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by Naga 6y ago
I thought it was strange that they highlighted that sentence as well since the rest of the article goes on to dispute that. I'm guessing whoever made the excepts didn't read the rest very well.
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by Naga 6y ago
An older, maybe more impressive example (just because of the age of it, or maybe because of my interest in it) is the hydrological systems built in Rome itself. I'll have to dig out the book I read this out of, but there is some eviden
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by Naga 6y ago
This doesn't solve the direct issue, but I use emacs --daemon and either use it to edit files on other computers, or ssh into my main computer to access the daemon directly. It really simplified my workflow trying to get configurations
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by Naga 6y ago
Makes sense. I'm a CPA working in audit, and see a huge untapped market. The dirty secret of the audit industry is, at least outside Big 4, the way audit is done is largely the same as it would have been in the 80s - except with Excel.
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by Naga 6y ago
The Avro Arrow being destroyed is a meme in Canada, but there's a lot of questions at least in the historical community on whether that was a blessing in disguise. The state of the art was rapidly moving away from bombers coming over t
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by Naga 6y ago
There's a lot of legends like that in the Isles. For example, the first King of Britain is supposed to have been Brutus of Troy, descendant of Aeneas. The easiest explanation is that there is a great incentive on behalf of rulers to cl
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by Naga 6y ago
I agree completely with your points, and I'm sorry be that guy, but "literally retarded" is offensive language and is frankly below the level of discourse of HN. I'm not one to be the PC police but really, come on. You c
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by Naga 6y ago
I would love suggestions of French language sites! I have found them quiet hard to find, especially of a more than surface level discussion.
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by Naga 6y ago
I forgot about these until this post. I used to have one when they came out, and I worked at a retail store where all of our kiosks had these. Does anyone else get electric shocks often from them? I would get them anytime I touched the meta
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by Naga 6y ago
Is it? You've taken two facts (1. Interface redesign and 2. 50% growth last year) and assigned causation to the first. In my persepctive, reddit has been digging into the cultural psyche for a long time and has been growing steadily. T
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by Naga 6y ago
There's an attitude on HN that "my bosses who know and study business are idiots and don't understand anything about tech", usually in terms of either wanting bosses to get out of the way or improve themselves so they ar
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by Naga 6y ago
As a native English, but non-Apple user, you're right this is confusing nomenclature, but I intuited what it was supposed to mean.
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by Naga 6y ago
The performance critical parts of emacs actually are written in C, such as the low-level primitive functions.
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by Naga 6y ago
The purpose of financial statements is to provide value to the users. It should be assumed that assets equal liabilities and equity. There's value in providing a separate liability total, since it gives a snapshot of the financial posi
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by Naga 6y ago
I live here in Ontario, and you're right the sky did not fall. The rounding isn't a big deal really, even on scale. It rounds to the nearest nickel, which is or is not in favour of the consumer/business. For example, $2.07 ro
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by Naga 6y ago
Mostly off-topic, but relevant to another famous meridian is a song by my favourite band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFo0a8V-Ag
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by Naga 6y ago
To be fair, where I'm from, "London" would probably refer to London, ON, but that's just because I live in Southern Ontario. So it's not like no one has heard of it. On the other hand: no one in Southern Ontario w
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by Naga 7y ago
You're probably thinking just of the US, because Alexander Mackenzie crossed North America first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer)
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by Naga 7y ago
What are those hardcore players playing now instead then?
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by Naga 7y ago
On Canada, generally yes, it is.
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by Naga 7y ago
A good opportunity is here to rep my favourite band, with a relevant song: Daredevil, by the Tragically Hip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K1EnQeAviU
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by Naga 7y ago
What a great combination. I didn't know it existed! I discovered Purdy through Downie years ago, but didn't know about this. I'm still in such grief over Downie dying just over two years ago, which is strange for a man that I
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by Naga 7y ago
I don't think that's fair to Amtrak. In Canada, Via Rail also fails to deliver the service that works everywhere else in the world.
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by Naga 7y ago
That's definitely not true. I'm not an expert in US tax law, but there are a number of important differences between accounting and tax income/expenses: * Fines, as other people have stated, are usually not deductible. They a
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by Naga 7y ago
With anything with double entry bookkeeping, you can book an expense each month for $200 for clothing and have a liability account set up as a clothing reserve account. Then you would have a built up total over time, less anything you purch
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by Naga 7y ago
For what its worth, I'm an accountant in my day job and our software doesn't differentiate between debits and credits. Debits are positive and credits are negative. You get used to it seeing it all the time.
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by Naga 7y ago
Taxes are assessed at a percentage of income. If a fine is deductible, you have lower income, and your taxes are lower, yes. But you paid the government for that right! If your tax rate is 30% and you pay a $1000 fine, you save $300 in taxe
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by Naga 7y ago
For what it's worth, I use this app on a daily basis and haven't found any deceptive behaviour. It's pretty annoying that now I have to download the APK from his website instead of the Play Store, so thanks for that Google.
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by Naga 7y ago
The Canadian flag was also the Union Jack until 1965!
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by Naga 7y ago
Canada was actually the big brother of the Commonwealth. It was considered to be the "Eldest Daughter" of Britain. Remember, all the other dominions were in worse positions than Canada.

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