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petermcneeley

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petermcneeley··on Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
It gets much colder than zero. With blinding northern winds. Yes a human can do anything but is it desirable?
petermcneeley··on Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
Yes I agree but in general we dont have infrastructure and it gets much colder. Salt doesnt work at some point so you dont have dry pathways.
petermcneeley··on Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
It is currently -1 to -3 in Montreal and -2 to -7 in Quebec (city). So yes folks literally freezing. It will remain so (down to -35) for the next 4 months.
petermcneeley··on Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest
> 'Most good posts die in /newest, buried under low-quality submissions.'

If the system doesnt work why advocate for it? We are a technical people, dont we have a technical solution?

petermcneeley··on How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining) [video]
Looks like the photochemical part is for the mask. The rest is a applied chemical etch.
petermcneeley··on Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective
I knew as soon as I read this that you are a parent.
petermcneeley··on Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective
Sure but in less than 6 years your 12 year old is a complete adult. You must give them the gift of Adult discipline in that short period of time.

Without that you will get the result in your final sentence.

petermcneeley··on Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective
The word your looking for is Discipline. The way to control babies and animals it to simply take it away from them. This is not the way to control twelve year olds.
petermcneeley··on The internet is no longer a safe haven
The real internet has yet to be invented.
petermcneeley··on Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)
Even if true wiki would escape via fair use and AI would not. It is possible that the laws and judgements are inconsistent nonsense but assuming they are not the fact that wiki has been around for decades suggests at least one key difference.
petermcneeley··on Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)
The implication here of course that if we allow AI to be taken down by copyright then it could also take down Wikipedia. I am not even sure this is close to being true despite the article trying to suggest otherwise.

Perhaps a section on what the differences are might be helpful. For example what role does style play in the summary. I dont think that the summary of wiki is in the style of George R Martin.

petermcneeley··on Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k
How do I know you arnt a CSIS account that targets the chats of those with lived experience in Canada and tries discredit them?
petermcneeley··on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
please dont post the same comment twice
petermcneeley··on Things you can do with diodes
where is this 'extra' heating coming from?
petermcneeley··on Things you can do with diodes
Btw you can try these out online with a circuit simulator

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

petermcneeley··on The great decoupling of labor and capital
Many of these companies have overlapping products and services. If they were to properly combine into a single entity they could probably shed a good fraction of their employees.

Think about it does AMD need to exist at all? Wouldnt NVIDIA be worth more if they didnt exist?

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
I wouldnt suggest PP simply because such partisanship is beneath my intellect.

The bank of Canada (head) again warned about the lack of productivity of the Canadian worker.

I think Canada needs new leadership. Canada has had the same leadership for the last 10 years.

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
I mean if you just control your borders you dont need government investment and support. This is the backwards way of creating tariffs. The problem is that it is asymmentric. A larger country can do that way better than a smaller. Aka they could make their product cost zero if they really want.

I hate to say it but the boondoggles of Canada are just graft. These arent investments in any real sense.

As for this line 'Unfortunately this is the very difficult place the manufacturing sector in Canada finds itself in. And the Canadian working class as a whole.'

look this is just neoliberalism. Maybe stop doing that and things will suck less.

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
Iver heard its 700k total but lets not quibble. The value of economic development is difficult to measure in the mere wages or size of total industry (I mean here we are still definitely talking 10s of billons) It is the total contribution to the complexity of the economy. I think people are extremely confused about economic development because they are trained to view the world as mobile capital.

It might simply be that Canada cannot compete in any market. You have a very interesting choice at this stage. Do you A. not have an economy or B. have an economy that may require some sheltering from the world.

A mobile capitalist wants A. A human that is bound to the country probably wants B.

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
Even if this is the myopic best option at the end you will end up with ... a resource extraction economy. Is that really what you want?
petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
Having your own EV companies (or just own auto company) would. I think you need to think about why you find this confusing.
petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
You will guarantee that there is no EV manufacturing in Canada if you allow for wholesale important of offshore EVs. Just as there is no manufacturing of almost anything else within Canada.

You are literally advocating for something that is against your own desires.

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
Why dont Canadian consumers switch to EVs naturally? Probably because they are more expensive and lack the capacity of existing vehicles. Its not that hard it is simple economics.
petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
'We maintain political independence, and need to maintain that independence.' By allowing EVs from China?

You would think if you wanted to be independent you would have your own EV car company. If EVs are the future and Canada cannot make competitive EVs with china this means Canada will not have an auto sector. Given that there are hundreds of thousands of people working in this area it doesnt actually bode well for Canadians.

I am actually Canadian this is why I am so familiar with the situation.

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
Canada is not really independent of the USA. The better way to view this is that Canada is like California. This is not a battle between countries but an internal civil conflict within the hegemony.

And your reply does not touch on the 'unkind' portion of my comment. Why should those workers suffer more than they already have?

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
The current Canadian prime minister is Mark Carney. He is an international banker. I think you have your answer.

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

petermcneeley··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
This is unkind and also factually wrong.

Canada literally has an EV mandate: https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/innovative-techn...

Canada has also worked on developing an EV industry: https://electricautonomy.ca/ev-supply-chain/manufacturing/20...

petermcneeley··on Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling
Here is another Canadian Gosling that has also found itself south of the border

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

petermcneeley··on Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches
Cheap positioning for construction projects.
petermcneeley··on Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms
The punishment is labour.
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