angus77

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by angus77 16y ago
It might not be so helpful to compare salaries alone (although I've heard they're actually higher in Canada, but don't have hard statistics). Remember , Canadians do have to pay for health insurance, so even if they have smaller salaries,
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by angus77 16y ago
Exactly. Canada spends, on average, over $3000 less per student and yet consistently scores significantly higher on the UN's Education Index than the US. No need to look to Europe or the East to find out what can be done better.
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by angus77 16y ago
Are you sure that's "most parents"? The ones that have a good yell at their kids in the bedroom for their behaviour are the ones you won't hear about, and I suspect they're the majority. I know I don't expect schools to rear my children
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by angus77 16y ago
There've been a lot of updates and additions at Cliki lately, especially from Vladimir Sedach.
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by angus77 16y ago
It's a bit wonky when you use a variable-width font.
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by angus77 16y ago
It's there now.
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by angus77 16y ago
I would assume that new customers with app-less phones would be the most eager to start filling up their phones with apps---isn't that the point of buying a smartphone?
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by angus77 16y ago
Wouldn't adding yourself be a conflict of interest? Convince someone else to add you.
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by angus77 16y ago
I thought it looked cuddly.
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by angus77 16y ago
And if we removed all the oppressive health and safety rules from the heads of the poor landlords, we'd have apartments that someone could afford to live in when they make $1300 a month!
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by angus77 16y ago
I've actually tried to convince a couple of employers in the past to give me more flexible hours when it was obvious that the set hours were irrelevant (e.g. I wasn't greeting guests or waiting for phonecalls or anything). They were adaman
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by angus77 16y ago
Which is why it should be taught in school. It took me two weeks to learn to type in my late twenties. It's not like you'd ever forget the skill--or have the opportunity to forget with all the homework that needs to be done.
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by angus77 16y ago
I only learned to touch-type in my late twenties. It took my about two weeks of practising with gtypist for 20-30 minutes a day. I only type about 50-60wpm when I push myself (usually quite less), but even if you can only type 30wpm it's
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by angus77 16y ago
On the other hand, there are so many people who rely on "easy" interfaces every day whose productivity could be increased dramatically by learning the tools just a bit better. Think of how many people hunt-and-peck on their keyboards. Som
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by angus77 16y ago
Tone of voice doesn't translate well into text---I wasn't picking on you. I was just being a nerd. But just to be irritating, I don't think anyone would've added the alias, as inputting a kanji from an IME is as simple as choosing it from
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by angus77 16y ago
Possibly because it might have been a story about an actual Frenchman?
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by angus77 16y ago
As long as the articles on Women's Suffrage and Henry VIII are of appropriate length and depth, I don't see how this is a problem. Is this a contest or something?
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by angus77 16y ago
It's rare that I can't find some article about the "rest of the world" on Wikipedia that I'm looking for. What part of the world have I been overlooking?
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by angus77 16y ago
I'd never seen that site before. Too bad it wasn't around back in the Web 1.0 days---could've saved some headaches!
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by angus77 16y ago
In Japanese, you can mix word order freely as well---nouns are marked with particles ("ha" = topic marker; "wo" subject; etc etc). You can think of it as the nouns being declined, but with the declensions being completely regular. These se
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by angus77 16y ago
I don't think you'd see a Japanese caught dead using one of China's simplified characters like 让! The character you picked for "hash" (井) was cute, but the actual word used in Japanese is "ハッシュ". You're welcome.
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by angus77 16y ago
I think you mean 'remove-IF-not.
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by angus77 16y ago
I'm so disappointed that nobody's added Ford Prefect's satchel to the Satchels in Literature or Satchels in Popular Culture sections of this article.
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by angus77 16y ago
Interesting. Japan's never been a country that people would hold up as an example for gender equality, but women have always been "permitted" to own property---"permitted" as in: they never had that right taken away from them, and thus nev
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by angus77 16y ago
1) you're making the assumption one should accept something as true without the slightest shred of evidence beyond someone claiming it to be true. Well, I'm the King of Atlantis. Now the onus is on you to prove me wrong! 2) nobody said it
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by angus77 16y ago
First, you're making the assumption people have actually seen such things, rather than making up stories to draw attention to themselves. Second, a helicopter high in the sky in broad daylight would be far less freaky. Third, it's not inevi
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by angus77 16y ago
Or they could go, "Oh, wasn't that weird!" and then forget about it.
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by angus77 16y ago
After spending one's life with one worldview, how many people would just up and trade it for another? You're asking the wrong question. For instance, it's said that 99% of Japanese who attempt living abroad end up returning to Japan. Is i