing fast.

It's much broader than that, "(f) interference with critical infrastructure;" which can be interpreted to mean First Nations protests that delay pipeline construction. I heard from a representative of the BC Civil Liberties Association that protestors have already been placed on no-fly lists.
C-51 is a proposed anti-terror law that gives "secret police" powers (the ability for intelligence organizations to detain a suspect without charge for up to a week) and broad eavesdropping and surveillance powers without oversight (the traditional oversight body was dismantled a year ago).
Re:Vimb – Vim-Like Web Browser on Saturday March 07, 2015 @03:50PM (#9163070)
I use the Vimperator add-on for Firefox.
Idea: When you're traveling change your settings to load the grub shell -- they ask for the password and you can say, "There is no password. It's a Linux grub-shell, just type the commands you want the computer to execute."