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by izend 7y ago
I created quite a popular tower defense in flash back in 2007 and I’ve been thinking about redoing it in HTML5 but realized some major issues around tab backgrounding that will cause complexity in the remake vs Flash.
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by izend 7y ago
Fixed rate loans are only 5 year max in Canada, so yes its great for 5 years but after that have to refinance at the new market rate.
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by izend 7y ago
The other question is if the reported 6% is actually true, lots of incentive for regional leadership to make sure they "hit" their number.
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by izend 7y ago
This tweet alone seems to indicate she definitely did it... https://twitter.com/0xA3A97B6C/status/1151901325598187521
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by izend 7y ago
I lived in Western Canada since 93 and it’s crazy how bad the last two years have been. Calgary’s August was brutal.
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by izend 7y ago
The big question is what happens when that economic track record hits a road bump or a giant pothole, how will the government react?
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by izend 7y ago
Minor correction but the Great Chinese Famine was from 1959 to 1961.
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by izend 7y ago
There does appear to be fair bit of research in LENRs going on right now, note this article claims its the fusion of hydrogen atoms producing the extra heat: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/scientists-in-t
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by izend 8y ago
I bet Prince Harry doesn't think all those hours at the clubs [1] was a waste of time (trust me they are definitely a giant waste of time too). [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-harry-takes-quite-a-sh
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by izend 8y ago
cargo +nightly run of the examples in your Kay project appears to be broken, I'd love to explore using it in a future project.
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by izend 8y ago
I see you didn't use Actix or even Tokio, could you please explain why?
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by izend 8y ago
The Vancouver voters elected the NDP government in the last election who have brought in a Vacant Home Tax, a Foreign Speculator Tax and a School Tax on homes over $3 million. And hopefully they will investigate the money laundering throug
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by izend 8y ago
I'm just learning Rust right now and my initial thoughts are exactly your sentiment. Writing a backend for Websockets is so easy in Erlang/Elixir, seems a lot more difficult in Rust. Now, the performance of Rust is aspect that Er
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by izend 8y ago
Isn't Canada experience in the 90s an example of exactly that. Gov deficits ran out of control and the current collapse and finally the government had to cut services (raided the unemployment fund).
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by izend 8y ago
Wow good finds! None of those ACN sound good for Boeing's stance. "The fact that this airplane requires such jury rigging to fly is a red flag"
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by izend 8y ago
Should be great for browser games at the very least...
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by izend 8y ago
I've noticed my iPhone 8 (confirmed Intel modem) has a terrible time with weaker signals compared to my wife's Samsung 6. I am surprised there hasn't been more buzz about the degraded antenna performance by the public.
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by izend 8y ago
The accurate number of deaths appears to be very controversial.
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by izend 8y ago
Because with the most extreme prediction the sea will only rise 160cm by 2100 which is really only a bit of shoreline lost for the current property owners. It will take 1000 years of melting to meet the Hollywood style sea level rise.
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by izend 8y ago
I created a flash version of Gem Tower Defense 11 years ago because I was attracted to the randomness of the gameplay. I recently release a free iOS version. http://gemtowerdefense.com/
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by izend 8y ago
It is amazing that around 2007 the US had declining oil production, an oil price shock and peak oil scare which probably were the primary reasons for the invasion of Iraq and terrible ethanol and biofuel policies. Now, there is talk of the
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by izend 8y ago
I've visited Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong back in 2010 and as a Canadian I feel China is more capitalist than Canada. It had a more America feel to it where everyone has the entrepreneurial spirit
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by izend 8y ago
What is Waymo using? Custom ASIC?
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by izend 8y ago
I'm really surprised the Europe big car manufacturers spent so much effort on small Diesel engines instead of Turbo gasoline engines. My theory is the fact that having a majority of Diesel vehicles in Europe lowers their oil consumpti
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The Limits of Copy-On-write: How Ruby Allocates Memory(brandur.org)
86 points by izend 9y ago|10 comments
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by izend 9y ago
What I find ironic is the Diesel emission cheating has allowed NOx pollution to skyrocket in Europe which causes terrible localized air pollution but lowers their CO2 emissions (vs using Gasoline engines) and lowers their crude oil import n
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by izend 9y ago
Diesel vehicles for the most part which has caused European cities (Paris, London etc...) to have terrible local air quality but lower CO2 emissions!
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by izend 9y ago
Agree agree wholeheartedly, do you have any more information on the type of game you are working on?
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by izend 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#... Potential assassination?
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by izend 10y ago
The end of the last ice age had much faster warming, see: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-clim...

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