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by goatforce5 6y ago
His team also took Kendal Mint Cake up Everest: > Sir Edmund Hillary and his team carried Romney's Kendal Mint Cake with them on the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. The packaging currently includes the following: “
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by goatforce5 6y ago
> and Indians are the most diverse group in the world What metric(s) are you using to measure that diversity? I live in Toronto, Canada, and approximately 50% of residents here were born overseas. Toronto likes to boast it is one of the
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by goatforce5 6y ago
> Costco requires a mask to shop in their stores (at least where I am.) We went to a Costco in Toronto, Canada a couple of days ago. If you didn't have a mask on, they pointed you at a table off to the side where they had free masks
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by goatforce5 6y ago
I think the UK press would compare anything like that to the Sinclair C5, thus forming public opinion, and thus leaving the whole project dead in the water in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
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by goatforce5 6y ago
It seems as though their model is to have malls with Ikeas attached. Some with really large Ikeas, others with smaller Ikea pick-up points or whatever. Ikea generates a ton of foot traffic. Using that as the anchor will probably guarantee a
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by goatforce5 6y ago
And, for the non-Australians in here, the lack of agriculture is essentially one of the boxes you have to tick before you can invoke the concept of Terra Nullius, which is what the English relied on to claim Australia.
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by goatforce5 6y ago
I've had good luck with recipes from https://www.taste.com.au/ and https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ Alternatively, if you want super barebones, go buy a copy of Escoffier's https://en.wikip
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by goatforce5 6y ago
And yet the article i've linked to has researchers saying different areas (which are as well, if not, far better connected than NZ) have predominant strains with differing characteristics.
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by goatforce5 6y ago
From the above article: > The deadliest mutations in the Zhejiang patients had also been found in most patients across Europe, while the milder strains were the predominant varieties found in parts of the United States, such as Washingto
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by goatforce5 6y ago
Apparently there are different strains of Covid-19 floating around. There has been speculation that NZ (and Australia) may have largely been hit by a less aggressive version of the virus than, say, Europe. https://www.nzherald.co
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by goatforce5 7y ago
Last year I tried setting up a subscription for some pet food from a mid-sized pet store chain. The first order went through fine. 3.5 weeks later I get an email saying my next order is about to be processed, now is the last chance for canc
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by goatforce5 7y ago
The town I grew up in would flood regularly (pro-tip: don't build your on town on marshy ground where two rivers converge). Having one or more floods a year was a fact of life and the local store owners would design their stores to dea
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by goatforce5 7y ago
> Before implying that Canada has the final answer to health care I provided details on a single instance of an interaction with the health system. Hence 'ancedata'. I made no claim that every interaction will have the same out
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by goatforce5 7y ago
Epiglottitis. Oops. And it's a he.
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by goatforce5 7y ago
Unrequested anecdata: my partner got a bad case of the flu (and epiglottis) a couple of years ago, and ended up spending 10 days in hospital - 7 in ICU, 3 on a normal ward. Total cost: $0. Thanks Canada! (Having said that, if you're vi
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by goatforce5 7y ago
Apparently speed cameras in Toronto can't read them during the day: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-licence-plate...
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by goatforce5 7y ago
Try starting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292086
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by goatforce5 7y ago
I once took a Boston -> London flight that arrived significantly early thanks to the arctic jet stream. But that meant we arrived before the landing curfew ended at 6am so the aircraft was put in a holding pattern above central London fo
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by goatforce5 7y ago
For anyone doing US <-> Australia flights, and assuming you have a few extra days up your sleeve, look in to doing a stop over in Honolulu. On four separate occasions i've stopped in HNL for 2 or 3 nights for little (less than $1
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by goatforce5 7y ago
By playing around with the ETOPS options on Great Circle Mapper you can see the 787 can fly over any part of the Pacific. Aircraft with lower ETOPS ratings would have had to fly non-direct routes to ensure they didn't stray too far fro
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by goatforce5 7y ago
I worked with a guy in 1999 who had severe RSI. He had spent a ton of time training whatever the highest pro version of Dragon Dictate was at the time, and then even more time setting up a bunch of macros to do complicated/repetitive t
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by goatforce5 8y ago
Which smartphone would you recommend purchasing?
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by goatforce5 8y ago
I worked for a high-risk merchant, and a 44% chargeback rate is utterly insane. IIRC, internal alarms would go off and the processors would be breathing down our necks if the chargeback rate started to approach 2%.
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by goatforce5 8y ago
Isn't it pretty standard for website T&Cs to say something along the lines of "by uploading content to this website you are providing [website owner] with a license to reproduce the content"? Sometimes those T&Cs will
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by goatforce5 8y ago
> If I share a photo, it’s still my photo This is where it becomes murky for me. If you send me that photo via email, should you subsequently be able to revoke my access to that photo. If so, by what means? If you used a closed messaging
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by goatforce5 9y ago
From what I understand (from a 'The Talk Show'/John Gruber podcast, IIRC), the default view for fullscreen landscape video has black bars on the left and right. It's only when you double tap to go to full screen (and thu
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by goatforce5 9y ago
Waterfront Toronto, the agency that Alphabet is partnering with, is also responsible for the redevelopment of the Canary District (which is immediately to the north of the area that Google has just got involved with). When they launched the
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by goatforce5 9y ago
2012 wasn't that long ago, and it's not clear if any ground breaking products have really captured the imagination of the public in the last 5 years.
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by goatforce5 9y ago
Why not both?
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by goatforce5 9y ago
App Annie's service is "VPN Defender", apparently: https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/31/app-annie-fills-the-void-l...

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