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by uiri 9y ago
The protests themselves are not "spying" per se but rather a tactic used to promote pro-Chinese government propaganda. According to the linked article, members of the student group have been accused of spying. Straight out of th
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The article says that he was born in 1970 but has nothing on his career before 1999. Maybe an Australian can chime in on the quality of the Billy Blue College of Design, but stints at unknown "digital media" companies and then at
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by uiri 9y ago
Kent State, Dresden and dronings are well-known, if not in the US, then in Canada (where I'm from). The first one is mainly from the protest song by Neil Young which may be played more often here due to Canadian content requirements. O
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by uiri 9y ago
> You say "screwed", I say "contributing to society". How is a coercively collected subsidy for the health expenses of other demographics considered a contribution to society? Is trading one's labour for capital
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Typically premiums are equal to or less than the expected payout for a given policy. Insurance companies make most of their profit off of the float (return on investments made with premiums as the principal). Health insurance really ought
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by uiri 9y ago
Every once and a while I would come upon a word in the book that was highlighted or underlined. I realize this is a tiny nitpick, but it is "once in a while" not "once and a while"; the latter isn't even grammatic
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by uiri 9y ago
Part I of the Constitution of Canada (1982) is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 1 of the Charter outlines that these Rights and Freedoms may have reasonable limits placed upon them in accordance with the principles of a
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The term "rent" in the phrase "rent-seeking" has nothing to do with the meaning of the term "rent" as payment pursuant to a lease. Rather, the phrase rent-seeking refers to seeking money without actually provid
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by uiri 9y ago
I think that your company had to send its employees off to formal education in a classroom (or similar) setting is indicative of the problem highlighted by the person you are replying to. Your employees would not have been anywhere near as
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by uiri 9y ago
You are correct when it comes to beer and wine. When it comes to liquor, a drink is usually 1.5oz (which is the size of an actual shot) but bars and clubs will frequently pour 1oz and call it a shot.
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by uiri 9y ago
I am not an accountant. You may use a loss from a side business in order to offset W-2 income. No need for complicated tax credit forms. Look into the IRS rules around hobbies as they may get suspicious if your "business" loses mo
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by uiri 9y ago
Plenty of places in the developing world simply don't record birth dates. When these people need official documentation (e.g. World Cup or Olympic athletes), they'll record either January 1st or July 1st depending on which season
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It means downtown Vancouver and downtown Toronto but not downtown Montreal nor any other "downtown" apparently (Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Quebec City, Saskatoon, Halifax, etc. come to mind) since Toronto and Vancouver a
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by uiri 9y ago
A much better visualization and discussion of the underlying data is linked to in the Reddit comments: http://www.vizwiz.com/2017/03/secret-of-success.html
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Maybe that is the case when it comes to large towns in the US (particularly in the South or the Midwest). In cities, even North American ones, you would have to be totally insane to want to drive downtown. To a large extent, this is because
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by uiri 9y ago
SMTP is not an instantaneous protocol. Email prioritizes reliability over speed when it comes to delivery. An email alert could very well be delayed to the point that it becomes useless for something which is time sensitive. Given the syn
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Arduino and AVR are 8-bit microcontrollers. ARM chips are 32- or 64-bit CPUs. There are plenty of ARM SoCs out the which can run Linux off of an SD card: raspberry pi and beagle bone black come to mind. There are plenty of use cases where a
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by uiri 9y ago
If it is on non-work time, without using any company resources, then they will have a hell of a time proving that they own it. Microsoft, surprisingly, seems to have a rather friendly written moon-lighting policy, excluding situations whe
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by uiri 9y ago
The author could easily base calculations off of cost(100; 1, 2, 5, 20, 40) and multiply the result by 5 to find the new optimal coin. This avoids unduly weighting values which are impossible without a penny which is what cost(500; 5, 10, 2
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by uiri 9y ago
I'm Canadian. Ruby was my first programming language. I don't know Rails. Now that I know Python, a lot of my first programming projects are the kinds of things that I would use Python for nowadays. American audiences often ask,
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by uiri 9y ago
A lot of people will say that they want to quit their job and start their own business. The people who will back up what they say with hard work actually do want to start their own company. The rest are all talk and when push comes to shove
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by uiri 9y ago
The author is from the Netherlands. Is the bureaucracy really that much worse in Germany than it is there?
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I'm not going to dispute your assertions regarding his character, politics, or technical competence. However, it is clear that he did not invent email as we know it today. This claim has repeatedly been debunked. He wrote an interoffic
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It is a shame that this was flagged on the basis of the title. It is an interesting article with a thesis other than that implied by the clickbait title.
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What does a non-disclosure agreement have to do with working for someone other than your current employer? It should go without saying that you shouldn't discuss confidential information in an interview. In California, it is unlawful f
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by uiri 9y ago
You're right that most services do send a multipart message with a sane looking plain text version. The biggest issue with that is when the sender of the email doesn't actually check that the content was converted properly. Most
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Brain drain is effectively a form of arbitrage in the labour market. You end up with a single market on the supply side and multiple markets on the demand side. All the highly skilled individuals on the supply side gravitate towards the hig
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Brain drain will continue until compensation in Canada rises to match compensation in the US.
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I think you misunderstood him/her. If you're a software developer and you're part of the "IT" department, then you're a liability. Your code is a necessary evil. If you're not part of the "IT" de
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Depends on the Google cafe. A few started dinner at 6:00. I think most started at 6:30 but I wouldn't be surprised if a couple didn't start until as late as 7. Breakfast ended at 10 but often it didn't actually close until fo

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