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by lazyant 11y ago
yes, a lot of articles explaining why something happened just try and fit a narrative, any narrative.
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by lazyant 11y ago
so I guess pumping water up to a reservoir and a turbine downhill is cheaper than capacitors/batteries to store solar power?
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by lazyant 11y ago
So, random. Also the company interviewing the first candidate, couldn't they just told him that they wanted testing?
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by lazyant 11y ago
there's a phycological effect (I don't remember if there's a name for it) where we tend to value or rank more favourably things that are popular or familiar. Tests have been done with groups classifying newly heard songs with
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by lazyant 11y ago
highlighted: " The most valuable path may well be to simply invest this enormous pool of resources in the people and institutions that are already doing this work " this is exactly he conclusion that Warren Buffet arrived at some
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by lazyant 11y ago
They were one of the first in the post-9/11 US to denounce government agencies getting data of library users, I remember the FBI first denying it, now after all we know about government surveillance is small potatoes.
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by lazyant 11y ago
There's a good chance that the same interview (same questions and answers) with another company would pass and be a 'great fit', since they were looking for different things etc, there's always the lottery aspect.
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by lazyant 11y ago
this was in reddit a few days ago, there's a good chance this is a hoax
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by lazyant 11y ago
3 month probation will work great with unemployed or fresh out of college people etc, not with employed people, certainly not with senior candidates.
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by lazyant 11y ago
Argentina and Chile almost went to war for three little barren islands in a desolated place, but it's not about the islands but about claims to sea (or also in this case, Antarctic territorial claims) https://en.wikipedia.or
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by lazyant 11y ago
If everything is cached, sure, serving static content is cheap. The comparison with a solid machine I find it funny, a bad update in a plug-in can render your site useless for a while and WP's security record is abysmal.
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by lazyant 11y ago
> It is nuts that we segregate children by birth year The ones that were doing differently are being forced to stop: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/10/30/new-daycare-rules...
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by lazyant 11y ago
I'll be that guy: affect != effect
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by lazyant 11y ago
On one hand you are saying that there's bad claims and on the other hand you complain about having to document and having audits. All you are saying is true except the conclusion in the last sentence, which may be a valid point but doe
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by lazyant 11y ago
"there are some bad unintended consequences" != "SR&ED Hurts Canadian Innovation"
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by lazyant 11y ago
I agree, my MP was nominated to Small Business and Tourism, arguably she has no experience in either whatsoever and being a 2nd generation immigrant woman may have been the deciding factor for her nomination. Still I'll be moderately o
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by lazyant 11y ago
This reads as another instance of the "curse of the gifted" that many readers here are familiar with and the standard advice is to praise effort not intelligence. The ideal condition for learning is when you are challenged and thi
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by lazyant 11y ago
Congrats on releasing, I was doing a similar thing, with a 'backup' twist but never got to do the MVP http://clicktwin.com/
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by lazyant 11y ago
MLS is shown at the top of https://www.fubo.tv/go-fubo-pro but not at http://help.fubo.tv/hc/en-us/articles/206526418-What-leagues... , also the Bundesliga (game from GoalTV) is not shown in
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by lazyant 11y ago
I'm good with a bit of homework when the kids are not too little; there's something to say for sitting down by yourself and trying to focus and figure things out or memorize a little bit (it can be done at school too or instead of
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by lazyant 11y ago
> Then do something interesting with that fact Looks like a solution looking for a problem, I don't mind waiting one or two seconds to see if the ball goes in or not (that's part of the emotion of the game), but then again I&#x
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by lazyant 11y ago
Some may argue that the US military is a big provider of welfare, handing out "fictitious" jobs to almost anybody in a "socialist" way.
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by lazyant 11y ago
TL;DR: doing the work for me has the most chances of being in my media
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by lazyant 11y ago
> the instructor told him frankly that the victim would die. He researched the subject thoroughly and found that there was absolutely no other solution to choking besides the Heimlich maneuver maybe I've seen too many movies, but w
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by lazyant 11y ago
This is an example of a good movement by an attacking player (Munir, player from Barcelona starting at the top) that helps create the goal and still won't be traditionally credited as anything (didn't score or assist or even touch
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by lazyant 11y ago
I did some back-of-the-envelope math for soccer and both for Canada and England, given the number of kids playing and the number of professionals, the odds of going pro is about 1 in 10,000.
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by lazyant 11y ago
The criteria for entering top universities causes this behavior, just do like [citation needed] proposed: set a public set of pass/fail requirements for admissions, then do a lottery from the candidate pool that passed the criteria.
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by lazyant 11y ago
You do have a point but unlike eating junk food, having a seatbelt on is a binary and can be detected without much argument.
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by lazyant 11y ago
This is why Linares tournament was so successful; the organizer wouldn't put up with these quick draws.
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by lazyant 11y ago
The argument is that if you get severely injured the tax payers get stuck with the bill (US may be different) so other people are affected; I'm in favour of compulsory motorcycle helmets and seat belts, if you want to opt out fine, but

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