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What IS "Canadian content" anyway?

Seriously... what counts? Half of what we see on TV is ALREADY Canadian these days.

Is Star Trek "Canadian"? Strange New Worlds is filmed There and the Shatner himself is Canadian. What about The Expanse? It was also filmed in Canada. Those ancient aliens that build those Chapa'ais throughout multiple galaxies must have had a fondness for poutine, beaver pelts, or fantastic skiing. Because they seem to have *just* happened to have chosen geography and biomes remarkably similar to the Pacific Northwest for their myriad outposts. When those other aliens were infiltrating the government and the FBI managed to thwart the conspiracy with just two special agents, one assistant director and a "No Smoking" sign? THOSE evil aliens were ALSO oddly fond of KÃppen's temperate oceanic climate. The twelve colonies of Kobol... what we saw of them anyway... also getting the benefit of those cool ocean currents. Hell... even before he joined the USAF and got his comission; Colonel O'Niel's last job at the Pheonix Foundation... ALSO in Canada.

Does none of that count because Pike, Holden, Adama, and MacGyver didn't affect the accent? Or are those productions considered to be tainted by the involvement of americans?

Yeah... but an opening for Cursor? In the here and now? I'll believe that when my 250mph, 1.9s 0-60, 600-mile range electric sports car has working full self driving.

Oh? So names like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Ron DeSantis, Alex Jones, Steve Miller, Nancy Mace, Nick Fuentes, Charlie Kirk, Greg Abbott...

Those are *NOT* everyday mainstream names that you hear on traditional non-algorithmic televised news channels? What channels are YOU watching?

> They'll see a Conservative proposing that
> Trump be given a 3rd term and trans kids get
> rounded up and forced into conversion
> therapy or some crap like that.

Yeah, the thing is that this is EXACTLY what mainstream conservativism is now. El Presidente for life, ban all the LGBandespeciallyT people from everything and convert, or ideally kill, them... That's not not fringe trolling on the dark corners of the internet like 4chan and stormfront anymore. That's their actual position which they publicly avow now on mainstream platforms. And I don't mean just algorythmic social media feeds. You can turn on the television now and watch them say these things openly.

FaceID already does that... better than the sort of person who can only get those jobs in the first place.

> every major OS refuses to do backups by default

That is demonstrably untrue. MacOS is quite happy to do backups right out of the box. It just needs a destination. If you don't have a Time Machine drive already backing up your files; when you plug in an external drive for the first time, the OS will immediately offer to format and use it for backups. It's literally one plug, one click. That's backup #1. Backup #2 is rsync scripts... one for my homedir to one drive, the second for my movies&music drive. THAT one is actually a bit difficult, because MacOS does not use traditional cron, but launchDaemon xml files that I can never remember how to set up manually, so I use an app for it. Definite Apple fail there. Backup #3 is off-site to Backblaze, easy peasy.

So, on the desktop; one backup scheme is kind of annoying and the other two are child's play.

On Mobile, iOS and iPadOS both badger you to log in to iCloud and back up to there. And backing those up locally is one plug-in, typing in a a password for the local encryption, and three clicks.

I know that journalism is dead and it's been apparent for some time that the inverse pyramid isn't taught anymore. But who the hell are/were OSS, besides a "now-defunct vendor" for PBS? And what was their relationship with Iron Mountain that this judge is blaming and punishing the latter for the former's... wrongdoing? WAS there any actual wrongdoing? Or were they just a business that failed?

Oh... posted by BeauHD. So of course the whole thing is garbage.

With proper controls, it could be a massive privacy boon. The thing with that physical card is that it has a bunch of information on it that has literally nothing to all whatsoever to its supposed purpose, but can be massive safety and privacy issues. The biggest offender of all, of course, being your address... most likely your residential address.

That bouncer at the club or the bar? He doesn't need to know your address... and should NOT know it. He doesn't need to know if you wear glasses or have a motorcycle or commercial endorsement. There is exactly ONE piece of information that is in any way needed or relevant there: your date of birth. And he doesn't even actually need THAT, just one simple boolean: Are you over 21 or not. So... since NFC is already there... it would be almost trivially easy for Apple to design a system where you walk up to the terminal, tap your phone to the pad, and he gets a little green light if you're over 21, a red light if you're not, and NO OTHER INFORMATION WHATSOEVER... not even your DoB, because that is wholely irrelevant if that value is > 662,256,000 seconds ago.

Same for would-be stalker cops who pull you over. One tap. One light: licensed driver, yes or no. Done and done.

Of course, we know that government will reject any and all sane privacy protections and they'd never land on the Android side in the first place. But yeah... done RIGHT, it really could be a massive safety and privacy win.

Because you just might get it. Everything must be dead-tree printed hardcopy? Sure. But somebody at IBM just said: "Hold my beer."

Investors are chasing a company that achieves some kind of AI singularity. Let's set aside the fact that there's no reason to believe there is anything but diminishing marginal returns by making marginal refinements to current frontier models. Let's imagine someone hits the jackpot and gets, not even AGI, but a system that's as far ahead of today's frontier model are ahead of 2020's GPT 2.0 in performance.

Globally AI revenues are 150 billion, against a cumulative burn rate of 450 billion. A model that is a generation ahead of others would almost certainly capture the lion's share of that revenue.

If AGI magically appears as a Sam Altman has promised investors it will, a hundred million is way too low. Add, maybe, another zero to the revenues.

Conservatively, a safer assumption is that frontier models will get marginally better based on refinements in training and reinforcement and the other bits and bobs that go into these systems. The nobody is winning the lion's share of anything, at least overnight. But you have to define "safe". By "safe" I mean unlikely to lose money. But some investors are clearly defining "safe" as "having the greatest chance of owning a piece of the biggest thing ever."

I'm not following this super-closely, but if Anthropic is pursuing adding multi-step model based reasoning to their system, that could be the basis of a generational leap in capability. But if that is an approach that looks like it has a chance of working, then their competitors are no doubt pursuing the same thing. In that case you'd expect the revenue pie to grow as the scope of model utilty increases, but that growth to be split among several competitors. This could credibly result in a revenue stream for some of them that is as big as the entire industry's revenue stream today. But there's going to be hell to pay on the data center impacts end of things.

I would offer a real-life counterpoint to this being helpful.

I was actually one of those kids who breezed through high school with high marks without really having to try and then got a big shock when college actually turned out to require real effort and studying. Dropping the actual grades for pass/fail would have been the WORST thing to do. I was doing C and D work my freshman year and masking that behind nothing more than a P would NOT have been the wakeup call I needed to get my shit together and actually work for my grades. And it worked. Those Cs and Ds motivated me to get my shit together and accept that everything doesn't just come naturally and after that first semester the first year I never got less than a B, and pulled mostly As.

Everyone is unique and YMMV of course. But I really don't see where sugarcoating the truth and not acknowledging sub-par performance would have helped me improve.

Have you ever see pictures of the land in question? It's a high altitude volcanic wasteland. There's no agriculture. There's no industry. There's no commerce. And the only "housing" is for the occasional overnighters (or overDAYers) because astronomers work on odd schedules. But no one LIVES there.

Some unnamed native Hawaiian was undoubtedly the "first on the land". But whoever that person was, they were "first on the land" in the sense that Hillary was "first on the land" at the top of Everest. And neither he nor Norgay personally own or control THAT mountain.

Oh, they're still there. The difference is that instead of paying pennies on the dollar to offshore; some businesses are willing to cough up a whole nickel for an agent who's had the voice coaching to not *sound* Indian. But if you pay attention... I'm thinking specifically of some recent interacions with Amazon support... the occasional "prepone" or "do the needful" still slips out... in a texan or southern or even midwestern accent.

Also, the Philippines, especially Cebu, have become huge for offshore tech support over the last decade or so. It has many of the advantages of India... good schools, english education, hard working population, developing ecomony where the exchange rate makes everything cheap by western standards. But because of its historic close ties to the US, the english taught is closer to US english in the first place, so there's less of an accent and they know more of our cultureal lingistic idioms with which to sound more authentic.

Look at the company Tim Cook keeps these days

So where is the prison time for the crooked cops and prosecutors and any (lying) "witnesses" who all perjured themselves to frame and railroad the guy into prison?

(haha... I know... qualified immunity makes it all but impossible to punish officials who abuse the public like this)