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by Naga 7y ago
Sounds like its probably a Commonwealth/United States type of thing, as there is another poster here from Australia who said they know what it means. I'm from Canada and it makes perfect sense to me.
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by Naga 7y ago
As someone who lives in Quebec, I assure you that the government does not legislate what languages people can speak. They're picky about signs and menus and whatever, but you can't tell people what language to speak. There was a m
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by Naga 7y ago
I don't think that Slack's business model is that different from other companies, from a marketing perspective. Sure, they acquired you as a customer in 2014 and don't need to spend anymore on marketing, but other companies s
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by Naga 8y ago
Michael Lewis writes about him in Flash Boys, his book from a few years ago.
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by Naga 8y ago
You're right, text is a much better medium. However, at least for me, I listen to podcasts at work mostly, or when I am doing something physical like dishes, where reading is impossible (or impractical).
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by Naga 8y ago
Dozens of dollars? More like hundreds or thousands. But to your point, is all entertainment fungible? I don't think its really comparable. Magic is a competitive, fun game to play with lots of strategy and community behind it. This isn
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by Naga 8y ago
I've started using Anki for this. It's basically flash cards that are shown to you at increasing intervals in order to keep it fresh in your memory. It's made the HN front page a few times over the last year. https:/&#x
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by Naga 8y ago
Deficits implies spending, as a deficit occurs when spending is greater than receipts.
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by Naga 8y ago
The hard part is that nominally Apple is the most valuable, because it has the highest market value, but of course that doesn't take into consideration inflation. I think the general consensus is that the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
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by Naga 8y ago
That isn't a Japanese steel concern though, that's a steel manufacturing concern. U.S. Steel could do the same thing.
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by Naga 8y ago
This doesn't transfer to Canada. Calling the CRA is a chore. The agents are ill trained and often give incorrect information. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cra-blocks-cal...
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by Naga 8y ago
> Augustus chose Christianity as the state religion of Rome because it was a great tool to unify the different cultures under emperorial rule As a fellow history major, the worst thing in the world is when you make a simple error and eve
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by Naga 8y ago
If you remember, the United States declared war on Britain, not the other way around. Britain also arguably won the war since the result was status quo ante bellum, which is all that Britain wanted since they were at war with France at the
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by Naga 8y ago
Not sure about where you are from, but in Canada distances are routinely given in hours or minutes, and it always means by car unless it is specified. As in, "Toronto to Ottawa is around five hours, or an hour by plane."
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by Naga 8y ago
It truly is a shame. I was seriously considering pursuing a PhD in history and one of my professors warned me against it. I ended up geting a degree in accounting and have not regretted anything.
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by Naga 8y ago
I think that's a pretty poor way to think about the time period between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. Napoleon won many battles but ended up losing to the military and financial power of Great Britain (the so-called fiscal-milit
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by Naga 8y ago
I'd say that the difference between lots of stairs and and no stairs is enough to cause a difference in price for rent. I'd say that this is the market working as intended. Or, if you believe that it is not a big deal, you can abu
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by Naga 8y ago
I'm not as familiar with the VOC as maybe I should be, but the British East India Company actually was the government of India from 1757 to 1858, when the British state took over. Until 1858, the territory of the EIC was administered
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by Naga 8y ago
I majored in History in university. I graduated, was discouraged from grad school by my professors (one of my professors stressed that when he was doing his PhD probably ten years before our conversation, he was so poor he had to literally
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by Naga 8y ago
I switched to DDG permanently because of their other bangs. I am a baseball fan and regularly use FanGraphs to look at stats. If I google a baseball player, FanGraphs isn't even on the front page. Instead, I have news articles about hi
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by Naga 8y ago
It's a Quebec thing. I moved to Quebec a few years ago and had to buy a whole set of appliances, as every other place I lived in always came with them. Looking at other places around me as well, none of them come with appliances.
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by Naga 8y ago
I believe he was saying that it used to be much worse, not that it is like that now.
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by Naga 8y ago
As a frequent RSS user, I don't mind when feeds use links back to the main site. I personally use RSS to notify me when a new article is posted.
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by Naga 9y ago
I want to emphasize the YouTube video at the bottom of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFo0a8V-Ag As soon as I saw the headline, I knew I couldn't let a reference to my favourite band go unmentioned. It i
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by Naga 9y ago
There's other rumours (is that the right word?) that English fishermen were very familiar with the Grand Banks as well, and could have used North America as a staging group
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by Naga 9y ago
I thought this older article on airplane autopilot and its effects on pilots was relevant to be bringing up again, given the current discussions on self-driving cars.
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Should Airplanes Be Flying Themselves? (2014)(vanityfair.com)
1 points by Naga 9y ago|1 comments
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It’s weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash(theoutline.com)
70 points by Naga 9y ago|21 comments
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by Naga 9y ago
I have no problem with that. Selling used books as an individual is hard, since people will not pay a lot of money for them (since brand new books are cheap), so at least for me I find its not worth the time to sell them. At least then the
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by Naga 9y ago
I missed that article two weeks ago, thanks for linking the discussion.

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