emilyfm

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by emilyfm 8y ago
Dragons' Den is the show that Shark Tank is based on. It has run for many seasons in the UK and Canada (and short runs in Australia and Ireland and elsewhere). Episodes can be found on Youtube. In turn, Dragon's Den was based on
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by emilyfm 9y ago
Various sources for day-length estimates are available, see for example https://design-of-time.com/slowing.htm (appendix A).
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by emilyfm 9y ago
The province of Alberta, Canada (more than twice the land area of New Zealand) is free of rats. In their case, it was largely by stopping rats entering from the east (Saskatchewan) in the 1950's - there are natural barriers on the othe
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by emilyfm 9y ago
Interesting that there are no current transpacific cables at all landing in western Canada. Makes the area very dependent on the neighbour to the south (which is an earthquake risk, as well as a political risk).
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by emilyfm 9y ago
I've had domains registered for over 20 years already, much longer than gmail has existed. You can renew a domain for ten years in advance and easily transfer between registrars (and email providers, I use Fastmail), so it's a lot
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by emilyfm 9y ago
I didn't realise that road was so nearly finished. Should be open by end of this year. That's 3750 km (2400 miles) by road from Vancouver BC to the Arctic Ocean. Longer than Melbourne to Perth across Australia.
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by emilyfm 9y ago
You can drive a further 1200km+ road distance north of Whitehorse, Yukon on the Dempster Highway to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. End of the road appears to be just north of town: https://goo.gl/maps/shD9UoxTtK42
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by emilyfm 9y ago
Unfortunately very few people have their own domain for email (although they should!). When companies have kindly sent me their entire customer list (by using CC in place of BCC) I see there are very few domains in it outside of the major f
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by emilyfm 9y ago
The fad peaked back in May: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fidget%20spinner
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by emilyfm 9y ago
An interesting one for London is Train Times vs House Prices [1]. Shows how prices are affected by commute times (and the raw data is downloadable if you want to plot the times on a map). [1] http://anna.ps/blog/train-
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by emilyfm 9y ago
It was the only number that could not be dialled by accident by letting go of the dial too early. The aim wasn't to dial quickly, it was to avoid accidental calls. Rotary dials in New Zealand were the other way around (sending ten minu
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by emilyfm 9y ago
In the UK, when I renewed my driving license online I was offered the option to have them pick up the photo from my passport record, rather than send in a new photo. Since the passport had been issued about 9 years before, the new driving l
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by emilyfm 9y ago
Here's a frequently updated list of tech startup jobs in Victoria: https://github.com/sendwithus/vic-startup-jobs Victoria also has nicer weather than Vancouver (less summer rain). Direct flights to Seattle and SF
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by emilyfm 9y ago
Digital Ocean started as a lower-priced clone of Linode (Vultr did the same later). They started with just a subset of the services (finally catching up now), but had good developer marketing and a lower starter rate. It'll be interest
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by emilyfm 9y ago
I've registered hundreds of domains over the years, and still have a few hundred. Most were brought with a specific idea for a site in mind, but I ended up focusing on the few sites that made serious money, and the rest ended up just
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130M Aadhaar Numbers Were Made Public, Says New Report(thewire.in)
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by emilyfm 9y ago
Plan A would be to send some robots to try building using this technique. If it doesn't work, you're only out a few robots (who may be able to be repurposed). If it does work, leave them to it building a habitat which can be fitte
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by emilyfm 10y ago
I've been travelling on a road trip in NZ for the last month or so (with a few more weeks to go). Even now, tail end of the summer season, the country is packed. I like to drive around with just a rough route, see a place I like and s
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Use of CC BY 4.0 licensed data in OpenStreetMap(blog.openstreetmap.org)
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Canada still has pricing to the penny, and if you pay with something electronic (like a card, or online transfer) you still pay the exact amount, to the penny. It's just cash that gets rounded. This means there is no reason for shops
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by emilyfm 10y ago
How high (long) are the escalators? Above 18.5 metres (60 feet in the US) it's more efficient to stand on both sides: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/01/subway-escalator-stan...
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Starting from the other end, who would use a DMOZ successor? Clearly DMOZ hasn't been getting a lot of real user traffic, which I think is because newer users (that's most users) have only ever used search, never been introduced t
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by emilyfm 10y ago
I've been using a Linode load balancer for three years now (it's also $20/mo), in front of a bunch of vps's. Allows me to have zero-downtime upgrades by switching servers out of the rotation, and also not be concerned if
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Although Canada now reports land (and ferry) arrivals to the US, Mexico does not (yet). There is no US record of who leaves southbound into Mexico, and in most cases Mexico doesn't have a record of their entry either (requiring a Mexic
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by emilyfm 10y ago
The CBP checkpoints within the US near the southern border routinely use drug sniffing dogs and stop and search vehicles, including arresting US citizens. They're not just checking identity. Example from a while back: http:/&#x2
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Canada does require advance authorisation to arrive by air, the ETA (CA$ 7 online). http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/eta.asp
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by emilyfm 10y ago
In the US (at least in some states) there are discount grocery stores that buy truckloads of expired products from the major retailers and sell them off cheap. Tend to exist in lower income areas. Some of the stuff is years out of date. A s
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by emilyfm 10y ago
I agree, temporary status increases the stress level. The Canada Start-up Visa [1] gives immediate permanent residence, so you can stay even if the business eventually fails. [1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate&#
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by emilyfm 10y ago
That was the "investor" visa ("owner-operator"). The US International Entrepreneur Rule is more like the "Start Up Visa" [1] that was introduced in Canada a few years ago, which allows entry for founders of a b
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Parole is a term used by immigration for cases where they use their own authority to let someone in when the law doesn't quite allow it. For example in late 2000 the US government didn't get around to renewing the "visa waive

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