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by knz 10y ago
Living with your SO under a tourism visa isn't a crime as long as you leave before your visa expires... And is it the role of CPB to prevent under the table employment? Surely there are better ways to address that issue if it's a
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by knz 10y ago
If you need GIS/spatial capabilities then MySQL isn't anywhere near as mature as PostgreSQL with PostGIS. I'd be curious if anyone passing by can recommend a FOSS replacement/alternative for PostGIS.
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The difference is that hundreds if not thousands of fans for a large event are not automatically pushed to the more expensive secondary market for no reason other than profit making by a few people.
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> There is a middle ground of letting legitimate buyers purchase tickets and then selling them on the secondary market if they are unable to attend. And nothing stops those people from buying a ticket from someone who is no longer able t
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by knz 10y ago
The wind farms in SW Minnesota/the eastern Dakotas/ NW Iowa ( http://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/30m_US_Wind.jpg ) are relatively close to the larger urban areas in the region and I suspect some of it might ev
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by knz 10y ago
There is a middle ground of letting legitimate buyers purchase tickets and then selling them on the secondary market if they are unable to attend. Automated bots/teams of people buying many tickets purely for the sake of profit doesn&#
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure how this relates to US allies questioning the reliability of the US? Our allies (as a country not necessarily it's population) are usually involved in the same conflict and support the same worldview towards Russia. I
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by knz 10y ago
> That encourages dice rolling. I wish more people saw it this way. Many seem to equate the actions of Trump with "shaking things up" and don't realize the potential implications or increased likelihood of conflict due to
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by knz 10y ago
> The US and all of its allies are still allies. This may be true but the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US is. That's not "stirring the pot" - it's potentially a sig
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Surely it's related to communication interception? Either for the Pacific/Southern Ocean or on the Antarctic continent. Or a giant ruse to divert attention from elsewhere.
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by knz 10y ago
While I share your sense of personal responsibility being key to any hope of mitigating the impact for future generations, a recent project I've been involved with has left me feeling quite cynical about the chance of any meaningful im
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by knz 10y ago
There are several vendors that do something similar with robotic inspections of underground pipes. A robot is able to inspect (map and video) a 6" pipe better than a human can!
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by knz 10y ago
> It's all there on the web, but mobile has languished I've used mint for many years but have just about given up on the web UI. At least half of the time it pulls up the wrong account when I click on transactions or a chart do
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by knz 10y ago
> The latter is perfectly reasonable in some (many?) circumstances. I live in a northern climate and when it snows can either spend 1 hour stuck in traffic or just work from home (and possibly come in after traffic has cleared). My previ
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by knz 10y ago
8 weeks?! I assume you are not on the North American continent!
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by knz 10y ago
> a IT job that forces you to take a unpaid "lunch" but expects you to be available to them during that time. That's up there with "You can't work remotely but we expect you to VPN in after hours to fix any issue
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by knz 10y ago
Thanks! He is like the David Attenborough of stats!
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by knz 10y ago
Great presentation, thanks for sharing it. Are there any others you recommend?
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I was using the term loosely - not specifically the UK/Russia relationship.
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If it's windy, then there is probably already a wind farm there ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_State... ). Strong winds and heat are not that pleasant - look up areas that experience the Fo
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by knz 10y ago
The issue is data accuracy/normalization and availability especially for data sets like crime data and local events. Real estate would be a little easier via the MLS (I suspect the cost is prohibitive though) and demographic data is ea
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by knz 10y ago
Just saw your edit with Wikileaks. Thanks for sharing it. It's an interesting read especially in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard . It's all geopolitics...
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by knz 10y ago
We probably share the same opinion on why no one has pushed for "regime change" in Tunisia. Iran is definitely playing geopolitics when they arm Houthis (fighting the internationally recognized government) with anti ship missiles
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by knz 10y ago
I'm aware that the US/NATO was involved in the Arab Spring. But again, I think the reality was far more complex - Mohamed Bouazizi didn't immolate himself because the CIA/MI6 told him to. There were videos from the time
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by knz 10y ago
> United States is leading a bombing campaign that has recently killed over 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq Isn't it a bit disingenuous to omit the fact that both Iraq and Syria have areas experiencing active warfare? The bombing ca
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by knz 10y ago
> In the rest of the world, police is much more centralised... New Zealand (admittedly a small country) The US is broken into "normal" country size blocks - i.e. States. Kiwis have a lot more faith in centralized government tho
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Likewise. Visa journeys was the definitive source when I went through the process about 10 years ago.
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It is ridiculous. But like I said, it's a litmus test for whether the Trump administration can look at fact and tell the truth. I struggle to understand how anyone can look at photos/video taken from the same perspective and claim
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> Simply invoking "liar" is not in itself important unless you point to an instance of a lie and a reliable non-partisan source that disproves it. That might be a high barrier for agreement but partisanship has reached toxic le
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by knz 10y ago
Respectfully.... > While Trump has lied or exaggerated, the extent to which the left media has also lied and exaggerated has been astronomical I don't disagree that the media is biased but Trump is the President and still blatantly

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