garyrichardson

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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Yup. But local, provincial and national elections are different events. Referendums are occasionally attached. Ballots are almost always one question for provincial and national.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Canadian here. We still count ballots the old fashioned way and get our election results out the night of the election (typically). Presumably that scales linearly.. more voters means more ballot boxes and more officials counting and auditi
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I came here to say basically this. I'm not a scientist but I live in a heavily forested and logged area with 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation forests (ie, logged 1-3 times in the last 150 years or so). Here's my observation: - old grow
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
There are usually carve outs for security and “won’t someone please think of the children”
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I grew up in his home town of Port Coquitlam.. I didn't go to his high school (The Terry Fox Senior Secondary), but my library was the Terry Fox library. Annually there are "Terry Fox runs" this time of year. I haven't h
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Highly recommend if your concern is ads and pay to win. It's like when Netflix first started streaming -- content is all over the place but at least there aren't any ads. Definitely enough gems in the collection.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
Back when it was popular to have a flat structure or no managers or whatever I started suggesting "Every type of management works until money gets tight." I think the principle still applies, but a more useful/general version
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
My heart is racing and I'm sweaty just reading this. Caving is not a hobby I plan on exploring.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I was thinking the cheeky thing to do is charge $100,000 for the in app version. It’s technically there but even if someone clicked it almost no cc would allow the charge through.
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
That's not the point in this specific scenario -- noting this as "importantly" indicates you believe this is no big deal. People are often arrested and released without charge. It's a tactic to get people out of a situat
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I agree with your generalization. Here's another: Companies will completely disregard this information and will base the amount of office space and WFH policies based on the cost of real estate post COVID19. I predict that when the vir
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
I need the following calendar states: - Free - Out of Office - Busy - Busy, but I can definitely reschedule this for the right reason As someone with a very active calendar I often tell people "My calendar is up to date, but for this I
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by garyrichardson 6y ago
My general rule in these cases: "1 is the worst number of times to do something" -- 84M for documentation for 2 airplanes seems like a lot. It looks a lot better if you have 84 airplanes or 8,400 airplanes. Alternatively, cost isn
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by garyrichardson 7y ago
This is not a model of working I’m familiar with. I work as collaboratively as possibly with my reports and my manager. 1:1 meetings are my most important. If I’m not discussing the non-obvious challenges we face, we are sharing our goals o
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by garyrichardson 7y ago
It’s never one thing. Also consider crazy low interest rates and lax borrowing controls making it easy to borrow large amounts of money. This makes it easy to invest/fund companies, easy to pay more to your employees and easier for the
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by garyrichardson 7y ago
As a Vancouver local, I can't recall ever hearing about termite damage. I don't know if we have them here. I've heard a few cases of carpenter ants eating walls. Woodpeckers can be a problem -- they will occasionally try to n
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by garyrichardson 7y ago
The video of James Burke in the capsule was great. He could explain things to me any day. I'm Canadian. When I was a kid we got reruns of Connections on TLC before it was a reality TV network. That was possibly the most informative TV
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by garyrichardson 7y ago
I wonder if someone has optioned The Phoenix Project?
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
Also the parts are pretty universal too. We got one as a wedding present. I use it at least once a week and my wife makes bread dough in it. After about 13 years of hard use we stripped a nylon gear (designed to protect the rest of the unit
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
This is the same level of horseshit as Medical coverage for all and single payer. Maybe it wasn’t working the foundation because the US has such a pent up demand for parental leave that people who want to have families target working there.
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
I'm Canadian. It means something really different to "trigger an election." It's the expected behaviour because we don't have formally scheduled elections. There are a few different things that can trigger an electi
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
No, but I stopped opening the webpage/app about 2 months ago. Interestingly, the first couple of weeks FB started emailing me whenever someone acted in my feed.. posts, comments, likes, etc. FB is mostly a ghost town for me now so it w
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
Two things: 1) I am currently building a house. Pretty much every comment here is dead on. It's hard. Especially the first time. And especially anything that isn't "standard" will cost about 2x more than what you expect.
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
Why not push the burden back onto the companies providing the goods in packages? If Walmart (or it's suppliers) had to prepay for the handling of the waste the products they sell come in you'd probably see a significant reduction
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
For anyone looking to get started, I'd strongly recommend getting a trainer over a book. Chances are, especially if you've never done any sort of training, you have no idea how to properly do the basic movements like squats and pr
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
Several years ago my first child was born. It's a stressful time and a significant life change. You're given all sorts of guidance and information about how to raise your kid. There was so much pressure to breastfeed. It wasn&#x27
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
I also experience this. When I'm actually driving I feel like I'm actually doing something. My blood pressure rises if I'm queued up at a light for 3 cycles. In theory, I want more roundabouts in my area but I don't know
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
As a long time smug mug customer, my perception is this is the best possible home for Flickr. Smugmug is the online photo site we all want.
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by garyrichardson 8y ago
I believe we've had that for a while. For both ways you could interpret it.
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by garyrichardson 9y ago
Are these things true or equivalent? These areas are not necessarily booming. They are stable with few consumers of the goods. At this point, every scheming hustler is in the market for a bit coin miner. Same in a gold rush -- any fool can

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