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They all shut up:Jaida Lee talks pitching for NL men's baseball team at CA Games(cbc.ca)
1 points by vic-traill 4y ago|1 comments
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Shifting to EVs is not enough. The deeper problem is our car dependence(cbc.ca)
21 points by vic-traill 4y ago|14 comments
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Toronto's Pearson airport has PR problem: It's known as worst airport(cbc.ca)
7 points by vic-traill 4y ago|1 comments
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US GDP shrinks 2 quarters in a row meeting bar some say is technical recession(cbc.ca)
4 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Germany says no good alternatives to Russian energy – not everyone is convinced(cbc.ca)
13 points by vic-traill 4y ago|2 comments
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Choosing sterilization delay treatment Med choices in US; amid new abortion laws(cbc.ca)
2 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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US, Russian astronauts will swap seats on rockets again(apnews.com)
2 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Homes destroyed as out-of-control wildfire burns near Lytton BC(cbc.ca)
3 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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1500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already joined new virtual power plant in CA(electrek.co)
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Cross-border shoppers beware Canada bans raw chicken, eggs from states incl MI(cbc.ca)
2 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Hundreds of tech, business and nonprofit leaders urge states to boost CS edu(geekwire.com)
2 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Trump ally Bannon reverses course, says he's willing to testify before panel(cbc.ca)
6 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Rogers customers increasingly frustrated on 3rd day with out cell, internet srv(cbc.ca)
9 points by vic-traill 4y ago|1 comments
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Canadian tech talent still in demand, despite layoffs and recession predictions(thestar.com)
3 points by vic-traill 4y ago|0 comments
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Uber deliberately dodged authorities ignored rules in early years documents show(cbc.ca)
7 points by vic-traill 4y ago|1 comments
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Battery of the Month Club for the win! Or was that just a Canadian thing?
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by vic-traill 4y ago
Works from Canada. I guess we're in The Club.
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by vic-traill 5y ago
This is very true. Years ago we had chickens, and fresh eggs (laid over the past couple of days) were impossible to peel the shell from after hard boiling. We started soft boiling, knocking the head off and using a small spoon to eat. I
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by vic-traill 5y ago
Well, Shackleton must have been a heck of a guy to live the life he lived. On the Endurance expedition, however, his treatment of Harry 'Chippy' McNish [0], who performed the modifications to the lifeboat James Caird, which was th
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by vic-traill 5y ago
I thought so when I saw it, as well. It's pretty funny - bad kerning == keming [0]. It's a keeper, I'd say. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming
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by vic-traill 5y ago
I had a look - from their FAQ [0]: However, some PDFs are scanned documents, or only contain images. PDFTables doesn't perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to turn these images into text. To process these kinds of documents,
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by vic-traill 5y ago
Is there a joke or double entendre to the misspelling of 'counterintuitive' in the HN title (the article title is correct) that I'm missing?
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by vic-traill 5y ago
I checked out the second link and this is IMHO an interesting and thoughtful YouTube channel. These are not words that I co-locate often. The linked video discusses the deep effect that urban planning can have sociologically; e.g. if a ne
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by vic-traill 5y ago
In my experience, this is Edge updates doing this.
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by vic-traill 5y ago
I gave up on Usenet newsgroups when the noise in groups of interest (mainly rec.music. , comp.lang. and comp.sys.*) led to me spending too much time managing my killfile in relation to actually reading and replying to news. It really was t
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by vic-traill 7y ago
I apologise for a low value comment, but I can't resist the opportunity: Did Clearview get a picture of the 'intruder'?
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by vic-traill 7y ago
This. Perhaps the OP intended Romany (or the alternative Romani). [0] It's a Wikipedia source, but it is of reasonable quality, differentiating between Romanian and Romany in matters of religion and music. [0] https://en.wik
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by vic-traill 7y ago
Guy Lafleur - the Hockey Hall of Fame former Montreal Canadiens forward - was a notorious smoker in the 70s through to the 80s. You wouldn't believe it watching him skate, he was a speedster. Technique overcoming the respiratory system
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by vic-traill 7y ago
This. Loneliness is powerful; I suspect that if you're lonely enough, even a scam call conversation has appeal. There are even suggestions that loneliness has physical implications [0]. My father suffers from vascular dementia. He&
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by vic-traill 7y ago
I missed the edit window. I do appreciate the heads up, thanks.

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