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by bparsons 7y ago
The wave of IPOs this month is incredible. It could either drive the bull market for another 18 months, or create the appearance of a panic by private investors looking to finally pull the chute before they hit the ground.
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by bparsons 8y ago
It is not a publicly traded stock.
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by bparsons 8y ago
It looks like the crew compartment is expanding outward before It explodes.
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by bparsons 8y ago
I think my eye is trying to bring it into focus. It is like when the camera on your phone can't quite figure out what it is looking it and keeps adjusting.
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by bparsons 8y ago
In this case, the user is fuel for the product.
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by bparsons 8y ago
Subsidizing harmful and stupid behavior is the cost of living in a non-functioning society. There is nothing wrong with having road infrastructure to move people and goods between urban centres. There is however, a lot wrong with designing
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by bparsons 8y ago
Some people use the roads a lot more than others. Those people should pay their fair share. Someone who commutes in an SUV from Fairfield to Manhattan every day should have to pay much, much higher fees than someone who rides their bike fro
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by bparsons 8y ago
Amazing that employees of Lockheed say nice things about the F-35.
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by bparsons 8y ago
They should just give him a large bug bounty.
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by bparsons 8y ago
This is wage theft. These guys will get nailed in one or many of the jurisdictions they pulled this in.
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by bparsons 8y ago
Important to note that these two authors wrote another book in 2013, claiming that Canada would never elect a Liberal government again, because of demographics or something. This was 18 months before the Liberals won a massive majority. ht
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by bparsons 8y ago
Every year you wait, the more expensive it becomes to do stuff like this. Solving hard problems is usually unpopular.
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by bparsons 8y ago
This isn't very ambitious. Ontario, which was pretty dependent on coal, managed to end it in less than a decade. https://www.ontario.ca/page/end-coal
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by bparsons 8y ago
Saw the same thing in Guangzhou. New neighborhoods the size of downtown San Francisco, and barely anyone around. A few police, the odd person riding a bike, but otherwise you could throw a bowling ball down most streets and not hit anything
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by bparsons 8y ago
CBSA uses the exact same security standards as TSA, but manages to make the airport security process much, much faster. I think it comes down to airport design and staffing resources.
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by bparsons 8y ago
The moment I could afford to, I started avoiding connecting flights in the United States wherever possible. The user experience is appalling, from parking lot to gate. I have visited places that take security very, very seriously (Israel, R
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by bparsons 8y ago
Lyft exists in the regulatory slipstream of Uber. It can focus on profitable markets, and leave it up to Uber to fight City Hall and spend the money habituating new regions to the idea of ride sharing. From a user point of view, the product
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by bparsons 8y ago
Agreed. Statutory, automatic penalties for data mishandling or negligence need to be brought in. Right now, there are few penalties, outside of a brief reputational hit, for large firms that lose control of customer data.
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by bparsons 8y ago
I remember Microsoft Space Simulator had something like 11 discs to install.
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by bparsons 8y ago
If displaying links to other websites violates the TOS, then iOS is completely broken. Whatever they are selling their customers is no longer the internet. It is a weird, hyper-monetized digital playpen.
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by bparsons 8y ago
One thing that gets overlooked by many when discussing Vancouver real estate- it is a very tiny municipality. Unlike most other North American urban centres, Vancouver resisted amalgamation with all of it's connecting cities. The resul
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by bparsons 8y ago
Interesting. Doesn't get much clearer than that.
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by bparsons 8y ago
It is possible that because of the nature of counterintelligence investigations, the individual companies agreed to gag orders while law enforcement does its work. Also, these companies want to continue to do business in China, and likely d
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by bparsons 8y ago
For anyone who goes back and forth between the US and Canada -- get a Nexus card. It is the best 80 bucks you will ever spend. You fly through security, both on land and in airports, and you even get expedited through domestic security scre
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by bparsons 8y ago
From a human performance and health point of view, yes, you need between 7-9 hrs of sleep a night. It doesn't need to be continuous or perfect, but good sleep is going to have a huge impact on your quality of life. In the short term, y
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by bparsons 8y ago
Seems like a lot of trouble to go through in order to disrupt a soccer game.
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by bparsons 8y ago
If you are a young person who doesn't come from wealth, it is a good idea to get a skilled trade certificate right out of high school. In many cases you can do it in a year, and have a good job right away. You can do that job to pay (a
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by bparsons 9y ago
What about places with no mountains? What about mobile users?
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by bparsons 9y ago
You don't even need to mention that you did small gigs. Just say you took the year off to travel. From the recruiters POV, that should be sufficient. The only concern would be that you might want to do that again in the next couple of
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by bparsons 9y ago
The flaw in these studies are the assumption that the person would not have a car unless they were an Uber/Lyft driver. This has a huge impact on the final per hour calculations. If the vehicle is a fixed cost for the person regardless

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