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Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

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They would have to make a free chat interface that uses Chinese models. It isn't about the technical implementation, it's about the interface and the ease of use.

why? I'd bet there aren't that many people that would riot if they couldn't use chatgpt anymore.

Because if you want people to use a thing you have to make it appealing. Otherwise they won't.

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Europe/Canada should ban chatgpt/anthropic and say "ok we will use chinese models for our vibe coding I guess" and watch the stock market implode overnight. Remenber when they tried to ban non-US citizens from using Fable? best to remove that sword of damocles now regardless

They would have to make a free chat interface that uses Chinese models. It isn't about the technical implementation, it's about the interface and the ease of use.

Don't most (all?) such models have homepages with free interfaces?

https://www.kimi.com/en

https://qwen.ai/home

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Europe/Canada should ban chatgpt/anthropic and say "ok we will use chinese models for our vibe coding I guess" and watch the stock market implode overnight. Remenber when they tried to ban non-US citizens from using Fable? best to remove that sword of damocles now regardless

They would have to make a free chat interface that uses Chinese models. It isn't about the technical implementation, it's about the interface and the ease of use.

That might have been the case two years ago, but there is no shortage of decent open source solutions that meet or exceed most business use cases. I am sure some enterprising consulting firm will come along and offer integration of those + Canada located inference infra + OSS models (Chinese, or otherwise). I know that there is at least one Canadian inference provider, Augure, but I haven't tried them yet, as well as a few actual model developers in Canada.

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No need to make violating American copyright legal. Just remove their equivalent of the DMCA. I can't understand why there isn't a single country that did that.

There are some. America conquered them and reversed it.

Really? Which ones?

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Won’t work out well for either side, namely citizens and leadership aside. Wearing my forecasting hat… Canada holding $200 billion in USA treasuries, one of the largest exporters of oil into the USA, and integrated supply chains for everyday goods. A fast and painful price shock is coming for every average American. Canada has and will continue to be very dependent on the USA. No amount of new trade partners can chan…

Australian beef is cheaper than Canadian beef, in Canada, the ocean is not the obstacle.

I'm a dual Australian / Canadian citizen. I'm disappointed Australia hasn't been more active in their support for Canada. Commonwealth countries should be sticking together.

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I know that this is insanely complex with everybody protecting their own economies, but I think this is where middle powers working together more strongly could help. Imagine that Canada, the EU, and Britain worked together as an economic NATO, where a tariff attack on one is a tariff attack on all. It would hurt the US much more to bully one of these economies.

UK used to have that kind of protection up until a few years ago, but they decided it was not worth it.

They were tricked into throwing it away.

Re: Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

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As a Canadian, I am willing to suffer if it means long term benefits. Carney is very popular for a reason.

You sure? Canada's economy is struggling as is. The healthcare system is holding on by a thread. You ready for unemployment to double? If there is a significant recession, tax reciepts go down and healthcare spending gets further cut.

Such exaggeration.

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Not absolutely everything. You can make a very strong negative claim without hyperbole, and be a more trusted source in the process.

Genuinely interested in understanding why you need this level of precision. To me it would seem you are removing some abstraction and getting to the details. If this something common in your line of work? E.g. in your peers? If that's the case, would you mind sharing the field you're active in? Do you have a hunch why you would need this level of detail e.g. Education, culture?

Because labelling all policies as negative by association isn't an actual evaluation of the merit of the policy. If you mark all policies as bad because they must all be bad, you're almost certainly excluding good policies from future consideration. Is not the goal good policies?

Re: Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

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I get it, but tariffs will only make things more expensive for Canadians, too. I've got a better idea. 1) Repeal all DMCA-like laws. Make it explicitly legal to break a digital lock to repair a device, run custom code, install third-party parts, or just tinker and hack with your own devices and software. 2) Ban parts-pairing. Prohibit manufacturers (looking at you Apple & John Deere,) from using cryptographic seriali…

What about export tariffs instead?

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Just at the right time when China is looking to expand its exports. People said that Trump was Putin's stooge, but he might have been Xi's. I'm concerned that governments worldwide are finding tarrifs to be a popular (and exciting!) way to exorbitantly increase the size of governments and goverment coffers which are then used for populist aims. We need to re-educate people that tarrifs are bad.

You think the tarrifs proceeds are going in the government coffers? Trump is officially billions richer since he became president for a second term. Officially.

They said, 'governments worldwide'.
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