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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

  • Hong Kong's last opposition party votes to disband under China pressure

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  • I think the Republicans really like having the Democrats as their opposition party. Or at least they would if they put even the slightest thought into it, which most of them probably don't.

  • SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years

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  • A technology I've been eagerly anticipating for many, many years now. It still sounds like it's in the "Real Soon Now, honest!" Phase though:

    In the next 18 months, the company hopes to have a field-deployable read device that customers can use to read archived data. But SPhotonix isn't presently targeting the consumer market. Kazansky estimates that the initial cost of the read device will be about $6,000 and the initial cost of the write device will be about $30,000.

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    "We need another three or four years of R&D to get it to the production and marketing standpoint," Kazansky said.

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    "We are not aiming to become a manufacturing company," said Kazansky. "We are a technology licensing company. We love the model of Arm Holdings. And to a certain extent, we love the model of Nvidia. So we are developing the enablement technology, and then we're going to be forming some form of a consortium, some form of a group of companies that will help us to bring this technology to market."

    Which is where it's been for all of those many years I've been anticipating it. But who knows, perhaps this will be the company to finally start selling them. I'm fine with them being expensive at first, the cost will come down if they take off.

  • "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

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  • Sounds like correlation to me.

    Did I say otherwise?

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • Oh yes, I know why people have picked up a distorted and prejudiced view of Albertans.

    Should I go "oh, okay then, carry on believing that and propagating the stereotype?"

    It's true that we've got a terrible premier. It is not true that it's "unsafe" for tourists to visit. It's not true that "everyone in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment." And so I will call those falsehoods out when they're propagated.

  • Where will Europeans flee too?

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  • Sure, but it takes time. There's no way we could handle a Europe's worth of refugees pouring in at once.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • And for that reason OP isn't "safe" when they visit Alberta, but would be "safe" if they visited Norway? I still have yet to figure out what this connection between the oil industry and personal safety is.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • OP is being warned to "stay away" specifically from Alberta because we're apparently not safe to be around, how am I supposed to be taking this? So far the only solid reasons that have been given are:

    • Alberta produces a lot of oil.
    • Someone in a small town post office didn't wear a mask while picking up a box of books related to Christianity, which I might add is far more widely practised in Canada's eastern provinces.
    • Apparently "everyone" in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment. Based on the fact that you personally didn't know anyone who thought otherwise, in your particular social bubble.

    So yeah, I'm rather offended. I think OP would have a perfectly fine time coming to visit Alberta.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • And yet they produce 2 million barrels of oil per day. Must be a bunch of jerks.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • During mask mandates I was in the Carstairs post office,

    Carstairs is a rural town with a population of 4900.

    the second is everyone in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment.

    Oh, everyone?

    I happen to be Albertan and the notion of being compared to Texas fills me with anger. I'd like you to back that up with some kind of poll or statistic, please.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • But their emissions!

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • what the government is doing

    Which is?

    how most albertans support them.

    Let's hear those specifics, I think you'll find that the population's not as supportive of whatever you're imagining they're supporting. And in particular the large cities, which are NDP strongholds.

    They have the largest emissions per capita in North America.

    This is why you think a tourist wouldn't be safe here? Because we're an oil-producing province?

    Better advise OP not to visit Norway either, they must be monsters over there.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • Do they dismiss entire provinces' worth of people as jerks based on a single experience? Because that would be a pretty awful thing for them to do, yeah.

  • Where will Europeans flee too?

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  • That's the least important consideration. When people arrive in the country they don't just get told "here's some land!" And dumped in an open field to make do. The resources needed for them are houses, jobs, health care, and so forth. We don't have vast amounts of that lying around unused.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • I doubt appearance will factor significantly in most places. Where in Canada were you planning to travel to?

    Also, which country are you from? We're rather cross with America right now so if you're from there then there might be some additional coaching I'd suggest.

  • Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says

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  • Even the higher orbits aren't as big a problem as might be assumed. There are still mechanisms other than aerodynamic drag that clear debris from those orbits, they're just slower. And the combination of fewer high-altitude satellites and much bigger orbital volume make it harder to get a dangerous density of debris going in the first place.

  • Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says

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  • Why would one assume that every civilization is going to have access to fossil fuels in the first place? Earth has coal and oil because of a specific sequence of events that don't necessarily follow.

    Also, the severity of climate change that we're facing is in no plausible way "end of the line" for humans. It could be disruptive to our current civilization but it's not going to end us. One could even easily hypothesize alien planets where induced global warming would be an enormous benefit to a civilization living on it. Just a few tens of thousands of years ago major regions of Earth were covered with ice caps, if our civilization had arisen back then a case could be made that accelerating their melting would be beneficial in the long run.

    This isn't really Great Filter material.

  • Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says

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  • It actually is that simple, though. The amount of time that a launcher spends in one of those Kessler Syndrome zones while it passes through to a higher orbit would be measured in minutes. You can likely just ignore it and write off the one-in-a-million times your launcher hits something as just the cost of doing business.

    Kessler Syndrome is a problem for satellites that want to orbit within those zones long term, as in spending years in there.

  • "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

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  • It's funny how completely opposite to this my experience over the past couple of years has been. Twice now I've been practically begging my managers to let me use AI-based tools to make my work easier, they've responded "no, we don't want AI touching any of our stuff for vague legal paranoia reasons", and then the company suffered a collapse and everyone got laid off.

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  • Right, that's exactly what I said.

    A "Great Filter" is something that stops every civilization from ever expanding off its home world. Kessler Syndrome does not in any way fit this. It's a temporary inconvenience that isn't even guaranteed to happen.