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by goodcanadian 7mo ago
There are actually a lot of really interesting discoveries on that list. I haven't thought deeply about whether it represents value for money, but I would say that that is anything but "a joke of a list."
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by goodcanadian 7mo ago
Fascinating . . . reading the comments, it seems like the vast majority think this is a long overdue change. For myself, it never occurred to me that there was any issue and I'm slightly unsettled by the change (i.e. it is far from obv
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by goodcanadian 7mo ago
You are not wrong, but I would like to throw in some caveats from my experience: "Expert" management was brought in who didn't know the industry and didn't know the company and didn't respect the people who were the
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by goodcanadian 8mo ago
You can click the background and drag to rotate the view
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by goodcanadian 9mo ago
. . . it seems weird that these are reported with a lowercase 'k' but 'M' and so on remain uppercase. For SI units, the abbreviations are defined, so a lowercase k for kilo and uppercase M for mega is correct. Lower ca
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by goodcanadian 9mo ago
But I do care about latency . . . and I want things to still work when the wifi is dodgy. I already find things like Office 360 deeply frustrating (only use it for work).
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by goodcanadian 10mo ago
For half a century or so aircraft height was largely done with air pressure alone. It still is. Flight levels (20000 feet and above in the US) are defined by air pressure without reference to current atmospheric conditions (i.e. the actua
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by goodcanadian 10mo ago
I'm glad that I am not the only one saying this. I made the switch 20+ years ago for my day to day use, and I have rarely experienced any problems with it.
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by goodcanadian 10mo ago
As a sibling comment said, gold was effectively money. Having more money, without having more products to buy, effectively triggered massive inflation. Prices went up, but the actual supply of goods and services didn't change much. The
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by goodcanadian 10mo ago
American TV has always been violent. It may have been less gory in the past, but there has always been gun fights and fist fights and violence of many kinds.
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by goodcanadian 11mo ago
In this case, it is more of a question of whether the FBI considered it a criminal matter. The lessor was in possession of the car. The lessee filed a lawsuit against the lessor to get it back. It sounds more like a contract dispute: a civi
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by goodcanadian 11mo ago
That's where the battery comes in. Yes, I am over-simplifying the very complex problem of grid management, but so are you.
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by goodcanadian 11mo ago
Legal e-bikes are fine. The ones you are complaining about are probably illegal, not that there is any real enforcement.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I and most people agree that's it's possibly too high, but it's ignorant to treat it like a scam. The fact that it is so high is a scam. It really depends on the grant. For the larger grants, it may work somewhat like you d
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Naively as an outsider, this situation seems like everything worked as intended? I don't remember all of the rules off the top of my head, but if you are ever landing with less than 30 minutes of fuel, something has gone seriously
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with reducing injury to pedestrians and everything to do with reducing injury to occupants.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I don't think we know, yet. The system was only in place a day before the earthquake. The fact that it worked is a nice smoke test, but tells us nothing about false positives nor false negatives.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Computational simulations have been involved in aircraft design for decades. However, at some point you still have to verify the simulations with real world tests. I think (as a non-expert) the main reason no aerodynamically novel aircraft
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I think O2 is OK. My phone company is not O2, but it uses their network.
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HS2 was doomed to be a mess(bbc.co.uk)
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
The sibling comments are good answers. Another factor is the fact that written English goes back a long time. In some cases, pronunciation has drifted over time, but the spelling didn't change. The silent k's in words like knight
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
That is addressed in the article: But a subsequent project, JCMT–Venus, designed to study the molecular composition of Venus’s atmosphere using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, offered a possible explanation for these disparate
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Similar concept, I suppose. When I was young, alcohol for consumption at home was generally only available for purchase in government run liquor stores. (This is still the case in some provinces, but no longer true in Alberta.) However, a f
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I've never in my life heard "off-sale" . . . Off-sale has long been used in Alberta. I have a memory of asking my parents what it meant when I was a kid (and I am in my 40s, now).
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
It gets worse. Canadian is different to both British and American (or it has some of each) and Australian is different again from all three.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
It's funny how all the comments seem to assume the conclusion is correct. I think it is far more likely that it is exactly $1M (plus or minus a couple of percent margin of error), and that the packing isn't uniform. It seems extre
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Possibly. I feel like I saw something much longer ago. Might have been this one: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I am too lazy to find a source, but I saw a similar thing a few years ago with an electric mining truck (recover enough energy going downhill loaded to go back uphill unloaded).
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Yes, I have declined two job offers because they were unwilling to move on salary (among other things), but I have never had a job offer rescinded for bringing the issue up.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Ash and gas: the "smoke"

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