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by jlos 9y ago
>> Can any city provide a net increase in 5,000 housing units? Well, that’s a speculative question, but one thing we can do is ask if any city did produce 5,000 extra housing units beyond household formation over the last 5 years Calg
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Depression has higher incidences in individualistic and affluent western societies. One probably analysis, agreeing with what you said, is that the "something wrong" is the lack of social cohesion that prosperity and modernity hav
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If NAFTA talks break down and the treaty is cancelled, what could happen to Canadian workers on TN visas?
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by jlos 9y ago
What's your source? "Eu" is a very common Greek dipthong typically take as "yu",for the traditional Erasmian pronunciation, or "Ev" for modern reconstructed Greek.
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Ask HN: Examples of Successfully Monetized Open Source Projects
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It helps to understand features of conservative religious communities: 1) sex, marriage, and family are still inseparably linked and are believed to be foundational to life and human flourishing. Thus, breaking marital vows reflects a profo
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by jlos 9y ago
The medium of communication profoundly shapes our minds and thought patterns: - Oral communication priorotizes memory (as mentioned) but also personal trust, since knowledge is always obtained directly from another person. Hence oral cultur
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by jlos 9y ago
Note the belugas died from poisoning [1] [1] http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouve...
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The dolphins at the Vancouver aquarium are deemed not releasable by the federal government due to injury or lack of ability to survive in the wild (e.g. Chester, the aquariums false killer whale was found at 2 months old and was not properl
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by jlos 9y ago
"The answer is technology. Printing press revolution had exploded." Luther was instrumental in making the printing presses viable businesses. Most printers would go bankrupt due to the high costs and experimental nature of the pri
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Ask HN: Software- Better to focus on or complement with?
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Calculators are tools and just need to be used in an appropriate context. Engineering programs in Canada allow no calculators for math classes (Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc) but they are an absolute necessity for for Engineering classes (e
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Whats frustrating about these analysis is they ignore the reality of children and family life. The bias' mentioned, which are appear real and well evidenced, are secondary and complicating factors to the general problem of adapting fam
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I agree and to the point I upvoted your comment :) I think that a key part of this discussion is making the distinction between saying which drugs are illegal and whether drugs should be illegal at all. Alcohol is particuarly interesting. I
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What particular drugs should stigmatized is another discussion and there are no doubt many inconsistencies in our legal system. However, that some drugs should be stigmatized is reasonable and what I was suggesting. >> but if you crim
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Appropriate punishmments, which drugs should be illegal and under what circumstances is a totally different area of discussion but the general attitude of most societies to the recreation use of more powerful drugs is quite sensible. Drug u
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Did not think this would be the year phrenology made a comeback. . .
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>> In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don't make sense. Your claim is especially true if th
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by jlos 10y ago
Hi Peter, As a Canadian with a bachelor of arts degree (I.e. non-CS degree), what kind of industry experience (if any) would be necessary to qualify for a TN-1 or H-1B? Thanks!
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>> We haven't figured this shit out yet. It depends on whether you view democracy as a process to perfect society or mitigate against social harm. If you think democracy should perfect (or even just improve) society, it will ofte
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>> On the bright side, it is opening up some long-overdue political dialogue. For example diversification of the Alberta economy away from natural resources. As far as I know, Alberta's provincial government hasn't prevented
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by jlos 10y ago
Thanks for the article, I'll give it a read later today. I'll try to add some clarity to what I said (because passive voice isn't the only way to muddy the linguistic waters). A passive voice doesn't make the sentence ba
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The app is correct, both of those phrases are passive. Grammatically the passive voice uses the equative verb to be with a past participle of the verb. Both those phrases satisfy that condition. Semantically, the passive voice involves acti
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For actual syntactical breakdown of the Bible, I agree. Biblical Scholars, and even competent pastors, can syntactically analyze the the Bible sufficiently well. I would think the technology could be helpful in a fairly narrow way: identify
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This would be very interesting when applied to Biblical Studies. Any serious academic discussion of biblical texts will involve syntactical breakdown of the text being discussed. Most of the times the ambiguities are clear, but its still qu
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Do you drive, use electricity, refrigeration, or eat meat? Then climate change us just as much your responsibility as a polluter. The oil sands provide the energy you consume and is one of the most environmentally regulated sources of oil
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Isolating a few of the variables would help clarify some of the questions this study raises: 1) Amount of excess weight / median weight. E.g. Does the effect of the bodies homeostasis change as a person gets more severely overweight? 2
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The Canadian media is highly supportive of Trudeau at the moment and, with the exception of more reputable periodicals like the Globe and Mail and the National Post, are taking every opportunity to gush. That said, Trudeau has shown a signi
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JEPD is widely discussed, though widely accepted depends on the academic circles. Biblical studies is unusually plagued by myopic assessments of where current scholarship is at, even failing to recognize the existence of alternative scholar
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Perhaps what's significant about the age bias in the tech industry is that its the first time the age bias has worked in favour of younger employee's. I suspect age bias' exists in many industries that prefer more 'matu

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