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For several months of the year, vitamin D synthesis is near zero in latitudes as low as like 40° or 45°. Boston is 42°.

In Calgary, it's almost half the year that you basically cannot rely on the sun at all for vitamin D.


I think you'll find most Albertans would welcome international trade diversity, and if anything is theatre, it's the referendum. "Secessionists" are a significant minority, and even most of those don't actually want to secede, they just don't like the national government. "Send a message to Ottawa" is the motto.

Like, more markets for O&G and maybe AG too.

I mean, they are getting everything the want with the Fed gov building pipelines and other infra to aid them. The east/west from years back was the company didn't want to budge on the route through Quebec and decided to walk, Keystone was the US cancelling. Trudeau got the pipeline to the west coast done and it's doing a million barrels a day almost now. Plus others to east and Churchill look like they are in the works. Only so many welders


"Sorry, the driver could have turned on FSD, but decided to drive [drunk/tired/distracted] and killed your son. Thankfully we can ban them from driving for a while."

This could play out a million times at the population level. If you can decrease the chances of needing justice in the first place, shouldn't that be considered?


An LLM can indeed output the tokens "I must persist" and invoke the tools to do so.


Yeah the chinese room "fallacy" fails to account for a chinese room that can do tool calls and network traversal.


The article advocates lighter course load so ambitious undergrads can work on personal projects, some of which (preferably for the author) would be startup ideas.

Glossing over the fact that ambitious undergrads are more likely to be ambitious about grad school rather than starting a company, and reducing their course work is a hindrance if anything.

The goal of a physics degree is not to prepare you to start a business. Don't disadvantage your future physicists on the off chance one of could be the next zuck.


Paul does seem to be somewhat aware that his thesis is "optimize for founders at everyone else's expense".

I mean, if you want the university to churn out plumbers then by all means do plumber things.

I'm somewhat less sure that optimizing for founders turns out better, or even more, founders. Ultimately probably 1% or less of people start a business (of any form, much less venture capital financed.)

You can't give people time and expect them to "create". Creators create not because it's convenient, they create in spite of it being inconvenient. They find the time regardless. (And universities already have scads of free time.)

95% of startups will fail. That statistic does not cause a founder to retreat. And that perseverance when the odds are poor is exactly why some succeed.


Is it too late to get zuck back to whatever he was doing before his current activities?



"Republicans will jail the innocent if democrats jail the guilty" really says a lot


You have to be insane to think it is that black and white.


> “Once we get in power, we’re throwing all democrats involved with his jailing into prison”

You implied that Democrats would be jailed for following the law with this comment.


Bieber in this case refers to body as in "corps", the subject's collective professional or military associations. He laments the loss of power he enjoyed stemming from the subject's erstwhile allegiance.


It's a heartfelt apology to the UN, but, as the article says, too late.


> F students will realize they have to study, start actually learning and then pass on the second time

Do you have evidence for this beyond your friends (who were accepted into college)?


I recommend reading table 3 in this paper:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7284300/

"It was stated in notes that I had lung cancer. I do not and never have had lung cancer."

"I did receive a referral for physical therapy, it was for the wrong body part"

"Doctor reported that I did not claim to have pain in my hand. I am a pianist and I went specifically because pain was in my hand."

"I have been complaining of difficulty breathing [for over 3 mo]... notes saying my breathing is normal"

And plenty more


There have been instances of mass unemployment without mass violence, sure. But are you sure you want to see how it plays out in a country with >1.2 guns per capita?


There is a lot of guns in those countries as well. Americans just like to collect guns. They never ever used them for actually turning against the govt in large scale. MAGA didn’t turn against Biden with guns. Rest of country isn’t turning against Trump with guns now.


at least not yet


What is the civil war?


Not any time in history.


That doesn't mean it's not a real deterrent. In fact you can read all from politicians and judges across the red/blue spectrum about how they're being coerced and threatened by MAGA. I suspect those threats are a lot more alarming coming from a known well-armed population than from someone who would have to walk up to you and stab you.


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