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by canadian_voter 10y ago
It really depends where you're coming from and where you've been. If your a former Prime Minister of an allied nation, you'll probably only be detained an hour[0]. Otherwise your mileage may vary[1]. Your local authorities ca
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
NEWS FLASH: Billionaire gets what they want by spending millions of dollars I think it helps to imagine Peter Thiel as a comic book supervillain. He wants to live forever, so of course he's going to have a remote HQ to flee to in a
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Move fast and donate to non-profit organizations? That looks a lot more like "taking a stand" than Travis Kalanick's: We are working out a process to identify these drivers and compensate them pro bono during the next three
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Hotel management said that they have now been hit three times by cybercriminals who this time managed to take down the entire key system. The guests could no longer get in or out of the hotel rooms and new key cards could not be programmed
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Nonetheless, Mr. Trump asserts that he still has the power to discriminate, pointing to a 1952 law that allows the president the ability to “suspend the entry” of “any class of aliens” that he finds are detrimental to the interest of the U
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
"It's a fake!" -- In the Pale Moonlight , Deep Space 9 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is bad enough. Imagine if we could fabricate audio and video. Did you ever see The Contender ? It's about the vetting of a po
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
why are we controlling other people with laws Right now the USA is subsidizing the corn industry to the tune of billions of dollars a year. 5-10% of that corn gets turned in to sweeteners. Why are we taxing honest, hard-working Americans
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
I'd rather live in a country that provides comprehensive free health care and limits soda consumption, than one that allows me the "freedom" to consume as much sugar as possible and makes me pay for the consequences. I must b
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Wow! Much more nuanced, deep and balanced than I was expecting. I'm having a damned hard time hiring enough marketing talent, but otherwise things are going swimmingly! :) Edit: x5.93 from hype -- Revenue Projections: $3,122,597 !! Tim
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Diamandis took the stage to tell the class that the key to understanding the future is to realize that technology is set to make things such as energy, food, health care, and Internet access abundant and cheap. -- from the article "
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Your organizing principle is simple: don’t feed polarization, disarm it. This is so important. Samantha Bee can't stop making piss jokes about Trump. That's not going to win anyone over. Nina Donovan's poem, recited by Ashl
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. -- Donald Trump via Twitter, Nov. 2012 [Source: https://www.google.ca/search?q=twitter+trump+china+hoax&
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Everyone tells me that I shouldn't let my kids use phones/iPads/TVs/Nintendo for too long, but I just don't know what else they would do all day There are thousands of activities kids can do, depending on their ag
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Eventually we'll just have to live knowing just about everything about us is known but that that knowledge cannot be held against the individual, in a legal manner. That's the optimistic endgame. I don't think there is a te
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Perhaps, In the end, the best piece of software is the one you never had to build in the first place. -- The Article Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to alw
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Also, few bigs target small business because, let's be honest, they're a pain to work with at scale Absolutely. A big business has the clout to request features and demand support. A small business might not even be able to get
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
“We believe that we live in the ‘age of information'. That there has been an information ‘explosion,’ an information ‘revolution.’ While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
The Folio Society, Franklin Library, Limited Editions Club and other very nice editions are super popular. We'd sell more, but some people are shocked at the thought of paying $30-$80 for a single (second-hand) book. Some people are sa
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Is it a political move? How couldn't it be? They're hiring 100,000 people because they can put them to work and make a profit. They NOT hiring 100,000 people to make Trump happy or make favors in the administration.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Well the market apparently disagrees with you. Ebook growth is flat or falling. People buy 5 traditional books for every ebook sold. Ebooks have their place. People tell me they like to take them on vacation as backup. I figure half our cus
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Get her a hip belt so the weight isn't resting on her shoulders?
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Talk to the staff. Tell them what you're interested in. But also buy a book or two. I listen a lot closer to the customer that complains and buys a stack, than to the "customer" that tells me I have the nicest bookstore they&
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Well, it's no Of Mice and Men , but: - Steinbeck is a major American writer (Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize). I feel like any library should have a complete collection of his works, if possible. - He wrote a sequel called Sweet Thursday.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
It's absolutely valuable to have a place to find obscure books... but a community public library isn't that place, and isn't intended to be that place. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a classic, award-winning and relevant
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
and circulation numbers are the strongest signal that a book is valuable I disagree. A book might go out once and chance someone's life. Another might go out a hundred times and sit unread, or have a negligible impact. An algorithm c
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> He says his aim was actually to save the library money in the long run, by not having to repurchase books which often go in and out of fashion with readers. One of Finley’s choices, for instance, was John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row.” Any
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Candian numbers, in case anyone is curious: In 2013/2014, 63% of all cases completed in adult criminal court resulted in a finding of guilt. This proportion has remained relatively stable over the past ten years. In 2013/2014, 32
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
<blockquote> Garygoyles represent the embarrasing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into seperate modules that hang on the waist, on the back,
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
The National Health Service? That's communism, silly. And communism is bad. More seriously, the American people just don't trust their government to be competent or efficient. Only about 20% describe government programs as "w
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Oh god, this reminds me of the time I told Bram Cohen that Bit Torrent would never work. Of course, I just didn't understand what he was trying to do. Face, meet egg.

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