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by peeters 6y ago
Being the son of a Canadian small-mid business owner, I can say that what's unique about CERB is the "limbo" status of it. The employer doesn't need to formally lay off the employee, nor produce an ROE, etc. They basic
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by peeters 6y ago
> Covid has always been at a relatively low level in BC BC was actually the hardest hit early on, but they were quick on their feet and the first to see a real response to curve-flattening changes.
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by peeters 6y ago
Except everything besides the 900 estimate is made up out of thin air as far as the "details" go. The "appeal to simple physics" is useful as far as providing a reasonable lower bound ("it must by conservation of
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by peeters 6y ago
How many people does it take to push a two-ton rock up a hill and then back to where it started? Apparently zero.
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by peeters 7y ago
I think it's more that people are going from purchasing fresh bread to purchasing the ingredients for fresh bread.
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by peeters 7y ago
In Canada, there have been supply shortages but according to Robin Hood (major Canadian flour producer), the supply issues are both at the endpoint (grocery stores not stocking enough) as well as in secondary products, e.g. they cite that t
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by peeters 7y ago
In the article they also say: > Again, this is entirely rational for Google. If the value of the image classification training did not exceed those costs, it makes perfect sense for Google to ask for payment for the service they provide.
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by peeters 7y ago
> ¹Some of the year-over-year change in activity may be due to weather or shift in holiday schedules. Yeah that's going to be particularly significant for certain countries. Obviously globally, the year-over-year trend is significa
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by peeters 7y ago
I'm not in that area, but I struggle to find an analogue of a large pressurized tank on Earth where mass is the dominant cost factor. You might have equally big tanks on Earth, under equal pressures, but it will be more cost-effective
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by peeters 7y ago
Yeah I was hoping for a fair comparison but it seemed like a pretty big strawman. Like he just takes it for granted that "a session cookie is a cryptographically-signed identifier" but that's not remotely standard. At its m
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by peeters 7y ago
> The daughter (a journalist) of the Huawei CEO was harrassed and detained without cause, in what was essentially a kidnapping for ransom/extortion. How did the American people not feel outrage when Trump did this? This is news to m
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by peeters 7y ago
> - The pen testers should be ready to spend time in jail and be compensated as such. A piece of paper should not get you off free immediately. That thing needs to be verified, so expect it to take time. Sure, that might explain the 12 h
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by peeters 7y ago
I think any ruling that says LinkedIn can't put in protectionary measures against automated requests is doomed to be overturned, as long as they're not doing it discriminately. Captcha, rate limiting, user agent testing, etc are
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by peeters 7y ago
Took me a second look to see it, look at the diagram in the Wiki link. The inside lane physically becomes the outside lane at two points, meaning you don't have to cross a lane to exit like you would sometimes need to in a "norma
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by peeters 7y ago
Are you just talking about being able to make a lane change within the roundabout? Because the outer lane cannot take the third exit in your example (at least according to the lane markings), they must exit before then. In Ontario anyway,
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by peeters 7y ago
I'm not sure I accept the premise that we've established anything close to an efficient market for executives.
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by peeters 7y ago
Not OP, and it's an article about an article about a study, but I think this is where the analysis would be mentioned: > According to Phys.org, the researchers used “lead and tin isotope data as well as trace element analysis” to id
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by peeters 7y ago
Wasn't the ex-CEO also a Boeing engineering lifer?
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by peeters 7y ago
A tuple is the generic term for a pair, triple, etc. It's a collection of data of heterogeneous types, unlike an array which is homogeneous. When the members are unnamed, the data is indexed by its position like an array. E.g. a meth
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by peeters 7y ago
Besides just the convenience of it not being a dependency, this will allow other language-level features like pattern matching and object deconstruction in the future. Basically anything that requires the language to have a tuple/name
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by peeters 7y ago
Start low, increase steadily to meet emissions targets. Canada recently introduced a carbon tax at the federal level (for provinces that did not price carbon themselves), and returns 90% back to those province's taxpayers via tax credi
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by peeters 7y ago
I don't think transmission is a huge issue; plenty of opportunity to generate in situ. e.g. going back to Ontario exporting low-carbon energy, of its sustained generation ~60% is nuclear, 15% wind (largely on-land). There's no re
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by peeters 7y ago
That's why you put a price on carbon emissions. The free market isn't going to solve it. There's an abundance of clean energy out there (e.g. Ontario sells the U.S. massive amounts of electricity at a loss), the problem is
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by peeters 7y ago
The really interesting thing to me is that phylloxera was combated by grafting old world vines onto new world roots. So as I understand it, most of these super old established vines in France have American roots.
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by peeters 7y ago
People were walking into non-restricted areas of the military bases that were open to the public. None of the incidents discussed in the article were in restricted areas of the bases. That's not to say they didn't fall under the
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by peeters 7y ago
This is true, but I'm guessing what happened is they evaluated > 65 as a group and gave that a mortality rate, when in all likelihood those who broke their hip at 65 probably had a very low mortality rate, despite being lumped in
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by peeters 7y ago
Do you have a source for that number by chance (assuming it wasn't just off the cuff)? I understand and don't argue the idea, but 65 isn't passing my smell test, that seems absurdly young.
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by peeters 7y ago
Well the "why are they doing DNS resolution" comes down to "because the contract requires it": > Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number on the h
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by peeters 7y ago
Been there. I remember fixing a performance bug ages ago where we had URL (or maybe some other address class) used as a key in a HashMap (which seemed like a perfectly valid thing to do with a value class). We were doing literally thousands
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by peeters 7y ago
As interesting as the vessel is the noncompliance of the crew in being used as propaganda: > This treatment turned worse when the North Koreans realized that crewmen were secretly giving them "the finger" in staged propaganda p

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