The great lakes compact is pretty aggressively supported by the Great Lakes states. There would be a pretty massive domestic fight if the west tried to take any water.
In fact the Great Lakes Compact was created after Canada tried to start shipping Lake Superior water to Asia in the 90s.
What the hell is wrong with Canada? Everything I’ve heard out of there for the past year or more has been horrible.
Mozilla is going to kill it too. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsdmHepmqMNqWM0BmW2RHemnarYeQk0bk?feature=shared
I’ve been voting for a while and never have I seen a candidate on the ballot who was against capitalism.
Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.
Both CEOs are horrible but the new one is a former McKinsey consultant with a background in finance and the silicon-valley C-suite. According to statements she put out her strategy is: layoffs and AI.
It’s just a suggestion.
Quebec is also where I learned the phrase “No cop, no stop.”
But I think they were arrested for not saying arrêt.
Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta!
Historically Europe (and the British Empire) sided with the confederacy because they saw a united USA as a potential industrial rival, whereas the south was more of a resource colony. Interestingly there was a major class divide in Europe where the working classes were anti-slavery and therefore anti-confederate wheras the upper classes saw the confederate cause being in their interest. There’s a book about this called A Cause for All Nations by Don Doyle.
My understanding is that nowadays the confederate flag is used by people outside the USA who are on the fascist end of the spectrum for whom Nazi or fascist symbols are too extreme (or just illegal) in their countries.
If they said they didn’t find any, then everyone would know it was a whitewash. So they decided to “find” a small amount and then pat themselves on the back.
Reality is about to get all melty and people are gonna have six fingers.
He ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. That’s for sure. I think the world is gonna roll him. The ice is getting pretty thin, the water’s warm. Do you think he can swim?
I think I’m beginning to understand how Trudeau keeps winning.
Is it really possible to sign away a right to sue a company, especially hidden in an EULA?
Yes it is. It is called “forced arbitration” and pretty much every contract you are compelled to sign has it.
In any kind of just society with a fair legal system it would not be legal. But that doesn’t describe us or our legal system.
My guess is you’re seeing the computer go into a reject loop until a human operator finally takes over.
Russia’s nuclear sabre rattling isn’t credible because their nuclear arsenal is not dispersed. Dispersal is the key to a nuclear exchange and it’s why both sides spend so many billions on submarines and stratobombers. Since the cold war Russia’s nuclear assets have been sitting grouped at bases around the country. If Putin wants to be credible he has to first order the planes in the air and the submarines to sea. But the submarine he sent to Cuba was accompanied by a tug “just in case.”
I always heard “Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother’s shoulders in a trechcoat.”
Although that one applies equally to Australia.
It’s cool that you’re in the well-insulated house business. But we’re still cooking the planet and jet aircraft are bad.
As the country lost its connections to the British it became more easily influenced by the Americans.
Not very often I see someone characterizing the British as the good guys.
An important characteristic of a model is “stability.” Stability means that small changes in input produce small changes in output.
Stability is important for predictability. For instance, suppose you want to make a customer support portal. You add a bot hoping that it will guide the user to the desired workflow. You test the bot by asking it a bunch of variations of questions, probably with some RLHF. But then when it goes to production, people will start asking it variations of questions that you didn’t test (guaranteed). What you want ideally, is that it will map the variants to the best workflow that matches what the customer wants. Second best would be to say “I don’t know.” But what we have are bots who will just generate some crazy off-the-wall crap, and no way to prevent it.