prodigalsorcerer

If Canada isn't charging them with a crime, then releasing their names is just starting a witch hunt, and government sanctioned witch hunts are a bad idea.

They should be charged, and if found guilty, named and deported or jailed, though I think at this point they're all likely dead. They may have relatives that are still alive, and there's no reason to get them involved.

Fifty years ago, maybe the Russians. Today? Basically just USA. Russia probably still would, except that they've used all their resources on their 3 day special military operation.

It's almost certainly better to be on the board to see what's going on and influence it if possible. It's definitely not worth paying a billion dollars for a seat, but until we have more details, better to join now and have the option to leave later.

I don't want them to be Canadian either though. We have enough problems with Alberta. Pulling in any state will be even worse.

Yeah, that actually changes things. Not a lot, but very slightly. Like, whatever unit is smaller than a Planck length.

Edit: it's an "annual" prize, but Trump got the first one. I would be surprised if there was another, but maybe he'll win that one too.

Presumably the politicians accounted for this in their negotiations. They may have some high level engineers from China, but I can't imagine they'll be allowed to bring in a whole migrant workforce, especially with the current climate around immigration in Canada.

And then they may elect Mr Beast

I can't wait for welfare to be replaced by "Survive 30 days in Guantanamo, win $500,000", and "100 people in Alligator Alcatraz. Last one standing wins $1,000,000".

They're trying to get ahead of regulation. If they can be mildly effective here, they can point to it and say "look, media doesn't need any more regulations".

Any regulation that requires restricting media to kids will be significantly more expensive, in implementation costs and loss of profits.

The Cartel le of the uhhhh cartel.

From China's perspective (and in theory, Taiwan's perspective), invading Taiwan isn't the same, because they both officially recognize One China, they just disagree about who's in charge.

It would more akin to USA invading Puerto Rico, if the governor of PR asserted that they were in fact the proper leaders of the USA.

Should cars have been outlawed because it put farriers and stables out of business? Were shipping containers a bad idea because they required fewer longshoremen?

Technology comes and makes jobs obsolete. It happens all the time. It just happens that this technology has come in a big, visible way, and many of the ways its used and marketed are useless and/or awful. That doesn't mean it's entirely bad, and there's certainly no way to stop it now.

AI will replace jobs. We can't get around that fact. Companies that fail to adapt will fall behind. Whether I use it at my job or not has no bearing on the industry, and I'm not in a position to push for industry-wide change (nor is the company I work for). So we can either use it, or also fall behind.

I work for a mid-sized company. We still hire junior developers. I don't think we have any plans to get rid of them entirely, but I'm not involved in that process. But after a couple decades of huge growth in the industry, developers (especially junior ones) are going to have a rough few years as the industry realigns with the new normal. There will be job losses, there will be companies that disappear entirely because they either depended too much upon AI, or didn't adapt fast enough. But pretending that AI isn't a useful tool when used in specific ways is just sticking your head in the sand.