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kennend3
4y ago
Or.. honk your horn? Slow down without "slamming on the brakes"? You are not legally at fault for stopping to avoid an accident. In your scenario, lets make one small change, instead of the car being behind you it is in front...
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Can you provide a scenario where to avoid an accident the best choice is to add speed, which would have the effect of worsening the accident if you are wrong? Limiting acceleration isn't a great solution, but your idea that acceleratin
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4y ago
This! Spotify is based in Sweden... I'm based in Canada and I cant access this? This "US Only" makes no sense. So tired of "geofencing".
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4y ago
Personally i used an internet content filter which also enforced time limits. the kids had a limited data plan and used the house internet. once it was off they could burn up their data for the month, but that was a choice they made. as th
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4y ago
Nice to see someone else from Ontario. Having the CRTC effectively being a revolving door of Bell / Rogers executives has its advantages. Remember things like this: https://mobilesyrup.com/2022/02/02/crtc
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4y ago
Depends on your tax laws. Here (Canada) lottery winnings are tax-free ;) https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...
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4y ago
I'm Canadian and lived in the US for 5 years and crossed back and forth at least once a month. I agree, Canada's border crossing is worse. I've crossed the US with underage children without their mother present several times.
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4y ago
This demonstrates a clear lack of understanding on the rules and how ports of entry are "special" > There was a short period of time where the CBP was doing this in droves on Canada land border entries. The way it's genera
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4y ago
This is an excellent list. Adding a few items to it: - It isn't just middle managers who use "seat time" as a proxy. - Businesses often sign 10+ year leases and commercial real-estate is EXPENSIVE. With a long term lease in
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4y ago
> The bureaucracy, just like the old taxi industry, is about keeping smaller players out, not enforcing the codes. See my post above.. it is also about feeding the bureaucracy itself as well. Some places (like where i live) actually go d
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4y ago
I live in a small town in Ontario just outside Toronto and this problem is GLOBAL. I did a walkout basement years ago, the f'ing building inspector came to my house every single day. It got to the point he was stopping by for lunch si
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4y ago
This! People think this is a "nuclear" problem. .it is a cooling water problem regardless of where the heat came from.
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4y ago
Re-read what i wrote.. if you know that water levels will be low and you purposely idle your reactors annually.. then you do import power. It looks like this is NOT a new problem (from 2016) https://www.economist.com/busines
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4y ago
France claims two things: - Reactors are seasonally idle and will ramp back up for winter - During this normally idle time, they do maintenance https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/minister-fren... Perha
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4y ago
> Which turned out to be worst of possible policies. Depends on your metric. US companies gained the ability to outsource to low-cost china and this has been fantastically profitable for them. For the average US citizen, they did benefi
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4y ago
Corporations should NEVER be charged. They are nameless legal constructs incapable of making decisions. Worse, when corporations pay fines this is with SHAREHOLDER money. The leaders / decision makers should be fined and corporations
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4y ago
These "fines" are simply the cost of doing business. The SEC is now an ineffective shell of its former self. The real question is why the trend where companies "pay a fine without admitting guilt" and the executives who
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4y ago
I think you missed his point. The public paid for this funeral, and therefor they have every right to participate in it. They should show some respect, it is a funeral after all. If they wanted a "private funeral" they should pay
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4y ago
This would disagree with you: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/technology/apple-ads.html Why does Apple want to sell more ads? Because money. It’s incredibly profitable for Apple to sell ads when peopl
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4y ago
> Because Apple want to control the quality of the user experience. you nailed it.. they are concerned about the "quality of the user experience" and not the billions of dollars at stake? Is this why Apple artificially limits w
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> How presumptious. thankfully this does not come across as equally arrogant? i think you mean presumptuous?
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I think they are basing their recommendation on Apple's trend of offering new features on apple chips only? https://appletoolbox.com/what-macos-ventura-features-are-lim... How is voicing an opinion of "dont buy an
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4y ago
I gave it a try a while ago and i was actually shocked at how well it worked. I've done the "hackintosh" route in the past, but this "one script" was so much easier. The messiness around licensing and "terms of
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4y ago
Nice list. I looked at "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" and think i found my next read so Thanks. +1 for Principles (disclaimer - I'm a former BW employee). Having worked at several large banks it is cl
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4y ago
What about running MacOS in a Virtual Machine? There are "one click" options out there for VirtualBox. Basically run a script, come back later and have a fully functional MacOS VM? You can run this on your windows DEV machine and
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Again, for someone "in the know" you simply need to read JFK's own words and not yours: https://www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-awards/forums/past-for... "We are losing the satellite missile race
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4y ago
This is what you got from his response to you, that the fact they put forward such a dumb idea to a president seems to prove no "cabal" exists? If it did not exist, why was the dumb idea put forward? why the need to invade Cuba?
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> What was the last time an American citizen seriously worried about being invaded by a foreign power or attacked by a nation state? It just doesn't even occur to the average citizen that there are about a million people working to
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it would appear sarcasm is lost on you? Obviously they are not going to advocate building interstellar space flight simply because some "UFO" has it.
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Call me a cynic, but this reads like the US military-industrial complex is looking for a new "enemy" that needs vast amounts of money to "contain"? While the "war on terror" seems to be dying down, what about t
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