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I saw this on Reddit yesterday so hopefully you were the op there as well. The advice there was all talk to a lawyer which you should do.

Either: 1) they are incorrect following the law or 2) they are correctly following the law And nobody can tell with 100% certainty either without going to court because law isn’t deterministic.

If it is 1 Amazon could be either: a) incompetently not considering your situation individually and will roll over when it gets escalated b) maliciously offer low and intending to fight it

Both Canada and EU have strong labour laws so probably worth fighting it even if you lose the 1 month


Not releasing can put them in violation of Canada's Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act so they are between a rock and a hard place (particularly Foreign Extraterritorial Measures (United States) Order, 1992 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-92-584/p...)


Oh ouch.


And Square Canada is subject to Canada's laws first, even if its parent company is subject to some other country's laws later on.


This has already been blocked by a US court https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-court-sides-with-google-aga... so it's in the BC court to get modified.


> threatens free speech on the global internet," wrote Judge Edward Davila of the US District Court for Northern California. Really, pulling listings for a counterfeit product is a free speech issue?

That's dumb.


Google initially de-indexed 345 specific webpages associated with Datalink on google.ca.

Equustek then sought an injunction to stop Google from displaying any part of the Datalink websites on any of its search results worldwide.

Google already agreed to pull the listings. It's when they wanted the whole website removed that they pushed back.


False according to the article you cited - Google could go to court in Canada with a request... as it always could. One can request anything, almost, in a court, or sue anyone. But can you win.


Most of these sound like Falsehoods the law believes about families rather than programmers


I wasn't aware the law limited the number of children you have, or whether one parent is out of country.


This is directly addressed in the linked article.


The Canadian federal government just bailed out a bunch of underwater pensions by increasing CPP (which itself is under fund if you look at it the way non-CPP pensions report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#Unfunded_l...)


CPP isn't for government employees, it's for everyone. The government doesn't run the pension plan for it's employees, they have corporations that do that, so they're independent of the government, and won't allow them to play shenanigans with being underfunded.


Sounds ripe for funding with a tax on property purchases by foreign nationals.


They might get lucky once. I wouldn't count on another windfall when the pension plans get in trouble in the future.


New York has the highest union rate amount states[1].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf


... which is approximately the same as the union rate for the United States as a whole, 1950-1970.


Your point? That's more than 40 years ago. The Unionist movement in the rest of the US is essentially dead (outside of government).


What type of phone do you use? If it's an Android phone and not a Nokia 3210 I would suggest that you examine whether you actually value just working at the expense of lots of new features.


I have both. If I need maps/browser/camera, I use my android phone, and moan at all the crappy UI issues and endless updates etc.

One of my worst gripes with android is just how often it changes the UI just as I'm about to click on something, so that I click on something else. It's maddening.

If I need a phone, I use my Nokia 3210 (With its ridiculously long battery life and far superior reception).



Julie Ann Horvath has posted a bunch of interesting tweets about it starting here https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/458340919721197568


Somehow, I don't think she's doing what is in her best interest right now. The guy has resigned and the tech media is totally on this story right now. Any small _preceived_ misstep and she could end up being labeled another "Adria Richards".

Also, the question[1] in her current github background appears to represent a suggestive joke that I would have never guessed she'd be comfortable with. Not saying this is any kind of evidence of anything; just interesting that apparently there is a side to her that finds jokes like that funny.

http://i.imgur.com/X8Wdgg0.png


The background is from the following scenario: DJ asks girl being interviewed what favourite position is, she responds 'CEO'.

IIRC it was 'sway in the morning'.


Hmmm, I thought it was a caller that asked that question, not the DJ.


Both correct: DJ speaks on behalf of caller who suggested it.


All of these tweets I see from her account from the last ~45 minutes or so don't help her case at all.

Taking these types of things public especially before any formal investigation occurs (which kicked off this whole scenario) usually does more harm than good.


Did you not read the article? They claim to have finished a formal, third party lead, investigation.


I did and understand everything that is going on, but reading her Twitter feed the last hour shitting on everyone and everything at Github (since they didn't find any criminal wrongdoing) doesn't make you look good or more believable, it actually does the opposite.


Yep, we should all just shut the fuck up if we feel we're wronged.


Yes. A lawyer would advise that yes, please do not say anything until we get to court.


100% correct. If you are serious, you don't use Twitter or social media to advocate your case.


There are good and bad ways to respond to the results of an investigation. I would argue that her response falls under the latter. She's doing herself a disservice by posting stuff like this.


For what it's worth, I want to point out that many of us don't even think Adria Richards is an "Adria Richards".


Why, because she's supposed to be sexless before she can be credible in a claim of sexual harassment?


I wouldn't have a joke like that on any of my social profiles. If anything, this is in her defense since it's one data-point indicating she's not a stereotypical hyper-feminist-drama-queen(do these even exist?) looking to be offended by the slightest incident. She's easy-going enough to have something like that on her public profile and she _knows_ what people will think of first when they read that.


This is an interesting comment, my work flow is almost completely different. I wonder if it's a difference based on what language we both spend the majority of our time in (for me Javascript, python, ruby).

* For markdown I prefer the synatx highlighting and scrollbars that show up on github to the giant blobs plain text gives you.

* I rarely want to attach binary files while I often find myself embedding inline images to illustrate a point

* I use cat test | gist -c -f test.txt -d "Output from failure" (it puts the gist link in my clipboard).


Majority of my bugreports are related to C/C++ and to some extent OCaml, and mostly command-line programs. Hence a text-based entry for the bugreport is more convenient.


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