Kelbit

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by Kelbit 8y ago
Simple is not available in Canada, which is what the above poster is referring to. Few (no?) Canadian banks offer email notifications for debit (Interac) transactions.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Yep. This is going to be the next cold fusion - the device will soon be debunked, but we will still be hearing about it from conspiracy theorists for decades.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Avoid the new gTLDs. Most are mismanaged crap. The gTLD system was the greedist and worst decision ICANN ever made. Stick with tried and true domains - ideally .com, but your country's ccTLD is another good choice.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
The consensus standard for this sort of test is IEEE 1528, and you are absolutely correct. The test uses a gel phantom (the standard provides a few formulations for different frequencies but most are a mixture of water, salt, sugar, and a t
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Agreed! But that wasn't the message that Bay Street took from it.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
There is the new Canadian SBIR analog (Innovative Solutions Canada [1]) which looks like a big step in the right direction. It's having some issues getting off the ground though, it just kicked off a few months ago and I think they are
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by Kelbit 8y ago
There's no contradiction. Two things are happening here. Foreigners in the US (H1B applicants) are heading up to Canada because the immigration policies are more lax. Canadian citizens from Canada are heading down to the US because the
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by Kelbit 8y ago
That already happened, to a degree. Canada's dot-com darling was Nortel, which at peak accounted for 1/3 of the total valuation on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Then the bubble burst and Nortel collapsed. A lot of institutional inve
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by Kelbit 8y ago
It was not the Bay Area, he was working in Seattle.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
I think it's more a case of VCs not being calibrated to the real cost of doing business. Canada is a first world country with a GDP per capita not much less than the states. There is plenty of wealth available that could be invested
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by Kelbit 8y ago
The real fix is to provide appropriate incentives to build a technology industry. Unfortunately, programs to date have been rife for abuse and mainly only benefit those who know how to game the system (see the scandals around IRAP/SRED
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by Kelbit 8y ago
If Canadian companies were willing to offer a competitive salary, maybe Canadian grads would stay. It doesn't even have to be 1:1 with the US, even 75% would be nice. As it is, there is little incentive to stay here. I know a new grad
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by Kelbit 8y ago
> But USB-C isn't limited to 5V, power delivery is at 20V. That might explain what's going on here (since the user reports 20V on the output) - it thinks that the peripheral is a power hungry device and it's trying to char
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by Kelbit 8y ago
As an electrical engineer - I think incidents like these are a pretty solid argument for incorporating overvoltage protection into 5V USB peripherals. Even something as simple as a zener clamp with a polyfuse to make a dead-simple crowbar
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Ultrasound processing is actually pretty niche: you have a whole bunch of channels with a very high sample rate (tens of MHz). In the case of medical ultrasound, a typical handheld ultrasound probe can have range from 50 to 150 parallel cha
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by Kelbit 8y ago
I'm not talking about serious violent crimes like child molestation or aggravated assault or murder. Those sorts of things should show up forever. I'm talking about things like petty theft, drug possession/petty trafficking
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Again, that would be similar to a credit report - here in Canada, for example, the bureaus are legally mandated to not report certain credit events after a prescribed amount of time. A similar rule could apply to background checks for emplo
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by Kelbit 8y ago
I think the intent of a background check in the context of employment is also to predict future behavior. An employer really shouldn't care that an applicant was busted for drug possession in college fifteen years ago - there's li
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by Kelbit 8y ago
I don't know why criminal record checks aren't treated similar to a credit bureau report. There is a legal time limit as to how long a bad debt or bankruptcy can stay on a report, as the people who wrote the credit reporting laws
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by Kelbit 8y ago
It's pretty amazing that some coworking spaces manage to have bad WiFi. Like, there are three requirements for a functioning coworking space: desks, meeting rooms, and internet access. Focus on those before building the cereal bar.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Quick back of the envelope calculation: Wing area of a Cessna 172 (representative GA aircraft) is 16 m^2. Best-case insolation on a sunny day with no clouds at high noon is around 1000 W/m^2. Best commercially available solar cells are
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Related to this story from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853203
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Crowdfunding campaign created to support Canadian teen accused in data breach(globalnews.ca)
1 points by Kelbit 8y ago|1 comments
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Keep us informed. I'll chip in.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
In this case, most of the documents were public, but there were a small number which had confidential information and were inappropriately stored on the public portal.
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by Kelbit 8y ago
The EU has a population of over half a billion people and a GDP per capita of $41k PPP (although those numbers will shrink a little bit post-Brexit). Ignoring Europe as a potential market ignores half the western world - and it is westerner
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by Kelbit 8y ago
Get either a Hakko FX888D or a Weller WES51. I personally prefer the Hakko, but both are excellent stations that cost under $150 which will serve you for years if you take care of them. A note - soldering stations usually come with a cheap
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by Kelbit 9y ago
Mobile number checks are almost trivial to circumvent - you can get a DID with SMS capability from a VOIP provider for under a buck, just use it once and throw it away.
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by Kelbit 9y ago
Vancouver SkyTrain opened in 1985 and was fully automated from day one. The rolling stock used on the majority of the system (Bombardier ART) was specifically designed for driverless operation. Interestingly, at the time the Vancouver SkyTr
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by Kelbit 9y ago
It wouldn't be the first time. The practice of giving diamond engagement rings was a result of a very clever marketing campaign by De Beers ("diamonds are forever"). https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/dia

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