bryanlarsen

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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
The heavy oil refineries are generally near the Gulf and in the Midwest, so that's where the Canadian oil goes.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Down the drain? Firefox is still a great browser.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Being dependent on a direct competitor is not a comfortable position to be in. It's ameliorated significantly by Chromium being open source, but not completely.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
The third of the people who didn't vote are culpable.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Inflation in Canada is currently right at their 2% target rate so they are unlikely to raise ... this time.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
bwb is likely referring to the likelihood that this will send Trump into a tremendous rage.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
It's a mixed bag. A European or Canadian company generally builds products for export from day one, giving them a market size of 8B and avoiding surprising and expensive footguns the American company hits when trying to expand outsid
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Because there is a significant amount of externalized costs we should increase the impedance: taxes, banning/regulating advertising, cooling off periods, limits, et cetera.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Ground News itself is right wing propaganda.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
It's fairly safe to assume that most outages occur at the worst time possible. They tend to occur at times of high load.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Somebody with the username "nutjob2" probably chose the username because he has opinions outside the Overton window. But in my experience there definitely are Europeans with that view. WW2 left some deep impressions about the da
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Favorable spin? The article's point is that "12 hours a month" makes the cost very obvious, and I agree with the article.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Agreed, it is a weird way of saying that. But it is basically what I'm saying. I used the word "endorsed", not "voted". The distinction does matter. Only about 25% of the voting age public voted for Trump. Almo
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
France too, but since they set their minimum at 30 + May 1st it basically comes out in the wash.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
I know several people who think oil pump jacks are pretty but wind turbines are ugly. Myself, I did a bike tour of Denmark in 2006 partially to see the wind turbines...
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
His title is "His Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith" but he ca
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
AFAICT many EU nations let stat holidays count towards the paid time off allowance. Ontario has 9 stat holidays. 10 paid days off guaranteed + 9 stat holidays is pretty close to the 20 required by Europe's paid time off guarantees.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
There are two very different positions: - America will stop being a superpower - America will stop being the superpower, the only one There was a point after the fall of the Berlin wall and before China joined the WTO (and for an indete
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
You're probably right, but it doesn't have to be. The news today about Canada and the EU is heartening.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
The US is the opt-in system where the States regulate everything not specifically allocated to the federation and Canada is the opt-out system where the federal government regulates everything not specifically allocated to the provinces. Of
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Yanukovych was elected in 2010 promising "economic modernisation, greater economic ties with the EU, and military non-alignment." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych ). His backsliding on those
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Newsom is on the record stating he wouldn't undo all of the tariffs if he becomes president in 2028. And he's a leading Democratic candidate for the position.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
> I'm willing to bet that a larger number would support immigration from EU nations. Especially if it was a reciprocal right.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Canada gained the right to remove the king in 1982. It would require unanimous consent from Parliament and all 10 provinces.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
44% of Canadians support re-opening immigration; I'm willing to bet that a larger number would support immigration from EU nations.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
It was 49.9% vs 48.3%. The 1.8% of people voting for a 3rd party candidate and those who didn't vote were implicitly endorsing Trump.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
American government deficits are far larger than European or Canadian deficits. It's not the Europeans who are running out of money.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
China has a reasonable claim to Outer Manchuria, which includes Vladivostok; the treaties giving it up were signed under duress. But that's a far cry from all of Siberia. Siberia has not been treated well by the Russian or Soviet
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
Both Russia and China are observer states within the non-aligned movement.
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by bryanlarsen 10d ago
I recently read a survey of 14 promising new technologies: AI, EV's, drones, robots, batteries, et cetera. China was leading in 13/14, and is only 4 months behind on the 14th, AI.

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