troyunrau

Context: I am at this conference.

This is equally true of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Northern Ontario, NWT, and other jurisdictions. What distinguishes the jurisdictions will be the regulatory hurdles. Manitoba may have what the world needs, but if the world cannot get it, then that is meaningless.

Your assertion that the document is malicious without any evidence is what I'm concerned about.

At some point you have to decide to trust someone. The comment above gave you reason to trust that the document was in a standard, non-malicious format. But you outright rejected their advice in a hostile tone. You base your hostility on a youtube video.

You should read the essay "on trusting trust" and then make a decision on whether you are going to participate in digital society or live under a bridge with a tinfoil hat.

In Canada, and elsewhere, insurance companies know everything about you before you even apply, and it's likely true elsewhere too. Even if they don't have personally identifiable information, you'll be in a data bucket with your neighbours, with risk profiles based on neighbourhood, items being insuring, claim rates for people with similar profiles, etc. Very likely every interaction you have with them has been going into a LLM even prior to the advent of ChatGPT, and they will have scored those interactions against a model.

The personally identifiable information has largely been anonymized in these models. In Canada, for example, there are regulatory bodies like OSFI that they have to report to, and get audited by, to ensure the data is being used in compliance with regulations. Each company will have a compliance department tasked with making sure they're adhering.

But what you will end up doing instead is triggering fraudulent behaviour flags. There's something called "address fraud", where people go out of their way to disguise their location, because some lower risk address has better rates or whatever. When you do everything you can to scrub your location, this itself is a signal that you are operating as a highly paranoid individual and that might put you in a bucket. If you want to be the most invisible to them, you want to act like you're in the median of all categories. Because any outlying behaviours further fingerprint you.

Source: I have a direct connection to advanced analytics within insurance industry (one degree of separation).

I'm in Canada, if that makes a difference. Ravens, in particular, are year long residents and stick around for the winter even in extreme subarctic regions. I had a colleague at the Canadian Wildlife Service who write regs on migratory birds check into the federal level regs for me and it would be fine.

It's the city regs that don't work. Apparently there are vestigial laws regarding keeping pigeons though, dating to messenger pigeon eras...

Yeah. Jets fans are unhappy about two things: a failed goalie interference challenge which seems pretty blatant (and TB scored during the bench minor too!); and Kucherov's uncalled hit from behind that took Kyle Connor out for the rest of the game. Well, we beat em on the scoreboard, and it appears Connor will be okay. Next!

Fingers

They're super smart. Depending on which crow and your dog, they might be smarter ;)

I tried figuring out the bylaws for keeping them as pets. They aren't migratory, so it appears the regulations largely depend on your local jurisdiction.

What is this community?

Fuck I hate losing to the Leafs haha. And it had to be them to break the streak because the universe is a jerk to me 😄

Step one: soap and water. Step two, a mild acid -- you probably have a citric acid based bathroom tile cleaner already or similar. Wrap it in a sacrificial towel or similar and let it soak in that weak acid overnight.

New Testament: Given that the bible, as we know it today, wasn't assembled into its current form until hundreds of years AD...

While being written, it wasn't being used as anything other than a record of events. Given that most of the events recorded in the Gospels happened decades before they were written down, they were effectively turning oral tradition to written tradition. The later books in the new testament, excluding Revelations, are largely letters traded between early churches.

Revelations is where shit gets weird. A bible without this would be far superior, harder to weaponize, and probably would be considered a living corpus rather than a fixed thing. If there was intent when writing anything in the bible, it was here. And here is where we can start arguing nefarious intent, turning the religion into a death cult.

The legal and administrative overhead to do all of that would incur significant additional costs. We shall see.