kerryfalk

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by kerryfalk 8y ago
A therapist. No joke. In my case it _seems to be_ a coping mechanism for anxiety. I'm so afraid that I force myself to be successful. It goes under the radar because it's seen as healthy to the outside world, but inside is turmoil
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by kerryfalk 8y ago
The developer pays for that access. The developer is a third party. They're buying transaction data. It's explicitly stated within their sales page and directly contradictory to the statement he made above.
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by kerryfalk 8y ago
We didn't have Fortnite but we had many other venues for entertainment on computers: MUDs, Ultima, DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein, Wing Commander, etc. etc. The list goes on. My early family life resembled the parent's. The diff
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by kerryfalk 8y ago
warning Reddit style comment ahead Woah. This thread just hit me in a - ridiculously - profound way. The day the Internet died.
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
Also, Sandvik, Copco or Volvo don't produce a TBM.
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
I think you've missed this one - the typical long-haul truck driver drives somewhere far enough away that they can't return home and must stay overnight (sometimes sleeping in their trucks) before they can drive again. This system
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
They do if they're paid spiffs on them.
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
We are not great at mining. Fun fact: the manufacturing industry has been able to obtain machine utilization at nearly 100%. Mining is in the 40% range.
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
Can you define what you mean by not spending a lot of resources on Mining? A significant part of the world’s GDP is in mining and mining and its subsidiary industries (manufacturing for example could not exist without mining) contributes so
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
That's not just the tech industry. I've never worked in a place that it doesn't happen. I've uncomfortably watched it in the past but took a hard line when a female coworker's first question to me about my new h
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
Canada's rural roads (read: most of Canada's roads) are already mostly two-lane.
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
Higher status fliers are allowed to take guests with them into priority boarding. I do this frequently with friends and colleagues who don't fly much.
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by kerryfalk 9y ago
This is just a guess but I fly a _lot_ (~40 flights so far this year). My guess is that the software probably did its job, the gate agents are often just automotons and don't really check anything other than your boarding zone.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
Wait. What? A star more massive than a black hole? I must be missing something here. Once something reaches the mass of a black hole, it becomes a black hole. No? How is it possible for a mass to be greater than a black hole but not a black
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
Come to Winnipeg. ;)
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
A friend of mine has been doing this for many years. I have bought a lot from him, and he's not cheap. I know he could make a lot more if he worked on his marketing a little bit, but I'm not sure he wants to. https://ww
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
Agreed. I don't think the problem in winter driving is the speed. It's anticipating what the hazards are and how to avoid them. You - and the other drivers on the road - have less control at all speeds and are always much closer t
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
I'm curious why you would have that impression and why you think investing is the way to achieve those things.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
1) the city isn't built for biking. It's long distances between where people work and their homes. Not many live downtown like other large cities. 2) you can only do it for six months of the year. The other six are too cold.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
Don't know where the parent is from but I live in a largish Canadian city. Using a bike for primary travel is not viable except for short leisure/weekend errands. I even live in the part of town where biking would be the most viab
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
Relax more. Yoga did it for me.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
$1000/year is a very low amount to consider regular use, I would think. As others have stated making money off of the merchants is part of their business model. At $1k/year I wouldn't be surprised if that puts you into negati
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
I've seen this happen in a couple of industries and have joined two companies at the start of the reorg/turnaround. There is a lot to do as until the pressure is on a lot gets ignored and runs inefficiently. It's a different
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
I wouldn't put my whole portfolio in it but I'm not really worried about being too tied to the industry I work in. That might also be because it's mining . Mining is a large portion of the world's GDP (estimated to be i
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
To answer your first question: be a part of it, either as a consumer or a producer. My professional life now revolves around mining. I'm confident to know who to invest in and who not to. My personal life centers around various hobbies
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
My experience within the North American precast concrete industry is its almost unanimously over-engineered. However, I am not a Structural Engineer.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
That's a bit misleading. Yes, new construction must at least meet the building code. But it's not like it's been designed to be just enough . There's a heavy safety factor in the codes. In some cases they work to reduce
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
Parent's point was that a single video couldn't be used to sell to multiple manufacturers, because the wheelbases are different. You would have to adjust the vehicle and shoot a new video for each new model.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
I've seen Formula SAE cars do that. You can indeed make that happen. In that car it could be as simple as reducing the front spring rates and softening the shocks while putting a stiffer roll bar in the rear.
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by kerryfalk 10y ago
They state in the video that they can adjust the suspension (I imagine this is more than just spring rates and shock stiffness but they didn't confirm). Watching the videos I was actually impressed that it seemed to accurately model th

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