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by sdm 11y ago
Grew up in Northern AB and have lived the past 10 years in BC, While "flat" is sometimes used, it's far more common to call them "two fours" here.
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by sdm 11y ago
I'm surprised they missed one of the biggest ones that comes up in day-to-day life dealing with Americans: the use of verb "to table" in meetings. In American English if you say you want to table something in a meeting it mea
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by sdm 11y ago
In the tech field, everyone is very very aware. I can't speak about other fields though. In my experience, pretty much anyone who is middle class or above knows about it. Granted middle class and above is only about 300 million of the
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by sdm 11y ago
> I thought it was just a consequence of being on spotty < 5mbps(ADSL?) connections.... I can't imagine what living in these conditions 24/7/365 is like. In my experience splitting my time between North America and Chin
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by sdm 11y ago
In my experience ... spending a lot of time working in China ... most people use Astrill or ExpressVPN. I'm surprised no one has mentioned them here yet. They own the VPN market in China. Almost every senior developer I've met her
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by sdm 11y ago
Some small part have but it's a minority. Manufacturing has been moving out of China for the past 10 years at an increasingly rapid pace. It's going to ASEAN nations who together have been working hard at becoming the next "f
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by sdm 11y ago
Using Uber here in Suzhou, I'm pretty sure their China servers are completely within China. There is no "bump" from transversing the GFW and starting such a service in China without having the servers inside would be crazy. T
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by sdm 11y ago
Looks like they are mainly targeting designers. Hard to call what they show in the video "code".
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by sdm 11y ago
Only accepting American customers; disappointing. They should make that clear on their landing page.
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by sdm 11y ago
It's tradition. Every generation complains about the next one and worries their children will be the first to not do as well as their parents. Most of the complaints and worries are standard and have been for some time. I remember in u
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by sdm 11y ago
A bit misleading title. It's more American/European payment provider focused. I don't see any of the main Chinese providers represented.
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by sdm 12y ago
> What if China passes a law saying that DDOS protection is illegal worldwide? Jurisdiction.
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by sdm 12y ago
> I do find that Europe and North America are more like each other than either is like Latin America. "Latin America" is very big area and it overlaps with North America. In my experience the most European-like country in the A
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by sdm 12y ago
> NZ and Australia share a European colonial heritage and are culturally aligned with other countries of "the West." The same goes for pretty much all of Latin America. Remember, the majority of South Americans are white and st
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by sdm 12y ago
The common view is more that any liberal democracy is considered "the West". It doesn't have much to do with location.
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by sdm 12y ago
The GVRD renamed itself to the Metro-Vancouver about 5 or 6 years ago. The Vancouver Metro area is the exact same thing as the GVRD. They aren't different things.
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by sdm 12y ago
Shanghai and Nanjing are rather far away from each other. It's more common to talk about how Shanghai, Suzhou, and Wuxi are growing together to form a massive conurbation. The YRD is more of a broad economic zone and not really compara
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by sdm 12y ago
Since when has Cuba had a homogeneous population?
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by sdm 12y ago
From the Amazon description: > He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even
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by sdm 12y ago
Interesting read. I've always found Gala and Fuji too soft and lacking the crispness of a Red Delicious. I have never been able to stand them. I can't abide non-crisp apples. I find the best apple for crispness and taste is the Ca
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by sdm 12y ago
I'm really confused why someone would want to know their neighbours. I don't know my neighbours but even if I did, I wouldn't want to be sharing with them on an online network. I like my anonymity and privacy.
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by sdm 12y ago
Anything over 25 and I want to die... :) Good temperatures are between 18 and 22.
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by sdm 12y ago
Looks good but really needs Celsius. Most of us don't know Fahrenheit. Also, why is hot green? Shouldn't it be red? You don't want to be somewhere that's over 25C.
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by sdm 12y ago
Those nuclear ice-breakers are not merchant ships. Their primary purpose is not to carry containers or people.
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by sdm 12y ago
> ... unlike other major 20th century conflicts, it found the American people sitting on the sidelines I'm sorry, but the American public has been sitting on the side lines for almost all of the 20th century's major conflicts.
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by sdm 12y ago
I wouldn't call Hipchat's OS X client native; it's Flash (Adobe Air). The Slack's desktop OS X and iOS apps, while they are html based, are an order of magnitude nicer to use.
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by sdm 12y ago
Why would you need to print them at all? Does Virgin not support electronic boarding passes?
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by sdm 12y ago
I don't get this. Don't they offer electronic boarding passes? Why would you need to print a boarding pass?
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by sdm 12y ago
The problem is that there are so many edge cases with this. iMessage is a group messaging platform. Replacing SMS is just a small part of what it covers. You might be switching away from you iPhone but you still want to be able to use it on
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by sdm 12y ago
Wow. That's just crazy! I haven't seen one of those imprint machines in 15 years. I thought they were completely dead. Even before the Chip cards, it was normal to have portable terminals that you would just swipe, enter your tip,

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