christinamltn

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by christinamltn 4y ago
The outage took down some CBC stations https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6514376
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by christinamltn 4y ago
Very few of them have offered decent service at good prices. Usually outside of ~5 major metros you have effectively no coverage and speeds are often subpar compared to the incumbents.
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by christinamltn 5y ago
They stopped making machines he could repair and parts for the few that he could. I fondly remember the actual Maytag repairman coming to my parents’ house when I was a child (he also did Kenmore and a few other brands). And the subsequent
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by christinamltn 5y ago
There isn’t always symmetry in the tax status of various elements. The US doesn’t recognize Canadian Tax Free Savings Accounts (similar to Roth IRAs) so you can’t benefit from them without being taxed in the US.
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by christinamltn 6y ago
100% plus future losses that could be attributed to loss of career progression during those years. I’ve known people who paid nearly 100% of their salary to childcare after tax but determined it would be countered by future raises and leave
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by christinamltn 6y ago
There are common convertible seats which are legal for infants (e.g., Chicco NextFit & Britax Clicktight have a 5lb min weight, Graco 4ever goes down to 4lbs, the Clek seats have an add-on to go down to 5lbs). An infant-specific seat is
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by christinamltn 6y ago
Mortgages where the amortization period and the term are equal are extremely rare in Canada. Most Canadian fix their interest for a term of 5 years (at a fixed rate or a fixed deviation from the prime rate).
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by christinamltn 6y ago
But right now you very often can’t apply money to fix these problems.
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by christinamltn 6y ago
It most certainly was for quite a while where I am (Ontario, Canada). For months we were told to only be in close proximity to those we already lived with. IIRC it was 2 steps on the "start to relax recommendations" path before a
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by christinamltn 6y ago
If it was ambiguous, these digital tests may have told you it was negative even when it would be positive a day or two later. You might have slept better but it wouldn’t have been based on accurate data.
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by christinamltn 6y ago
This is correct except the 0-2 months. Even if you accept dating a pregnancy as starting at the start of your previous cycle, these tests will be positive before your next cycle would have started. The typical “is this a positive test” is a
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by christinamltn 7y ago
Not always. They will spoof legitimate numbers that they don't own. If you call them back you'll usually get some very confused person who just got a bunch of calls accusing them of making spam calls.
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by christinamltn 8y ago
I always called it the "right of weight". https://medium.com/@wacht043/right-of-weightt-73ce08f67d98
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by christinamltn 8y ago
> Although I am not sure how it actually plays out in practice. Radar reflectors are generally legally required on sailboats where it would matter. Offshore most sailboats are outfitted with AIS transceivers and it's legally require
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by christinamltn 8y ago
The problem with Fentanyl is dosage. It's really concentrated so if the manufacturing or separation into portions isn't well controlled then it's easy to end up with a much higher dose than expected. In a hospital with a know
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by christinamltn 8y ago
I've known people who chose to work even though most of their income was going to daycare, commuting costs, etc. The argument was that in 3-5 years when the kids are in school they'd be another rank or 2 up the ladder and their ne
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by christinamltn 8y ago
My gallbladder removal 5 years ago was outpatient surgery. I went in around 7am and was home on the couch by mid afternoon. Gave up the serious pain meds the next day since the side effects (zero attention span) were more annoying than the
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by christinamltn 8y ago
Those stats don't imply anything about fertility rates. IVF has gotten far more accessible and affordable since the early 1980s. The 1 in 8 stat was likely just as true in 1984, it just meant they'd been trying for a year without
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by christinamltn 9y ago
They explicitly said you could leave your phone at home while running errands and not worry about being out of reach. You need a phone for the cellular plan but not to use the watch as a phone.
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by christinamltn 9y ago
You may not need to physically hold the wheel but someone does have to be awake on watch at all times, even with radar & AIS.
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by christinamltn 9y ago
He did: > I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and
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by christinamltn 9y ago
Your conclusion isn't quite what your reference says. Hormones in the water supply are definitely a problem but the majority of women in the West are not on birth control pills. The 98% and 62% stats include all forms for birth contr
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by christinamltn 9y ago
I used that for a project where the core business logic was shared with an iOS app (which was fairly simple but verbose C++ generated from CSV files provided by a researcher). Alchemy wasn't very well documented initially but worked ju
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by christinamltn 9y ago
For 1st year enrollment, CompEng is currently around 16% female. SyDe is 46%. Engineering overall 30%. https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/about/faculty-engineering-s...
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by christinamltn 11y ago
Rob Walling did this and write/talks a lot about how to do it: http://www.softwarebyrob.com