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by peeters 11y ago
A good number of people realize that by the time it goes to Congress for its rubber stamp, it's too late to tweak the agreement. It's not like a bill where you can introduce amendments. They have to either throw away years of ne
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by peeters 11y ago
Because once the agreement is finalized in negotiations, it's expected to get a "yea" or "nay" vote from participant legislatures. To my knowledge, congress cannot amend the agreement at that point. So having the n
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by peeters 11y ago
It's fairly difficult. Sending a player down means exposing him to waivers (meaning another team can claim his contract). Now, that might be good in some circumstances, but in general you don't want to lose a player with no comp
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by peeters 11y ago
Are you talking about the North America that has around 15 universities with higher average (football) attendance than any team in the Champion's League gets [1][2]? [1] http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_
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by peeters 11y ago
> I'm saying they should be spending like Steinbrenner every single year and even paying a luxury tax if necessary, because they're pretty much going to make it back. Well yeah, that'd be great if they were in the MLB wher
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by peeters 11y ago
> Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals, for example, aren’t merely unlucky to have failed to reach the playoffs in 28 years: they have usually stunk. I smiled at that given what has happened since. But my smile disappeared when I
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by peeters 11y ago
Hmm, the OTPP owned the Leafs starting in 2003, and there has been a salary cap since 2005. Are you saying the Leafs weren't spending at the cap from 2005 onward? Or are you saying they should have been spending more money outside of
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by peeters 11y ago
> is there a structural reason why they can't get the talent to win? You might call the salary cap a structural reason, in that unlike the Yankees/rich baseball teams, you can't really buy talent, you basically have to dra
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by peeters 11y ago
I don't think Shanahan nor Babcock expect to be in the playoffs next year. That's not a reasonable goal when you're one year into a complete rebuild.
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by peeters 11y ago
Is Hamilton claimed by both Buffalo and Toronto? I know Niagara is claimed by Buffalo, despite being in a different country.
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by peeters 11y ago
Even most Leafs fans I talk to (and myself) think a second Toronto (or at least southern Ontario) franchise would be good for the Leafs, because it might actually force them to be good to draw in fans.
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by peeters 11y ago
Now you continue to not have the legal right to buy illegal drugs.
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by peeters 11y ago
I'm not sure I see the parallels to 1984 here. This seems more like a Freudian Slip [1]. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
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by peeters 11y ago
I would also add prescription eyewear to that list. These are not optional costs when you need them, and cause bigger problems when ignored. So why is it being left to employers, as if it's an optional benefit? The government is say
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by peeters 11y ago
I think the video addresses it in a fair and approachable manner. It makes it clear that the value is in scaling algorithms to larger inputs, and even shows so in a graph. When dealing with unbounded scaling, the constants typically do no
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by peeters 11y ago
Where is the "actual failure rate" number coming from?
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by peeters 11y ago
I think you're the one missing something; namely that while the TED talk cites Milwaukee as a bad flag, the author (Whet Moser) of the linked article (which embeds the video) describes his disagreement. Hence the "too" in
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by peeters 11y ago
The article has numbers. > Non-financial American firms hold $1.73 trillion in cash (...), and $1.1 trillion of that belongs to the 50 biggest companies Yes, American companies hold a lot of cash, but almost all of it is concentrated in
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by peeters 11y ago
The article does actually talk about this. > Unless Apple starts building cars -- or perhaps spaceships -- it will keep accumulating cash. Their point is that Apple has so much cash (coupled with an MO of not casting a wide net in new pr
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by peeters 11y ago
Also, "gonvernment"
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by peeters 12y ago
Ok, that one is awesome! Maybe a slightly blander surface, but integrated to a wonderful effect.
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by peeters 12y ago
Do you consider the great pyramids to not be an engineering marvel because it doesn't make the list of the tallest 1000 buildings in the world?
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by peeters 12y ago
[1] is definitely cool, and similar, though done at a much smaller scale. The Hoover Dam looks to be about 10 times as wide and ~5 times as high as that building. So you're talking about 50 times the surface area to project on. Proj
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by peeters 12y ago
It's not the only kind of pollution, no, but the title is both incorrect and clickbait in that it just says "pollution". 16 ships do NOT create as much pollution as all of the cars on the planet, period. They create as much
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by peeters 12y ago
I think the effects in the intro were pretty cool. E.g. seemlessly projecting the texture of the dam and then having blocks of concrete move out of the way to reveal the inner "gears" of the dam.
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by peeters 12y ago
Video link: http://on.aol.com/video/daimler-trucks-freightliner-event-at...
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by peeters 12y ago
You can counteract that somewhat by delegating rural policing to a larger force, so that the overhead of some programs are shared. Maybe it wouldn't be too popular in the States, where everyone from the Mayor down to the city hall jani
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by peeters 12y ago
My question whenever this comes up is how will the web respond to the millions of caching devices out there that will now provide no bandwidth savings? ISPs and companies all over the world cache static HTTP content (i.e. HTTP resources wit
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by peeters 12y ago
A large part of the criticism was around whether a single engine jet was really appropriate for patrolling the Canadian Arctic. I imagine that rhetoric is going to get ramped up as reports of that single engine being unreliable surface.
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by peeters 12y ago
I just added it up, and between starting SE at UW in 2005, and 2012 (when I moved to my current location) I'd lived in 13 different places. It's totally hectic and stressful at the time (on two occasions I didn't know where

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