It’s insane to me that someone works for their money and uses it for public good comes under infinitely more scrutiny than leeches with billions spending hundreds of millions to avoid paying fair taxes to PREVENT public good.

According to polling, a healthy majority of Albertans and a healthy majority of Quebecois want to remain in Canada.

It’s certainly too late for separatists to turn the tide in AB before the “referendum to have a referendum” in less than 2 weeks from now.

A lot more could happen between now and 2028 in Quebec… But I still am skeptical.

Support for BQ in '95 was basically 50%. PQ today is like mid 30s (crowded field).

I’m concerned that provincial politicking is banging such a lazy drum. I’m not concerned today that the aggregate electorate of either province wants to leave Canada.

Without the baselines, those percentages don’t indicate relative risk. I think they all do, rates of SUID dropping and guidelines on sleeping have a clear correlation.

But an casual observer might incorrectly read bedding as being a greater risk factor than back sleeping… Which still might be true, but doesn’t necessarily follow from these numbers in isolation.

Genuinely not trying to be obtuse, but I think a reading of “not all men” is what one could describe as not preemptively grouping yourself with them. It reads to me, perhaps naïvely, as drawing a line perhaps with that specific goal? No one disputes the existence of men, and “not all men” implies two groups, no?

What do you envision as a way to communicate a distinction such that you don’t suggest you’re not a man, but also say you’re not a rapist?

" Oh the hours I spent in the archives wearing cotton gloves Shuffling photos from the night at Sanatorium Halloween parties Emaciated ghosts hiding in those curtains’ creases I’ll let you haunt the world when I write my master’s thesis "

I’m not a poet or a scholar of poetry, so this might be small potatoes in the grand scheme of things…

But the density of that verse is equivalent to a black hole. It’s the intersection of like 30 human lives across multiple time periods and contexts. The unfathomable density of the human experience… I’m confident in saying no model is anywhere close to being close to being close.

I’m not sure.

It’s not saying it’s real but I can envision a world where it’s at least conceivable.

They’re not saying it should take 21 days of labour, just that they have 21 days to be compliant.

And the runs between units might indicate other issues like insufficient panel sizes, or long runs of wall that are expected to get cut up and are expected to be repaired properly. Maybe permits and subsequent electrical inspections. They might even pad all their estimates too.

It’s high, but not impossibly high.

I like how this comment appears to be bait for Americans with three braincells

Those look incredibly dangerous, if I think if a driver clipped a kid on the sidewalk the driver would very likely not survive

I like how the half of the board footprint is logic level shifters

You’re getting downvoted, but you’re right. This knife cuts both ways, and it far predates llms.

Any non trivial algorithm intended to rank is gameable.

This is the foundation of SEO. It’s how the Donald invaded reddit. It’s the fucking central pillar of modern propaganda dissemination.

They’re going to spend a ton of money to lock themselves into an ongoing arms race.

And if one is morality opposed to this type of pricing practice, I think one becomes morality obligated to do exactly what you described.

And honestly, I think you don’t even have to come out ahead for it to be worth it. If your LLM assessed price would be 1000, spending a full $200 on compute to game and $800 ticket is a wash. You SHOULD spend $300 to get an $800 ticket if that’s where the floor is. Because fuck em.

It’s crazy to call that dunkimg on somebody. It’s the equivalent to having to get rid of a houseplant because your idiot trembling chihuahua is scared of it and pisses on the floor whenever it sees it.

“Donald Trump thinks this is a good project.”

Ok. Ok. Interesting way to sell it.

It’s all relative.

My 2 year old was sitting on the toilet and was like “sometimes, you just have to let the poop out”.

Hell yeah.

1. Does popularity imply ethics? Morality? Soundness of policy?

2. What exactly does “antidemocratic” imply? Are antidemocratic activities intrinsically wrong?

My grandmother in law was dragged before the KGB to answer why her 4 year old had coloured the colours of thier territories flag (before annexation into the USSR).

I think it’s pretty naive to reject that people could genuinely have grievances against a government or government policy. Slavery was popular. Gang rape is very democratic.

Although thier issues were with a government and not the concept of “communism”, I think the onus is on you to charitabley acknowledge that distinction. Being the grown up comes with infinitely more responsibility than privilege… and people who don’t understand that aren’t actually the grown ups.

I expect they won’t be caught, frankly. If for no other reason than statistically, most crimes of this nature do not get solved. About 30% is the statistic for burglaries and property damage. So, even if the person had a MEDIAN capacity, the odds are already stacked in thier favour.

Given that these are flock cameras… pretty fair to say this was done with some degree of due diligence. It was motivated out of principle, not personal gain, not desperation. Based on that alone, I’d spitball down to a 10% chance.

One step further… this fits the profile of a video I saw where a “reporter” was explaining how flock cameras get taken down, and exactly what “people” are doing to avoid being caught. There exist volumes of information on exactly what a successful flock takedown looks like. Given that, I’d further drop it to well below 5%.

The cops won’t find them on thier own. Only realistic avenue to zero in on the person is a tip. If the person was smart, they didn’t blab.

And even if they did, they didn’t keep anything that could meaningfully link them to the act. Even if they end up getting charged, without a smoking gun (flock components in thier garage) actually getting the conviction would be pretty much impossible. Someone ratting them out isn’t nearly enough for a conviction on its own.

Because it was motivated on principle, there is a non zero chance the person who did it might just defiantly confess (proclaim, like a manifesto) if they get charged. But still unlikely.

I’d be shocked if anyone even gets charged. I genuinely don’t think there is ANY real chance of a conviction.

Wasn’t even the wildest. Before compsci I was doing mechanical engineering.

We had an assignment to design a railcar layout for transporting livestock. It gave the minimal parameters for the animals, established client driven acceptable losses for the livestock, etc…

We all cracked away at it. After we handed them all in, the profs were like “nowhere in the spec was the actual animals named, was no one curious?”

Silence.

They had given us a literal Nazi RFP discovered post WWII. It was for moving people to fucking concentration camps.

“You’re smart people. People are going to ask you to do bad things. They’re going to try and hide thier intentions. Don’t collaborate with Nazis. Don’t ever use what I teach you to hurt people.”

I feel like this isn’t super new. You haven’t been able to do things like talk academically about network security or cryptography without being incredibly critical of government for decades.

My professors sure were. I felt really bad for them, honestly. They were the driving force to make philosophy and ethics courses mandatory at my university in order to recieve a comp sci degree.

“If you work in these areas long enough, at a high enough level, you WILL be asked to compromise something for the benefit of a state actor, and you might not even realize it’s happening. The person asking you to do it might not even realize what is really happening.” Was what our prof told a packed lecture hall.

Jackdaws?

Misquoted.

He ACTUALLY said within 24 hours of being president ELECT.

So it’s actually even worse than 559, it’s 634.