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by garyrichardson 5y ago
To answer the title: They aren't make more land, but they are making more people. And people like to live where it's nice and they can get jobs. I don't think land values are a Ponzi scheme. From a supply and demand perspecti
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by garyrichardson 5y ago
While that may be true, it’s only part of the situation here. Residential schools in Canada were part of a system by the gov of Canada to eliminate/assimilate the First Nations people. Many argue this was genocide.
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by garyrichardson 5y ago
In the US I’m assuming the CIA? Not sure what group manages this in Russia. To be fair, gp could be applied to many countries also including China, Russia, the US and I assume the UK.
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by garyrichardson 5y ago
Although bringing some batteries to market this year indicates it is quite far along. Most of the battery/energy news I’ve seen on hn is “breakthrough will hit the market 5+ Years”.
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by garyrichardson 5y ago
Or does fb not actually need the tracking id to track us at this point? Do they need make a big deal to distract us from how accurate their passive tracking is?
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by garyrichardson 5y ago
Don't tell Suncor or Alberta. They'll be happy to build you a pipeline anywhere.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Great article. Brings me back. I also learned something, I thought it was an ne2000 driver as in "any 2000" as in "it works with all these generic network cards."
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Where I live the numbers your suggesting would be amazing! In Vancouver proper, Average 3 bedroom house price is $2.1M. A townhouse or condo of that size is $1.5M. Your typical house payment is going to be much higher than $1500/month.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
No. I'm making two points: 1) Bikes aren't environmentally free either. Over the lifetime of each is the environmental impact of an ICE car -> EV the same as EV -> bike? Maybe not percentage wise but the data I've seen
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Ah. interesting. I generally agree and fully support this method of urban planning, but the results here haven't resulted in more cycling. What you describe is exactly how my suburb is set up. There are several clusters of mixed housin
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I live on the west coast in Canada. We have lots of bike lines. It's 30KM of them up and down multiple hills (most people would consider mountains) for me to get to work. Realistically, you've got to convince me to leave my 3000+s
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
> This is partly because electric cars aren’t truly zero-carbon – mining the raw materials for their batteries, manufacturing them and generating the electricity they run on produces emissions. Ok. But then unless you're hand making
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
It's all fun and games until your next whale of a customer asks for your SOC report. Then the auditors are asking you to prove you've audited your code and dependencies. They ask "who has access to customer data? Who can depl
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I live near the forest. Deer constantly eat our garden. I've seen motion sensors products that hook up to a sprinkler but I'd much prefer this tuned to deer with a water cannon instead of a laser.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Making CQL SQL-Like was the worst possible thing the designers could have done. Newbies want to do SQL joins and filtering with it until they've been a few times. C* is essentially scaled/automated MySQL Sharding and blob storage.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Twitter tells me: "This is not available to you." Anyone know why? Was it deleted? Suspended? Region locked (I'm in Canada).
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I’m in Vancouver. We haven’t closed our schools at this point so my perspective is of how we move forward and not fixing what’s broken with those locked down today. I’m more thinking at the grade school level. My kids have started exploring
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Agreed, except for one point. Please don't call it a windfall. Anyone in that company that would have seen life changing amounts of money has likely put incredible effort and hard work into making this happen.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Additionally I believe wholesale banning the leader of a country from a platform like twitter is not black or white. Their persona is different and requires different treatment than any other given account. I suspect two factors went into t
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
That's the thing. If you're in the market for a Tesla priced car today, buy a Tesla. It's amazing. In 3+ years re-evaluate the DC charging networks when you're ready for your next car.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
On top of this I also believe that companies prefer the RHEL opinionated implementation of a linux system vs Debian's. RedHat is a company that sells to other companies. Therefore it has to implement their linux and make decisions in a
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skip
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
There's lots of negative reaction going on, but this has happened before. CentOS grew out of RedHat Linux going away and Fedora being the feeder for RHEL. At the time there were a bunch of competitors that were building the RHEL source
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I experienced some of their meeting monitoring stuff several years ago on a visit to Microsoft Labs. I noticed the meeting score stuff and made a joke about how the meeting room was watching us. One of the MS people responded with "Yes
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
A mesh of micro-monoliths would have been much more resilient to this sort of thing. Just saying.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I can stack on my personal anecdotes about how the BC health care system has treated me incredibly well. I've gotten fast access to surgery. I've had quick access to specialists. I have a family doctor. If you're not a citize
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
BC specific.. usually a political tool of bring it back and then cancelling the MSP. It's happened several times over the decades. Other provinces in Canada have different but similar things.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
My current microwave (a Miele) has the time dial. It's not as simple as the Argos, but I basically don't touch buttons on it otherwise. If only it didn't have the clock built in. My second best microwave was a Samsung. It was
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Assuming I have this right, there are no "off year" elections in a parliamentary system like in Canada. Elections occur when the government in power receives a vote of no confidence. In a minority gover
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Right. That's this year. What about the last 20 years of US elections?

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