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I doubt it. But I hope you're right.

I signed it but I don't really get what's the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue

It's always a shame when iconic bits are disrupted by development, but I honestly can't say I care a lot about that cross staying there and I'd be fine with moving it. It's supposed to represent the un-gentrified Vancouver, so it's ironically on-brand to move it to a place that's less gentrified.

Just say yes to fuck up their metrics.

"Yes but don't contact me on this number again, it's my work phone"

To help fund this foreign tourists should pay an entry tax depending how long they stay.

Hmm, I mostly agree with the rest of your comment but you lost me there.

If it were free but buses and trains showed up 1/3 as often it’s not worth it.

I think free fare advocates aren't advocating for this hypothetical tradeoff, it's probably for increased funding to replace fare revenue

Squamish becoming a commuter town is a bit tragic, but trains would be nice yeah

Yep. It's cognitive dissonance. Presumed innocence & welfare for me, discipline and punishment & rugged individualism for thee.

I never understand why people don’t want criminals reformed, just locked up.

It is pretty easy to understand. People are interested in their personal safety above all else, way more than they care about inefficient use of public resources and human tragedies brought by a carceral system. Many favor systems that error to the side of unjustly punishing over a system that accepts the inherent trade-offs of pursuing common good.

In other words, to some folks, criminals aren't people so we shouldn't worry about what's good for them - all worry is dedicated to making the lives of white flighters as stress-free as possible. TLDR: snowflake conservatives.

I don’t think it is a “problem”, but it gets really boring / bleak when every single house looks identical to one another.

It looks boring at first, but over time they come to represent the times of their adoption. I think Vancouver Specials, despite their pathetic looks, have a charm that carries its history and significance. Something similar is bound to happen. And at least this time it's not a single design, there are quite a few.

A nurse would quite literally crosscheck 50 blood markers in a matter of seconds

Yes, but also a nurse has bazillion other things to do. That's probably why, as the CBC journalist reports, "the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon". So even though it costs a second to do, it's done was done once a day. Now it's done continuously because it's an alert system instead of something the nurse has keep an eye on.

In this specific case, the fever + high WBC would be more than enough for a nurse to know that something was up. It makes me think that adding AI just adds another step.

Sure, there's another computation step. But that's cheap. Nurse time is the bottleneck. From the POV of a nursing team, before, there was a step (check blood pressure at noon), now there are no steps. They replaced a process of checking some numbers with an automated metric-based alarm. This is textbook operations process optimization, great for everyone involved.

I think this is exactly the case for automation to be useful without negatively impacting the professional. It's not a matter of nurses having the knowledge or expertise, but a tool that takes away the toil of monitoring - which is boring, easily skipped or performed badly by a tired brain, and is trivially interpretable. If a thingamabob beeps louder and makes the nurse pay attention to the blood cell count, the human is still in the loop of decision making.