It's similar to the climate crisis: there's broad agreement that things are bad and getting worse, but individuals acting in their own self-interest can't be counted on to solve it.

Further, commercial interests are generally anti-aligned with exposing corruption. They'd rather their bribes/lobbying be unquestioned, driving down the cost of it at the expense of the tax payer. We can't count on business to provide this service.

Finally, this isn't just about québécois and indigenous content. The last I saw, the $ was available as long as you had full-time journalists on staff, regardless of their focus.

What's the alternative?

I know Poilievre has talked about defunding the CBC, but I don't know of anything he has proposed that would result in more local journalists.

Do you have an alternative in mind? We need some way to get $ into journalists' pockets while also having some accountability.

Increased CBC funding? It's probably better to have a diverse set (i.e. not just one being subsidized) of news outlets, so the Liberal plan here makes more sense to me, though there's also an argument for not spreading things too thin across lots of tiny outlets.

Instead of taxing the streamers, require they provide local content directly? I think that this proposal is doing that indirectly. The streamers get taxed, but could pick up some $ from the CRTC if they start producing more local content.

Instead of taxing the streamers, tax people directly? That'd probably be less popular than taxing the streamers, so good luck with that.

> The panel said the intrusion, discovered in June by the State Department and dating to May “was preventable and should never have occurred,” blaming its success on “a cascade of avoidable errors.” What’s more, the board said, Microsoft still doesn’t know how the hackers got in.

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> It said Microsoft’s CEO and board should institute “rapid cultural change” including publicly sharing “a plan with specific timelines to make fundamental, security-focused reforms across the company and its full suite of products.”

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-foreign-data.htm...

https://dbaclass.com/article/how-to-access-csv-files-on-file...

> “The #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage ... iMessage amounts to serious lock-in,” was how one unnamed former Apple employee put it in an email in 2016 > “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,” https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...

Not getting on board with RCS or any other way to improve SMS/MMS until they were (implicitly) forced was motivated by that desire to lock their users in to a messaging platform that only works on Apple devices.

Aside from performance, true native immutability would bring huge improvements to how JS programmers can reason about their code. Not having to worry about mutation makes a whole class of possible bugs disappear. Having to rely on third party libraries (or deep freezing manually) for immutability is really holding back the language.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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It's not about convincing people to change their behavior directly though. People hate being told what to do. It's also hard to guilt someone into change. Some of the changes are just no-brainers though. Plenty of people try veganism and give it up. How many people try an EV then give it up? (I don't actually know, but it doesn't seem like many. They're so fun to drive.) More upfront cost, yes, and that may be the reason not to get one, but it pays for itself over time. Same with an induction stove. Who actually likes being in a superheated kitchen on a summer day? Who likes how much harder it is to clean a gas stove? The risk of burning yourself or starting a fire? Worst case: some of your pots don't work and you have to replace them.

You don't have to mention this stuff out of the blue, but if someone is thinking of redoing their kitchen? That's the time. Buying a new car? That's the time. Someone has money to invest? Get some solar panels instead.