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Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Conspiracism and the Quixotic Quest for "The Truth"(anessayeverymonth.substack.com)
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by smcmurtry 7y ago
The numbers track the order that the cells were executed in. So, strictly speaking, you need the numbers to be able to reproduce the output of the notebook's author. However, I think it's bad practice and pretty uncommon to publis
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by smcmurtry 8y ago
The Government of Canada is.
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by smcmurtry 8y ago
A similar thing happened in the last place I lived, a small town in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The indigenous people in the area (called the Tlicho) were able to take over some of the governance of their land from the Canadian gover
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
Genuinely curious about this - why would the price swings in this case be worse than with uber? With enough drivers, I would expect prices to reach an equilibrium that depends on time of day/day of week, with highly rated drivers charg
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
Good point - a subscription model would probably be better.
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
I've often thought it would be cool to build a fairer ride hailing app that gives drivers more autonomy. The driver buys the app as a one time purchase, they get to set their own prices, and there is more transparency between buyer and
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
I disagree with your sentiment. Rural living and small-scale farming can be very inexpensive compared to city living, and easily supported by a remote tech worker salary or the part-time work clord mentions. Yes you need capital to get star
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
Some van dwellers get a gym membership and use the facilities there. If it's a widespread chain then this can work for travelling to multiple cities.
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
Well, that was how the government described it initially. More recently they've admitted wrongdoing and apologized. I think it's more likely they were trying to assert sovereignty in the high arctic using people they knew would st
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
Great article. In Canada a lot of people don't know about the injustices the government has inflicted on the Inuit and other indigenous people. It's all conveniently left out of the school history curriculum.
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Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes(phys.org)
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The Taxman's Axe(environment.probeinternational.org)
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by smcmurtry 9y ago
I haven't downloaded the app, so maybe this makes sense somehow, but the following text from the app description confused me: Difficulty ratings: - 2x2 board - Easy - 3x3 board - Easy - 4x4 board - Hard - 5x5 board - Medium - 6x6 board
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
>Kalanick: You know what? >Kamel: What? >Kalanick: Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit. They blame everything in their life on somebody else. I think that is a very insulting and superior thing to
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
I actually had been contributing small edits for grammar anonymously for a while, and was interested in getting more involved in Wikipedia. My intention wasn't to promote my employer, I just thought it met the notability requirements.
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
In 2012 I wrote my first Wikipedia article on the 50-person startup I was working for at the time. I didn't include anything overly self-promoting, just the basic facts and referenced some news articles. My article was immediately nomi
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
Those are certainly examples of countries that have gone backwards in income and life expectancy over some of the recent years. However, the vast majority of countries have seen huge increases in average income and life expectancy over the
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Air Canada software outage briefly halts computerized check-ins(cbc.ca)
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
Right, thanks! My US geography is a little rusty.
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1]. [1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
Many people who live in small apartments can and do host social gatherings. In my experience, how frequently someone hosts gatherings has more to do with their personality than the size of their living space.
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Show HN: Votingreform.ca – Visualizing voting systems proposed for Canada(votingreform.ca)
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by smcmurtry 10y ago
And to a bag of slices from multiple pages of text.
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MintChip launch Tuesday brings Canadian-made digital cash to consumers(cbc.ca)
2 points by smcmurtry 10y ago|0 comments