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by geoka9 13y ago
There are some in the Vancouver proper.
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by geoka9 13y ago
> Richardson’s bad luck continued when she tried to get the cost of her trip refunded. For Canadians, many international flights leave from the US airports close to the border. Normally, it shouldn't be a problem, but you can never
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by geoka9 13y ago
> gold has this one minor benefit test it is intrinsically valuable You can't explain the high price of gold merely by its intrinsic value. OK, it's shiny, but there are other sniny metals. It can be used in electronics, or as
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by geoka9 13y ago
Bitcoin may have already failed as a currency. However I think it has spectacularly succeeded as a store of value - an alternative to gold, if you will. It has all the benefits of gold, none of its problems (bulk), and some brilliant advant
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by geoka9 13y ago
> Extremely high degree of privacy (you can put 50.000.000 USD worth of USD in a USB stick and pass through 7 airports, or print them in an A4 page encrypted with GPG, and no one will know). Even better, you can keep those millions in yo
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by geoka9 13y ago
What if you buy high and sell low. Can you write off the losses for tax purposes?
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Dutch Bank Rabobank is Blocking Customers from Buying Bitcoins(coindesk.com)
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by geoka9 13y ago
BTW, does it mean that bitcoin users should verify every bitcoin they receive to make sure it hasn't been stolen?
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by geoka9 13y ago
What about the space required to grow food for livestock?
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by geoka9 13y ago
> According most low-carb diets, eating meat is good for you Those diets may be good for losing weight, but are they good for a healthy person?
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by geoka9 13y ago
What if Sony was also in that bunch? Genuinely curious: I had to make a similar decision a year ago, and since Sony had been on my shitlist because of DRM-related prosecutions, I went for the Xbox.
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by geoka9 13y ago
They are more likely to be on the "wrong" end. However, for many such people it's the lack of imagination that defines their opinions; they just can't imagine themselves on the short end of the stick. It's like argu
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by geoka9 13y ago
Barring living in a socialist utopia, I wouldn't dare to have even one child without being independently wealthy, let alone 8.
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by geoka9 13y ago
Does Ctrl-F11 still work? I often found myself firing up Opera just for that one feature.
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> You understand "individualistic" in some specific (probably american) way. No, I meant individualistic in a "mostly devoid of the sense of social responsibility" way. In fact, it's a common meme in Russia to la
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by geoka9 13y ago
> I genuinely wonder if the climate has something to do with this. Extreme cold and very dark days tend to bring people together, and tends to make people more genuine and humble, in my experience. I don't think it's the climat
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by geoka9 13y ago
"Steve was a phenomenal leader who racked up profits and market share in the commercial business, but the new CEO must innovate in areas Steve missed—phone, tablet, Internet services, even wearables." Why does MS insist it has to
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by geoka9 13y ago
It has a lot to do with the C/Unix culture of computing. Generally, there's a rule that writing functions longer than a screenfull that have more than ~7 variables is frowned upon - the rationale being that we humans are not too g
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by geoka9 13y ago
> Why does everything always have to be the latest and greatest thing on earth? To me, Go feels like an old friend that I've been missing for many years. I've always had C and Python, they serve me well, but there was a big gap
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by geoka9 13y ago
I was in a similar position - couldn't even watch football games on TV (there were none where I lived). However I learned the rules by playing a video game (Madden, if I remember correctly). Became a big Green Bay Packers fan, too, jus
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Some of My Best Friends Are Germs(michaelpollan.com)
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I'm interested. Where can I find some?
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by geoka9 13y ago
Actually, males of many species are mostly jerks. Females, on the other hand...
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by geoka9 13y ago
> It seems to me that learning 1 - 2 languages to this level of detail is worthwhile. I think it's feasible with an "old-school" (compact) language like C or Go. But take something like C++ or Scala, for example, and the t
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by geoka9 13y ago
> It usually has something to do with design patterns (FactorySingltonParentFactory.helper.blahblahblah) That sums it up for me, basically. I could add that this is a manifestation of the tendency to make things more complex than they ne
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by geoka9 13y ago
Not using a car (not even having one, if it matters), conserving, recycling, buying new stuff minding that it'll eventually end up in the landfill. That kind of thing. If you live on a farm or in the mountains, it's hard to go wit
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by geoka9 13y ago
Scraping the internet for email addresses and sending unsolicited emails - isn't this the definition of spam?
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This is really evil.
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by geoka9 13y ago
Maybe _some_ noise, yes. But god aren't most bikes noisy; I almost feel my ear drums burst whenever one passes by. I think there should be a noise limit, in addition to the speed one, at least in the cities.
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by geoka9 13y ago
As I understand it, the only way the USG can enforce those orders is if the financial institution has a branch/subsidiary in the US. If they don't, I think they are free to ignore the requirement.

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