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by bbarnett 5y ago
Trash content alway existed. Always. AltaVista was all spam results when Google came on the scene. From where I sit, Google just doesn't care to work on search any more. For example: - pre 2005?, Google search terms were never aliase
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Can you remove the tape sealing closed your Amazon shipment with a chainsaw? Maybe, but you'd better be amazingly skilled with that chainsaw or it'll be very frustrating. Youtube video coming soon...
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I think a nuclear plant decommissioning was the start of Ontario's problems. I hope yours go better, but each government blamed the prior, yet helpfully fixed nothing. Democracy is the way to go, yet sucks for long term projects. Espe
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by bbarnett 5y ago
In Ontario, 6 successive government of all political stripes, one after another did nothing, leaving the grid burning coal and ng. Plants planned and canceled, one mess up after another, again all political parties the same mess. It is inde
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Steel is reused, car wreckers strip cars, crush the steel, and off it goes to be made into girders or something. What's more worrying is battery recycling. Toxoc batteries. So far, The West's plan has been to ship them to poor c
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by bbarnett 5y ago
People talk about hooking cars up to the grid, and charging them during times of excess power, and then selling that power back during peak. Yet, that shorten battery lifespan a lot (imagine a car charged weekly to get around town, now di
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by bbarnett 5y ago
One thing. What happens to the power grid, if power needs double? Certainly, new power plant construction, even if green, will be financed by additional cost to the consumer.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Like at the end of Office Space? Desk jobs are fine, but can also be mind sapping horror shows. And who feels justified, working for 1/2 or 1/3rd what most peers are making?
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by bbarnett 5y ago
It's the same with many things. Lawyers, doctors, etc. This comes from a long line of trade houses, literally spanning back 1000s of years. Trades have regulated themselves since before governments existed.
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I watched this documentary when young, the computer thought it was all a game?
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by bbarnett 5y ago
As it was a British show, things Crazy America does probably doesn't apply.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I can't imagine any software dev, working for 30k in Canada. That's close to minimum wage in most provinces, even poverty level in many cities.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
You don't write networking code, just for kicks and giggles. The new Audacity owners (named elsewhere) are moving in a certain direction. A potentially unpleasant one. We should be doing as this post is, keeping an eye on each strang
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Maybe they think they're Oracle.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Many people are asymptomatic. A 5x number is likely low. The only way to really know, would have been have worldwide, forced testing of every single person, weekly. EG billions of test per week. There were no tests at the start, not enough
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Two things. Outside of the excessive dev costs, and high price tags of these things, ongoing, year after year, institutional knowledge of "how to construct weaponry", and "how to test / build" the same is absolutely
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Taxing billionaire can generate additional revenue, bit it is nothing compared to corporate taxes.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Even the fisherman's tale of how big the fish was, applies. Some guy with a sword kills a big croc, which is a good feat! Yet each telling the croc is bigger, more fierce, especially as the alcohol flows. His grandkids hear the story
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by bbarnett 5y ago
What grinds my gears, is a company which has "important info" emails you cannot opt out of, but then it is still 95% spam. My bank tried this during the start of the pandemic. Yeah, that kind of scummy. "How to get CERB! Al
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I guess it depends where you live. In Canada, more women have University degrees than men. It's been that way for a while. And outside the US, university can cost, but isn't a back breaker. Or it's free. I wonder how much
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by bbarnett 5y ago
If you manage to build a large enough empire, then... and only then, can you make the world a better place.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Black radiates heat faster than white too...
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by bbarnett 5y ago
No? From article: That was set in two towns in Saskatchewan - Yellow Grass and Midale - back in July 1937 at a balmy 45C (113F) Weather moves in cycles longer than human lives. You cannot rely upon personal experience, to know of local weat
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by bbarnett 5y ago
You can never trust anything on the client though. You must assume everything the client says is a lie, the browser itself, the OS, everything.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
This sounds grand, but I Googled, and couldn't find a provider/source, where do you buy?
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by bbarnett 5y ago
To help you conceptualize this as not a problem, I'd say you'd be in the same boat with anything. Many hobbies take time to prep, do, then clean up after. EG, working on a car/boat, working with hands, or really many hobbies
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I've heard of these, but never seen them in use (Quebec). Probably due to risks, as local law says (when using barcodes, without prices on each prooduct): Rules of the Accurate Pricing Policy If the pricing error involves a product t
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Some people really care about pricing, others don't. There are 'bargin' stores in my area, and higher end stores. The higher end stores have lots more bio stuff to buy, and other fancy goods, but also stock major brands of e
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The future life and times of consumer us.
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I've heard this is more due to the US's religious 'puritan' roots. Back in the 70s, as an example, Canadian broadcast TV used to censor violence quite a bit, yet not nudity as much. The US was the reverse, with violence

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