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by beloch 3d ago
Carney is pursuing what he calls "associate membership", which has yet to be defined[1]. If the EU wants to form the backbone of a group of middle powers that can hold their own against superpowers like China, as Carney has sugge
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by beloch 3d ago
This is one major reason why blocking ads is now a safety issue. If you have a family member who, for whatever reason, might be fooled by this sort of ad, install an effective adblocker on all their browsers and uninstall/disable brow
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by beloch 3d ago
It's the current CPC line of attack. A month or so ago they tried arguing that Carney, a former governor of two national banks, is worse at economics than a career politician. That didn't go well. Now they're trying to m
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by beloch 3d ago
Go look up what the U.S. was demanding by the end of the recent trade negotiations. They wanted Canada to give up its ability to set its own cultural and trade policy independent of the U.S.. That's a huge step to becoming, not the 5
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by beloch 3d ago
The dependency goes both ways. We could cut off potash and they'd starve. We could cut off the oil and electricity. We could cut off steel and aluminum. The response would not be pleasant, but neither can they afford to risk our
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by beloch 4d ago
Doing things as we were told to is sometimes called "following tradition". Traditional knowledge can be based in superstition or valid information that's out of date, but it can also be based on things that remain relevant.
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by beloch 4d ago
LG’s Approach to Privacy Our approach is guided by four principles: Transparency – Helping users understand how smart TV features work and how related data may be used. User Choice – Giving users meaningful control over optional features an
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by beloch 4d ago
People need light to see in cities. This light serves a function. Starlink satellites are emitting unintended and useless EMR that serves no function. It is not necessary for the function of these satellites. This is a money issue. The q
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by beloch 5d ago
Ask for regulation. If progress is coming easy and fast and you're worried about the danger your product poses, you should also be worried about the danger your competitors' products pose. So, you reach out to governments and ask
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by beloch 5d ago
"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means." "Since war is not an act of senseless passion but is controlled by its political object, the value of this object must determine the sacrifices to be made for it in m
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by beloch 6d ago
There is an undeniable conflict between "Don't be evil." and "Evil pays.". A lot of what militaries do can be best described as the lesser of two evils. Murdering people is bad, but sometimes a little murder can p
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by beloch 7d ago
I'd like to think that, if I had that kind of money, I'd avoid doing so much ketamine that I fail to realize a few meters of concrete won't protect me if things go wrong. In all likelihood, tech billionaires will be the firs
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by beloch 7d ago
NMS's art-style is low-detail, but highly aesthetic. It can look amazing at times, but only when you're looking at grand cinematic vistas. It rarely looks good in closeups. This parallels the game's systems in many ways. N
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by beloch 7d ago
"A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to
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by beloch 8d ago
A trade (money) deficit is a goods surplus. The U.S. is getting more stuff than they can make themselves because the world likes to invest in the U.S. and American consumers are still confident enough that they're not socking away sav
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by beloch 8d ago
I've commonly seen this trade war called "purely random", or the result of Trump holding a personal grudge against Canada. However, the most convincing argument I've seen (and I wish I could recall the source) is that T
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by beloch 8d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 10d 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 10d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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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