Dunno about the user you asked, but I’ve used Bandcamp for that.

That correlates much more closely with agriculture than oil. Compare this map with one for arable land. Lots of the AB, SK, MB area covered in roads are also covered in farms, while large parts of that area does not have significant oil industry.

It’s certainly lower than the 20-30% game distribution platforms take.

I can pretty much guarantee the server & staff costs are more than 1% of sticker price, especially since BC includes streaming services.

This, tbh. I did not have this on my 2025 bingo card…

They also have dev/art teams orders of magnitudes larger than Team Cherry. (I do agree with your sentiment about useless managers and execs, of course.)

Fortunately not. But even in Canada, minimum wage is abysmal.

The federal minimum wage only applies to federally regulated industries, such as telecoms or banking.

https://minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/general.html

I think that’s a bad idea, both legally and ethically. Vehicles cause tens of thousands of deaths - not to mention injuries - per year in North America. You’re proposing that a company who can meet that standard is absolved of liability? Meet, not improve.

In that case, you’ve given these companies license to literally make money off of removing responsibility for those deaths. The driver’s not responsible, and neither is the company. That seems pretty terrible to me, and I’m sure to the loved ones of anyone who has been killed in a vehicle collision.

It’s very worth noting that this kind of a system is actually much more cost efficient than vaccinating the birds. Vaccinating is very expensive when you consider the logistics of injecting the volume of birds we’re talking about. IIRC Canada consumes around a million chickens per week.

Part of this is a debate on what the definition of intelligence and/or consciousness is, which I am not qualified to discuss. (I say “discuss” instead of “answer” because there is not an agreed upon answer to either of those.)

That said, one of the main purposes of AGI would be able to learn novel subject matter, and to come up with solutions to novel problems. No machine learning tool we have created so far is capable of that, on a fundamental level. They require humans to frame their training data by defining what the success criteria is, or they spit out the statistically likely human-like response based on all of the human-generated content they’ve consumed.

In short, they cannot understand a concept that humans haven’t yet understood, and can only echo solutions that humans have already tried.

25% might be what comes off your pay cheque, sure. That’s not actually how much income tax most people end up paying. How big of a refund did you get this year?

Single-payer meducal systems are objectively less expensive than the US’s ludicrous system. Americans pay the highest per-capita for medical care in the developed world by a huge margin. Technically it’s not taxes, but that’s because it’s directly feeding corporate profits. It’s still effectively mandatory cost of living.

Every credit card company charges large fees to the service provider for charge backs. It’s standard practice. This is also leads to service providers straight up perma-banning customers who initiate charge backs instead of resolving a dispute with the provider.

This. This would actually help. I like schadenfreude as much as the next guy, but if all you do is point and laugh then you’re only serving to further isolate these people and leave them vulnerable to the next line of propaganda.

That graph is hilarious. Enormous error bars, totally arbitrary quantization of complexity, and it’s title? “Task time for a human that an AI model completes with a 50 percent success rate”. 50 percent success is useless, lmao.

On a more sober note, I’m very disappointed that IEEE is publishing this kind of trash.

Are there any electric tractors/combines on the market, let alone used ones? I mean industrial sized, not small yard work equipment.

Electrifying farm equipment has huge engineering hurdles. They need a massive amount of power, which would mean very large and incredibly expensive battery packs. Those batteries would take either a long time to charge, or high current charging stations.

During seeding or harvest the machines often run for 16+ hours a day, and are literally out in the middle of a field. Where is the super-fast charging station going to go? They can’t easily travel all the machinery back to home base every night, and there’s no way it makes economical sense for a farm operation to get chargers installed at every field.

These are not necessarily insurmountable problems. There are a number of similarities to trucking, for example, and that’s an industry that’s starting to see electrification now. But the logistical problems are much harder than trucking. The biggest reason that John Deere etc… aren’t making electric tractors right now is that no one would buy one, because no one has any infrastructure in place for it.

Exactly, it’s just regular old enshittification.

While I’m sure the obvious systemic issues contribute to not looking for alternatives, that does sound like largely an issue inherent to optical pulse oximeters. Engineers aren’t miracle workers, they can’t change physics to their liking.

I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago. The fact we’re still using them is because no alternatives have been found which are as easy to use, reliable, and non-invasive as pulse oximeters, even with the known downsides.

… is $1.40 high in Ontario? That’s barely higher than Alberta and Sask. It was ~ $1.60+ before January.