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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?

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

"My kids grew up under 24/7 adulting and had nowhere to go."

Yes but this has nothing to do with cars. What are you even protecting kids from anyway?

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

You think there wernt cars when I was a kid? I lived in the subs. Kid utopia!

Can you imagine bringing up cars in this thread?

petermcneeleyon Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)

You know what we are talking about. It was written in the book.

petermcneeleyon Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

They have played us all for absolute fools!

petermcneeleyon South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools

The catholic church fought the printing press for hundreds of years. Lets see how long our rulers fight the internet.

petermcneeleyon Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU

WebGPU (WGSL) handles this by having a specified accuracy for each operation.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/#concrete-float-accuracy

This is all fully tested in the CTS.

https://gpuweb.github.io/cts/standalone/?q=webgpu:shader,*

petermcneeleyon It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

Isnt the reason to by a Framework (or similar) because you would not want to be part of Apple's ecosystem? Why would benchmarks even matter here?

petermcneeleyon Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

esp when the number is capped at only 64 bits which is quite small for some bigInt style numbers.

petermcneeleyon United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark

Sure but 911 was in 2001 when fully digital cameras were not common place.

petermcneeleyon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

Really makes you wonder about other things as well...

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

I dont know who this Group is but it all sounds very schmittian.

It is not my role to convince someone of anything. I have to much respect for the human for that.

You, as human, should seek out the truth in your time and not turn away from it.

So you mentioned the 'truckers'. Here [0] is the truth in your time. I will make no attempt trick you into holding position.

Finally to complete the picture you should understand that the Carney government was recently formed in opposition to the democratic voice of the people. It was formed by nullifying the votes of the electorate. Everyone on all sides know this was a deeply immoral act. One has to ask what kind of leader is this?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307892

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Come now, that's just the cognitive dissonance talking.

I'm your huckleberry.