Gating should be done either by ZKP (zero-knowledge proofs, which don’t expose any information to any party other than “I’m at least x years old” – look this up if this is a new concept to you) or device-side by standardizing and streamlining child safety locks.

100%. If a government is truly serious about the issue, then verification can be solved quite easily with ZKPs in a way that preserves privacy.

Such databases already exist in the government, in order to provide services to everyone like healthcare, pension, elections, etc…

I don’t feel it’s elaborate at all. I like these solutions because they are actually quite simple. It’s just signing and verifying requests using asymmetric key cryptography, techniques which are known to be robust and secure. The government never knows which web services you are verifying for, and the web services never know your identity or any more information than they need to. They don’t even learn your precise age, just that you’re over 16/18/21 whatever.

If you mean I have to install Claude’s software on my own computer, no thanks.

I’ve noticed this too, it’s hilarious(ly bad).

Especially with image generation, which we were using to make some quick avatars for a D&D game. “Draw a picture of an elf.” Generates images of elves that all have one weird earring. “Draw a picture of an elf without an earing.” Great now the elves have even more earrings.

Even worse, the ones I’ve evaluated (like Claude) constantly fail to even compile because, for example, they mix usages of different SDK versions. When instructed to use version 3 of some package, it will add the right version as a dependency but then still code with missing or deprecated APIs from the previous version that are obviously unavailable.

More time (and money, and electricity) is wasted trying to prompt it towards correct code than simply writing it yourself and then at the end of the day you have a smoking turd that no one even understands.

LLMs are a dead end.

He did say he’s anti-woke

This is just how he tries to make deals. Spook people into freaking out and hastily agreeing to a bad deal. This is one of those moments where I’m glad it’s Carney at the helm. I don’t need him to be perfect I just need him to steer our country through this mess so we can come out the other side intact.

If there is an other side.

Ten years ago, twenty years ago, Tim’s was always rubbish. The coffee is battery acid and the food is unfit for human consumption. I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t shit.

I don’t get the point of these stupid articles. Canada needs to spend a lot more on military. A lot more. The only question is whether tagging it to GDP is enough or we need to do more.

We just need to be smarter about how we spend it. Canada has a huge territory with a small population, so efficiency is key.

You’re definitely overthinking this. IF such a deal was made, and that’s a massive if, the treaty would spell out exactly what happens to the people living on the land and those details would be points of negotiation.

Frankly the ideas of the other commenters that they would only be granted PR are ridiculous.

If we annex a chunk of land then we need accept the residents as our citizens. The finer details are an open question for treaty negotiations. I would guess there are requirements like it only applies to US citizens whose primary residence is within the territory at the time of signing the treaty, or at the time the handover occurs, or something in between. Maybe the residents have a choice: exchange American citizenship for Canadian, or keep American and get Canadian PR.

These questions are easily solvable but exactly how they’re solved is up to Ottawa and Washington. I doubt the US would ever give this land to Canada though, they will want something in exchange.

Stop using Adblock Plus and start using Firefox with uBlock Origin.

If you’re on iOS, swallow your pride and install Brave and just turn off the crypto features. You’ll thank me later.

You recall correctly. The Alberta premier proposed it, and it’s something they included in the Alberta bill of rights earlier in the 70s.

Without the notwithstanding clause the Charter would restrict the provinces’ legislative freedom and give the federal justices greater powers than the provincial representatives, when one of the defining features of the Westminster system is that of parliamentary sovereignty or supremacy. In the British system, parliament has the right to make or unmake any law.

The current situation is like a compromise between having an enforceable written bill of rights and respecting the sovereignty of the provincial legislatures. Without the clause the provinces would never have agreed to the constitution.

I’m in Tokyo and pay $40 for 10gig fibre… actual speed is about 6-7gig up and down.

Speed cameras need to be accompanied by roads that are designed to physically calm traffic.

I used to drive a lot in London, and there are speed cameras all over the place there, and it certainly helps when they are ubiquitous, but what really makes people slow down are the narrow, curved and winding roads.