beloch

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by beloch 10y ago
Calgary is demographically young and cosmopolitan. The average Calgarian came from somewhere else in Canada. Their political views reflect this. When Nenshi was elected, Toronto's media had a massive freak-out over the fact that he&
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by beloch 10y ago
A more accurate title: Half of misogynistic abuse aimed at female twitter users in the UK found to be from other women. The reality is that, in other countries, things may be very different. Also, this study in no way attempted to quantify
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by beloch 10y ago
Adams was a real word-smith. A lot of the humor in his writing comes from the sound of the words and phrases he chooses. This is one of the reason's why the 2005 hollywood movie isn't that funny. After Adams' death, it was
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by beloch 10y ago
I've tried his past recommendations and found some pretty good whiskies as a result. He's certainly guilty of a little misrepresentation. I wouldn't say he chooses the best whisky made in a given year so much as a good, usu
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by beloch 10y ago
"During the aging process, changes in heat and pressure push and pull the alcohol in and out of the wood. There is a constant back-and-forth between aldehyde and acid, until the acids accumulate en masse and turn permanently into ester
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by beloch 10y ago
The local transit-cops seem to like them for adding weight to their billy-clubs. A secondary function seems to be to make one end of the clubs light up, but a pocket LED flashlight is usually way brighter.
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by beloch 10y ago
All this needs is a way to input a real title and calculate the salary from it.
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by beloch 10y ago
One day I woke up to the usual buzzer of my decades old alarm clock and decided I would never hear that horrible thing again. I bought an alarm clock that, in theory, wakes you slowly with gradually increasing light and finally, a pleasant
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by beloch 10y ago
According to this chart, Apple spent $6B in 2014 and is projected to spend just over $10B in 2016. For comparison, in 2014 Volkswagen spent $13.5B, Samsung spent $13.4B, and Microsoft spent $10.4B. [1] Apple has, historically, not been a b
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by beloch 10y ago
Geez... And I thought brain-freeze sucks as a human!
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by beloch 11y ago
Maybe it's just all the Prince nostalgia speaking, but ever since watching the classic 1989 version of Batman, I've wondered how long you'd really be safe inside of a car during a terrorist chemical weapon attack. https:&#x2
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by beloch 11y ago
I'm curious about how the metabolic rate of these former contestants is determined. Are they confined to a lab where their dietary intake and physical activity can be accurately measured for an extended period of time? Probably not.
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by beloch 11y ago
People who build up a lot of muscle sometimes fall into odd BMI classificiations. e.g. Phil Heath, Mr. Olympia winner of 2015, is 5'9" and 250 lbs at competition weight, which would classify him as severely obese (BMI 36.9), even
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by beloch 11y ago
What other people see when they look at you is determined almost entirely by your diet. Nobody can see your muscles if they're buried under blubber. How you feel, on the other hand, is hugely impacted by your physical activities. Not o
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by beloch 11y ago
You're thinking in binary of countries as either socialist or not socialist. In reality, socialism is a spectrum, and not exclusive of capitalism. It is also a system used to different degrees in different sectors. Canada, for exam
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by beloch 11y ago
Perhaps this album just wasn't very good, and Wu-Tang (or their managers) realized they could make more money by boosting their fame with this stunt release than they would by actually releasing a crappy album.
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by beloch 11y ago
219 promises tracked: 29 achieved 15 broken 63 in progress 112 not started So he's already broken 6.8% of his total promises just 1/8th of the way through his term. That's not good. He's also broken just over h
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by beloch 11y ago
The "We're back" schtick is pure BS. Canada never left, and it remains to be seen if we do more or less internationally under the Liberals. I'd be pretty insulted by Trudeau if I was in the diplomatic service though.
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by beloch 11y ago
What was Harper's attitude on Syrian refugees? I seem to recall he said Trudeau's goal of 10000 before the end of 2015 was unrealistic, and that's exactly what it turned out to be. He was going to bring in about the same nu
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by beloch 11y ago
In Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy the job of the galactic president, Zaphod Beeblebrox, is described as being "not to wield power but to draw attention away from it". Trudeau really reminds me of this quote quite a bit. In
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by beloch 11y ago
An F-35 starts at around $100M, and that's the plane the air force is touting to take over the CAS role. Does it really cost more than $10M per infantryman killed?
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by beloch 11y ago
Yes, you're right. Average human reaction time is on the order of hundreds of milliseconds though. If you can keep latency under ten milliseconds you're probably doing pretty good, and that's reasonable over distances of a
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by beloch 11y ago
I have to agree with this, but there's nothing saying that drone operators can't be situated closer to the action. They can operate from a ship off-shore or even a nearby ground facility or plane. Realistically though, a thousand
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by beloch 11y ago
Purely on the basis of training, equipment, and investment of taxpayer dollars, a pilot's life is worth a helluva lot more than an infantryman's life, and air force pilots are probably aware of this. They're like the modern
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by beloch 11y ago
CAS is a job best done by relatively slow, but well armored aircraft flying low and slow. Pilots need to have time to develop awareness of both their allies and their enemies. Pilots of this type of mission are going to come under fire, whi
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by beloch 11y ago
The original Everquest ran a variety of different servers under different rulesets. I just checked and, suprisingly, they still do! At one point this included an unpatched version of the game as it was on release day, but no longer. At th
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by beloch 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but rm doesn't wipe data out, it just deallocates the disk space devoted to it. If you actually managed to wipe out your entire file system with rm you could likely still recover your data with a recovery
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by beloch 11y ago
So finally they admit a crime was committed. Is anyone going to jail? I didn't think so.
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by beloch 11y ago
Now that MAME and various other emulators can be used in browsers, the plethora of video-game-play videos out there strike me as a bit of a bandwidth waste. e.g. The HD stream of this video is 64 MB. The install files for the Amiga version
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by beloch 11y ago
You shouldn't necessarily assume that waiters receive a lower base salary than kitchen staff. In some places (e.g. large parts of Canada) minimum wage is minimum wage and, at lower class chain stores, waiters are paid the same hourly

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