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by allannienhuis 5y ago
Luckily Lytton is in a semi-desert area - very dry there. Even here on the coast of BC where humidity is higher (and temps slightly lower), it's reasonably dry right now. Beach towels we put out to dry in the sun are dry in a few minut
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by allannienhuis 5y ago
I don't believe that ensuring children conformed to the current cultural norm was or is unique to Canadian schools. My mother was left-handed and was forced to write, etc with her right hand by her Dutch teachers, as were all other lef
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by allannienhuis 5y ago
pretty sure that they're talking about giving an EXTRA week of time off on top of whatever normal PTO/vaction time they have.
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by allannienhuis 5y ago
Ours did the same thing, although we generally vote on which friday it will be for the upcoming month - people often choose to line it up with another stat holiday to make 4 day weekends. I agree that the empathy part of this really means
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by allannienhuis 5y ago
Not sure where you could get citations for general cultural references like this. For what it's worth, his description of it being an insult is exactly how I understand it to be used too. Someone who thinks they are more powerful or
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by allannienhuis 5y ago
It completely depends on the vehicle, and what the charging options are where you're going. Teslas have pretty quick fast-charging options that may line up quite comfortably with ordinary travel breaks, some other vehicles may not. I
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
The whole world runs on industrial scale chemicals. Virtually everything in our modern society relies on them. They are base inputs to almost every chain of goods from foodstuffs to textiles to manufactured items of every sort. Even your v
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Our kids have moved out so there's just the two of us now. We solve the 'wait until the dishwasher is full enough' problem by simply having enough dishes and cutlery to last us the 2-3 days it takes to fill it up :) We do the
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
I have been a manager and manager-of-managers for quite a few years (many of which were WFH), and IC now. I'm curious about your statement that some might look at the behaviour describe above as "phoning it it"? I didn'
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
I've had my model y for six months now, and I have not needed to charge it away from home once yet. Yes, it's the pandemic so I'm not making long trips, but it's met my regular trip needs without compromise.
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
it's <winkey> AND <periodkey>. I tried <winkey> AND <pluskey> the first time too :)
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Their series "For all Mankind" is actually really good. Worth the subscription price on its own. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7772588/
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Perhaps you misinterpreted 'coming online'? The statement refers to NEW energy generation, with the implication that renewable/green energy sources will eventually outpace fossil fuels as old plants are decommissioned and alt
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Hey, why not have a 'company store' where people can buy everything they need right at the office instead of having to spend precious minutes travelling to some questionable generic store. Think of all the time saved. While you&
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
our emergency backup for slack is zoom. Horrible UX for group chats, but everyone already has it installed and it's quick and simple to set up a new room for each team. For temporary use you can put up with a fair bit of annoying beh
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
There were some interesting technologies before computer aided design in sign shops. When I was a kid one of my first jobs was silk-screening custom-made signs (like in those photos) and stickers. Much of it was done with light (UV?)-sens
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
An example in Vancouver, Canada https://news.ubc.ca/2016/09/15/structure-of-ubcs-tall-wood-b...
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
However, a sibling comment makes a really good point - that's exactly how we treat pharmaceuticals. We don't allow consumption (except in dire cases) until the product is proven safe (with a very conservative definition of proven
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Figma is able to import and export svg files pretty well (for my purposes) - I wonder if that's sufficient for a good number of workflows/projects? I doubt the click-through presentation stuff can be exported in any way, but basic
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
If you want to buy an existing dairy farm's quota, you can. Similar to Taxi licenses in many places, no? I think most Canadians feel that the supply-side management of dairy and some other food products works for us fairly well, and
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
I think it's fair to say that the root of most/much war is greed in one form or the other. But it doesn't work without being able to convince other people that they'll benefit from joining that cause, based on being memb
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
I'll take that as a sarcastic response and that you doubt that reducing the influence of nations would promote peace. Tribalism (Nationalism) is the cause or justification for most wars, no? Us against Them. Whether it's Nations
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
If the money comes from the public purse, they are paying for them also... Seems fair to me.
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
I don't think so - because the ranchers would still bear all of the costs of the problem of having wolves exist. Insurance doesn't transfer costs to the whole group that benefits from the existence of wolves. Having the costs com
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
I expect the amount of heat one could extract would be absolutely negligible compared the the amount of heat in a supervolcano caldera, so I doubt there would be any affect at all.
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Only some of the geothermal tech requires injection of fluids along the lines of Fracking. The article suggests for those cases the risks are lower, due to the different pressures and fluids required. Other techniques (closed-loop systems
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
Where is this? I would expect that teleoperated vehicles on public roads are not legal in most jurisdictions.
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Should Remote Compensation Be Tied to Location?(haacked.com)
18 points by allannienhuis 6y ago|19 comments
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
It's not terribly uncommon for some jurisdictions (sometimes at a municipal level) to not allow self-serve gas stations. Usually presented as a safety measure, but also an economic one (requires more employees).
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by allannienhuis 6y ago
This is the 3rd article on this blog I've read recently from beginning to end, and thoroughly enjoyed. I also just subscribed to his Patreon - it's worth supporting this quality of work.

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