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I believe you, and I would rather live in a larger town myself. However, I think that on this front, Canada compares very well to the US, France, the UK, Brazil, China, and Japan (…

Nice baiting there Jcowell, well played. No country in the world is perfect. Canada is still near the top of the list when it comes to safety and quality of life. It's true that ma…

Here in Canada we've had BLM protests, "defund the police" and "ACAB". I don't really understand. As far as I'm concerned Canada is about as close to a utopia as you can get on thi…

Maybe we could build laptop cases out of carbon fiber and get the best of both worlds? Or at least make laptop cases easier to open for servicing, with standard screws and no plast…

It seems a lot of the marketing for PC cases and hardware is targeted at young teenage boys 10-16. I wanted to buy a computer case for my mom, and I couldn't find an affordable one…

But this would force your laptop to be a whole 1.8cm thick! Unthinkable!

The original promise of bitcoin was that it would actually be useful as a currency, for buying stuff. Now that this hasn't panned out, and the problems preventing BTC from being us…

> The evolution of organisms that gene mishmash (aka sexual reproduction) is thought to be the result of an ongoing arms race between gene sequences that "try" to stay unchanged (i…

> It's like taking a random byte sequence from some binary, shoving it randomly into another, and the new binary gets useful new features. If you think about it for a moment, our g…

Isn't the US already a net exporter of oil at the moment?

We all need to transition to renewable energy. It's not good for Canada to become more invested in the oil economy, just as electric cars, trucks and renewables are starting to boo…

Is that how it works in Singapore? I know in China you lease land from the government for 50 or 100 years. I do think it's important to be open to ideas, and I think there probably…

IMO we should probably reduce taxes on house builders. Maybe even give them tax exemptions. Do what we can to increase supply. Speculators wanting to buy a house, redo the kitchen,…

I edited my comment, I had written "permanent resident", when what I actually meant was just "resident".

Maybe? They are a luxury for the upper middle class, and you could easily rent one the same way you rent an airbnb. Those holiday homes do need to belong to someone though, so I su…

Yes I agree, I meant residency requirement, requiring that people live in a country for at least 6 months before buying a house, which could be done on a work or student visa.

I agree that we need to stop treating houses as investments, because they're a basic fundamental need everyone has. IMO, the problem could be fixed by having stricter laws prohibit…

I would say you can make your text easier to understand by a large audience by avoiding very rare words that many people don't understand, and sticking to common phrasings. That wi…

That's how I organized my work in grad school. I basically worked when I felt like it. Some weeks that was 80 hours, others just 20, following the natural flow of my motivation. I …

It's not necessarily the "have nots" who jump on the bandwagon. Many of these mob inciters are clearly middle class or upper middle class. I've even seen news anchors participate, …

There's a perception in the DL field that encoding things into rules is bad, and that symbolic AI as a whole is bad. Probably because of backlash following the failure of symbolic …

IMO a part of the problem here is that you have a misunderstanding on the part of deep learning people. They look at radiology, and they say "these people are just interpreting the…

When I went to high school, I remember having to take philosophy schools, and we went into the art of debate, etc. How to argue about different viewpoints without getting emotional…