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by awor 11y ago
In a somewhat tangentially related vein, Suncor Energy, one of the top Oil Sands mining companies in Canada, announced they're replacing their fleet of heavy haul trucks with automated ones[0] by 2020, in the artcle they interview a au
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by awor 11y ago
The prairies of Canada are divided out like this as well, due to the Dominion Land Survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey And for an arbitrary Google Earth location in Saskatchewan: https:/&#x
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by awor 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8U4Qn6iIIg
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by awor 12y ago
Most of Gold Rush is filmed in Canada, specifically anything involving "The Klondike", which is in the Yukon, Canada. They would need to abide by Transport Canada's UAV regulations, and would most likely require a SFOC, which
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by awor 12y ago
As someone who has spent a fair bit of time working on swingstages, towers and other structures, there's a few things that immediately caught my attention. Yes, I'm going to be that guy. - As this appears to be a photoshoot for Sm
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by awor 12y ago
As well as the commissary, which is often operated by a private company. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/what-a-tv-show-ca...
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by awor 12y ago
Permafrost
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by awor 12y ago
As far as running water through a water system to keep it from freezing: That's exactly what we do here. The town _requires_ all households to have a bleeder turned on from about Nov-April at a rate of 1 Litre/minute. This is a s
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by awor 12y ago
To add to what's been said, another problem is currently our only fibre link to southern Canada is via the Alaska highway, which gets accidentally cut about once a year or so by a construction company.[0] We have microwave that it will
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by awor 12y ago
Two DAYS
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by awor 12y ago
more or less >What is an ABA routing number? The ABA routing number is a 9-digit identification number assigned to financial institutions by The American Bankers Association (ABA). This number identifies the financial institution upon wh
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by awor 12y ago
This was only in Ontario, so $18/citizen
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by awor 12y ago
and smoking!
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by awor 12y ago
the lead dev and architect for OneGet jumped on the reddit thread yesterday and answered a bunch of questions: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2khkpo/windows_10_... using the username : fearthe
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by awor 12y ago
the McDonnel-Douglas 520 helicopter has no tail rotor and instead has a fan in the tail which utilizes the coanda effect to counter act main rotor torque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Helicopters_MD_500#MD_520N http
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by awor 12y ago
No problems on 5 mbit dsl for me...
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by awor 12y ago
An amazing book covering the efforts to connect the two oceans is "The Path Between the Seas" by David McCullough.[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_Between_the_Seas
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by awor 12y ago
I would bet (no citation) that a lot of Reddit users use AdBlock compared to the average web user
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by awor 12y ago
The CBC posted a piece they did in 1982 when Canada was switching to the metric system. It's a really neat piece, lots of strong opinions on both sides. http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology
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by awor 12y ago
Look into arduino + gardening.
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by awor 12y ago
Starting Strength is more about getting functionally strong, though an increase in muscle size would no doubt accompany that. Taking the deadlift as an example, Rippetoe spends pages describing the proper form, and why you need to do them.
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by awor 12y ago
"Gold Rush: Alaska" and "Yukon Gold" are both filmed in my local area (Dawson, Yukon, Canada), and both companies strap GoPros onto every piece of heavy equipment they can. If they fall off and get run over, they'r
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by awor 12y ago
From the article, it seems like the "flat-rate contract" the ISPs have for peering with L3 is $0. The issue that L3 is raising, is that the equipment/appliances that the ISP has installed in these peering arrangements are ins
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by awor 12y ago
Did you read the article? In both cases the offending parties were told to contact RBS to obtain a proper license/account.
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by awor 12y ago
I remember finding this out on a trip there in 2007, glad to see it has changed
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by awor 12y ago
That is definitely not unheard of. The dealers will do whatever they can do to get you to show up.
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by awor 12y ago
I use a Fiskar X27[0] splitting axe and swinging that into a 12" round log of white birch or white spruce at -30C to -45C is like cutting through butter. [0] http://www2.fiskars.com/Gardening-and-Yard-Care/Products
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by awor 12y ago
Me too! Here's a bunch of Arduino gardening (and other) links: http://www.rootsimple.com/2013/03/arduino-homesteading-proje...
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by awor 12y ago
You need to talk to a lawyer.
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by awor 13y ago
It'd be neat if they could come to some sort of a standard on this so that its an open, reviewable piece of software that handles the crypto side of things and then passes that off and they (the Automakers) can "customize" th

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