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    Comment #48492946

    It has not been insulated at all, there are tons of federal immigration pathways made easier for french speaking immigrants. According to this https://www.statista.com/statistics/4…

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    Comment #48491940

    Canada DoS'd its own healthcare. I'm mostly familiar with Quebec but the overextended healthcare system is mainly our own doing, so is housing shortage.

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    Comment #47295131

    Having to put this much effort everytime a new technology comes out is so unproductive. How about have standards for elected officials not to abuse their power? Maybe have an ethic…

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    Comment #45730470

    Then the AI misunderstands you and you end up in a loop of autogenerated responses, or just a "please visit our website for this inquiry."

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    Comment #45308769

    As far as I can tell, the push against immigration in Canada is mainly around unskilled workers (which a lot of TFW are) and asylum seekers, but we will see how this pans out.

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    Comment #41949091

    Most distros use https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy while RHEL uses https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy It's also my experience that Fedora has better support…

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    Comment #41439435

    I used ublock origin to block the overlay and loading indicator. A loading indicator on a website is bad practice anyway imo

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    Comment #40964066

    Housing crisis is more of a political issue than supply/demand i feel like

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    Comment #37421439

    I don't think any non profit should ever refuse money. If they make money from something you disagree with, then taking that money and using it in the scope of your non-profit (whi…

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    Comment #37238011

    What if the bank doesn't allow you to make that transaction? How much delay are you willing to accept? Fees?

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    Comment #36626306

    Python works around this by having multithreading through multiprocessing and IPC. its made pretty easy to use with the futures builtin module but is finicky/slow/hard to support.

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    Comment #36544534

    Considering these loans are non forgivable because of the governement, I think they are responsible for the exponential growth in cost and should bear the blame

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    Comment #36426862

    Having a cursor to access files is mostly legacy no? The difference between memory and storage is getting very small, e.g. ssds and optane

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    Comment #35455279

    The actual tokenizer often does not matter since you can add pre processors/normalizers. I assume they did it like this because capitalization matters in a lot of contexts

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    Comment #35397575

    Or big cloud platform could give some compute for free, give back some of the profit they get from oss.

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    Comment #34449848

    They have eliminated reserve requirement, but there still are capital requirements.

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    Comment #34447300

    Having worked with the same tech, I'd assume this is pretty inexpensive both to train and run. Probably in the low 1000s (maybe even mid 100s?) to train. knn search on 35k entries …

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    Comment #34413023

    Crazy how everyone is sueing stability ai but no one is sueing openai. Is this how society rewards openness? This will just end up with more concentration of power

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    Comment #34207954

    For 25% more time you would expect more than 25% more pay, since the marginal value of your free time grows as it gets shorter

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    Comment #33616954

    That's a very subjective (and I assume unpopular) opinion. Western nations especially do not share you views, with popular addages being "better die on your feet than live on your …

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    Comment #33527548

    Why not use a merkle tree/blockchain? Usually a meme, but seems like a good solution here: every message is a blob containing the mssage and the hash of the previous received blob.…

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    Comment #33351633

    >Most popular Linux distributions generate initrds locally, and they are unsigned, thus not protected through SecureBoot (since that would require local SecureBoot key enrollment, …

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    Comment #33219904

    The license doesn't apply to the copyright owner afaik

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    Comment #33146428

    Glucose is stored as glycogen in the liver/muscles and is used during intense exercise afaik. So you might be right