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by izend 5y ago
What about Radon exposure? Big problem in Canada in certain cities: "Over 16% of lung cancer deaths are attributed to radon exposure in Canada. It is estimated that more than 21,000 Canadians will die from lung cancer this year, and m
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by izend 5y ago
Increase prices? And if you are having a problem hiring how can you be sure you are offering market rate? The market rate has increased due to PPP1/2.
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by izend 6y ago
The Carrington event supposedly took 17 hours to hit Earth, wouldn't the best option be to detect the CME and shutdown the grid before hand? I'd rather be without power for 24 hours vs 3 months or longer.
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by izend 6y ago
Notice the use solid rocket fuel in the SLS and the mandate from Congress to retain the skills and experience. What else uses solid fuel? The US ICBM arsenal.
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by izend 6y ago
Also in Canada the capital gains on your "primary residency" is tax free. I know "lucky" Vancouver couples who bought the right property at the right time and it is equivalent to winning the lottery. i.e. $600K capital
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by izend 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with all your points. My family is currently renting the top floor of a regular suburb North Vancouver house and we were hoping to buy the last 2 years to be settled & stable as my daughter started kindergarten th
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by izend 6y ago
Thanks for the vote for confidence, I created it out of pure admiration of the game mechanics of Gem TD. In regards to HN, I'll probably need to write a tech blog post describing my 13 year journey of Gem TD to have any chance of gett
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by izend 6y ago
Hey I'm the original author of the Flash version of Gem Tower Defense (still hosted at http://gemtowerdefense.com/ ). I'm actually working on a HTML5 version of it and nearly complete, I should have it released wi
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by izend 6y ago
Most material waste from a home renovation is tossed into the local dump. It is rare anything is salvaged.
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by izend 6y ago
The SLS is an indirect project to ensure the US ICBM solid fuel rocket manufacturing know-how and skills are not lost.
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by izend 6y ago
Yes, in Canada the provinces can run deficits and all of them have quite large debt loads but eventually the debt loads become too large as the interest payments grow. In the 90s Canada had to cut government services due to an extremely hi
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by izend 6y ago
Please take a look at the latest Alberta government 2020-2021 budget update [1], the resource revenue has collapsed to a mere $1.5 billion which is 2% of government expenditures. Also, the government is running a pre-Covid deficit of $8 Bi
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by izend 6y ago
Similar situation to Calgary, Alberta. When the oil sector was booming the private sector was being paid the highest salaries in North America and public employees complained massively and received the highest public sector salaries in the
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by izend 6y ago
Robinhood has terrible fills in my experience vs ToS or IB.
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by izend 6y ago
I really enjoyed the Masters of Roman series by Colleen McCullough, she brings color and life to the famous characters of Sulla, Gaius Marius and Caesar.
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by izend 6y ago
Chuck your comments are always filled with great information and humour. Thank you for your years of contribution to HN so that lurkers like myself can be informed and entertained.
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by izend 6y ago
That is a terrifying report...
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by izend 6y ago
Sorry IFR, infected fatality rate instead of case fatality rate (which is usually confirmed cases)
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by izend 6y ago
Three reasons to why it may not have been "noticed": 1. Early on it had only spread in a small percentage of the populace so the absolute number of deaths was too low to be noticed. 2. The deaths from the regular flu this year wer
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by izend 6y ago
Making it the worse pandemic in decades but no where near the Spanish Flu.
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by izend 6y ago
A few years ago I got a call from Revenue Canada and around the same time it was extremely popular for scammers to pose as Revenue Canada agents. So immediately I just assumed it was a scam and got extremely annoyed and angry at the person
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by izend 6y ago
Quarantine work + 5 Year old without childcare = Extremely Difficult
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by izend 7y ago
I would just like to point out the nursing home facts below: The length of stay data were striking: the median length of stay in a nursing home before death was 5 months the average length of stay was longer at 14 months due to a small numb
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by izend 7y ago
There is a legitimate debate of: Cause an Economic Depression vs X times the number of yearly deaths. Note, the Economic Depression would indirectly cause deaths. For example everyone agreed that not shutting down the global economic was th
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by izend 7y ago
He is referring to this one Chinese diplomat's statement, I don't believe it is the official stance but it could be the CCP attempt to blame an external entity: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia&#x
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by izend 7y ago
Men and smokers are definitely more susceptible from the data right now.
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by izend 7y ago
Maybe I'm wrong but it does appear there was an attempt to meddle in the peaceful transition of power and I personally believe that is more dangerous that any crazy and dangerous President. The Roman Republic started its path to destru
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by izend 7y ago
I've been looking for some more examples of using the Specs project, thanks!
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by izend 7y ago
Exactly, which is the exact opposite of what AWS is doing. They have how many services that very few people use now? But at least they respect their customers and view the cost of running those services as goodwill for their customers.
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by izend 7y ago
I'm loving Working Copy and found it from a recommendation on HN ( https://workingcopyapp.com/ not affiliated in anyway)

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