When I'm relaxing in the evening, it doesn't matter if the sun is out. I also prefer to be able to function and do my job well during the day. I expect to be tired in the evening.
For most of my career I worked in a windowless box. Artificial lighting means it doesn't matter what it looks like outside.
Frankly, I don't think they're going far enough - if the goal is evening enjoyment and the outdoors, set sunrise to noon.
Don't forget to add this part in:
"There will be no traditional grades, tests, or homework,"
So... you're going to charge "elite university" rates, but hand out... two year tech certs? Not even an associate's degree? Nothing that can be leveraged into a later degree or an MBA?
Might as well drop that $200k of tuition (oh, plus fees and living expenses in their company dorm) on Beanie Babies or Furbys. Those at least are more wildly recognized.
I'm old enough to know the hymnbook. If you tell a high school senior "X is the new thing, high demand, etc etc", in four years, if you are VERY lucky the job will still exist and you'll just be competing for the handful of positions that actually exist. If you're unlucky the world will have already moved on and you have a very expensive placemat.
And that's not only a tech problem - I've seen this around teachers, doctors and nurses... at this point I'm pretty confident the goal is specifically to create that glut so that the workers will be cheap.
What IS "Canadian content" anyway?
Ideally, similar to what you see in other countries - UK has similar content rules, but stricter because the show has to be recognizably *British*.
Canada's rules let you make a show, call it "Canadian content", while hiding any evidence it has anything to do with Canada. (Either by reskinning us to be American, or by making the show generically "North American" as not to offend delicate American sensibilities that they might have to watch *gasp* Canadians.) Or, sci-fi that still pretends to be American-esque.
He kind of answered his own question. Kids move between schools all the time.
And that's before you get into the weeds of in-system changes. My grade 7-12 years were in an Apple school. I started with Apple IIs, ended with Mac System... 6 or 7, I wanna say. Different floppy disks, different OS, still "Apple". My home machine was Microsoft. Which means DOS 6 -> Win 3.1 -> Win 95.
Even today - is anyone going to seriously argue that Win 7 = Win 8 = Win 10? Between Windows and Office, you're basically "switching" every year or so as they move a setting, hide a setting, "upgrade" something or other.
Whatever you give a kid today will not be what they're using in 10 years, or 5, or possibly next year. Might as well embrace it.
So realistically, I suspect that the answer to a vague demand from a government agency demanding to know what AV companies will do to prevent bad interactions with emergency vehicles will always be "exactly what we're already doing", because apart from coming up with new simulated situations to test (which they're always doing), there's really nothing they can do to prevent the car from behaving the wrong way in some vague unspecified future situation that nobody has thought of yet.
So what I'm hearing is that AVs shouldn't be road legal, because it doesn't understand enough to pass a driver exam.
I do agree that sending a letter seems like an odd choice, since they already have "this vehicle has just broken the law, fine and tow" as an option. 16 year old new drivers don't get a pass because they don't know the rules, so why should AVs?
Being Canada isn't America, they ought to be mandating that the roof of this building be plastered with solar panels. It won't solve for the entire power budget, but at least it'll cut a chunk of that gas out
As an Albertan (whose parents are going to be a couple miles from this thing), solar defeats the purpose. Our government doesn't believe in intelligence (artificial or otherwise). They want to burn the natural gas. They don't care if it generates power or runs a data center or if teens just lean over the stacks to huff the exhaust. Just so long as they're buying the gas.
As an aside - plenty of places in Alberta run solar or wind, even in the winter. It's just not politically expedient. If you want EVs and solar, you want to go to a communist province like.. (checks notes) Saskatchewan.
U.S. research universities are admitting less doctoral candidates.
Do people really think folks are just shrugging and say "guess I'll go sweep floors at the Quik-E-Mart instead", or do you think they're finding schools in other countries who will happily take advantage of the U.S. shooting itself in the foot yet again?
And note that talking to someone on the telephone is apparently A-OK. It's just "chatting online" that is the evil of the day.
I remember the same stories, substituting "telephones" with "smartphones". (For the young-uns - used to be there was only one phone line in the house, and your parents would get real cranky if you spent too long talking with your friends. Or for later-me, dialed in to internet.)
History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
Incidentally, the same is possible for automatic grading. How? You have a look at the exercises. Then you can design questions so that some specific participants fail and others pass. This can also be done without really realizing it.
True story - my grade 11 chemistry teacher specifically set up the pop quizes to spank otherwise high-performing students. He was extremely up-front about it, and each of us only got dinged once (and it's on a smaller quiz so it didn't materially affect grades). His point was that none of us were perfect, and a little humility was a good thing. I still remember taking the quiz, handing it in with the comment "was my turn, wasn't it" and his shit-eating grin.
Damn, I wish my kid had teachers like him.
Nostalgia time over - just pointing out that a teacher who is paying attention can 100% choose who is going to pass the test simply by question selection.
Some people absolutely would want that responsibility and risk. But also, Starfleet is a military organization. They don't get a real choice in where they get assigned, outside of a few exceptions.
That just moves the question - you're in what is (at least through TNG-era eyes) a post-scarcity society. Why are you signing up for the military, to go get sent off random places and get eaten by negative space wedgies, when you could just replicate another bag of Cheetos?
Does it work?
Obviously - look at the laws in the 80s and 90s to prevent teenagers from getting access to tobacco, alcohol, dirty magazines and movies... we all know that parents and grandparents of today's teens didn't do any of those things growing up, right?
Travel in Eastern Europe lately, or China ?
What's sad is that you're saying "see, China does it" like it's a good thing.
And that's the catch - you're right, I wouldn't travel to China, because I could end up SOL with no recourse and subject to political whims. And now that's also true of the US. Sure, it's probably going to be fine. But there are plenty of countries in the world where it will almost certainly be fine, so why wouldn't I spend my tourism dollars there instead?
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
