turnip1979

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by turnip1979 10y ago
I am skeptical about the roofs over people's head argument. This is being used by buyers to rationalize mind boggling home values in Toronto and Vancouver. If the jobs keep being crappy, young people will just move away to better econo
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by turnip1979 10y ago
I was an AFOL but stopped cold turkey because of this reason. Vote with my dollars and all that. Lego can keep their one-time special pieces.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
As a casual gamer, I run into this quite a bit. Want to play online? Need a gigabyte update. Want to use Skype. . gotta merge your accounts. Makes me miss the days of the SNES and n64.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
I usually purchase a lot of electronics hardware on a whim. With FPGAs, I'm forcing myself to learn how to use them before I spend the cash. There are quite a few boards out there though .. but this isn't a rec based on actual usa
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by turnip1979 10y ago
My hypothesis is that people without significant real assets are all worse off since the money supply has been debased. Peter Thiel's book talks about "secrets" that are not really hidden but overlooked .. if he were to inter
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by turnip1979 10y ago
I think you are right but wonder if it is just some kind of bias. Do you have other authors in mind who are leading the way today? I've heard of Verner Vinge being spoken of in similar term btw.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
I'm impressed too but also dismayed by how little the average person (or even the average CS person) understands about the low level stuff. I had a top notch CS undergrad degree, but I'm only truly able to grok some of the finer p
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by turnip1979 10y ago
vi, python 2.7, virtualenv/pip unless I need to install MySql.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
When I used it for Java, I often would have to use the menu option to restart. Seriously .. a menu option to restart??? The stability wasn't as bad as the slowness. Also, OSGI seems to be a philosophy or cult. Things are just generally
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by turnip1979 10y ago
See my post above. Windows thought my father's touchscreen laptop was a tablet, and put him in tablet-only mode by default.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Something very similar happened to me + my old father (not tech savy). My parents have carefully written down steps on how to accomplish various functions (seems very unnatural to me but that is the only way they get things done on PCs). I
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Thanks for taking the time. For Canadians or Europeans with PhDs and a sufficient track record to make EB1 feasible, is it better to work at a research institution while one gets a green card, or is it better to just plow ahead with a start
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Umm .. no. Typically, commercial TVs have features like volume/channel locking and magicinfo. These are extras.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Intel chip performance improvements seem to have slowed down. They add extras like acceleration for 3d prints, USB improvements, etc. But raw horse power seems at a standstill. I wonder if this is because they don't have a fierce compe
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Why do you think the IMU is expensive? I thought the gear vr and occulus were using the same chip. Care to shed some light?
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Good point.. in the old days, Internet connectivity was expensive so a lot of games supported LAN-based multiplayer. Those were awesome days. You could certainly achieve the same with the Internet today if you didn't have a central ser
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Yet another case that makes me wish consoles had no Internet connectivity.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Dumb question ... Broxton = Atom? So Atom will be no more?
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by turnip1979 10y ago
They went up once and the fed is signaling a lot of caution. The earlier analyst consensus was 4 hikes this year .. it is down to 2. The latest commentary I'm hearing says normal rates by 2019 .. which is psycho IMHO.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
I think your folks may have these issues if healthy food was "expensive" but sugary processed foods would be "cheap" and plentiful. By expensive/cheap, you can substitute waiting in line for price.
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Be very careful maximizing 401k. If you live in a crazy expensive area, make sure you have enough for a down payment on a house (if u aspire for one). You can get a loan from your 401k for home purchases but the amount is pathetically low .
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by turnip1979 10y ago
Yup ... I was trying to be an indie dev in the old J2ME days .. the insane fees from carriers killed the dream for me. I ended up missing the entire app store revolution since I had preconceived notions of what carriers would allow. Too ear
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by turnip1979 10y ago
My worry is that a day will come when rents start to increase. My great fear is that this will happen precisely when interest rates are high. What will we renters do then? We will truly have no choice then. The housing market in the UK is g
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by turnip1979 10y ago
My hypothesis is that the China/hk dollar peg is to blame. Edit: to clarify, the Chinese yuan and hkd are pegged to the USD. The recent strength of the USD has caused problems for China ...some people thing the peg will fail. If you ar
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by turnip1979 11y ago
Consulting companies often have the concept of a sabatical at reduced pay. Although they work, supercommute like crazy during their own hours. Out of curiosity, what location are you based in?
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by turnip1979 11y ago
That section has a few exceptions to it. "... (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer
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by turnip1979 11y ago
In a democracy, people talk and complain to get ineffective laws changed. My fear is that if the government doesn't act soon, the backlash will be against all immigrants. Just like the idiots are vilyfing 1% of the highest income earne
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by turnip1979 11y ago
I think we need to talk about the issue so that our representatives learn to differentiate between professionals who earn employment income and the ultrarich who hold the majority of assets. The central banks are refusing to even acknowledg
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by turnip1979 11y ago
You are in a fantasy world. Fraud, corruption and dodging taxes are some of the ways massive weath was created. Read Sean mcdirmonds comments above. Canada doesn't tax assets ... if u stole money in China and managed to bring it into C
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by turnip1979 11y ago
Right on .. racism is wrong and what is also wrong is taxation and policies that discriminates against people who earn their living through employment income. We need to rethink this soon else I fear a general hatred towards capital and inv

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