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by bshipp 5y ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
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by bshipp 5y ago
50%+ of Canadians live south of the 45th parallel. However, that's only a minute fraction of Canada's land area. I've driven the road between Baie-Comeau, Quebec, and Labrador City, NL/Labrador. Seven hours at 100km&#
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by bshipp 5y ago
I enjoyed this comment. Our Canadian defensive strategy is to simply keep walking away from the attackers. I remain convinced here are many places in Canada that no human has yet laid eyes on. We have forest fires in the northwest territor
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Agreed. Even when the forces were more balanced and Hitler had declared war on the USA the German army never stepped foot on the lower 48. the closest they got a few uboats picking off merchant shipping but even that was pushed back after
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Thank you so much for the clarification as this is definitely not my area of expertise. It's heartening to hear that, subsidies aside, the US is managing to maintain significant capacity for domestic production, and it's increasi
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by bshipp 5y ago
I'm Canadian (although on a clear day I'm almost close enough to see Ohio across Lake Erie) and I'm in complete agreement with you. Everyone in the USA should be utterly ecstatic that Intel is building a large domestic chip p
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by bshipp 5y ago
My experience as well. Self host email if you want most of your messages to end up in spam...that's even if your ISP allows a self-hosted email server on their network. Read the fine print first. But pretty much everything else is sup
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by bshipp 5y ago
The issue is, honestly, the free-rider effect. It's too difficult for an entrepreneur to get paid unless they resolve a specific problem in such a way that they can demonstrate value to a customer. The only thing that will generally
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by bshipp 5y ago
I remember that song from 2008. I'm still very bitter about it. Fine, be too big to fail. But why do they get treated any differently than a small bank in Kansas that gets upside-down and needs the FDIC to roll in and take it over? As
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by bshipp 5y ago
> Without even trying to tackle the real elephant in the room: climate change. I've never been a climate change denier but I had secretly hoped it would occur slow enough that our economy could possibly adjust for it, over time. Jud
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by bshipp 5y ago
2. Change the image to Ann Frank Except for, perhaps, the posters purchased outside of Parliament. Directly across the street they should put up a billboard showing the logos of all the Cayman Islands banks.
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by bshipp 5y ago
We are going on over two decades of almost continuous quantitative easing, starting with Greenspan after the dot-com burst, going nuclear under Paulson/Bernanke in 2008/9, and then continuing to increase over the past decade and a
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by bshipp 5y ago
Anonymizing datasets is time consuming and would take resources away from the FDA to implement, instead of doing it themselves. I have no doubt people want to help but the only way they really could would be to sign a contract with someone
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by bshipp 5y ago
You probably live near one of the few containerized ports. Sorry, I missed your response. I live near the lane between Detroit and Montreal. In the middle there's a very large intermodel yard north of Toronto. So 90% of what
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by bshipp 5y ago
It's polite, pedantic, and incredibly useful digressions like this which keep me coming back to HN. I had no idea this homonym could describe two separate actions (i.e. casting a broad net to grab whatever is in the path vs. a systemat
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by bshipp 5y ago
Yes, yes I did. I'm not even sure I can blame that on autocorrect. EDIT: As an aside, I didn't realize there's no strikethrough option for text on HN. For anyone else who wants to hide their shame without ninja editing, I fou
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by bshipp 5y ago
> Can we talk about how cool the Wayback Machine Compare feature is? I consider myself an Internet Archive power-user; I spend hours playing with CDX queries, t̶r̶o̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ trawling the archive for interesting tidbits that have been
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by bshipp 5y ago
I adore rclone and am shocked every day when it just keeps working. I figured Google would have staked it through the heart years ago.
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by bshipp 5y ago
It's been years since I've seen a boxcar in an actual train. All the trains I see have double-container cars these days but hardly ever an old-school boxcar. They're as rare as a caboose. I remember helping a local factory
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by bshipp 5y ago
Indeed, you are correct. A lot of these lessons came hard-earned from doing it the wrong way first. I thought I was being such a good little programmer by normalizing my data as soon as possible. All it did was provide me job security (at
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by bshipp 5y ago
> SQLite-as-the-store pattern I remain consistently amazed at what one can do with lowly little SQLite. I can't count the number of times I struggled with some scripts performance issues when handling a large amount of data that ca
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by bshipp 5y ago
I'm a huge supporter of PGhero ( https://github.com/ankane/pghero ) for this reason. Sometimes a single index is all that's required, but if DB design isn't your forte it's hard to know where to put
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by bshipp 5y ago
until Postgres added JSON fields I would have retorted that nosql is really handy for scraping purposes, when you just want to grab and store the collected data, which you then parse with another specific program into a relational database
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I tend to agree that dates and times are awful to work with but storing everything as a Unix timestamp still seems to be the easiest way to avoid most of the headaches, in my experience. there's nothing worse than trying to reconcile
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by bshipp 5y ago
I am one of those lucky 10,000 today. I've been puttering around for years but never really paid much attention to APKs because I hate working on my phone. I am going to play around with this to check out why some Google store apps te
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by bshipp 5y ago
And from JP Morgan, of all companies. One of the numerous investment houses that took government bailout money and used it to give all their staff giant bonuses in 2008 and 2009.
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"Adrian Guerrero, director of public affairs for UP, revealed the following in a letter to far-left L.A. District Attorney George Gascon" This does not sound like a very balanced article and I'm only a few sentences in.
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by bshipp 5y ago
I think the same story has been posted to Reddit every day since it first went up as well. Either that or they're using a very common stock image.
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I'm fairly certain record companies have been a decade behind evolving technology since the late 70s, probably earlier. If their claims were valid they should have all collapsed in ruin 20 years ago.
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by bshipp 5y ago
What seems to be missing in the article is a reference to the Jack-in-the-box ecoli outbreak, BSE, and a number of other food safety outbreaks that dramatically impacted small abattoirs. I watched a friend close up his small butcher shop wh

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