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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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Feel free to unpack the wrong. And no, your previous >Have you ever actually looked at the 2015 Federal Election results. SMH. won't cut it. As I said, look into "Ford Country"'…
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https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt
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>I thought they were saying that ~~Americans~~ professors of gender studies were the ones leaving the US to be free and prosper in Canada. What happened with that? FTFY
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> Canada's economic complexity index is on par with Serbia and Bulgaria. I've heard it said that Canada is three mining companies standing on each other wearing a trenchcoat.
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Context: According to Our World in Data, as of 2024, one million people born in Canada < https://ourworldindata.org/where-do-migrants-live-and-where-... > live in the US, or about…
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> Either Canada would immediately be the largest state and deliver a massive House majority to one obvious party or, if the provinces joined separately, an overwhelming Senatorial majority to that …
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Edited by me from "Creating a new foundation for digital pluralism, data security and sustainability"
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You may find < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058001 > to be of interest.
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> Plato often gets overlooked, but it was highly influential. A well written book on it is: "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture" Q…
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By this time Kemeny was the president of Dartmouth. He's surely the first university president in history to have a computer terminal in his office (and at his home). The terminals were for the D…
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I have an Amazfit Balance, and previously several Amazfit Bips. I really like being able to use my watch as a BLE heartrate monitor with iSmoothRun on iPhone. I gather that being able to do so is not …
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> but after 6 years with a Garmin Fenix still holding 90% of its battery (and being able to replace it), I'm not their potential customer. What kind of battery life did you have when you bough…
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Title edited by me from "Playing Computer Music via an AM Radio on Computers Like the Altair, IMSAI, PDP8, Sorcerer, TRS80, etc in the 1970s"
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> Some things that are shipped from the us to foreign lands could be shipped from Canada for similar costs. Food, for example, or minerals or oil. These are things shipped in bulk “elsewhere”. Cana…
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>Or when they can't afford health care anymore Ah yes, the so-effective Canadian system. Context for others: An amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor < https:&…
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>A country doesn't get attacked and invaded It's as if you blithely ignored my >Even (again) setting aside Trump explicitly ruling out invasion in the sentence before the one you quote…
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>we are attempting to redirect some of our trade to other nations besides the U.S., including by a series of sweeping free trade agreements Canada sells $450 billion to the US annually, out of tota…
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One point I was not aware of is that Gates offered to put IBM in touch with SCP for SCP-DOS, but IBM turned down the offer because it preferred a single source! (It's understandable. Microsoft, e…
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I disagree. The various questioners in The Last Question all hope for/expect an answer; what they don't expect is the "insufficient" response. I am talking about someone jokingly…
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I recently saw a photo of an alligator lying on top of a pool floatie shaped like an alligator. That alligator could be trained in every way possible for ten years, and never ever recognize the mutual…
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>It is ~a meme on subreddits that developers struggling to get good results out of any given model is a "skills issue." * GIT GUD* (at prompting)
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The day is coming when some * BIG* problem is solved by AI just because someone jokingly asks about it.