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by Naga 9y ago
There's a dimension left out here on the Phoenix disaster: It wasn't really IBM's fault at all. The Canadian public service is really complex. There are multiple unions with multiple overlapping collective bargaining agreemen
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by Naga 9y ago
There's some research that has been done into the Little Ice Age being caused by the reforestation of the Americas after disease wiped out the populations: https://phys.org/news/2011-10-team-european-ice-age-due.ht
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by Naga 9y ago
I used to be a Walrus subscriber, but that's basically their whole shtick - well-written half articles.
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by Naga 9y ago
There is a good book on this subject that just came out: The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger ( https://www.amazon.ca/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-... ). It's about the culture inside the SEC and Justice Depar
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by Naga 9y ago
Too bad emacs just don't have a good text editor ;)
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The American Revolution isn't nearly as clear cut as that. It wasn't anti-taxation, it was anti-taxation without representation. The colonists were objecting to being taxed without having a say in the levying of the taxes. There w
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by Naga 9y ago
For accountant offices, the Big 4 are starting to roll out hotdesking, unfortunately.
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by Naga 9y ago
As per their most recent (unaudited) financial statements released May 9, 2017, they had almost $22 billion in assets. The large majority of them ($13 billion) are investments, $2.4 billion in cash and a paltry $400,000 in property plant an
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by Naga 9y ago
CanCon, as the process is known, has many problems. It has forced radio stations to constantly play the Tragically Hip as well, who I would argue deserve to be played.
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by Naga 9y ago
I recently finished reading Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner, a history of the CIA. He basically argues that the entire organization has been marked by incompetence and politics throughout history. It was really eye-opening to me to hear that
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by Naga 10y ago
It is legal to turn right on a red light in Canada, except the Isle of Montreal. It actually used to be illegal in all of Quebec until 2003.
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by Naga 10y ago
I choose to ignore serious but unlikely events like that in my planning. A nuclear exchange or grey goo scenario is going to ruin my retirement plans no matter if I keep my investments in cash or in stocks. I'll have bigger problems th
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by Naga 10y ago
That doesn't mean Canada pays for them, it means that income spent on relocating is not taxed.
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by Naga 10y ago
This is actually quite interesting. I used to work in a bookstore and as a productivity measure we would shelve books mostly without checking which section they belonged in. Turns out it is pretty easy to tell based only on the cover.
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by Naga 10y ago
It's hard to argue against a Stan Rogers reference on the internet. This is a great time to be a fan of exploration. The raising of the Maud, the discovery of the Terror and Erebus. I never thought I'd be alive for such momentous
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by Naga 10y ago
Maybe now I can get access to my account. I forgot my password and tried to jump through their hoops to reaccess my account. They involved calling the support department during business hours. It was the holiday season, so I just gave up.
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by Naga 10y ago
You know, I think it's a myth that they aren't popular there. They're no Rolling Stones, but they still fill concert halls and festivals! But they never sold their souls to the States and they seem very proud of it.
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by Naga 10y ago
Accounting standards have pretty strict requirements when it comes to intangible assets. There is a whole list of criteria that development costs need to meet to be capitalized, and that is for actual products. The problem with lobbying as
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by Naga 10y ago
I'm younger than you and I own two TVs. I just don't subscribe to a cable package. I used to watch everything on my desktop, but now I usually find my couch is comfier.
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by Naga 10y ago
I meant it is a strange way of referring to items given away for free.
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by Naga 10y ago
Revenue deferral is a very strange term. What basically happened is Microsoft claims Windows 10 is free and gives it away to everyone, hence the non-GAAP income. However, under GAAP, they are not actually giving Windows 10 away for free. In
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by Naga 10y ago
Revenue and income mean different things. Revenue specifically means sales (sorta) and income is generally after cost of goods sold and other operating expenses. These matter, though. A company can have high revenue and low profit, or vice
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by Naga 10y ago
I'm on mobile now so I appreciate being able to read the abstract without loading a whole PDF.
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I don't think he will necessary go down as the worst leader, but his name is going to be tarred with being the prime minister who started the dissolution of the United Kingdom.
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by Naga 10y ago
You're right. Difficult was probably the wrong word. It would open the door to too many overstatements if companies could value their own brands.
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by Naga 10y ago
Accounting is actually very different today than it was ten years ago. The rise of spreadsheets has made things possible that wouldn't have been when manual calculation was necessary. What is unfortunate are that estimates are required
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by Naga 11y ago
This is a great idea. I work at an electronics retailer and teenage girls go crazy for Instax. I bet this will be even bigger.
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by Naga 11y ago
Yeah, it's a strange complaint since in English word the word for joining two ropes is also splicing.
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Pretty much, yeah. Managerial 101 builds on introductory financial reporting. The biggest difference between them are the intended users. While financial accounting is all about accurately stating your financial position for tax authorities
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It's definitely a good article (as most articles from Bloomberg are). It just has a terrible title which implies an entirely different article.

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