jleyank

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by jleyank 7d ago
If US-ians stop cutting checks to Alberta oil companies, the trade deficit goes away. Get cracking on the cracking and get those drillers into Venezuela. I guess one can't have trade deficits with colonies, er, states?
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by jleyank 8d ago
Us/Canada had a nice free trade deal signed by the current prez in his first term. Pity said prez is ignoring it. Hasn’t left the agreement, just ignoring it. And nobody bothers to point that out and how he’s breaking us law to do so
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by jleyank 8d ago
People with complementary positions facing shared difficulties have been known to work together. As Franklin said, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." And there's no guaran
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by jleyank 8d ago
I think they could pay 0.20 - 0.50 dollars higher at Target or a different bulk store.
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by jleyank 9d ago
"Cheap goods" is quite a problem, as basically the US, possibly all of North America loves their cheap Walmart items. Screw how they were made... They're usually the cheapest. Replace "Walmart" with whatever larg
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by jleyank 9d ago
Let them have their minority government and see what they table for consideration. From their actions, people will judge them. The won because people think complex problems have simple, untried solutions that are common sense. They hate &
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by jleyank 9d ago
It doesn’t help that there’s no local contribution once the thing’s built. A few people taking care of the machines and power generators. Probably no local tax contribution to speak of. And the things support a worldwide or countrywide c
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by jleyank 10d ago
Alberta is the most US-like province. As it's not been hit by Trump tariffs, it opposes any change to the current situation. As it's based on oil revenue (with some food production), of course it opposes renewable energy sources
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by jleyank 11d ago
If this includes healthcare and non college teaching, it’s not surprising. If it includes ai-induced layoffs, there’s few women there. So without context it’s just bs on Twitter.
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by jleyank 11d ago
This result should be kept in mind by all those techbros saying they're going to fix the drug discovery business, make it efficient and get things cranking out in 18 months. Sometimes, the dog dies. Sometimes, the model isn't qu
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by jleyank 11d ago
Blackmailing oneself is an interesting development. Does saying "yes" or "no" hurt more? Isn't think one of the jokes in Blazing Saddles?
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by jleyank 11d ago
Of course they do. They seem allergic to salaried labour, and those who participate in it. They're all NPC's to them.
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by jleyank 11d ago
As others have said in-thread and elsewhere: work to live, don't live for work. Yes, be professional and exceed expectations from time to time, but your in-basket will be full when you exit. Take time as the years progress to do &quo
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by jleyank 12d ago
Keep in mind that water and ethanol are miscible, so it will be very difficult getting the last bit of ethanol out of a mixture. Don't think they're going to do pharma-grade separations to get < 0.5% alcohol out. Similarly, 2
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by jleyank 12d ago
If I have to debug or maintain something, I have to understand it enough to make changes and test them. This was traditionally accomplished by having me write the code against a spec of some kind drawn up or described by those familiar wit
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by jleyank 13d ago
As far as I can tell, humans are still showing more ability to "move outside one's training set" than various computer tools. When such tools can show reasoning rather than data recovery skills, we'll all have to find n
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by jleyank 13d ago
I would be very concerned about what I'm actually paid to do if I can be easily replaced by a statistical text/token generator... Admittedly, not all jobs are new/novel and break new ground, but they've been gunning for
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by jleyank 13d ago
I've always thought "computers" was an odd discipline as it had virtually no interest in its history. Yeah, they were large, slow blobs, but without all of the old machines we'd have no hacking, and no new machines (or
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by jleyank 15d ago
What revenues are provided to the locals (people, or government) from data centre operators aside from taxes on water/power? Once constructed, they provide few jobs, and their services are used wherever the network touches. It's
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by jleyank 16d ago
So much for freedom of speech, etc. Are they going to ban donating to particular parties, requiring such donations, etc.
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by jleyank 16d ago
It seems, sadly, that the techbros aren't trying to change the world for must of us. Perhaps change it for themselves, certainly prevent their pile from being reduced. More "F*ck you, I got mine!" I guess.
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by jleyank 17d ago
I would think that there was a group of people who got there first and survived . All groups that followed them can be viewed as colonizers or conquerors I would think.
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by jleyank 17d ago
Yup. They traded hard power over some small area in return for soft power over the West. One would think this was a good trade, maintaining status without a whole lot of effort. If they're really trying to colonize Venezuela, they&#x
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by jleyank 17d ago
How about "They were there before the first colonizers got there"?
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by jleyank 21d ago
The us is closer to a dictatorship than at any time in the recent past. Ruling by executive order is rather close to ruling by decree and neither congress or the scotus care.
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by jleyank 21d ago
In at least two languages.
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by jleyank 23d ago
Remember, in a consumer economy, anything that reduces the number of consumers is risky. Tech people such as developers are well-paid. Reducing their numbers will be a noticeable loss of market. Yeah, companies might save headcount, but t
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by jleyank 24d ago
Building houses uses the same people…
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by jleyank 24d ago
Building them, yeah. Once built, nuthin’ except drains on the local environment. Better to build housing.
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by jleyank 25d ago
CUsMA might be convenient re Mexico. They can consider withdrawal once a bilateral deal is reached.

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