Jagmeet Singh (NDP Leader) has done more to raise then anyone?

You don't have to shoehorn Donald Trump into every political discussion.

I’m not shoe-horning. The Conservative Party of Canada is leveraging the same right-wing populist rhetoric as Trump’s Republican Party. By contrast, perhaps Trudeau’s failing is that he isn’t playing the same game, preferring to continue with a mostly technocratic style that is increasingly disliked by low-information voters. I suppose if they can squeeze out another 18 months to get a few more things done before it’s all burned down, it will be a victory of sorts. And then the Liberals can go into hiding again for 8-10 years until Canadians get tired of the Conservatives.

Websites are international, i am currently in Canada.

Indeed, but HN is supposed to be pretty much a no-politics zone. In practice it doesn't seem to stop people poking at foreign politics, just US politics. And in this case, the irony is so thick you'd trip over it.

Then flag the article as politics. If n people do that, the article is flagged. (With n = maybe 5?)

(And behold, the article is now flagged.)

To me, I think it's at least a bit interesting, because of the "maintain their privacy, at least until charged" vs. "stop the treason" issue. I can see no way to proceed that doesn't fail to satisfy one demand or the other.

I believe i have heard they were from numerous parties? I Believe the CPC was implicated as well?

Thanks for the link. I knew i was ignorant on the subject, Just seemed like a great deal. Apparently too good to be true.

So, i unboxed a $2000 item on counterstrike, and because of their ecosystem, basically had to keep it in the "Steam Economy" so, i purchased the top end model.

Its been great.

I'm really happy with the antiglare screen. I can't always play in the dark.

It is possible to replace the SSD although i am pretty sure it voids the warranty. Valve's recommendation is that you add an SD card, which is a lot more reasonable these days.

Sorry my answer has been kinda rambling yet non descript. tl;dr i don't think storage is the biggest concern, but the anti-glare glass is great.

Seems like there's always been a boom and bust in the tech world though? In all markets of course, but i am old enough to remember the first dotcom bubble?

Yeah, maybe this will have the same impact as well and we see a decline in people getting CS degrees and going into other (much-needed) professions.

I know some older people who started off in software and after the dotcom bust switched to a trade for more reliable work.

And I know I'm a big hypocrite for saying this but I really feel like a lot of places need less software developers building social media or video chat code and more nurses/teachers/trades-people/etc .

Noone passed blame, simply noting the sexual revolution has made STD's more common-place.

"What works is a free market. Raise import costs on CPUs and you’ll incentivize building in the US and more companies to form."

Is the market really free with tariffs?

Yes it is, there’s always been taxes. Free market typically refers to regulations, free commerce (means ability to buy and sell), etc. that doesn’t mean no taxes, particularly tariffs.

The US federal government was initially only able to make revenue from tariffs. Basically you control the borders, but inside the borders there are no control (ie free market). Once you deal between nations, you cannot have a perfectly free market, else your enemies will eat you. Which imo is what happened the last 50 years.

A tariff is a regulation. Tariffs are the interstate commercial equivalent of Pigovian taxes. When the government puts its thumb on the scale of what should or shouldn't be sold with an extra cost attached, that is not a free market.

Obviously it's less free with tariffs than it would be without, but given the goals of the bill some level of interference is unavoidable. The question is whether to meet those goals with top-down central planning, or by tweaking the incentives and letting the market handle the details on its own. The latter is much more in keeping with free market principles than the former.

Could a market be free without tariffs? Does free not imply competitive?

US policy can't force South Korea or Taiwan to have a free market. No matter what we do, any domestic company has to be able to compete with Samsung and TSC. Because of that, there is no purely "free" global market.

Either you change the rules at the border (tariffs), you match your competitors' strategy (subsidize), or you lose.

No, lettergram is misusing the term 'free market'. Free marketeers don't just want less government enterprise, they also want lower tariffs and light regulation.

It definitely isn’t, but at this point “free market” has been watered down so heavily it gets used improperly all the time.

It’s more of a political slogan than an actual policy.

A "free market" isn't borderless. There's virtually no precedent for that.

Commerce between the States?

I've never played EVE Online, and considering how in-depth it apparently is, i am thankful for it.

I spent time in Goonfleet many years ago and generally did stuff like protect mining fleets. The actual work involved in maintaining access to null-sec space, running stations, etc and being part of a large in-game organization required an almost martial level of discipline from a scheduling standpoint.

It was fun for quite a while but eventually it became like a second job and I moved on.

This should be an indictment of our Government, but in the circus that is Canadian politics, nothing positive will come of it.