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Waymo seems to have much better PR than Cruise. For example, a Waymo killed someone's dog recently which hasn't been mentioned here at all: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023…

I'm not sure if the economic angle is convincing, since Canada spends over $300B a year on healthcare [0]. Are you suggesting MAID was introduced to save "as much as" 0.03% of heal…

One nit: you can actually transition directly to permanent residency from TN status. The only challenge is that after you file, you can't leave the US! That's why, as you explained…

Don't believe that using an external device helps -- the TV can detect what content is being played by sampling the video stream and creating a fingerprint. They can compare to liv…

Rampant property theft and homelessness in SF predated Chesa Boudin and the ballot initiative the article mentions. I’m not convinced that changing those two things will be a panac…

It really is as bad as it sounds. A couple anecdotes: - Some people without homes pitched a tent on the sidewalk nearby, blocking the sidewalk. The city has a moratorium on clearin…

All this presupposes that what the AG has written is correct, and that what happened was actually illegal. Generally a court of law decides that. Since none of this has been proven…

The area around the port of long beach is rather dense residential, so in order to preserve views the city limited the height of container stacks. > "These provisions, which have b…

You’re right, sorry!

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. The War Measures Act [0] is a law that grants government powers in times of war or insurrection. There was, you guess it, an ins…

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> Our vaccine acquisition strategy was a disaster Not sure if the facts agree with you here. Canada had, at one point, the largest number of vaccines on order per capita from a num…

Clubhouse lets you collect payments to join some channels. Isn’t KYC reasonable in that case? Re: Age Verifications on Google & YouTube: this has been covered well elsewhere. Googl…

It works this way often in (north-east) Asia. Double-tap a selected floor and it unselects. Brilliant.

Interestingly the "City of London" is a specific thing that has surprising meaning [0], but used here I think it is a metonym for the financial / banking sector of the British econ…

Seems like buying more data for the LTE modems already in the cars would be easier / cheaper path than building a fleet of novel satellites and launching them into space?

> It has forcibly sterilised some Uyghur women Forced sterilisation is a form of genocide [0] [0] https://asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/Publications/Compen...

It is not the number of pardons that is unusual (and it’s unsurprising that this administration has done less work than previous ones), but the sense that these pardons are so clea…

> It protects the outgoing administration from political persecution Aren’t pardons generally given post-conviction? How can it be a tool to protect against an incoming administrat…

Did you read the article? Or are you just regurgitating to Fox News talking points? Sweden - on both health and economic measures - has fared nearly as worse as the United States (…

As great as its image, in my view Whole Foods just isn't that great of a grocery store. They were out of ground pork the other day and the staff at the butcher counter insisted the…

I'm not American but you're off-base here. Sure, if you already have another western passport an American passport may not buy you much. But if you go to Asia or Africa, you'll fin…

Yes but... and I'm sorry to point out the obvious, but these executives haven't been murdered by Persians. They've just been paid a relatively trivial amount to do their jobs for a…

Generally it’s the shareholders approving these payments. It’s in their interest, and perhaps in the interest of the creditors as well, to have a competent management team who know…