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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Do puts count as an investment? I'd be confident in some reddit puts.
I hope they go public, their decline is my next get rich quick scheme.

Edit: theyre to their lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lol, if the valuations low, more people can afford it!
-Spez probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If only we had strong provincial governments that were actually working together with the federal government, we could actually see some positive change. They could easily put a cap on gas prices, which ultimately would be tax dollars paying the difference in flux, but they would actually have a vested interest in scrutinizing the changes closely. Gas companies would actually have someone they needed to justify an increase to that has the power to refuse. It's not hard to bamboozle 40 million people with a 2 cent/litre increase every other week, we all have to drive to work. It is hard to bamboozle the tax man.

That said, it would also be easier if they colluded for them to drive up profits and hide the fleecing in our taxes. I guess it would depend on who was in power.

Also Suncor got hacked. Not seeing it much in the news outside of a couple articles. So we can expect gas prices to be effected by that, fun timing with legislation that will supposedly have an effect on prices. How much will be column A and how much column B, I wouldn't put it past what passes for journalism here to push it all onto the legislation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I guess there's the idea that all press is good press. People who didn't know reddit existed now likely do and they might just check it out to see what the hullabaloo is about. They might not even be internet savvy enough to suspect bot conversations are a real thing.

It's a website that gets paid in traffic, and we're giving people a reason to continue being traffic, and potentially increasing their traffic. We just fed the machine.

The best thing we can do is just stop using it. Making the protests fun is only going to help reddit. They're not negotiating, they've made their decision already, they're not going to back down on it and even if they did some decisions have consequences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Canada is a very progressive place it seems

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think there's a problem with people wanting a fully developed brand new technology right out the gate. The cell phones of today didn't happen overnight, it started with a technology that had limitations and people innovated.

AI is a technology that has limitations, people will innovate it. Hopefully.

I think my favorite potential use case for AI is academics. There are countless numbers of journal articles that get published by students, grad students and professors, and the vast majority of those articles don't make an impact. Very few people read them, and they get forgotten. Vast amounts of data, hypotheses and results that might be relevant to someone trying to do something good, important or novel but they will never be discovered by them. AI can help with this.

Of course there's going to be problems that come up. Change isn't good for everyone involved, but we have to hope that there is a net good at the end. I'm sure whoever was invested in the telegram was pretty choked when the phone showed up, and whoever was invested in the carrier pigeon was upset when the telegram showed up. People will adapt, and society will benefit. To think otherwise is the cynical take on the same subject. The glass is both half full and half empty. You get to choose your perspective on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Firby I'm sad, play despacito

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ibuprofen + acetaminophen at the same time.

Alternate ice and heat in 15 min intervals. You can get an electric heating pad they work well. Lay on the floor to do it.

Get a firm mattress. If that's out of your immediate price range, sleep on a folded blanket or a mat on the floor. Your shoulders might get cranky, but it will be relief on your back.

Walk.

Bend at the knees for everything.

Light stretching, nothing that puts an unsupported load on your lower back.

Ab exercises. Planking is your friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yup, not enough med-school slots, not enough doctors to teach more med-school classes, not enough hospitals to employ more staff back when staffing them wasn't the problem. These issues have been decades in the making and there's now no easy fix. If provinces had kept pace with medical infrastructure this wouldn't be an issue today.

Eventually we're going to end up paying the bill to get caught up, at a premium, with interest, at inflated prices, with money that doesn't exist because instead of saving anything they gave it all away in tax cuts and subsidies. They'll blame it all on Chretien probably.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I vaguely remember hearing something about redhat in the past doing something else the Linux community didn't like. I think it was back around 2008ish. Can anyone jog my memory? I was a bit too young to care at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

When I came over I tried lemmy.world and it just didn't work, wouldn't log in. So I wound up on kbin. As far as I can tell, from a user perspective it doesn't matter which instance you land on, I can see all the content from all the instances in federation and engage as I see fit, as long as they stay connected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
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