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nyan , to Canada in Ontario child under 5 dies of measles: provincial health agency

Even assuming the child was old enough for the first dose ("under five" could mean a newborn), they may have had a valid medical exemption. There isn't enough detail (in the article, or in the report it references) to say for certain. I admit that the probability is low.

nyan , to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

The part that's being ignored is that it's a problem, not the existence of the hallucinations themselves. Currently a lot of enthusiasts are just brushing it off with the equivalent of boys will be boys AIs will be AIs, which is fine until an AI, say, gets someone jailed by providing garbage caselaw citations.

And, um, you're greatly overestimating what someone like my technophobic mother knows about AI ( xkcd 2501: Average Familiarity seems apropos). There are a lot of people out there who never get into a conversation about LLMs.

nyan , to Technology in Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards

I prefer carrying the plastic over carrying a tracking deivce everywhere with me. Then again, I'm one of those weirdos that also still carries cash.

(Note that I'm not saying you should ditch your phone—your priorities are doubtless different from mine—just that for me the tradeoff is not acceptable.)

nyan , to Canada in 2 N.S. universities say international student permit changes will cost them millions

Skimming the actual article tells me that Acadia and Saint Mary's (the two universities at issue) either have some unusual financial problems or are using their money irresponsibly. Other universities in the province, ranging from Dalhousie (the largest, I believe) to St. Francis Xavier (which is pretty tiny) are not expecting any financial issues of significance, so this is not a general problem with university funding in Nova Scotia, it's a problem with these two institutions.

nyan , to Technology in Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account

And it's a sad, sad day when the situation in xkcd 908 looks like an improvement over even one of the commercial offerings.

nyan , to Technology in Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account

had to restore from backups onto a brand new Google business account

Thus proving that they learned nothing from the experience.

nyan , to Programmer Humor in Responsive Design Go Brrrr

Eh, I'm sure we can overrun it just by gluing sufficient instances of Factory to the end of the classname.

nyan , to Technology in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

Companies should be sued for false advertising if they claim that their streaming service allows you to "buy" or "own" anything (unless their service includes non-DRM downloads for permanent offline storage). All you're buying is temporary use of their rental network and library. Which is fine if that's what you wanted and knew you were getting, but a problem if you were expecting something else.

nyan , to Canada in Watchdog finds Mounties failed to properly investigate Indigenous woman's death — twice

I wish I were surprised by this.

nyan , to Canada in Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint for Dystopia in Horrific Speech Bill

When are these “journalists” (iow, “any twat with an opinion”) going to present a “news story without EXTREME HYPERBOLE”?

When the hyperbole stops getting them attention (which is likely to be never).

nyan , to Canada in Why No One Wants to Live in Canada

There are certainly overpriced vacant homes in the more expensive metropolitan areas (coughcondoscoughTorontocough), but I doubt there are enough of them to make a visible dent in the housing issue.

nyan , to Canada in Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet.

Not centuries. It's more like they want to live inside a sitcom from the mid-20th century, where everyone is white and middle-class and living in a "traditional" male-led nuclear family that occupies a house in the suburbs, and pollution and its ilk aren't even worthy of mention.

nyan , to Canada in Grocery giants paid for friendly Liberal, Tory policy with decades of donations

There are limits on donation amount per contributor (I don't remember how much off the top of my head, but it isn't that high a number).

nyan , to Technology in What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees!

That assumes all the trees survive. A lot of them apparently don't.

nyan , to Technology in Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide

It's one of the weaksauce paywalls that can be bypassed by just not allowing their Javascript.

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