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by drpgq 14y ago
Well that explains some of the weirdness I've seen for hotels that Expedia said were booked out where it didn't seem likely (dead season).
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by drpgq 14y ago
IEEE-USA is for this bill? I always thought they were in the camp that this drives down tech wages and promotes ageism.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I have to say I'm skeptical about this, although a Saudi Arabia decline in production could make it possible.
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by drpgq 14y ago
What I find weird about this (as a Canadian) is that in Germany the standard seems to be to include a photo in your application.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I didn't say everyone.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I was actually expecting something more along these lines. Such as pointing out faculty don't necessarily have your best interests at heart.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Does the toothpaste on the headlights actually work? I just paid $99 to my mechanic to use some 3M thing to fix the headlights on my 04 Hyundai Accent that were quite clouded over.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Is it really surprising that Hacker News doesn't care about Pinterest?
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by drpgq 14y ago
I had some pretty bad RSI where I had to take a couple of months off so I don't think the risk is nothing.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Wouldn't that be considered their own apps?
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by drpgq 14y ago
Wait are you saying that there are fewer people working in health care in the US compared to STEM? I don't think that's true at all.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I'd be curious to know pg's opinion on the Samwer brothers.
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Top Canadian scientist and student caught in ‘blatant plagiarism’ of text(news.nationalpost.com)
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by drpgq 14y ago
I'm a researcher at a face recognition company. Big sunglasses do a good job.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Why does it have to be about brilliance. The US armed forces is one of the bigger users of IQ tests and has plenty of data showing higher IQ scores leads to better performance.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Anyone one know the state of software patents for Canada?
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by drpgq 14y ago
I had Pandora in Canada years ago.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Thanks, I'll have to check that article out.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I know the NFL gives the Wonderlic to potential draft choices. I guess they must have done some tests showing Wonderlic is useful to get around disparate impact.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Something similar is bar trivia leagues. I see people weekly that I wouldn't necessarily without our team.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I'm a research scientist at Cognitec. We've been around for over ten years now (just celebrated our tenth anniversary in June). If you're interested in face recognition, I suggest checking us out. We offer an SDK rather than an API usually
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by drpgq 14y ago
I do enjoy watching the lawyer who drafted the letter squirm. Hopefully other lawyers will take note.
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by drpgq 14y ago
I do wonder just how much Airbnb income isn't declared for tax purposes.
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by drpgq 14y ago
Wasn't there something recently in the news about the majority of children being born in the US being minorities soon? I take it that's not what he means, but if you were born today, there would be a lot higher odds than 1 in 3.5 of being n
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by drpgq 14y ago
I live in Hamilton, Ontario, which isn't reknowned for being high income, but certainly has a lot of trees even in lower income areas surrounding the downtown, especially compared to a lot of Canadian cities. Exceptions are out there I gues
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by drpgq 15y ago
Baseball must be especially tough for players, considering it is mostly just individual contests over and over, pitcher versus batter. On team sports like basketball or hockey you can always rationalize that the rest of your team should hav
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by drpgq 15y ago
I wonder if for elementary schools dividing up classes into kids born from January to June and July to December birth dates would help at all.
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by drpgq 15y ago
Isn't there a case to be made that the US passing this crazy law would benefit Canada, as companies would be more likely to based here to get around it?
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by drpgq 15y ago
Is it really necessary to have robots moving around? As a computer vision guy, I would think why not just have a bunch of cameras covering the area and then do the image analysis at a central terminal. Unless the eventual goal is to have th
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by drpgq 16y ago
Yes, I noticed as a Canadian living in Germany, that the Germans seemed to dub almost anything, even some pretty small indie films.

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