California has level 4 taxis (which have had problems) but few (if any) level 3 consumer cars. So I'm not sure what data you think BC should be using.

You really need folks to spell out the concerns with untested level 3 cars?

For someone complaining about data it seems to have eluded you that level 3 vehicles are so new that they haven't even made it to the Canadian market.

It means common sense. Before deploying level 3 cars on public roads they want more data.

When reasonable people have a reasonable expectation that the new product may be more dangerous and they don't want to wait for a bunch of fatalities to occur to stop it.

I'm not sure your intuition is correct. Sure the supply of work isn't infinite but it does increase when productivity goes up.

Look at a website designer, in the early 90s you were writing HTML and CSS by hand, drawing icons with crappy editors, etc, etc.

Now, you've got crazy libraries and full-fledged website builders, I'm guessing a modern web designer is MUCH more productive.

The result? There's waaay more website designer jobs out there, that's partially because the Internet is bigger, but also because you get way more value for your cash buying a website designer now.

Some of the same will be happening with software dev. Sure, some companies that doesn't see any need to do more than they're currently doing may cut staff, but a lot of other companies will realize that the software project/product they were thinking of is now viable.

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

I'm guessing that folks using the US flag as an accessory are generally pushing a fairly specific political belief.

I'm in Canada and a bunch of a-hole truckers and their followers blockaded the Capital and border crossings to try and blackmail the rest of the country. And of course they flew Canadian flags everywhere to pretend like they were being patriotic.

I love my country and my flag, but if I see some truck driving around with a Canadian flag I know it's probably some Fox-News watching Trump fanboy who was trying to extort the rest of the country which is pretty damn un-Canadian to me.

And they were right of course! (well kinda right anyway)

The real divide was the former Confederacy vs the rest of the country. Because the South was Democratic there were a lot more D in opposition than R.

But it was a Democratic President who pushed it. But if you look among legislators in the former Confederacy, Republicans were more likely to oppose it. And similarly outside, Republicans were more likely to oppose it.

So saying Republicans were more opposed isn't really wrong.

That feels more like trivia, particularly considering the different populations at the time.

To be fair, economists struggle with that too.

Not entirely wrong. Not that the Jews sitting around in post-WWII refugee camps had many other good options.

From the local's perspective, they kinda were invaders.

So they were right I guess.

At that point they're probably just screwing with you.

Just curious, do you think the COVID vaccine saved lives? Do you believe in AGW? Do you think Trump won in 2020?

Because I can find a lot of people on the right who espouse some pretty nutty beliefs on those topics, and they aren't the equivalent of the kids skateboarding, they're literally the leaders of the GOP and the associated media outlets.

It's fairly well established that he had contract offers contingent on him ceasing his protest, so yeah, he clearly demonstrated that he was willing to sacrifice a significant portion of his career earnings for his protest.

He did well with Nike, possibly better than he would have done never having protested though NFL QB salaries are pretty good so it's hard to say.

But it's pretty ridiculous to assume he anticipated a huge endorsement deal when he started his protest.

It's fine to disagree with his protest.

But pretending that he wasn't willing to sacrifice a lot? That's pretty disgusting.

You know those idiots who stormed the US Capitol on Jan 6th? They were far right fascists who were trying to overthrow the US Democracy and murder the Vice President and they deserve long prison sentences.

But I won't deny they were willing to risk a lot for their insurrection.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Common sense not to do if you expect to keep your job.

I don't know what these folk expected, but some protesters are actually willing to sacrifice a lot as part of their protests. If they knew the cost of their protest I have some respect for that.

The problem is that there's currently a lot of Palestinians currently living on that land that Israel.

The best defended borders are border without enemies on the other side.

Israel's issue isn't that they need to take all the land "from the river to the sea" in order to have a defensible state. The issue is the conquest of land is really tempting (precisely the reason it's illegal) and Israel has found itself occupying a lot of land that a portion of their population really wants to keep.

The Settlers have figured out that all they need to do is establish a Settlement, grow it big enough, and it's no longer politically viable for a future government to dismantle it, better yet if the current government supports the plan.

Put those Settlements in the right place and a contiguous Palestinian state is no longer possible meaning an ethnically cleansed* Greater Israel is the inevitable endgame.

* Israel has an Arab minority with whom they get along with reasonably well, but I don't see non-citizen Palestinians being able to join that club.

Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

You really think they care that much about that tiny bit of cash?

The real reason is that the Feds (and legislators) are cluing into how powerful AI and analytics are and they're scared over what China is doing with the giant masses of data it's collecting from TikTok.

What kinda stuff goes viral? How does info spread through networks? What's spreading right now? Legislator X is authoring a bill that touches our interests, what do we know about that legislator in specific?

For a country looking to meddle in Western politics, as China definitely is, a dataset like TikTok is an extremely powerful tool.

If you were fighting a war against a technologically superior opponent I'm pretty sure you'd do all those things as well with the possible exception of recruiting children.

And it's a little unclear how widespread that is, certainly, children wanting to join the fight happens in every big conflict. The question is are they being actively recruited or just not turned away.

It's true Hamas's charter calls for the destruction of Israel, but I don't think Likud's is much better.

Not saying that Hamas isn't a horrific organization, but Palestinians are being systematically repressed and forced off of their land. Really nasty extremists are a very predictable outcome of that process.

CNN, New York Times, The Times of Israel, etc, etc.

There's other factors to consider as well:

- Israel (Natanyahu) deliberately allowed Qatar to smuggle cash into Gaza in order to keep Hamas strong. Not strong enough to carry out the Oct 7th attack, but strong enough to keep lobbing rockets and form a suitable villain.

- Israel has been blocking basic aid such as food from getting into Gaza. Deliberate famine is hardly "upholding the rules of war".

- What do you think "operational security" in Gaza is? A permanent Israeli army presence with the steady flow of casualties on both sides that entails?

Those dead Palestinian civilians are actually part of Hamas's plan.

The old equation was that Arab states would normalize ties with Israel when the Palestinian issue was settled, then in 2017 a normalization process without the Palestinians was started. This would obviously remove a lot of leverage from the Palestinians.

A major objective of the October 7th attack was to was to create a disproportionate Israeli response that would inflame the Arab world and stop the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states. Given how the war has gone with even Western partners starting to turn on Israel I'd say Hamas is probably saying "mission accomplished".

The site is a money pit doomed to failure, but if you're somehow looking for a way to justify the stock price I think you need to do something like video.

Even if Truth Social became the last alt-right Twitter clone standing it would still be a crappy business because it would be a tiny user base with toxic content that mainstream advertisers avoid.

But video ads go for higher rates and no one has really broken through as the alt-right YouTube. So maybe there's a shot at decent revenue before he blows through all the cash.

I mean it should still be a penny stock, but with video maybe it's worth 2c instead of 1c.