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by rchaud 2y ago
> China interfered in our election to benefit the liberals. That was your takeaway: China did it? Liberals were projected to lose more than 100 seats nationally as late as February 2025. You can't think of any other major foreign fi
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by rchaud 2y ago
> Polievre, who lost in his own riding. He has not announced his resignation as party leader yet, though His campaign against Mark Carney came down to his argument that Carney was not a legitimate PM due to being appointed by his party f
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by rchaud 2y ago
The land on which those provinces sit are based on treaties signed between the First Nations and the government of Canada, not with the provinces, so that settles that.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> I'd love to live and work in Canada but I'm not taking a massive pay cut to do it. Then you have your answer. Canada is not "US with free healthcare". It has a different history, economic and political setup. A quar
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by rchaud 2y ago
Farces occur in the US because it has a 2-party system where the winner takes all, and there is no limit to political funding. In parliamentary systems common in the rest of the West, there is at least a pretence of inter-party cooperations
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by rchaud 2y ago
> How does anyone have the confidence to ship a legal brief that an AI produced without checking it thoroughly? Because its makers don't care about precision or correctness. They care only about convincing the people that matter tha
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by rchaud 2y ago
The majority that did vote, voted for this. The participation rate has always been low in rich western countries. Given the standards of media literacy and civics education, there's no evidence that a higher participation rate would ha
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by rchaud 2y ago
In 2024, the Pentagon carved out an exception for themselves on the Huawei equipment ban [0] I would imagine defense contractors can cut deals for similar preferential treatment with OAI and the like to be exempt from potentially copyright-
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by rchaud 2y ago
Those cars are priced for the budgets of domestic Chinese consumers. BYD exports to Europe are priced similarly to car models sold there. For the same reason, this Slate truck is very unlikely to cost just $20k when it reaches the mass prod
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by rchaud 2y ago
It's not a coincidence that they're arresting openly unarmed people like student protesters and now judges.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Sure, history is after all awash in examples of peaceful secessions where everybody agreed to not question each others' borders again. Korea, India, Algeria, the Soviet Union, Palestine..... /s
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by rchaud 2y ago
I imagine they'll soon be putting a spin on George W Bush-era legal arguments about the applicability of Geneva Conventions on "non-uniformed combatants". In this case, if the ICE agents weren't uniformed at the time of
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by rchaud 2y ago
American elites push back when their tax shelters and uninsured deposits (see Silicon Valley Bank collapse) are at risk. That's their line in the sand.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> There's tons of "how-to" guides on how to maliciously comply with work demands without getting fired. These only apply to countries where the judicial system doesn't bend to whoever's in power.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Impaired assets are still assets, although it would be funny to see what fair market value would be for a busted search engine.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Better get off the Silicon Valley hype train then, because every single company in it is valued on the basis of how complete their user surveillance panopticon is.
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by rchaud 2y ago
That's the beauty of ads. Customers don't pay, the advertisers do.
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by rchaud 2y ago
This is a transaction between 2 giant corporations. What is there to be a fan of? Chrome is not open-source, Chromium is.
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by rchaud 2y ago
They do not have the distribution, that would be the entire point of buying Chrome. ChatGPT is not a web browser, buying Chrome lets them hoover up web browsing data + billion users, which are crucial to developing an ads product, which is
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by rchaud 2y ago
Uber had a formal program in place, built into their software, to deny ride requests they suspected came from government and regulatory officials, in cities where they were violating transport regulations [0]. This isn't their first ro
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by rchaud 2y ago
Which cab service won't pick up a customer after accepting a phone booking? I have never experienced that in the US.
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by rchaud 2y ago
The NYT account on Bluesky does nothing besides make automated posts linking to their own articles. Why would account verification even matter in that case? It is in effect just a spambot. It posts links and doesn't engage with respons
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by rchaud 2y ago
When civilians like myself say that AI feels enormously overhyped, this is just one part of what we experience that fuels this cynical outlook. If AI was so great, it would sell on its own merits, and companies (not just Microsoft) wouldn&#
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by rchaud 2y ago
"This is a startup opportunity" /s
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Confirmed, FF on MacOS Sonoma with all the usual extensions.
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by rchaud 2y ago
AMP as described in this article provides a wrapper for some templated kinds of JS functionality. My comment wasn't specific to AMP, it was to the article's main point about "interactive emails" being unnecessary.
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by rchaud 2y ago
This article misses the point of why emails were made interactive in the first place - to satisfy the demands of marketers. 90% of the emails you get are marketing-related. If you get an email that says "4 days left for our holiday sal
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by rchaud 2y ago
I'm on several UK-based soccer message boards and none of this seems to be required there. The forums are running on Xenforo or PhpBB, self-hosted by the admin. Some of those forums have thousands of user accounts registered. Is Discor
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by rchaud 2y ago
Out of interest, why is the CFO the person commenting on this opposed to a product person?
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Yep, vaporwave is very millennial-centric, with song samples rooted in '80s and '90s pop, with an intentional pre-Internet feel. Things that millennials would have fading, but extremely resonant, nostalgic memories about. The youn

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