To help fund this foreign tourists should pay an entry tax depending how long they stay.

Hmm, I mostly agree with the rest of your comment but you lost me there.

If it were free but buses and trains showed up 1/3 as often it’s not worth it.

I think free fare advocates aren’t advocating for this hypothetical tradeoff, it’s probably for increased funding to replace fare revenue

Squamish becoming a commuter town is a bit tragic, but trains would be nice yeah

Yep. It’s cognitive dissonance. Presumed innocence & welfare for me, discipline and punishment & rugged individualism for thee.

I never understand why people don’t want criminals reformed, just locked up.

It is pretty easy to understand. People are interested in their personal safety above all else, way more than they care about inefficient use of public resources and human tragedies brought by a carceral system. Many favor systems that error to the side of unjustly punishing over a system that accepts the inherent trade-offs of pursuing common good.

In other words, to some folks, criminals aren’t people so we shouldn’t worry about what’s good for them - all worry is dedicated to making the lives of white flighters as stress-free as possible. TLDR: snowflake conservatives.

I don’t think it is a “problem”, but it gets really boring / bleak when every single house looks identical to one another.

It looks boring at first, but over time they come to represent the times of their adoption. I think Vancouver Specials, despite their pathetic looks, have a charm that carries its history and significance. Something similar is bound to happen. And at least this time it’s not a single design, there are quite a few.

A nurse would quite literally crosscheck 50 blood markers in a matter of seconds

Yes, but also a nurse has bazillion other things to do. That’s probably why, as the CBC journalist reports, “the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon”. So even though it costs a second to do, it’s done was done once a day. Now it’s done continuously because it’s an alert system instead of something the nurse has keep an eye on.

In this specific case, the fever + high WBC would be more than enough for a nurse to know that something was up. It makes me think that adding AI just adds another step.

Sure, there’s another computation step. But that’s cheap. Nurse time is the bottleneck. From the POV of a nursing team, before, there was a step (check blood pressure at noon), now there are no steps. They replaced a process of checking some numbers with an automated metric-based alarm. This is textbook operations process optimization, great for everyone involved.

I think this is exactly the case for automation to be useful without negatively impacting the professional. It’s not a matter of nurses having the knowledge or expertise, but a tool that takes away the toil of monitoring - which is boring, easily skipped or performed badly by a tired brain, and is trivially interpretable. If a thingamabob beeps louder and makes the nurse pay attention to the blood cell count, the human is still in the loop of decision making.

that just because the UCP received 54-ish% of the popular vote in the last provincial general election, it doesn’t follow that 54% of the population of Alberta is anti-trans.

It does mean that 54% is willing to promote UCP even though UCP as an institution is supportive of anti-trans politics. So while not everyone in those 54% might be anti-trans themselves, they are consciously supporting anti-trans politicians, and are effectively helping the anti-trans ideology.

Blind spots are blind because there’s no direct path from any part of the bike to the driver’s eyes. If the design is specifically worried about being in a blind spot, ironically the better design is to concentrate the LED power with narrow beam of light so the bike can cast light further away outside the blindspot.

Anyway, being in a blindspot is dangerous even for cars that have those ridiculously overpowered bright headlamps. When a driver says the “cyclist came out of nowhere” it just means the driver was driving carelessly. More lamps won’t solve that.

Interesting idea but I’m not sure the benefit is worth the cost and the bulky gadget. Regular bike lights don’t have such a narrow beam of light, unless by “regular” they mean the most laser-focused bike lights of the market. My two lights are pretty diffuse.

In what situations are said cyclists hard for motorists to see that a combination of normal bike light and high viz material won’t work? Foggy day, cyclist and driver are perpendicular on an intersection? If it’s foggy, the fog works as light diffuser. If it’s not foggy, any piece of reflective material would do the trick… unless truckers are not turning on their headlights in total darkness, at which point normal bike lights are enough again.

Having spent that much time in a truck, he understands what makes cyclists difficult to see.

lol no, that’s not how it works, there are professionals that dedicate their lives to studying vehicle lighting

Lift or Cardero’s. Not because of the food, just because I’d want to enjoy the view.

It’s exactly as (un)secure as I expected. It’s a wireless device made by bike part manufactures… can’t expect better, realistically.

Still, I wouldn’t recommend someone against buying one because of this. The threat model for cyclists is getting maimed by vehicles or psychopaths laying booby traps out there. Hackers messing with my gear shifting is the least of my worries.

The main thing that concerns me about a fully cashless society is that the means of buying and selling stuff shifts fully into the hands of the for profit, private company payment processors.

Not necessarily true. The federal government can and should roll out their own instant payment mechanism under the supervision of the central bank or federal reserve. For reference: the FedNow initiative in the US, FPS in Hong Kong, and PIX in Brazil.

Interac is an aberration and it should be killed by a real public service.

fans wouldn’t have to implement their own (which they did for those two games)

Wow, TIL. People are amazing.

Pass legislation requiring publishers that sell or license video games or that sell related features and assets for said games to do the following once they end support for said games: leave their games in a functional state, and remove any mandatory connections to the publisher or affiliated parties necessary for said games to function;

How enforceable is this legislation in face of games that simply cannot function without multiplayer? The developers of a game similar to Among Us would be forced to update the game with bots to be compliant?

I signed the petition but can’t say I’m hopeful the Parliament will write good legislation on this…