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by dade_ 7y ago
Signup process went well, and I had no problem opening the files. Formatting of the screens are a bit off and I needed to zoom out, but no immediate issues. The amusing sample data makes it worth the effort alone. Ever consider making a
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by dade_ 7y ago
Different scenario. I am expanding the work I have done in South Africa too, it works out well other than load-shedding. I get great resources that speak English with a mysterious accent in a European timezone and I pay them with Monopoly
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by dade_ 7y ago
I am surprised Google was surprised, perhaps you were working with more modern infrastructure? Commercial areas? I ran into this same problem in a the first 3 municipalities around 15 years ago when we tried deploying a street light soluti
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by dade_ 7y ago
'Companies in South Africa that deal with the government or parastatals must be empowered as required by the Preferential Procurement Act.' Business is measured by revenue, not the price of a service. I assumed it is obvious to e
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by dade_ 7y ago
'Companies in South Africa that deal with the government or parastatals must be empowered as required by the Preferential Procurement Act.' $3M USD / year turnover is a low bar these days and must apply all seven pillars of B
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by dade_ 7y ago
Government is a corrupt single party system in practice. Can't even keep the power on and the water system is in trouble. They would need a World Bank bailout for the Internet in a few years.
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by dade_ 7y ago
Load shedding lasts for hours. Generators are a big business, but they are expensive to buy and run. Keeping a good battery in your laptop is great, but the power to the wired internet infrastructure, the cell towers, etc are also cut. Y
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by dade_ 7y ago
The problem is when the cost of the electricity is higher than gasoline, sometimes far higher. This is bizarre in Canada where the gasoline taxes are very high. I have a hybrid, so I use the cheapest option, but I also see high priced cha
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by dade_ 7y ago
Please point me to the technical solution that I am avoiding.
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by dade_ 7y ago
The businesses were purchased by Avaya (enterprise) and Genband (carrier). There are support and upgrade paths available. This fact also has nothing to do with the problem.
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by dade_ 7y ago
There are many reasons: -You forward your office phone to your cell phone. You want the number of the original person calling to show up on your cell phone. This means that the office phone system needs to spoof the original caller's
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by dade_ 7y ago
I still use LinkedIN, meetup (if that counts) and kept my rarely used Twitter account. Snapchat died on its own, that is, all of my friends quit posting on it - I assume they use Instagram now, but I won't touch it. I try to keep all
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by dade_ 7y ago
You may suggest whatever you want, but people are getting into mortgages and home equity lines of credit they can't afford. One of the areas they are overspending are on renovations. If you believe this makes someone a 'good&#x2
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by dade_ 7y ago
You seem very unaware. This is no assumption: US: "Consumer debt was approaching $14-trillion after the second quarter of 2019, according to the New York Federal Reserve. It was the 20th consecutive quarter for an increase." Cana
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by dade_ 7y ago
I don't think this explains the last decade. There is also keeping up with the Joneses, which I think social media has driven people into a rabid spending rage that turns most into debt slaves. Stone kitchen counters and floors, desi
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by dade_ 7y ago
It isn't ready yet. We have come a very long way, but the hype always sets expectations - too soon for the quality and price consumers demand. Compare what was an amazing experience in 1995 with MechWarrior 2 VR ($3000 headset + $3000
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by dade_ 7y ago
One great company after another destroyed by financial shenanigans. Avaya & Silver Lake Partners is another that comes to mind, but there have been many.
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by dade_ 7y ago
I've been using mailbox.org for over a year. Very happy with the mail service - no reliability issues, supports Active Sync, built in support for PGP, works great with my own domain. They also accept bitcoin for payment. Their cloud
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by dade_ 7y ago
I find it strange that the author thinks that Dark Forest theory is implausible. It strikes me as the simplest of explanations. Granted Cixin Liu stretches physics into all sorts of implausible places, but it does make a strong argument fo
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by dade_ 7y ago
Merry Christmas! OSS donations this year: Blender, Digikam, Joplin, Calibre, VLC, Octoprint - Nudge, nudge..
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by dade_ 7y ago
G Corp Glencore 2018 Annual report: 'the recent appearance of excess levels of uranium in the cobalt hydroxide being produced at Katanga' https://goo.gl/maps/g3VS4pfhS49eduVf8
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by dade_ 7y ago
I don't see The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, I really would like to finish that game. Not sure what happened to the CDs, but I must have lost them during a move. Also, VGA Planets! Setup a server someone!
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by dade_ 7y ago
DNA evidence alone would not convince me beyond a reasonable doubt. If DNA 'positive match' wasn't already being abused as evidence then this would have little impact. DNA should only be used to prove someone is innocent (D
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by dade_ 7y ago
Private health insurance and lack of universal public health insurance that is. All doctor offices in Canada are private corporations, for whatever reason the hospitals are not and that is where the worst of our problems lay.
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by dade_ 7y ago
I assume Americans can buy them online in Canada. Quite a self-serving agenda for optometrists, but good work by their professional association.
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by dade_ 7y ago
Those that inherit it, ruthlessly protect it or try to. After all, they have no idea how to create wealth or even manage it. They have a family office for that: https://qz.com/1412024/how-to-invest-like-a-billionaire-
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by dade_ 7y ago
I didn't see anyone shitting on the streets in East Hastings in Vancouver or anywhere else in the world for that matter, but it was everywhere in SF Tenderloin.
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by dade_ 7y ago
I just got back from SF, last time was 2006. Nonexistent problem then, and when I arrived, I was unaware. It was a whole day before I realized it wasn't dog shit. I thought to myself,"I havven't seen this much dog shit sin
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by dade_ 7y ago
I disagree aboUt USB-C on a Mac, Apple has always pushed new interfaces forward. The iPhone is where the problem is, they keep refusing to retire lightning. This is one area where it just doesn't work.
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by dade_ 7y ago
I watch what NTT Research is up to, and frankly, how many startups even know anything about how to fabricate a superconductor, let alone have the facilities to create them? They have the tools to make websites and little computers with sen

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