In the case of Toronto presumably water is a municipal responsibility… Reserves are a federal responsibility though so you’d think they would be responsible here. The government has actually been putting in a ton of money on this issue and as the article says the number of boil water advisories is down by like 2/3 since the Liberals came to power. So also kinda weird argument by the justice department here.

Imagine hiring a taxi without having your lawyer review the terms and conditions, lol

What is intelligence though? Maybe I’m getting through life just by being pretty good at predicting what to say or do next…

I think Sysco is up about 10% per year on average since 1990 so it’s not so bad…

In Vancouver 18.5 cents per litre goes to transit.

They are actually locked out, not on strike.

Hand coverings should be banned.

I don’t think there was really much of a housing collapse in Canada…

Variable rate let’s me take on the rate risk and pay (on average) less interest. Fixed interest means the bank prices in the rate risk and you pay for that in a higher rate.

Forced to move into traffic (perhaps unexpectedly) and get run over.

But you have to select if it was human or not, right? So if you can’t tell, then you’d expect 50%. That’s different than “I can tell, and I know this is a human” but you are wrong… Now that we know the bots are so good, I’m not sure how people will decide how to answer these tests. They’re going to encounter something that seems human-like and then essentially try to guess based on minor clues… So there will be inherent randomness. If something was a really crappy bot then it wouldn’t ever fool anyone and the result would be 0%.

How much could a tweet cost? $10?

Modern heat pumps continue to function down to -20C or below. If it gets colder than that where you live you can supplement with an auxiliary source for cold days.

This sounds like the Pomodoro technique… There are a lot of apps for that.

Interesting. Kinda hard to understand the reason behind these differences sometimes. For clothes washers I think 30C would actually be considered cold in NA. My washer has tap cold, cold, warm, hot settings. So “cold” is actually heated… Only tap cold is unheated.

If your dishwasher starts washing shortly after you turn it on, then it probably didn’t have time to heat the water… At least in North America, dishwashers have water heaters but they still rely on hot water coming in for best performance.

Isn’t most of the AI training work in the world done on Linux using Nvidia GPUs (in the cloud)? I guess it’s a different use case…

Flu can have long term effects. Even if you aren’t seriously affected you could pass it on to someone who is.

I think weight in the wheels is a huge downside of hub motors though? So this kinda takes a middle ground… Unsprung weight is still increased but not nearly as much.

Wouldn’t data centres not turn off though and therefore not be able to recharge?