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Canada has a program for that too, its called MAID, if you get depressed for a few weeks, or you are old and withdrew consent anyway, then you can be MAIDed.
Use polymarket, they don't care.
ooh boy, one would think right? Its def beneficial for me, but many Canadians don't like it.
They seem to be pretty diligent about it, I mean once I hit on 17 and won on 22, but generally they are pretty vigilant about it.
I'd be surprised if they weren't. Its always fun to go back to Canada, and see what normal activities are banned, I'd sign up for MAID if I still lived there.
We used to have freedom and self-control.
Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:20PM (#49883806)
Theoretically, yes, in practice, no.
Re:Claude Is a Contrarian on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:51PM (#49699991)
excellent, i dont need it to think, i need it to execute.
Turns out building houses is super profitable once you remove the cost of building materials, labor, and land.
Re:Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:25PM (#49279920)
i mean the whole ecosystem, compiler, CPU, etc. I think that the compiler will produce performant code, and i think that the CPU will execute code that operates a certain way faster, and that its pretty safe to assume this.

Basically, I think that in 10 years, in practice, radix sort will still be faster than quicksort, despite theory saying its slower.

from people without ad blockers, but honestly facebook is not the free open internet.
Re:Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:20PM (#49247590)
in theory, no, in practice, yes.
Re:Every fast write moves work somewhere else on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:33PM (#49235550)
if you use the linux kernel that amount of ram is tunable, and write will cause backpressure on its own when this is exceeded.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on Friday August 07, 2026 @02:44PM (#49214690)
limited resources, no modern GPUs, no $10 billion dev budgets.

pair it with codewhale, 50 agents, 200 MB of ram.

Re:Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:29PM (#49192084)
CPUs aren't black boxes. They are actually much better documented than almost all the software that runs on them.

If you want to treat the CPU as a black box, trust me you do not want to use a CPU with out a branch predictor, your slow code will run like molasses frozen in antarctica.

The regular algo will be lightyears slower on any CPU that does not have a branch predictor.

Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:05PM (#48532042)
yes, but the unstated caveats for fastest are

"i can't program, i only make CRUD apps"

"i don't write anything that requires computation"

"i do server side rendering on a serverless platform"

in reality rails runs circles around typescript for productivity for CRUD/webapps.

Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:00PM (#48531996)
haven't web browsers always been C/C++? they are typescript now? it would seem the fastest way to support Mac, Windows and Linux is 500MB of C++.
most of the COVID public health science that appeared on TV, the internet allowed people to evaluate whether actual science contradicted what the government said was science, and freed them from lockdowns that were pointless, or taking vaccines which were claimed to prevent getting or transmitting covid and allowed people to evaluate them based on the factual risks / rewards.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/546234-cdc-r...

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-coronavi...

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-2021-video-saying-vaccina...

Re:AI uses less water than the public thinks on Friday May 01, 2026 @04:15PM (#47979693)
There's not really any NEED to grow almonds. Most agriculture in California is not required to sustain life in CA. However, without AI people wouldn't have jobs that could afford CA rents, so AI is required so people can live. Lets get rid of unnecessary uses like agriculture, unless farmers can justify that the usage is actually required to sustain life.

If you look at water distribution you'll find that its unevenly distributed so farmers should pay a water tax and distribute that water to the less water fortunate. CA has an extremely high water GINI with a few farmers consuming far more than their fair share.

Re:Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen on Saturday July 26, 2025 @01:51PM (#44695823)
0.00000718742 degrees = 31.5 inches / 40,075 km * 360 or 0.000451599142 arcseconds obviously its not very much,
It's alive and well in south america. let the haters hate.
Re:Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:04PM (#43784986)
add AI to the products and features you want to ship, don't add AI to the ones that don't.

You want to start with at least an AI Roadmap that outlines whatever you want to do, and sprinkle in some AI love.

That's why there is work, no supply of fresh grads.
Chile is awful (Santiago specifically). Sorry if you are from there. High prices, high crime, full of feminists, everything closes early. Might as well move back to the west.
I can tell you living in south america that this is true. Three drinks esp. caiprinhas even at the expensive places would be about $13, $8 or $9 on promo. Cover for the fancy place is $17. Bottle service is $34.

Plus the bombed out building post war Berlin industrial feel is 1. Real, and 2. free for the promoter and the drinks are cheaper there. Yes, that's real barbed wire, and yes, its really electrified.

Come to the southern cone of south america (brazil, paraguay, argentina), late night dance is alive and well. Colombia too to a lesser degree.
Re:FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:40PM (#31843760)
Some of us like smoking...
Given that SF is losing people and Boise is gaining them, apparently many people want to make that move.

I guess some people think human excrement on the street isn't very "vibrant", they're probably racists or something for not liking it I'm sure.

> Finally, if unions are so bad, why do many of the largest companies in the world continue to hire from unions?

Because it's illegal not to. I dunno if you know this but if you have a union shop, the company can't just hire non-union employees. (In most cases) Once your company unionizes you can hire union employees, or go out of business.

Realistically what companies do is incorporate a subsidiary in a non-union jurisdiction and outsource the jobs to the subsidiary.

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