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Canada doesn't share a land border with any Schengen countries, so I'm not sure how valuable passport-free travel would be - you're already taking a transatlantic flight, it's not like passport control is a huge additional hassle.

However, I could see a big argument for a labour mobility agreement similar to the NAFTA model, where EU citizens in a long list of professions have the right to work in Canada and vice-versa.

They can still be held civilly liable for negligence, though.

Yep. The loophole is not hard to close, they could restrict the exemption to standby generators which only operate (1) in the event of a grid outage, and (2) for testing purposes.

For a genuine off-grid use case (eg: very rural locations), they could add a new exemption which allows installations up to X kW capacity per site where local grid connections do not exist. Set X large enough that it won't negatively impact applications like cabins or nature retreats, but small enough that it's not useful to a large operator like a datacentre.

Of course, this all requires a functional Congress... so good luck.

Why berate an LLM? That doesn't sound healthy. Sure, it's a machine, but it's simulating a social interaction - being a jerk to it could bleed over into interactions with real people.

Also, Westworld? These violent delights have violent ends? Perhaps there's a tinge of Pascal's wager to it, but I prefer to be courteous to the rapidly improving synthetic intelligences.

Gitea (and its popular fork, Forgejo) are very lightweight. You can easily stand up an instance on a cheap VPS.

Neither of those imply "collapse," just that the economy could be doing better than it is. There's a vast continuum between "collapse" and "red hot." Canada's economy is doing just fine despite a few weak points.

And preliminary Q2 GDP numbers look very good, it appears the technical recession is most likely over (TBC once the final Q2 release is firmed up at the end of the month). Just two negative growth quarters when your southern neighbour has threatened to annex you by "economic force" is pretty damn good.

Citation needed. Canada's economic indicators are all extremely healthy, despite the trade war tantrum from its southern neighbour.

I am in Canada. I cannot legally host defence workloads in the United States, even if I wanted to (I most certainly don't).

So, if I'm understanding correctly, this is just for lower bandwidth transfers of full BF16 weights over the wire, not for serving, correct? Have you benchmarked the performance against a SOTA general purpose compression algorithm like zstd?

Also, are all that many people handling the BF16 weights directly? GLM-5.2's reference deployment is FP8, and many vendors are even serving at NVFP4 which seems to offer negligible degradation over the FP8 reference deployments.

More like $500k, but that's not an unreasonable price for a medium sized enterprise to pay.

I have an RF engineering background, a nice mmWave vector network analyzer can easily land in that ballpark.

If the business value is there, companies will pay for it.

Not my field, but since they use SQUIDs I suspect most of the volume is taken up by cryo equipment. So, maybe if someone eventually discovers a room temperature superconductor.

VLEO addresses the risk, sure, but the new Starcloud space datacenter hype machine isn't going VLEO, it's going 600-850 km. Those altitudes are in the years to decades range for deorbit, and SpaceX has filed for 88,000 of them.