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by dghughes 4y ago
I'd be curious how work from home trend has changed this. I think I've worn the same shirt for a month straight.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Canada is the same I can't recall the last time I used cash or coins, perhaps two decades? It's tap debit or now more frequently my phone using Google Wallet.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I see two different situations for bilingualism. One is to be raised from birth speaking two languages or as an adult learn a new language. I'd say the situation as an adult requires much more effort. The learning should help brain neu
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by dghughes 4y ago
Imagine if Rome inspired by Hindi-Arabic positional number system. We could have I, V, X, C but positional (or like binary?) as 10s. For example II would be 11 and XII would be 111. Actually I guess that should be 100 100s and one 10 and on
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by dghughes 4y ago
The recurrent laryngeal nerve too I'm not sure if it's all or most or some animals. It loops around the heart like a noob PC builder's first build and poor cable management. Giraffes have the best most extreme example of this
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by dghughes 4y ago
That's great but it seems prices of all new cars and especially EVS even with rebates are astronomically high. I don't need launch control, giant screens, self drive etc. just a basic EV under $30K with standard dash gauges.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Why vegan though and not just vegetarian? It is far less complicated and has less dogma and drama than vegan. I'm expecting the CRON (calorie restriction optimal nutrition) diet to become popular. People these days seem need to one-up
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by dghughes 4y ago
You have to wonder if that is how reincarnation concept came about. People seeing themselves in children or anyone knowing you see the same. I don't have any children I wish I did both to pass on the family line and to see myself (and
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by dghughes 4y ago
It's easy to remember (if you have to) what side port is since port has four letters just like left.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I wonder is Moby Dick soon to be banned? That reminds me there was a story from Vancouver BC that a condo refused to rent to a seafood restaurant called Moby Dick.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Back in the 1990s on IRC I was kicked when asking for help with my Matsushita CD drive.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Grocery stores traditionally or supposedly only make 1% to 3% profit. These days it's probably 1%. So I'd say 1% is a lot if it's the thing keeping the company from going under if that income disappears.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Video cameras on everything now and are so cheap and easy plus you could see yourself gasping. The sound may be too low to pick up and video may supplement the recording.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Ah yes I can see that it makes sense. But I guess I was under the impression what was meant was a small area of southern Spain and its language was more heavily affected that loanwords. Perhaps structure too not just using words for items t
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by dghughes 4y ago
>we spoke to Kali Sedgemore, a long-time harm-reduction expert in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside who also works with Vancouver Coastal Health I'm not shocked the article is from BC and even less that it was Downtown Eastside.. I thin
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by dghughes 4y ago
>words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America. >thought to be Tlaxcalan Indians, who spoke Náhuatl, the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire. Why would a dialect of Spanish in southern Spain have indigenous native A
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by dghughes 4y ago
Canada too has secret Chinese police stations https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-secret-police-stations-a... I'll go out on a limb and bet there are everywhere.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Try burning it if it catches fire it's synthetic rubber natural rubber doesn't burn but does make up 25% of tires. If the debris doesn't burn either natural rubber or brake dust or a mix. Modern brake pads are ceramic or meta
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by dghughes 4y ago
An electrical inspector would need to sign off on it and any connections to the breaker panel. An electrician would have to do that I don't have the qualifications to do that. I do have electronics technician certificate but not as an
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by dghughes 4y ago
True but right now there is a 1,000 litres of diesel in a tank in a room next to me.
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by dghughes 4y ago
I'm not a programmer but always tried to be one. Now in middle age I know I could have been one there's nothing amazing about it you just practice with guidance. Like playing a musical instrument very few people can play instantly
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by dghughes 4y ago
Here in Canada my province went through a hurricane last Sept. I was without power for 10 days. Much of the problems were due to poor maintenance; trees not trimmed, old poles not replaced, transformers old, salt spray on wires, etc. But th
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by dghughes 4y ago
>I threw out my CDs a long time ago I have a pile of CDs and my plan was to do that. Now I wonder if some are any good or if the metal coating has degraded. Some are nearly 40 years old!
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by dghughes 4y ago
Millennials blame Boomers for the economy, housing now Gen Z will blame Millennials for inventing social media. :D
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by dghughes 4y ago
I think whales are just being sarcastic. Oooo look at the floating man in the boat he's so brave ooooo
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by dghughes 4y ago
Yeah Acadian/Cajun totally unknown of /s
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by dghughes 4y ago
We have many French cultures in Canada besides Quebecois. There are Acadian people in The Maritimes they are not Quebecois many forced to flee to Louisiana and are called Cajuns. Non-Quebecois French people in Ontario and the prairies, plus
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by dghughes 4y ago
My former job of a slot machine tech would often involve setting up a slot machine. The PAR (paytable and reel) sheet had set groupings you could pick. Integrity and Compliance, local government regulators, security, management, superiors,
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by dghughes 4y ago
Florine is extremely reactive but that means whatever it reacts with should stay put. So in theory it should never degrade, breakdown, or leach out.
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by dghughes 4y ago
Maybe they should have used sponges instead :D

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