Singapore: you plebs are too stupid to protect yourselves, so we use state machinery to ensure you don’t do stupid stuff

University labs tend to be notoriously lax in comparison to commercial counterparts

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Probably they will keep new rules as-is

Made of transparent aluminum, mind you

As a male, I don’t mind that :D

My TV must be very disappointed in me

Eh, however on the Mexican side, it became kind of tradition to associate Taco Bell with uncontrollable, debilitating, liquid diarrhea

Normal VPN doesn’t work because China firewall uses deep packet inspection that looks for signs that traffic is being tunneled and then blocks the IPs involved. On the other hand, VPN use can land users in jail as well

Interestingly enough most banks were fine with it as long as they took their cut

The vaccine goes intramuscularly, but I get your enthusiasm

This one ends the thread

This is the simplest solution. But the annual property tax on 2+ properties has to bite otherwise corporations hoarding housing stock would just see that as cost of doing business.

The best approach would be progressively higher (like, exponentially) property taxes according to the number of properties held

That will cause property prices to tank… Trudeau just wants a paradox

“if a user is determined to get bad results they can get them”… True. Except that, in this case, even if the user induced the AI to produce bad results, the company behind it would be held liable for the eventual deaths. Corporate legal departments absolutely hate that scenario, much to the naive disbelief of their marketing department colleagues

Arrrrr, matey!

Most of those IT platform companies only rent their premises as it helps improve the balance sheet and quarterly results by moving “capital expenses” into “operational costs”

Lots of boomers and gen-x’ers

Meh. I won’t grace Reddit with my traffic

This absolutely reeks of despair