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by ojbyrne 9y ago
I lived in Halifax for 15+ years and Haligonian is almost universally used.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
We use one of their (numerous) competitors.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
I see Firefox and Chrome and several other browsers in the iOS AppStore.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
Why do you think they don't?
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
Minor point - you can also be an accredited investor if you "have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year." [1]
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
Google's headquarters are located in Mountain View (Silicon Valley). They have satellite offices all over the world, so the presence of one in LA doesn't really support your point.
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Netflix Lets Viewers Pick the Plot(nytimes.com)
1 points by ojbyrne 9y ago|0 comments
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
I am going to guess that there is some way to transition to an immigrant visa like an O-1 or H-1B. There are many Canadians in the US on a non-immigrant visa (TN1) then switching to an immigrant visa later on. This was my path to a green ca
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
Or Ikea.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
"...according to data from Second Measure, a research firm that uses anonymised credit card data" Perhaps not 100% accurate, but not 100% fake either.
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History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt(arstechnica.com)
145 points by ojbyrne 9y ago|88 comments
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
That seems to say beer & wine are cheaper in Canada, which is ludicrously wrong, to the point where I question the methodology.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
Having lived in both Canada and the US, it's a reasonable counter-argument, but I'm not sure "bigger" is really applicable to this argument. Most of Canada is empty, the population lives on a narrow strip of land near th
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U.S. court strikes down FAA’s hobby drone registration rule(sfgate.com)
55 points by ojbyrne 9y ago|55 comments
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
There are some NASs with 2x1 GB ethernet connections, which suggests to me there's at least some demand.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
Just so you know, the washington times is a radical right wing publication. I live in California, and the tiny tax increase on vehicles is both a. well below the rate of inflation and b. not enraging people.
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by ojbyrne 9y ago
"More money in voters’ wallets from tax cuts in Washington could reduce the sting in asking people to pay more at home, or it could just reinforce the idea that all taxes are meant to go down." The latest tax plan that was floated
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
Cocktails weren't invented during prohibition. http://www.snopes.com/cocktails-came-out-of-prohibition/
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I think you can safely leave out the word "Internet" there and the sentiment is still valid.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I've always found the answer to this to be - thinly, superficially, and with poor dead prose. I've never understood how they managed to cultivate the image they seem to have created.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
L-1As are included in the recent USCIS guidance that establishes a 60 day grace period when employment ends. https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-publishes-fin...
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
In the US if you end up in secondary inspection, your checked luggage can be brought there too.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
This has been done for entertainment reasons as far back as 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3697940.stm
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
15% not 40%. And as others have commented, already grossly subsidized and over-represented politically.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
Rural America has 15% of the country's population: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_America
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I would guess that its a combination of Sarbanes-Oxley and the glut of private capital available.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
Trump's "extreme vetting" combined with the federal hiring freeze applied to USCIS means every visa application is going to take longer.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
As I understand it, USCIS (though not ICE or CBP) is subject to the current federal hiring freeze.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
If that's all they could find after eight years in office, you're making the opposite point to the one you think you're making.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I drove one of these recently, I'm 6'1" and the seat wouldn't go back quite enough. Probably only 1-3 inches, but a total deal breaker.

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