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by jarek 12y ago
Halliburton is still incorporated in the U.S., and Baker Hughes is headquartered in Houston so the merger will fall under purview of U.S. antitrust anyway "The merger is widely expected to raise anti-trust concerns" http:/&#
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This really isn't the case in London in my experience See: the hundreds of people who attended Silicon Milkroundabout yesterday
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> Also, if the batteries die, can't they just wait a few days until the ~1.5hrs/day of sunlight charges them enough to do something useful again? The explanation I saw was that you need a set amount of energy to warm up the bat
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It would be easier than SoMa to commute by car from the South Bay. But it still wouldn't exactly be "readily accessible" from anywhere south of Millbrae...
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> We are slowly managing to put bigger and bigger sensor sizes in phones, too, without any compromises in design It helps that the phones are getting bigger. The camera in my Nexus 5 is a ton better than in my old Blackberry Pearl, but t
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The greater fool theory of investing
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> The continuing leadership also seems committed to geographically-centralizing the team for improved collaboration. Centralizing a dispersed team for improved collaboration would put them somewhere in Nebraska, maybe Colorado. Just say
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Also strongly depends if "Daly City" was "Daly City three minutes walk from BART" or "Daly City in an office park by a freeway somewhere"
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Maybe a part of the solution to the highly competitive job market could have been not annoying your current employees by forcing them to move to a city with poor public transit? Was that board's decision, or Wong's?
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It's easy to mess up a somewhat complex repo in git, but for versioning really simple things like rsync scripts or dot-files, where you have one committer, one branch, and a linear commit log, git's pretty easy. git init, git co
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It doesn't have to end all life on earth, it just has to end ours. Moss and bacteria will survive a lot more than we will. Plus, to be rational, you have to evaluate not only probability but also potential losses, and multiply the two.
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> Really? You're basically saying you'd prefer a robot on a comet over thousands of healthy and educated peers. Who are you to decide this? Coming from an American this is pretty ironic. The choice in ESA-funding countries isn&
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-29985988
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> the mode of transit shown by default in Google Maps has absolutely nothing to do with quality. Of course not. Technology will eat the world and improve on and replace humans in all complex cases. Like deciding what mode of transport to
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You're making the common mistake of regarding high quality technology as inevitable. Just because it starts out as only of low quality[0] doesn't mean that it will improve, or fast. Google Maps directions is pretty disruptive tech
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Oops, yeah, I think I was thinking "Malton" when I wrote Downsview there. My bad.
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> they use more energy than any other home appliance, excepting air conditioning used in hot climates. Hmm... the graph shows 35 W. This standard full-size fridge http://www.danby.com/en/US/our_products/ref
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> The important question is how many personal computers are currently switched on at this exact moment? Less than the fridges switched on. Here's a standard fridge Walmart sells for $449: http://www.danby.com/en&#x2F
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It really wouldn't. Your fridge's power usage eclipses any computer you might have, short of a hardcore overclocked rig running Folding 24/7. To say nothing of electric stoves, A/C and heating, or industrial electricity
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Can you briefly outline where you've lived that transit outages are not common and bus drivers are not frequently jerks? I can tell you that it's also the case in Toronto, Seattle (well, bus service outages), San Francisco, and Lo
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> You don't like the long hours of work with meager pay and high living costs? You don't like coming in on the weekend? You don't like leaving at 9+ pm? Isn't that the games scene, not the Vancouver tech scene? I&#x27
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Luckily the wonderfully rebellious and wild US non-union culture definitely doesn't encourage incompetence and fraud. That Color thing never happened.
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Well one of the characters matching (E, M, C), arguably two for Fort M c M urray, is still better than YYZ matching none of the characters in any of the names (Toronto, Lester B Pearson, Malton, Mississauga) of the country's largest a
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Canadian codes, after the universal Y, are an interesting mess with a lot of non-intuitive codes. Here's a selection: * YUL is Montreal airport in Dorval, with a mystery U. The somewhat more sensible YMX went to the flop Mirabel airpor
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You can also click-and-drag within the small calendar to select date range - two and three weeks also work.
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Yeah but in EEA you don't have to explain just how you're a Computer Systems Analyst and not a software developer
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It's not exactly EEA level "show up whenever and register at an office" though.
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When most people go camping it's not because they can't afford a flat
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Those don't exactly have supercooled superconducting magnets or elemental particle detectors kind of cutting-edge technology though.
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I had a chance to visit CERN recently - they aren't kidding about the thousands of names on the paper, the scale of the project is enormous, and the ATLAS detector up close is like a space ship engine from a scifi movie. The main CERN

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