"The federal government plans four food terminals and 20 to 40 smaller food hubs across Canada, with the goal of reducing prices by being less reliant on big grocery retailers' supply chains."
I'll be curious how well this works, it strikes me as Carney's response to Avi suggesting crown-corp grocers.
Alphafold was definitely a better era for intentional AI use, assuming that's the kind of thing you mean.
I think there is some difference. In the UK, children's home providers are contracted out and effectively paid rent, creating the incentive structure you're highlighting.
But in Denmark most of these homes are owned by the municipal governments themselves, not rented. It's broadly just a government service, not a rent contract market.
This BBC article has a great infographic that breaks down the difference, and does a better job highlighting the ideas in general: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2vxp48y8o
After the U.S. has continued intentionally delaying and "misplacing" materiel that EU countries have paid for, this just doesn't seem like a good idea. I get the impression the U.S. will run away with the money.
One of the many reasons that using centralized exchanges and custodians defeats the purpose of using cryptocurrencies at all.
Provincially the Conservatives are campaigning on privatizing healthcare. They also do not whip votes on abortion rights, and routinely put forward bills to ban it. Some Conservative party members literally met with the U.S admin to ask for support in seceding from Canada.
It may have once been true that a Canadian Conservative would be closer to the Democratic party, but the landscape is changing.
The Liberals are hardly a labour party, I'd say by this metric both of them are backwards.
We already knew many great apes preferred cooked food. That study is specifically about chimps.
I just found it mildly funny that the study was essentially titled "Humans prefer cooked food."
I had the exact same realization recently when our internet went down for a few days. I have a local LLM on my PC, and used it as a fake Google search, and to help me troubleshoot a couple programs. Not always accurate, but it did feel cool to have basically an internet search on my disconnected computer.
Just finishing up Stranger in a Strange Land, and it's a slog. Heinlen's views have gotten harder and harder to ignore, in particular the homophobia gets pretty bad near the end. I have like 80 pages left and am not sure if it's worth it...
There's an open question here about best practice, because ultimately shifting labour capacity from humans to machines should be inherently good, if its labour we did not want to be doing. I'd rather have machines capable of doing everything from my laundry to large data analysis, among many other things that don't interest me.
The problem tends to arise in how the transition happens. If capitalists continue to separate labour from surplus value, it's entirely possible that the benefits of automation are only experienced by capitalists, and the humans who were producing the labour are left destitute.
Really I would like to see a better regulatory environment mixed with stronger social support systems, so the benefits of automation are felt by everybody. Sometimes it feels like the focus shifts to stopping automation, when in my mind best practice should be to mitigate externalities and spread out the benefits.
Very fitting and fun read, thanks for sharing it!