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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
Vancouver Canada taxes foreign buyers 20% on top of the listing price and has a speculator tax of 0.5% (eventually 2%) tax on homes owned by people not paying provincial income taxes (primary residences and long-term rental properties are e
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
I would be quite surprised if you found a top-25 school that would accept community college credits 1:1. I am familiar with one of the top liberal arts schools in the US and credit transfers are most often at the discretion of the departme
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
There are services which verify education - for instance, the National Student Clearinghouse (US) provides degree verification through affiliated schools for $15 plus a varying school surcharge. For non-US schools, there are services that w
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
There is a pretty good book about the history of the Coyote - Coyote America by Dan Flores.
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by alaxsxaq 9y ago
More likely as in Rhodesian Ridgeback hunting dogs.
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by alaxsxaq 9y ago
Someone was really reaching to find meaningless superlatives. Wouldn't it be better to compare this station to stations handling similar passenger numbers? I frequently use Penn Station, Union Station (DC), and 30th Street Station (Ph
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by alaxsxaq 9y ago
They are definitely blocking access to the web site now. First, Google blocked the app because it 'didn't comply with their policies'. Then Amazon changed it so YouTube access from these devices was, essentially, directly t
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by alaxsxaq 9y ago
This is one project: https://livingtongues.org/
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by alaxsxaq 9y ago
Maybe it is my German roots, but I share the preference for cash and dislike of personal debt. More than 90% of my Brick & Morter purchases are in cash up to about $500. I stop at an ATM every couple of weeks and withdrawal $300-$500 d
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by alaxsxaq 10y ago
We've known about these risks for a very long time. In 1889, the South Fork Dam failed, after repeated concerns about its integrity, killing 2,209 people. I'm not sure about the economics, but I suspect that analysis would show
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by alaxsxaq 10y ago
Along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, there are hundreds of cabins, some now turned into year-round homes, that are on land leased in the early 1900's. In recent years, a number of issues have arisen to change the lease require
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by alaxsxaq 10y ago
Vikaura is owned by Powercast Corporation which dates back to 2003. Their primary business is making devices which use RF energy to provide DC power to low power devices - PowerHarvester is one of their products.
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by alaxsxaq 10y ago
A while ago, I read about a company in Germany that manufactured homes that were delivered flat on trucks for assembly onsite. Maybe it was this place: https://www.huf-haus.com/en.html So, these homes lack character? In the
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by alaxsxaq 10y ago
You are a bit off on the increase in auto prices. For instance, A 1978 VW Rabbit (Golf predecessor) cost around $5000. A 2016 Golf starts at $18,500. I haven't had a VW in a long time, but the Rabbit was a pretty bare bones automobi
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by alaxsxaq 11y ago
Not even close. Impressive nonetheless.
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by alaxsxaq 11y ago
Or stop buying certain things. In America, at least, political decisions are not made with the interest of the average citizen in mind. There is a strong corporate interest in getting you to buy stuff as often as possible and that heavily
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by alaxsxaq 11y ago
There are products in niche spaces (Higher Ed, for instance) that are built entirely on the Oracle platform. The one we run has a front-end that was built on the old Oracle Forms product and still runs that code on the Oracle WebLogic serv
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by alaxsxaq 11y ago
Billing alerts and learning to use the CLI largely remove the issue of ghost resource usage. If you use AWS beyond the basics, it is worth investing the time to get the CLI setup and use it in favor of the web interface.
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by alaxsxaq 11y ago
There is one advantage to ordering online for local store pickup that is worth considering. The online price can be - from my experience - cheaper than than the in-store price. I was surprised to find this on a number of different product
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by alaxsxaq 12y ago
Concussions are a serious issue being discussed in Rugby - estimates are that 1% of players will suffer from early onset dementia. Maybe more than the differences in protective gear, the reduced incidence of concussions in rugby are likely
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by alaxsxaq 12y ago
I guess I'd have to favor #2. I think the NK connection is dubious at best, but it probably best serves political interests to point the finger that way at this time in history.
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by alaxsxaq 12y ago
But, gaining consumer trust is another matter altogether. I am much more likely to purchase a 'fulfilled by Amazon' product from an unknown entity because I feel I have Amazon's guarantee that I'll be satisfied. When I
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by alaxsxaq 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how companies like Boxer 'pivot' in response to this. I started using Boxer a little while ago specifically to deal with the email-becomes-todo-item issue which Gmail generally lacked. Not sure I&#x
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by alaxsxaq 12y ago
We should fund medicine like we fund defense. Lots of innovation and lots of profits. The US has no problem spending billions developing new weapons systems or finding the $10 million per day it takes to toss bombs at a fairly low-threat
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by alaxsxaq 12y ago
I wonder if this will end up like most salmon, trout, and catfish these days - fatty, tasteless, corn-fed garbage. I used to love fish; these days the fish stocks are either threatened ocean-caught species or the typical farm-raised produc
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by alaxsxaq 13y ago
Leo Laporte - a tech radio/TV journalist, founder of the twit.tv network. Look him up on wikipedia for more.
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by alaxsxaq 13y ago
You are not really getting much of anywhere with 'your' money in the first place without the benefits you accrue from living in a civil society. Ensuring all citizens of health, housing, and education should be a basic tenant of