They could be pretty big percentages when we start using fusion rockets.

Since you're into crime, how about I blackmail you? I'll take a more reasonable rental rate and in return I won't report you for trying to criminally access a corporate computer system!

Imagine you have recordings of every letter written, email sent, phone call made, video recorded, etc. of a deceased loved one... throw in their credit history and essentially every digital trace of them you can get your hands on in addition to scanning all the analog data.

Now train an AI on that and you have a 'ghost' of the person you lost that you can interact with for as long as you wish.

Ghoulish, I think, but it'll happen. And one day, when you want to meet your ancestors, you'll call up their AI ghost and have a conversation with them.

If an automated vehicle is found committing an offense, an appropriate fine should be levied against the company and (depending on the potential severity of outcome of the behaviour) all its vehicles immediately banned from operation until their code is updated to prevent a recurrence.

They're not human, they aren't learning because they got pulled over by a police officer. They are just as likely to make that same mistake again as they were before the incident, and until that changes all vehicles running the same control software should be considered equally at risk of making that error.

CEOs generally don't work those kinds of hours. They might be on the company clock, but a lot of it is what your regular cubicle occupant would consider slacking.

God knows I've spent enough time exempting them from web filters so they can watch streaming sports events or get to their favorite gambling sites.

Non-disparagement should be unenforceable. Libel and slander are still laws, so if the person is damaging your reputation with lies there are existing ways to handle that.

The power imbalance between a corporation and an individual means that non-disparagement clause was signed under duress, and given the nature of the clause it should be one that isn't legally enforceable.

The online stuff all comes from the same Chinese manufacturers. Order it direct instead of paying more to an American billionaire. You'll pay the tariffs either way, I assure the billionaires aren't covering them out of their markup.

I used to keep a library of PowerShell admin scripts so I wouldn't have to rewrite them when I needed them again. Now I can ask ChatGPT to write them for me faster than I can find them in my library.

As you say, though, small chunks. When I've tried more complex tasks I end up spending more time debugging the AI's code than the task is worth.

Canada needs to be economically independent of the United States but we've spent decades chasing prosperity by integrating with a massive English-speaking, similar-culture, geographically convenient economy on our southern border. It's going to hurt, and it's just a matter of time because the US is going to continue to turn the screws until they won't turn any further. Even if everything went perfectly smoothly, we're not going to be more prosperous by sealing off that border and attempting to trade around the world. It can be done, but it's less efficient so less profitable, and there's always the risk the US will simply take what they want by force anyway. We're one propaganda campaign away from invasion if we try denying them access to whatever resources they decide to claim are critical to their survival.

We have a similar problem to an educated American citizen. You can identify the issue, you can see the clear solution to the issue... but the immediate pain involved in applying the solution seems disproportionate to the future potential pain of not doing so. There's a lot of motivation to put action off.

The US has been putting off fixing their issue since 1865, Canada's new to this. Give us some time.

In the shorter term, it doesn't matter if suppressing this gene is correcting an age-related overexpression or if it is forcing an underexpression to correct for some other age-related failure.

Even if the machinery keeps falling apart and it doesn't offer a single extra day of life, it's one less symptom of a failing body you'd have to deal with when you're older.

With the current economic war being waged on Canada by the US, and the disruption to our auto sector which is a huge economic component in Canada, it's probably a good idea to back off for now.

Cars are expensive enough as it is, and we've built cities that basically require cars in order to work and live for 99% of the population. The environment's going to have to take a back seat.

You might say, "let China in", but while we'd get cheap EVs we'd also lose our auto sector overnight. They can build a factory here whenever they want, allowing them to flood our market from outside would be near-suicidal.

Zigbee's safe, it is not routable across your network, it requires a Zigbee hub. Devices typically don't have any kind of registration process other than putting them in pairing mode and telling the hub to look for them.

Now the hub, that you're going to have to be careful with. THAT can call home.

I think you're misunderstanding the plan. Pavlovian support for policies that are presented as righting perceived wrongs is the reason for those specific policies. They'd do anything that could cause economic swings because they're taking full advantage of every swing.

They do not care if they destroy the country so long as they personally end up wealthier and more powerful. The extremely wealthy are insulated from all the possible effects they care about.

Why would I give my money to a state that is waging economic war against mine, with the explicit goal of conquering my country and making it more like theirs?

I like my social safety net, universal healthcare system, and drastically lower gun crime thanks.

And here you are, continuing to present yourself as an expert while giving bad advice to people about how to treat their children.

What kind of pathology drives a person to that? Are you getting off on the idea of children not getting the kind of medical care they should have available to them?