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by drpgq 13y ago
Interesting that the ratio of Americans to Canadians is less than their respective populations.
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by drpgq 13y ago
The novel Capital by John Lanchester is a great look at a London street that was historically lower middle class but over time has become upper class.
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by drpgq 13y ago
As a Canadian, I'm curious about the international roaming.
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by drpgq 13y ago
This seems to be one of those things that are easier said than done.
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by drpgq 13y ago
Popular Crime by sabremetrician Bill James has a good chapter on Fish, plus some other American serial killers.
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by drpgq 13y ago
That certainly hasn't been the case in Canada.
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by drpgq 13y ago
A related point, that's $64K salary for people often going to a high income high cost state (California).
578.
by drpgq 13y ago
I guess 9/11 has been a benefit for Amtrak.
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by drpgq 13y ago
Canada survived Nortel's flameout, although Nokia seems even a bigger part of the economy, or at least was.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I'm surprised that getting internet widely on planes has taken as long as it has. Air Canada still has nothing.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I was wondering if that was him. Certainly reading about him over the years. I'm not surprised he's living in an RV.
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by drpgq 13y ago
We are already moving to a more and more service base economy though. People still pay in one way or another for movie or television content. Nanofactories won't change that.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I can't think the user base are going to click on any ads.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I'll be curious to see what the first steps Bezos takes.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I find the planning of the trip is often the best part. Sometimes the trip itself can be a bit trying, but you've got the memories forever. Plus you tend to remember the positive parts or laugh at the negatives (I've had my passpo
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by drpgq 13y ago
Sometimes I wish there was a charitable organization that ran ads showing depressed looking people buying lottery tickets and losing.
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by drpgq 13y ago
This is a little odd, but reminds of a project at work. I work at a face recognition company and we had a worked a bit on an attractiveness estimator. I argued that one of the uses would be for times when you actually wanted somebody plain
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by drpgq 13y ago
Well at least they've ended their unpaid interns policy.
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by drpgq 13y ago
"the article really fails to explain why lawyers don't want to have a categorical exclusion for software patents" Could it be as simple as software patents are good for lawyers and bad for almost everyone else?
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by drpgq 13y ago
I think a lot of happiness in life depends on having realistic expectations. Sometimes you need to look around and realistically assess your co-workers. Are they all great? Are they all great all the time? Do they have some flaws? There are
591.
by drpgq 13y ago
"The group said a veto would upset decades of settled expectations and undermine the enforceability of valuable patents." This would be a good thing in my opinion.
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by drpgq 13y ago
Isn't this just inevitable with social networks? Over time they become sleazier and sleazier in search of revenue?
593.
by drpgq 13y ago
I've thought about Snowden that he did more of a service for people in other countries. I mean people should assume that big US internet companies are sharing data, but to have it that obvious is useful information and not healthy for
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by drpgq 13y ago
"roughly 40 percent of the net farm income for the country normally comes from the 17 Western states" I thought this stat was kind of weird. Those 17 Western states would be huge, so the net farm income per square mile wouldn&#x27
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by drpgq 13y ago
Wow never heard the parents' employers. It's worse than I thought.
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by drpgq 13y ago
How about just increasing the costs for filing and maintaining a patent as a quick way of getting rid of some of the really weak ones? Say double the fees and see what happens.
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by drpgq 13y ago
Would this have worked out in Canada? I'm not sure. This seems like a special case where the US system works better.
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by drpgq 13y ago
That is Propecia
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by drpgq 13y ago
I'm always surprised that more billionaires don't try interesting off the wall projects when they have so much money. What's the fun of having it, if you can't have the occasional mad scientist moment.
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by drpgq 13y ago
I moved to Germany to work from Canada after finishing grad school and was amazed to find applicants put pictures on resumes there. Ironically later we made an attractiveness estimator and I suggested we use it to screen somebody applying f

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