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SoCal has water?

Us alcohol products unavailable in most of Canada. So there’s a fair bit of export gone missing. And European response is probably reducing demand for us product in favour of their own.

Bit short of water, though…

It’s not a democracy, at best it’s a monarchy but more likely it’s a kleptocracy. There’s far too much of a chance that the American experiment has failed, killed off by its own judicial and legislative organs.

Great! Rather than mucking about with meatbags, companies can hire AI to do all the work with no health insurance costs or overtime concerns. The meatbags can go do whatever they do somewhere else.

If AI works, there’s going to be a real die-off amongst developers. And the commercial software business will be slaughtered. Unfortunately, if management THINKS AI works, they’ll kill off their staff. Going to be a sucky time to be a hacker and user. Reduced opportunity and bloated crappy software that has consistency problems.

And we’re living in a consumer economy. Kill off mid to high salaries and you kill off demand. Unless AI buys the toys.

This might be sensible, indicating a shift from "pure" CS into fields that profit from strong CS/Computer interaction? If generating-software is going to be automated, that should facilitate fields that use software. Similarly, and perhaps worryingly for the EE's, generating-hardware automation might follow as it's better defined than, say, biology.

They're not seeing a loss of students, so there's interest in studies, but perhaps a shift in what's considered employable. Interesting that there's no mention of science or PhD - I assume ETH offers the former and I've been in groups in ancient times that offer the latter.

Similar arguments from Alberta re funding and assisting separatist movements to peel the province away from Canada. Small things are easier to digest.

I assume this discussion is in cs or maybe math? In chemistry, a thesis can be viewed as one’s papers stapled together with connecting exposition. Each paper/chapter is some kind of experimental or experimental/theoretical work that’s novel. And release from the PhD program occurs when there’s a sufficient body of work.

While ai might or will get involved in the theory or descriptive portions, there’s a whole lot of lab work that isn’t easily automated and which doesn’t lie in the current body of knowledge. New ways to make stuff at the bench, or new stuff made at the bench. These are what gets people their organic phd’s. Some schools are sufficiently complex and endowed to include medchem work which proposes and makes new drug matter. In these cases, theses will be large and representative of pushing the state of the art forward.

Without some kind of testing you have no way of catching errors or problems that arise without any effort on your part. Things like compiler or os changes, network or other environmental issues or platform changes. Gotta have checking before the user clicks…

There’s a difference between “able to receive” vs. “receive a useful amount”. As I recall they tally one’s contributions when determining payment. But like all government systems it can probably be gamed.

FWIW, social security and Medicare taxes are noticeably higher in the US than Canada. Pay more get more.

Just a reminder... Social Security requires 40 quarters (ie, 10 years) of income to even qualify for a pension. And the pension is based on what you earn, which is what you pay into the system.

I've written it elsewhere but I'm going to write it again. Somehow, work to enjoy today as well as to save for tomorrow. If you wait for things, you might not be able to physically able to do what you want to do, or the people you want to do it with might not be there. If you don't save you might not have the resources.

Enjoy every sandwich is a nice, mildly flippant way of saying that one should enjoy every moment. You only get so many and you don't know how many that is. Jackson Browne's For A Dancer also addresses this.

And in the end, it's never enough.

Last time I checked, country xxx laws tended to have priority in country xxx as compared to those from country yyy. Treaties, I think, end up being integrated into country law in some fashion.

Gotta be some personal gain here as Canadian potash isn’t tariffed into the us. It’s going to come out of Russia and I hope the holds are waterproof.

Fwiw, non us businesses have the same problem trying to ship to the us. It’s how governments want to roll now and how they generate counter actions.

Locked behind firewall. Is the author saying the young lack the imagination to read or at least to see analogies? Are they saying that there's insufficient stimulation on the written or typed page? Or that people today are too passive to engage in reading, merely receiving video?

Lock everything down and everybody's going to stop reading cuz they're not going to pay for the text and they're not going to hack their way in. And if AI is generating said text, it's going to be wordy.

STEM is really a pastiche. Things one looks for in CS aren't the same as what's looked for in a Science program. It's way easier, for example, to see whether the person has a BS Chemistry degree (which has predefined requirements) than checking each course to see whether it's for majors or for poets or for pre-meds. I suspect it's similar in Physics, and Biology has the problem of being the safety major for pre-xxx types. Or at least it used to be.

Given the lab requirements, there's little undergraduates at uni can do in Science. They can participate in a paper, but they spend a lot of time trying not to hurt each other and develop some kinds of lab skills. And if they're p-chem or theoretical, they might not even get lab skills (more engineering). Some schools offer their lab-oriented majors the chance to intern at a biotech/pharma, and THAT has a major impact on hire-ability. But w/o the PhD, they're headed for lab tech.

For CS, on the other hand, you can build entire systems independent of attending uni. So yeah, what-you-have-done is usually more significant than what-did-you-study. Given this, trying to wedge Science and Technology together really isn't useful. Didn't some of the techbros call uni a waste of key programming years? Similar to how footy views uni vs. youth programs.

If US-ians stop cutting checks to Alberta oil companies, the trade deficit goes away. Get cracking on the cracking and get those drillers into Venezuela. I guess one can't have trade deficits with colonies, er, states?

Us/Canada had a nice free trade deal signed by the current prez in his first term. Pity said prez is ignoring it. Hasn’t left the agreement, just ignoring it. And nobody bothers to point that out and how he’s breaking us law to do so (ratified treaty).

People with complementary positions facing shared difficulties have been known to work together. As Franklin said, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." And there's no guarantee that the current US approach to other countries will change in the (near) future.

I think they could pay 0.20 - 0.50 dollars higher at Target or a different bulk store.

"Cheap goods" is quite a problem, as basically the US, possibly all of North America loves their cheap Walmart items. Screw how they were made... They're usually the cheapest. Replace "Walmart" with whatever large box store goes lowest price as appropriate.

Let them have their minority government and see what they table for consideration. From their actions, people will judge them.

The won because people think complex problems have simple, untried solutions that are common sense. They hate "them", they're stoked on (social) media. They feel put upon and denied their rewards. Same old, same old with more effective communication paths.

It doesn’t help that there’s no local contribution once the thing’s built. A few people taking care of the machines and power generators. Probably no local tax contribution to speak of. And the things support a worldwide or countrywide customer base so the locals won’t see a difference due to the machine in their back yard vs one 1000 miles away.

And they’ll have to pay for the load on their utilities and air as it runs. Possibly noise as well. NIMBY makes sense for these things outside of remote sites with lots of natural power and water.

Alberta is the most US-like province. As it's not been hit by Trump tariffs, it opposes any change to the current situation. As it's based on oil revenue (with some food production), of course it opposes renewable energy sources. Bit selfish, it is.

I wonder how loud they'd yowl if "no trade with Canada" gores their ox?

If this includes healthcare and non college teaching, it’s not surprising. If it includes ai-induced layoffs, there’s few women there. So without context it’s just bs on Twitter.

This result should be kept in mind by all those techbros saying they're going to fix the drug discovery business, make it efficient and get things cranking out in 18 months. Sometimes, the dog dies. Sometimes, the model isn't quite close enough to the problem. Sometimes, they find there's a second mechanism that reveals itself at the wrong time.

Blackmailing oneself is an interesting development. Does saying "yes" or "no" hurt more? Isn't think one of the jokes in Blazing Saddles?

Of course they do. They seem allergic to salaried labour, and those who participate in it. They're all NPC's to them.