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Canada, U.S. preparing to close border to non-essential travel(cbc.ca)
63 points by skookum 7y ago|37 comments
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by skookum 7y ago
Any job not performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book is non-essential.
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by skookum 7y ago
In the mountain sports community Ibuprofen is jokingly referred to as "Vitamin I". I know a lot of people who take it regularly to push through the soreness of multiple days of physical activity.
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by skookum 7y ago
Did you read the article you're responding to? It's historical data, which is as literal money in the bank as you can get. What's the point of saying "oh sure, but this is skewed by Amazon/Microsoft TC, base salarie
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by skookum 7y ago
This is backward looking data. It's what people earned, not some pie-in-the-sky projection of future IPO windfalls.
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by skookum 7y ago
I don't know why there is always this nitpick. I just take it for granted that when someone talks about tech "salaries" they mean "total comp". Virtually everyone in my peer group makes more than half of their total
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by skookum 7y ago
Presumably from stories like this one earlier this week: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-tech-workers-earn-279k...
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by skookum 7y ago
Ouch. Either I need to stop commenting while in a conference call or I'm going senile. Or both.
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by skookum 7y ago
Your comment got me interested in where the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (alma mater to Copernicus) placed in these standings which led me to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in.
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by skookum 7y ago
I bought a Purple mattress a few years ago. It was debilitatingly uncomfortable. After three nights I gave up and called them for a return. Their customer service spent quite a long time trying to convince me to keep trying: their pitch&#x2
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by skookum 7y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-air-canada-eu...
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by skookum 7y ago
I'm not sure what the condescending "uh" is about. All of the brands I listed do have websites so you can trivially confirm their premium shells use Gore-Tex. Here are the ones you tried to fact-check: https://www.
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by skookum 7y ago
All the A-list mountain brands' top-of-the-line shells are currently made with Gore-Tex. I just did a quick scan and Arc'teryx, Black Diamond, Haglöfs, Marmot, Norrøna, Outdoor Research, Patagonia, and Rab all do. I can't fin
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by skookum 7y ago
> adoption continues to increase over time I see this statement over and over and wonder what it's backed by. Anecdotally it feels like adoption at the "businesses that take Bitcoin" level has been dropping steadily for th
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by skookum 7y ago
Why is it disingenuous? What if the OP sold and immediately bought another asset that had similarly appreciated? What if they sold, changed their mind, and immediately re-bought the same asset? In both these cases the "made" 25K (
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by skookum 7y ago
It surely depends on what you consider "the outdoors" and what your baseline for proximity is, but speaking as someone whose definition of outdoor recreation skews towards mountain sports in both summer and winter I would not cons
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by skookum 7y ago
Isn't this only for mutual funds? AFAIK, Schwab is the only major old-school brokerage that currently offers fractional shares.
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by skookum 7y ago
The video was shot in the Richmond Center parking lot [1]. That Tesla is (unfortunately) displaying above-average driving skill for that location. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/@49.1646475,-123.1373743,18z
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by skookum 7y ago
I don't think cooler/trendier is the reason major companies with established long-term offices use WeWork. I spent a few months in a WeWork office - which was more uncomfortable than it was cool or trendy - as an employee of such
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by skookum 7y ago
This has been beaten to death in other threads related to this over the past several weeks, but the short answer to your question is "by putting money toward infrastructure upgrades instead of toward paying out dividends".
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by skookum 7y ago
I had to laugh a little at "their impact on performance remains unexamined" as the bicycle touring crowd has used plain boiled potatoes as a common fueling snack for as long as I can remember. When I did the Seattle-to-Portland ri
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by skookum 7y ago
That is a good point that may offset to some extent. From the glimpses I've had of grocery store stocking - especially when it comes to produce - I think Costco is still more packaging-per-volume for the things I buy. Costco also still
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by skookum 7y ago
But then I'd miss out on the 4% back from my Costco Visa for that gasoline. And even _just that 4%_ pays for the membership in my case. :D (My next-best card in terms of rebate on gas is 1.5%, so assuming an additional 2.5% from Costco
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by skookum 7y ago
I'm a big fan of Costco, but packaging is one area where I'm not sure how well it works out from an environmental footprint perspective. Buying milk? 3 standard cartons in a big cardboard box. Tomatoes? 4 lbs in a cardboard box wr
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by skookum 7y ago
I'm sure it varies from area to area but here in the Seattle area I've found that as compared to the standard supermarkets (meaning Safeway, QFC, Fred Meyer), Costco sells prime grade beef at the same price as supermarkets sell ch
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by skookum 7y ago
The company that issues Tether can issue it without receiving any USD. If that issuance is large enough, they can make a killing in absolute terms.
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by skookum 7y ago
Though the OP misspelled cachet, so I guess it should be "The brand for a while had some cash, eh?" :)
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by skookum 7y ago
At Amazon, for their legendary door desks, the solution was almost this. You'd open a facilities ticket and eventually a guy with a glue gun and slices of 4x4s in various heights would show up. He'd pick the slice height necessary
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by skookum 7y ago
Which flavor is "tea flavor"? Black, pu-erh, oolong, green, white? For black, is it Assam, Ceylon, Darjeeling, etc, etc? Why should the specific flavor blend that Lipton's tasters put together for their Yellow Label be good
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by skookum 7y ago
The pizzas that are ordered for a group in the US are generally 16-18 inches (40-45cm). They are usually not as thin-crusted as Italian-style pizzas are, and they usually have more cheese and toppings. Depending on toppings a complete pizza

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