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petermcneeleyon The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150

Who is today's Tom Sawyer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gztabfs5ngA

petermcneeleyon Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

If your bitcoin is on someone else's computer its not your bitcoin.

petermcneeleyon Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

When did I mention america?

petermcneeleyon Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

The meta analysis on this is is quite interesting HN tends to have a positive opinion on modern Canada. They then find it difficult to understand why it moves towards a tech dystopia.

How will these HNers square the circle of their cognitive dissonance.

Read the above to find out!

petermcneeleyon Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

Dont many of the LLMs have smaller sub expert models inside?

petermcneeleyon Ask HN: Why does steam mobile app guard itself

LOL

petermcneeleyon Ask HN: Why does steam mobile app guard itself

Then it logs me out of my computer that was logged in and then when I log in it says approve it on the mobile app but the flow is gone.

So then I go to use a code but it is not clear where the codes come from on the mobile app as it instead wants to take picture of the QR code.

Is this peak software development?

petermcneeleyon Ask HN: Why does steam mobile app guard itself

Then afterwords it give me a code to "never share with anyone". Is this more peak software development?

petermcneeleyon Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

Cool! this is turning out as dystopian as we imagined.

petermcneeleyon Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

What you are suggesting combined with current policy directions (both in US and Canada) will mean the end of the Canadian automotive manufacturing sector.

With the introduction of imports from China it will mean that Canada does not even supply itself domestically.

What are the economic consequences to Canada for the destruction of potentially hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs. And maybe more specifically to Canadians?

The regime in charge of Canada is anti resource development (not just even oil). While they may be considering a change in tune there is a clear history of this. Why would the regime that has brought Canada to this state lead Canada to the promise land?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/carney-warning-fossil-fuel-...

Canada does not actually have much real industry to speak of. One merely needs to look at the top 10 largest companies in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_C...

This is an extremely weak economy that has a significant dependency on resources but with a regime that is anti resource extraction.

Canada is a decade into its 40 years wander of the desert.

petermcneeleyon Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

Where does Canada get its gas? Imagine if that place pulled the plug.

petermcneeleyon Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

> force retirement funds to invest massively here

wot? Funds for peoples retirements should be invested to maximize their return. They shouldnt be "forced" to invest in ... whatever is happening here.

petermcneeleyon Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

Something is thick indeed!

I think your mistake is that you think im American. I am Canadian. So when I look at the EU I ask what is in it for me?

And from Canada's perspective it is not "high".

I mean if Canada was joining America this might be relevant (debatable). But look at how kick ass Canada is. We have euro lifestyle while still not being Americans.

So again, I dont know if you understand this perhaps you dont know or understand other things.

petermcneeleyon Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

Canada

Breakdown by Gender Women: Average life expectancy is 84.29 years. Men: Average life expectancy is 80.30 years

Breakdown by Gender Women: 84.1 years Men: 78.9 years

If you dont know or understand this perhaps you dont know or understand other things.

petermcneeleyon Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

Shacked to a corpse! Europe where is your NVIDIA, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, OpenAI, SpaceX ... You have high power cost, high electric cost, high taxes; What fertile soil!

petermcneeleyon The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

Ya people have no idea how big Africa truly is

Here is the UK in Africa: https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTAyODQ3Nzg.NTkyNDI2Nw*...

Note of course this includes Scotland! The traditional English are basically a dot.

petermcneeleyon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

It is all facts my friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_C...

https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/canada/usa?sc=X...

https://www.remitly.com/blog/en-ca/travel/weather-in-the-uni...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trudeau-cabinet-mini...

https://jhyndman.info.yorku.ca/files/2017/01/Size.pdf

I would recommending giving it a good hard think. What is it that you really think? Where do those thoughts come from?

petermcneeleyon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

I think you are a bit confused about the world so let me help you out.

Most of Canada is difficult to live in. There are multiple geographic issues (cold/less sun). This is why a vast majority of Canadians live very close to the US border. So while Canada looks like a very large country it is in fact rather small when it comes to habitable space. You are probably not aware of how miserable the east coast is.

Next Canada is a poor country. The richest part of Canada is that part that sells the oil. The rest of Canada is poorer than the poorest US state. Canada GDP capital is not doing well. Mostly going down. Not a good trend. Food inflation etc. On top of that housing in Canada is very expensive. Canada has no ability to expand.

Canada has virtually no companies. All our companies are either banks or like mining companies. No tech and soon no manufacturing. Taxes in Canada are very high but they mostly go into a giant black hole of corruption.

Trudeau wasnt really in charge of the country. He is literally a nepobaby Carney was his adviser for years. The cabinet of Trudeau actually has some of the same people. This is continuity of the same group of elite.

Canada finds it very difficult to grow which is why all the new immigrants ended up in the large cities. These cities are poor and corrupt so they cant grow either. So everything ends up super crowded.

Now focusing on the rather silly things you have said:

" But you'd never believe it, the criticism is that this is too many people, and not many people criticise this "Iniative" as having an unambitious goal"

Were people criticizing it for lack of ambition if not then this is just a red herring. Ambition does not make a project or idea good.

"you would admit that that the past is not the future before making that argument. "

I mean all argumentation and prediction relies on looking at the past and trying to guess how the future will turn out.

In conclusion: Try to understand the nature of the world in a more clear fashion. Look around you. Look at data. Avoid the rhetoric and the politics.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-out-of-nowh...

petermcneeleyon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

It is strange how few understand this. Its as they think that what is required is the right structure or set of rules.

They probably dont know that most countries have the exact same political structures with radically different outcomes.

petermcneeleyon PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

Yawn. Can you imagine 2026 and people are still into climate change. You are like 3 seasons out of fashion.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

petermcneeleyon PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

Probably the most evil PMs that we have ever had. Literally a international banker! Its like electing the monopoly man lol.

petermcneeleyon PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

Low balling it is about 10 billion a year CAD in electricity. That is assuming full uptime which is not realistic. It is also going to take several years before these projects complete.

I think the ROI is better than 5% even if you include a variety of factors. Of course if the budgets go >> 70 billion then likely it is a poor investment.

petermcneeleyon The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US

One can post practically anything to HN it doesnt have to be just purely about technology.

petermcneeleyon At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

Only some kinds ticks carry Lyme disease. Sadly I tried the e-Tick identification system and it was beyond useless.

petermcneeleyon Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Were did bill gates mother work?

petermcneeleyon Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Clarification. None of the silicon valley elite were ever "normies". I would guess most of them come from the top > %1 of society. This is just a rival elite not a non-elite.

petermcneeleyon Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

The speech might be judged socially but the punishment is always economic.

petermcneeleyon Coding a Brick Tower [video]

As a general technique yes. Less so as "create a model or entire world out of an sdf equation."

Btw to me this is one of the best of IQ: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf

petermcneeleyon Coding a Brick Tower [video]

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/33GyRV

It runs at 10fps on my gen12 intel at fullscreen. These techniques are cute but limited.

petermcneeleyon VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

What are you afraid of?