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by drpgq 8y ago
Interesting about the stations. My Ontario city is close to starting an LRT system and the station costs for just those seem kind of high. We recently added a new station for the GO regional railway transit system that currently has two tra
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Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town(cbc.ca)
224 points by drpgq 8y ago|186 comments
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by drpgq 8y ago
At a pretty ridiculous cost all things considered.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Would that necessarily be true? There would be a Google equivalent and a Facebook equivalent.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I wonder at what point will people have active systems to lower their CO2 below ambient in their homes.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I wonder how much Apple pays for a business class flight to Shanghai versus a person just buying a ticket for themselves.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I wonder if this has happened in Canada too. We certainly have a big opioid problem.
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by drpgq 8y ago
With Sears seeming to finally have flamed out, I wonder how much longer IBM has.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Does anyone really know how to value stadium naming rights? I know that it has increased over the decades (at least the numbers I have seen), but it just seems so arbitrary.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Well Turkey benefits from low oil prices since they basically have none.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Never meet your heroes.
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by drpgq 8y ago
As someone in the field, I recommend sunglasses and those filter masks common in Asia.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I think unfortunately that there are a lot of hoaxes now and I'm no longer surprised by them.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Actually this is a decent collection of data sets.
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The Safecracker of Last Resort(theatlantic.com)
4 points by drpgq 8y ago|0 comments
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by drpgq 8y ago
I'm curious who owns the other animal domains.
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by drpgq 8y ago
In 1995, Americans over 55 bought about one-third of all new cars. Today they’re buying almost two-thirds. That's an interesting stat.
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by drpgq 8y ago
At the least, there will be plenty of PhD economic thesis material.
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by drpgq 8y ago
As an Ontarian, sure we have a decent amount of hydro and nuclear, but there's been a lot of problems. Fair Hydro for one.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I think it is definitely interesting, but doesn't South Australia have a particularly screwed up electricity system (and I say that as an Ontarian)?
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by drpgq 8y ago
I found for my PhD thesis that getting one thing done a day even if small was a big help, along with not beating yourself up if you didn’t get a lot done.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I would be curious to see a picture of where the underground river emerges.
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by drpgq 8y ago
With gas prices going down again for the foreseeable future (barring OPEC doing some serious cutting) that has to mean even more driving.
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by drpgq 8y ago
I wonder what the probability is for a Vegas hotel room that there's been a suicide in it.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Ridiculously few people die of fatal familial insomnia
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by drpgq 8y ago
You can do a z-cut to change them. A little gruesome though.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Have a remote job and opened a gallery with a friend. Was ultimately a frustrating experience.
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by drpgq 8y ago
What are they referring to as data? Cell costs are pretty expensive in Canada for what you get.
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by drpgq 8y ago
Kind of surprised that Arizona was the first non-small population state on the list.
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Commuting by Bicycle is down?(davemabe.com)
47 points by drpgq 8y ago|81 comments

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