jat850

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by jat850 16y ago
Just a convenient turn of phrase, probably. Assuming the universe is around 14 billion years old, a million years is like comparing a blink to about 70 minutes (average speed of a blink being somewhere between 300ms and 400ms). Does a blink
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by jat850 16y ago
Was that intervention a political one or a racial one? (Not disagreeing, just asking. I don't remember the issue or its resolution.)
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by jat850 16y ago
There is no way, ever, that Rick Santorum will ever make a 5 million dollar donation to the organization in question - not if he wishes to maintain the direction his ideologies take. In his case, it would be a complete show stopper. Not fr
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by jat850 16y ago
What? I can only hope this is a joke.
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by jat850 16y ago
Really? Compare: "The workplace homicide rate for prostitutes (204 per 100,000) is many times higher than that for women and men in the standard occupations that had the highest workplace homicide rates in the United States during the 1980s
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by jat850 16y ago
No denying that. I just think there are better ways to defuse abuse than returning vitriol. However, what's right for me - or how I would handle the situation - is clearly not right for everyone else, especially in the moment.
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by jat850 16y ago
Funny enough, yes - but what if the end of the dialog goes the other way? Is it fair/appropriate for a customer service rep (is that what Jeff is?) to respond in this manner, no matter how they are approached by the user? It feels like a g
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by jat850 16y ago
Comment #4 from the page: "Email me for a free iphone!! free-iphone99@hotmail.com Thx RWW! Posted by: free-iphone | September 3, 2010 8:39 AM"
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by jat850 16y ago
Zip.ca is existing, similar... and awful. Which parallels a lot of tech-oriented services in Canada (cell phones are a great example). Hopefully the Netflix service in Canada nails it.
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by jat850 16y ago
If it bothers your teeth beyond the point of enjoyment. When I pick carrots from the garden, I just wipe dirt off with my hands and eat them. So delicious.
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by jat850 16y ago
Without disrespect to the intelligence of anyone else on this board: How is anyone else besides yourself supposed to answer this? Only you have true insight into your motivations, skills, desire, and ability to succeed. There is no cap or
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by jat850 16y ago
To elaborate on your point a bit, for the non-poker players (I am one, so I understand your analogy, but non-poker players might not quite, at least in this presentation): Typically, when playing a game of poker, one considers a pocket pair
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by jat850 16y ago
Why can't someone interested in a future in philanthropy, volunteerism, family building, etc., succeed at building a startup? None of them are likely to be income-generating ventures, meaning for all intents and purposes, it's a life of ret
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by jat850 16y ago
But any readily observable characteristic would either manifest as something illegal to discriminate on (sexual orientation, weight, sex, appearance, etc.) or as something not illegal to discriminate on in the first place. Illegal discrimin
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by jat850 16y ago
No, truly, in this style of auction (sometimes called an entrapment auction), the loser does genuinely have to fork over whatever their last (losing) bid was.
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by jat850 16y ago
For a lot of questions here concerning the psychology of the $20 bid: http://mfinley.com/experts/bazerman/bazerman.htm
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by jat850 16y ago
I am not, currently. I relocated back to Saskatoon. I miss the heck out of Montreal though and always keep my eyes open for opportunities there.
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by jat850 16y ago
Four years ago, I moved to Montreal, Quebec, without a job to land in. I gravely underestimated how important true bilingualism was in finding employment as a software developer. After a number of interviews where I was told, in as many wo
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by jat850 16y ago
It could have implicitly meant the League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations, and simply misidentified (or simplified) it as such.
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by jat850 16y ago
Are you using the Gantt charts for anything related to programming tasks (timelines for software completion, deliverables, etc)? My experience in two recent projects using Gantt charts as part of timelining has left me with a bitter taste f
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by jat850 16y ago
There's no "data" provided here. There is no context, explanation, or insight into what is going, or why. If accompanying the video there was audio or discussion explaining how the person's grip of a phone impacts RF signal, then it would
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by jat850 16y ago
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo wears a helmet like this in the Daft Punk video "Robot Rock" (I can't provide a good link to it from here as I cannot access Youtube from work), as well as in a number of live performances. Thomas Bangaltar wears
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by jat850 16y ago
Is this page horribly broken for anyone else? I get 5 or 6 images, no text, and miles and miles of emptiness. Using Google Chrome on Ubuntu.
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by jat850 16y ago
These things usually vary by region or country. For example, in Canada, they only very recently (or will be soon, I can't recall for sure) lifted restrictions on caffeine in non-colas. Previously, things like Mountain Dew, Sprite, 7-up, e
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by jat850 16y ago
I'm curious too. One thing that strikes me as unusual (and perhaps others can lend some sort of insight here) is that I have been working with PCs on a daily basis, often for excessive lengths of time (12-16 hours a day or more) for about
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by jat850 16y ago
That's actually not a bad recommendation. If I've inferred correctly from the article, the writer is from Canada, and I am as well. Bus service choices are pretty limited in Canada. Megabus, for example, only travels between about 6 or 7
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by jat850 16y ago
That particular comment was as tongue-in-cheek as the rest of the article - I don't think it was meant to be taken even slightly literally. (edit) Sorry, that can't be right. Of course the Yankees did win the World Series, so that factual
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by jat850 16y ago
That feels pretty strawman-ish. OP didn't imply that it is okay for everyone to know where he or she is, only that they don't care if a second (or more) benign entities do. If you presented your motivations for asking their location and id
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by jat850 16y ago
Roughly what I had in mind - along with other shopping options, such as (mentioned by the OP) "what is the best computer for application X for $Y?"
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by jat850 16y ago
Your profile doesn't have a contact e-mail address. Drop me an e-mail at (my username) at gmail.com if you'd like, because I have some interest in discussing this a bit. I had begun working on a site that tracks current hardware trends, pr

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