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by guyzero 10y ago
In 2008 I moved out of Toronto and when I went back a few years later there were dozens of new high- and mid-rise buildings that had been built downtown. Telus Tower was built from 2007 to 2009, 32 stories. 120 Bremner is 30 stories, same t
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by guyzero 10y ago
Seriously that was 11 years ago. Yes, a lot of things changed in 11 years.
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by guyzero 11y ago
If the decryption keys were exposed in JS you'd only be a few debugger operations away from defeating any DRM system.
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by guyzero 11y ago
The send & archive button is optional and doesn't show up in everyone's gmail interface.
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by guyzero 11y ago
And in many cases the universities own the IP associated with the research that goes on in their departments so they keep the source and treat it like a company would treat a trade secret. It's likely Washington will patent this and tr
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by guyzero 11y ago
Nope. I left Canada 8 years ago with two school-age kids who are now finishing high school. They'll probably go back to Canada for university, but honestly higher pay solves a lot of problems.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Maybe you should consider cognitive behaviour therapy.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Terrible public transit. A lifeless housing policy that's out of touch with local needs. Police rousting people out of one homeless encampment and then the same people just setting up a new camp a few blocks away. Racially charged poli
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by guyzero 11y ago
How do we know it's not a placebo effect?
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by guyzero 11y ago
Sure, that makes sense bu tit's not the same as simulation applied to the skin.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Why do we have any reason to believe that there's any electrical field inside the brain at all? The skin is reasonably conductive, bone is not. Do we have any proof that the current doesn't just run along the skin taking the path
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by guyzero 11y ago
There are lots of other tablets. The Fire Tablet team has a finite amount of developer time to build features for their target users. Encryption is clearly not a feature they feel it's worth working on. With security features it's
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by guyzero 11y ago
Fire tablets are $50 devices tied to Amazon accounts that people buy so their children can watch videos on a borderline-disposable device. Tell me where encryption fits into that use case.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Yeah, as I figured it eventually rolled out to all the stores as the business day started.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Hopefully they release them outside Australia soon!
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by guyzero 11y ago
Stand back from them. In the immortal words of The Police, "don't stand so close to me." From 3 or 4 feet away most people realize I'm tall but when I stand directly next to them there's zero ability to make eye con
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by guyzero 11y ago
The difference is not semantic. It's an immense difference. One is an ad inserted into your Visa statement, the other is Visa selling your personal data to third parties. Completely different.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Digging around a bit it seems like the Canadian equivalent of the TN status page is here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/inter... Basically get a job offer, have the correct
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by guyzero 11y ago
There's a point-based skills assessment for skilled workers. If you get 67 points you can immigrate to Canada and become a permanent resident. Once you're there you have complete freedom of movement - it's like a green card a
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by guyzero 11y ago
"How is that any different than seeing yourself as a temporarily embarrassed rock star, or astronaut, or breakthrough scientist, or famous artist, or successful entrepreneur?" In Freaknomics they have a chapter titled "Why Do
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by guyzero 11y ago
A curse is literally what economists call these situations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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by guyzero 11y ago
I suspect it's more of an urban/rural split than a Canadian/US split. I assume you don't own property in a rural area of the US.
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by guyzero 11y ago
The headline says "Toronto family" but the school itself is pretty rural and not that near Toronto. I expect taxes are lower than their urban house and zoning is pretty relaxed. https://www.google.com/maps/pla
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by guyzero 11y ago
The movie ticket receipts go to the studios. Tickets alone don't make the theatres any money. For a bunch of historical reasons (antitrust) studios don't own the theaters. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php&#x
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by guyzero 11y ago
"Does anyone know what this argument is?" He makes it right in the article: "It is worth $500 billion" - which is a pretty small group of companies (two) "Six Google products have more than one billion users" -
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by guyzero 11y ago
Terry Gross is well-regarded but this, like many of her other interviews, is not good.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Cable has never been ad-free with the exception of channels that people explicitly paid extra for like HBO.
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by guyzero 11y ago
Tech companies specifically have seen their historical predecessors disappear very quickly - Sun and SGI nearly evaporated, IBM has had 16 quarters of shrinking earnings. So tech company execs hoard cash in the hope that if they get blindsi
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by guyzero 11y ago
Less a startup than a Ponzi scheme.
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by guyzero 11y ago
US government policy in a nutshell: increase standards, don't increase funding.

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