I didn't know that was a standard until I started working in UIs. It's great when you know, but it's a clear sign that the standard isn't clear enough when everyday users don't realize.
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Insufferable on Lemmy?
why do we keep having these housing talks that have no basis of reality
Which part has no basis in reality?
- Rent control is/was a thing in many provinces.
- I'm pretty sure federal or provincial governments directly building homes was done into the 1980s.
- Our governments are pretty happy to give low interest loans to businesses, so funding development that way also seems pretty realistic.
isn't it almost universally believed that if the government thought something they passed would noticeably lower housing prices it be repealed by the end of the week
I'm not sure that's the case. Boomers are a shrinking demographic. The proportion of the population who thinks they'll never own a home is growing. In that environment, I can see a growing appetite for legislation that would lower housing cost.
Incidentally, a great way to do that is with tax reform, which could instantly remove some of the heat from the market. It doesn't always have to be big spending.
Thanks for posting. That's interesting.
Banning hunting a species the province is trying to eradicate might sound counterintuitive, but Brook said there has been no evidence that sport hunting has lowered wild boar populations. That's partially because the animals reproduce relatively frequently and have large numbers of offspring, averaging two litters of six piglets per year, he said.
"Unfortunately, not only does hunting not eliminate them fast enough ... it also breaks up groups and spreads them around the landscape, because very rarely will hunters actually remove a whole population," Brook said.
Huh. TIL.
Yeah, I'm not sure where they get the impression that we aren't in the middle of a crisis right now. I guess average prices in TO dropped a couple of percent, but I don't think anyone under 50 has seen their situation improve.
The federal government already plans to spend billions of dollars in housing through Build Canada Homes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer this week estimated BCH will add 26,000 homes over the next five years, half of them subsidized.
That is not enough. CMHC says we need something like 5 million new homes by 2035 to restore housing affordability to pre-pandemic levels. 5k houses/year is nowhere near what we need. It's nowhere near the 500,000 housing starts/year Carney was promising during the election.
No love for acid rain?
We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
lol
The federal and provincial governments have been underfunding universities for decades. Recently, universities were able to start recruiting foreign students to make up for the shortfall, but it looks like that money tap will be turned down. It doesn't look like there's a plan to make up for it.
At the same time, the feds want to
recruit more than 1,000 top international researchers to Canada, with the budget injecting up to $1.7-billion into a suite of recruitment measures.
That'll be tough if universities see their income crater.
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Speed-camera threat — Doug Ford shows he's the irresponsible driver's best friend
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"most" is a bit strong. Many open source projects never get users or any kind of traction, they're just a passion project for the author. The lucky few fill a need and take off. Review the package usage count on npm or the GitHub stars for projects - there's a tiny fraction that make it big.