jpollock

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by jpollock 9y ago
I prefer Radio New Zealand National to NPR, and I'm a Canadian living in California.
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by jpollock 9y ago
The problem is that in the USA the ER and urgent care can be two different organisations. The ER has no economic incentive to route customers to urgent care because that is lost revenue.
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by jpollock 9y ago
It seems the problem is not having urgent care at the same location as the ER. Then you triage at the door and route.
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by jpollock 9y ago
Unions are a negative word because they (in my experience) provide negative experiences. My personal experiences: 1) When a co-op student, a female friend (also a co-op student) was assaulted (punched in the face) when she crossed a picket
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by jpollock 9y ago
NOTE: DEFINITELY NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH. I went looking for example videos of cleanup: USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUJ4vI-JA88 Poland(?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enTQhNx_jpg Why you clean th
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by jpollock 9y ago
I commute 38m/day, and tried an e-bike. Since it was speed limited to 19mph, it didn't save me any time compared to self-powered riding, and it provided considerably less exercise - about the same as walking. I had to return the b
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by jpollock 9y ago
The problem with the sink in the top is that the soap encourages algal growth in the tank. It's the same reason you shouldn't use grey water to flush.
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by jpollock 9y ago
Well, my partner's not Canadian, so they can't get a TN. This problem would also affect Canadian partners without university degrees, a good moderate indicator of TN eligibility. However, the ability for spouses to work also affec
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by jpollock 9y ago
The number of attempts to get on an H1-B is now exceeding the validity period of the initial TN visa, increasing the probability the TN will be rejected at the border. Immigration is starting to reject renewals - ref Canadian nurses working
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by jpollock 9y ago
Canadians can enter and work on a TN visa, which has similar requirements to an H1-B. However, the number of visas granted is unlimited. They are renewed every time you cross the border, and can be rejected for any reason. They're very
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by jpollock 9y ago
Negative gearing is when the house is run at a loss and the loss taken against regular employment income. That would be when the rent doesn't cover the mortgage interest + maintenance costs. The benefit is that the dominant form of inc
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by jpollock 9y ago
The owner risks the tenant destroying the capital value of the property. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/multimedia/rental-unit-... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/
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by jpollock 9y ago
My expectation is that C-series jets for the US market would be produced in the US, planes for Europe are probably better produced in Canada to make use of the Canada/EU FTA. From the article: "a second assembly line for the 100-
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by jpollock 9y ago
Nothing like discovering a new continental shelf when an underwater mining gold rush is about to start.
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by jpollock 9y ago
This makes a false assumption - that Amazon would be on top of existing job creation. Cities already have models that assume/hope for a certain amount of job creation (and loss), with some of that being provided by new entrants to the
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by jpollock 9y ago
If you assume an average 10 person years of development effort over the 20 year history of Postgres, absolutely. 20 years * LoadedLaborCost (USD$150k/personyr) * 10 people =>USD$30m.
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by jpollock 9y ago
Note: NZ doesn't have malpractice insurance. [1] [1] http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu...
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by jpollock 9y ago
In the US there are neighborhoods which are not freehold property, the owners are members in a Home Owner's Association (HOA). HOA's have significant powers, and are responsible for many things in the property, sometimes even road
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by jpollock 9y ago
It will work with an HDHomeRun Prime[1], a cableCard tuner[2]. So, as long as your cable company supports cableCard, then you should be able to get it to work. [1] https://www.plex.tv/features/live-tv-dvr/ [2] ht
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by jpollock 9y ago
Any argument against free trade also applies to internal trade between individual the individual states which make up the USA. Why is trade between China and the USA different to trade between Virginia and California?
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by jpollock 9y ago
Pick up the fire axe that is also typically present in the cockpit and kill the person flying the plane. Then open the door.
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by jpollock 10y ago
Even if it wasn't a passenger overbooking, it was overbooking in that they failed to properly account for the likelihood of having to ship crews around their network. If their occupancy ratio was lower, then there wouldn't have be
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by jpollock 10y ago
As long as the contract is the same, the price I pay for the ticket should have no bearing on what happens in an overbooking situation.
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by jpollock 10y ago
"The obvious way for such an enterprise to begin is for the owner of a human-owned business to automate away as much of his work as possible, and then to die without leaving the business to anybody else. The business would simply conti
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by jpollock 10y ago
http://advsys.net/ken/add-128.htm
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by jpollock 10y ago
In the length of time I spend commuting to work in the morning, people in KW can drive to downtown Toronto to get some fun for the evening. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/University+of+Waterloo,+200+...
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by jpollock 10y ago
Yes, and puts them right back in the same situation this time next year. The total amount of work remains unchanged.
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by jpollock 10y ago
If your process is backlogged such that you cannot handle all traffic in a cycle (covering peak and trough), refusing new traffic won't help and will only add to the backlog.
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by jpollock 10y ago
People die when the power goes out. :) It can be both accidentally and when people's power is cut off due to non-payment. They also die from heat exhaustion when the AC goes out. http://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand&#
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by jpollock 10y ago
I've seen: 1) Incorrect ordering of output "Buzz Fizz" 2) Printing only Fizz or Buzz for 15. 3) Starting at a number different to 1 (say 0) 4) Off by one error at the end (going to 99, instead of 100) 5) Forgetting to print o

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