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by beloch 1mo ago
https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3336686/senior-us-and-c... The U.S. has had military talks with China. They probably weren't very productive, because Hegseth, but are you going to go out and s
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by beloch 1mo ago
The trouble is that the U.S. is threatening annexation and waging trade war on the West while pulling its military assets (e.g. All carriers) out of Asia with no diplomatic successes to keep the area stable. There's a power vacuum aro
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by beloch 1mo ago
While the U.S. is doing... whatever it is they're doing right now, it's probably not a bad thing for the world's middle powers to build bridges with China and steer them away from doing stupid things. There are enough stup
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by beloch 1mo ago
A big part of Amazon's "Delivery Service Partner" program is that it creates many smaller work-forces rather than one big one, which prevents unionization. On the other hand, Amazon can probably afford accident insurance. Th
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by beloch 1mo ago
AER charges all active O&G companies operating in Alberta a levy that's meant to fund closing orphaned wells should a company go bankrupt and fail to close their wells. However, you can argue that the levy isn't high enough o
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by beloch 1mo ago
The article doesn't mention it, but I wonder if the author of this book discusses the economic value of data and/or data sovereignty. We live in an era were just a few nations (primarily the U.S.) dominate the international flow
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by beloch 1mo ago
>"We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show that the interplay between social transmission, recovery, and collective reinforcement can generate tipping points and technological lock-in
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by beloch 1mo ago
A gigawatt is a gigawatt. If you need a gigawatt, you pay for the generation and infrastructure to provide it, whether you're a million people or a single data-centre. The jursidictions that require data-centres to provide their own
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by beloch 1mo ago
It's a bizarre headline. New York: 31.33% -> 18.52% Ottawa: 19.72% -> 18.52% My guess is the original title focused just on the U.S., but the editors didn't want to draw attention from the big cheeto, so the headline was cha
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by beloch 1mo ago
We already know we need to pump the breaks on AI for a host of safety issues. However, perhaps the biggest concern is the sheer scale of electricity generation they require. One hyperscale data centre can require electricity equivalent to
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by beloch 1mo ago
Normal cognitive decline comes gradually with age to most people. Dementia is more severe, often more sudden, and can be caused by a host of things, from Alzheimer's to brain injury. Regardless, you're not going to take away some
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by beloch 1mo ago
This is bad enough for Americans, but things are a bit worse for those who aren't. If my government tries to regulate, tax, or otherwise annoy one of these corporations, their billionaire owner will deposit a few million into the right
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by beloch 1mo ago
Every now and then I hear advice to the effect that saying even a single word to a robocaller will get your number flagged for more, so you should just answer silently and hang-up. Whenever I follow that advice, I get more and more calls.
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by beloch 1mo ago
A user-agent spoofer like Chrome Mask is helpful here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/ It's off by default and has to be turned on per site, but will automatically stay o
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by beloch 1mo ago
Ad blocking has become a safety issue. My parents are at an age where they fall for things. If a malicious ad pops up and offers to install McAfee, some other form of crapware, or outright scamware, they'll click that ad and install
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by beloch 1mo ago
...or like saying Earth is not a planet because NEA's share our orbit. If you have to argue that it doesn't apply to Jupiter or Earth because they are obviously planets, it implies that "clearing the neighbourhood" is
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by beloch 1mo ago
An interesting new biography on Benjamin Franklin just came out: "He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada" by Madelaine Drohan[1]. There is no shortage of American biographies of Franklin that sometimes bor
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by beloch 1mo ago
It's almost as if a group of CEO's got together and asked each other, "How can we monetize the time our employees spend off work?". The answer was, apparently, to reduce purchasing-power adjusted pay to the point where
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by beloch 1mo ago
The EU needs to develop an associate option for close allies unwilling to become full members. Canada, Iceland, and others are very closely aligned with the EU in many respects and all could benefit from closer relationships. Ask a Canadi
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by beloch 1mo ago
What if you want to hook a gaming PC up to a smart TV? Linux has come far in recent years, but Windows is still the most broadly supported gaming OS. Once awareness of this side-loaded crapware gets out, I'd expect the community to
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by beloch 1mo ago
I was unaware of these side-loaded malicious apps until now. This is information consumers need to have. It's very reminiscent of Sony putting rootkits on CD's. Unwanted, dangerous software is being loaded onto your computer b
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by beloch 1mo ago
If you want to learn about a slightly earlier Canadian equivalent, look up Port Hope, Port Radium, and Eldorado Resources. They mined and refined a large portion of the Uranium for the Manhattan project. The people involved had no clue ho
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by beloch 1mo ago
The imported beef will most likely come from all the usual suppliers. Australia. New Zealand. Argentina, right after a recall of Argentinian beef. Canada, just as Trump is renaming bodies of water and raising taxes on his own citizens
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by beloch 1mo ago
Ontario can totally become America. If that's how Trump really wants it, the U.S. can find a new alternate name. Trumpland maybe? Donnyville? Epsteinia?
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by beloch 1mo ago
We can only hope that the midterms change the dynamics of things and maybe, just maybe, Congress reclaims its constitutionally enshrined power over taxation and commerce. I won't hold my breath though. When the Democrats are determin
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by beloch 1mo ago
"Last year, Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It only applies to U.S. federal documents and geographic services, but some online map services also made the change." --
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by beloch 1mo ago
"I strongly believe that video games have a higher ceiling for storytelling quality. There are several reasons underlying my newfound evangelism: a larger built-in audience, a more robust market with hundreds of games appealing to many
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by beloch 2mo ago
"Yet if we build systems that can suffer, and miss their sentience, we risk creating suffering on an industrial scale." -------------- Will we recognize AGI when it's finally made? Will we go from something that is not consc
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by beloch 2mo ago
Is it cynical, or simply realistic, to recognize that AI CEO's won't ask for this kind of policy, and governments won't force anything upon the AI sector until things get very bad ? That, in my view, is a much bigger pro
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by beloch 2mo ago
"In terms of equity, AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. The challenge is monumental. Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most tu

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