dave johnson

Carney government announcing details on VC strategy this aft: We've got them here now in @globeandmail : Ottawa kicks off process to give $1.75-billion boost to venture capital sector /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…

just got royally fucked by this so you're telling me i pay railway every month to keep my secrets safe, and now i have to rotate every single one of them myself except all deployments are paused, so if i rotate now my app breaks, and if i don't, someone else might have my keys fml, what's a good alternative to railway? gotta move before i scale my app any further

I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade. My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution. This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain. And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself. And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen. "I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin." - George Washington, 1778

As I wrote a year and a half ago, Zelensky is incapable of making peace. Elections in Ukraine are long overdue.

Since USAID was dismantled, the left has not won a single election in Latin America, by the way.

20+ people in the last 2 days asking for a Canadian america.gov. cool. who's actually building it? We're starting a volunteer team. devs, designers, policy peeps, lurkers all welcome. reply and i'll add you to a gc 🇨🇦 repost for visibility or tag your friends if you know someone who should be in it

We need Canada.gov @MarkJCarney . But please let someone competent do it. Don't go down the rabbit hole of sub contractors. Let the agencies bid and pitch to you. We have some great ones in Canada.

Canada’s per capita GDP is lower than 49 American states, except Mississippi. Canadians pay higher taxes than Californians. Canadians live poorer than residents of 49 American states. Canada is broken.

Good idea - banks are giving kids loans that they can’t repay, and kids who haven’t been taught financially literacy are taking them. Then they: 1. End up with a degree that the market won’t pay them for. 2. Have all this student loan debt. 3. Become permanent renters who can’t afford a home and don’t want to start a family. That’s fertile soil for socialism and radicalism to take root. Kids need to be taught that a college degree is an investment, and some investments are better financially than others. This student trap contributing to the economic frustration and the loss of the American dream.