Harvey-Specter

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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Questions like "A ball is fired from a cannon at a 45 degree angle, how far from it's initial position does it land?" are also fairly common in Canada. I don't recall every being asked something this silly though. There&
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
No, poops will be confused about what direction is north if the magnetic field flips, resulting in them migrating up and out of the toilet, instead of down into the sewers.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
It would be nice to have an option to remove the House Rules / Contact section. I just want one for my home.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. This stat always rubs me the wrong way. It paints the image of a parent watching their child drown, but I imagine it's pretty easy to be within 25 yards of the poo
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
What does this have to do with the comment you replied to?
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> So Canada has no arms industry? I call shenanigans. Whether or not Canada has an arms industry is irrelevant to the question of whether or not it's unethical to build weapons. Having an ethical obligation and acting on it are two
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> One of the requirements for a PE is you need to work for another PE. That's also a requirement in Canada (Ontario at least). Work experience has to be completed while working under a P.Eng.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Yes, I thought my agreement was clear in my previous comment. Companies shouldn't be using 'engineer' in the job title unless they're hiring a P.Eng.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Probably, engineers are required to adhere to a strict code of ethics that puts the public interested first. Rayguns tend to be developed by people with evil ambitions. If I were a professional engineer and my boss asked me to work on a ray
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> to my knowledge there are no legal restrictions on what title a company can give a role From [1]: Becoming licensed gives you the right to use “P.Eng.” after your name and “engineer” in your job title. Under the Professional Engineers
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Here are a couple more links from the PEO website that are more explicit about the term "engineer".[1][2] Admittedly I don't know if the claims here are accurate or not, the Professional Engineer Act [3] is too legalese for m
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> One of the issues is using the word "engineer" for any of the brogrammer types In Canada the term 'engineer' is regulated at the provincial level, and a person can be prosecuted for labeling themselves as an enginee
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
I visited Germany last summer and was amazed by how many windmills there were. Everywhere I looked there was a windmill. Obviously this was a country on the forefront of clean energy. Imagine my surprise when my father-in-law took us to see
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
I would guess that roofing services have inelastic demand, meaning that a change in price doesn't affect demand much. A home owner often doesn't have much choice about whether or not to repair their roof, if it needs to be done th
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> in one case creating a fake account story to get the show to pay for flights so they could finally meet face to face. That's brilliant. I couldn't find anything about this episode on google, but I'm interested to know ho
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Interesting note though, the Horseshoe falls did run dry naturally during the winter of 1848 [1]. High winds on Lake Erie pushed ice into the mouth of the Niagara River, eventually resulting in an ice jam that blocked the flow of water into
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
No, the link in the post you replied to is about March 29th 1848 when a naturally occurring ice dam blocked the flow from Lake Erie into the Niagara River, which caused the falls to go dry. So in that case it had only been 38 years since th
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
What's weird about the actions of the self-driving vehicle in this case? It detected that a truck was backing into it's path, and stopped in an attempt to prevent a collision. The truck driver didn't properly check his mirror
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Mortgages are offset in net worth calculations by the value of the home, so they shouldn't have much of an effect on net worth unless the house has lost significant value or you overpaid for it. Similar situation with car loans, althou
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
You just have to keep building. At some point there is enough housing to meet demand at reasonable prices.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
The sense I've gotten is that there was a lot of concern from potential customers about the ability of Bombardier to continue the C-series program without being able to sell to the US market. This deal assuages those concerns, which he
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Yeah, that's NASA's suggestion in the article.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> I only ever ssh into production servers on the white on red terminal so there's a strong visual signal This is a great idea.
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
In the British style what is the rule if the quotation ends in punctuation? Do they include additional punctuation outside the quotation, since presumably the punctuation inside the quotation doesn't count as ending the sentence? I&#x2
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-s... > American style places commas and periods inside the quotation marks, even if they are not in the original material. British style (more sensibly) places u
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> so I slowly whisper I love you > thirty-two and a third times. "I love you" is 3 words. 3 * 32.333333 = 97
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> non-zero-days This is wonderful advice. I've been using the same concept for the last month or so. When I get home from work I walk the dogs and then sit down and commit to putting in a little work on whatever personal project I&#
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
Why do you expect privacy on public roads?
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by Harvey-Specter 9y ago
> But why should it be for residential traffic, if the through traffic is driving within the speed limit? The problem is that through traffic often drives above the speed limit.