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>It's amazing that people in 2023 can be just as accepting of the mainstream narrative as the average joes in the 60s, that were subjected to a top down narrative decided by the powers that be using 3 TV channels and 2 newspapers.

It's just HN crowd. The majority of Americans have always believed that others were involved.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/165893/majority-believe-jfk-kil...

What causal evidence is there that people posting on social media caused deaths and "losing months of their lives to extreme fatigue"?

Curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...

Most people I know who tout the fact that they "don't have a TV" nevertheless watch Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, etc.

I think it's a valid point to question what people mean when they say they're not on social media, yet are posting on HN.

Getting fed up with the current party that's in power is a reoccurring theme in Canadian politics going back many decades. It's a pattern the repeats over and over. It would be extraordinary if Canadians weren't getting sick of a government that's been in power for going on 9 years.

Polling data shows that the recent slide in approval is coming mostly from Liberal and NDP voters.

https://angusreid.org/trudeau-poilievre-singh-approval-favou...

According to a recent Bank of Montreal analysis, Canada's GDP per capita is likely to decrease.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-real...

>Canada’s population growth will likely slow from its current frantic pace as immigration officials work through the pandemic backlog of applications, but not by all that much. Barring a vast improvement in productivity, Canada’s per-capita GDP – and our standard of living – appear headed for an outright decline.

The Canadian government on the one hand is trying to position Canada as an international tech leader, while on the other hand are trying to implement laws that are fundamentally at odds with tech norms (i.e. trying to force companies to pay for links with Bill C-18).

It's nice to have the tech workers. But will the tech employers want to invest in a regulatory basket-case country?

You can include Post Media, TorStar, Quebecor and other media in the list of those lobbying for this.

It's part Canadian protectionism and part desperate ploy to prop up a few large failed media business models.

Canada has a long history of protectionist measures. The shocking part of the bill is the way it exposes the complete technical incompetence of the government. There are many ways to extract a pound of flesh, implementing your tax in a way that is fundamentally incompatible with the web is inexcusable. It will hurt Canada's efforts to be a tech leader.

It also is not a formal executive title like manager, director, officer, VP etc.

>We have all noticed that the Russian military appears far less capable than we thought it was; frankly it seems incapable of even some of the very basic tasks of modern industrial armies engaged in conventional military operations.

It's an unfalsifiable premise because the performance of the military is compared against a nebulous "less capable than we thought it was" bar, which by all accounts was clearly, albeit in hindsight, an incorrect worldview where Russia was supposedly going to conquer all of NATO in Europe in 3 days: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21344/us-...

They said 2 hours in the presentation.

Not sure if OP edited his comment, but as of now it's written 2030, not 2023.

The current scientific system has long been known to have serious problems of incorrect results and conflicts of interest. This article seems like an attempt to pin the crisis on an AI scapegoat.

From 2015, the Editor of The Lancet:

The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale. We reject important confirmations. Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster reductive metrics, such as high-impact publication. National assessment procedures, such as the Research Excellence Framework, incentivise bad practices. And individual scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally veers close to misconduct.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Same here. I backup once per year. No organization effort required.

Any info I need to retrieve can be found by searching for filenames or the various file metadata.

What reserves? The article is about parents who don't have reserves because they're already drowning in debt.

From what I can tell by looking at the IACUC membership lists for various institutions, it's completely normal to have almost all members of these committees come from the same institution.

For example, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there are only two non-affiliated members out of an IACUC member list of 21 people.

https://animalcare.illinois.edu/about/institutional-animal-c...

In my opinion, this Reuters article is another manifestation of the anti-Musk media bias that preys on the ignorance of your average person who won't know that this IACUC structure is entirely par for the course.

By not censoring state media accounts that proves he's not a free speech absolutist?

>wire fraud laws

The famously overbroad laws that get abused by prosecutors in cases like Aaron Schwartz facing 35 years for downloading files.

>violating some anti-terror legislation

Like the Patriot act?

>the bill isn't really pointed towards VPNs

Funny how the laws always give the government absolute power, and then everyone has to just hope that no government from here into the future in perpetuity will ever use the rest of the overbroad authority.

They could have easily narrowed the scope of the language if they wanted. It didn't have to be written to be so broad.

When a government official doesn't abide by his own lockdown rules, that's corruption.

>luxury crop

Almonds are luxury?

The "who" is pretty easy - it's corporate media outlets: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...

As academia rushes to mint an army of PhDs in the burgeoning new mis/disinformation programs, they're learning that "de-bunking" doesn't actually work, and it often makes the situation worse. I'm not sure the "pre-bunking" will do any better but at least they're trying to change the strategy.

Russia invaded another country and yet 91% of firms operating in that country continue to do so, despite the supposedly crippling sanctions.

https://www.politico.eu/article/majority-of-western-companie...

Why would a comparatively insignificant transgression like this raid scare off investors?

>My point is that a million makers on a million joycons couldn't generate enough commercially viable content for a single game. So what hope does GPT have?

Your criticism is that the AI doesn't create new game functionality, even though it doesn't have access to create new game functionality?

That's an artificially impossible bar you're setting for the AI. Maybe if it did have access to create new functionality it would be able to?

It'll be like any other product. They'll have to develop usage policies as they mature.

>cosmologists have consistently, over decades, insisted, in public, that they knew more than they did

Exactly, and each time the theories are proven wrong, it's explained as a never-ending series of "oddities", yet the theories are never altered in any meaningful way other than ad-hoc additions to explain each "oddity".

At some point there needs to be a reckoning that, for instance, the current theories of star formation are essentially completely wrong.

It's basically unenforceable too. Which is always a bad start for any law/regulation.

You can invest in any asset for speculative reasons, not just commodities.