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Blake_Emigro
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About Blake_Emigro
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Comment #25992974
March 2020 I was investigating Solid for legaltech projects I'm designing. I thought it sounded like a great way for a user to create a master profile that can be used with multipl…
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Comment #25119553
Okay, I should have been more clear - to get their mostly undistorted size and shape, not equally distorted.
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Comment #25106501
Um, comparing two or more countries only works properly if they're all dragged to be centered on the equator.
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Comment #24123009
The only 10X browser improvement that can be made these days is if it cuts RAM use by 1/2 compared to the others, (and isn't tied to crypto). I would pay for this!
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Comment #23918474
My understanding of it is that much of the money is supposed to be for Google and Facebook ads - something which I would never want to have to pay out of pocket for in the US marke…
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Comment #22908645
Thanks for this! Certainly I have some experience with this already from my legal services business. The main difference being the clients trusted me first.
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Ask HN: Brave browser as a platform for the legal industry?
Please roast me on the technical merits of this failed proposal to Mozilla MVP Builder. I'm now looking at the possibility of Brave, rather than Firefox. I'm limited to 2000 charac…
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Comment #22900827
And much more. Not going to through it all in detail, and there are probably many things I don’t know about WeChat since I’m not a heavy user living in mainland China. The team def…
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Comment #22775912
You know what's better than criticizing negatively? Helping. So, to avoid being a hypocrite, how can I help you? LOL
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Comment #22775837
FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..." I'm not sure if English is your first language, but this s…
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Canadian tech workers – public lay-off list from Covid-19
I came across an article that gives the details of a list created for Canadian tech workers that have been laid-off due to the COVID-19 crisis: https://betakit.com/grassroots-datab…
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Comment #22586017
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, Canada | part-time / contract / freelance | onsite / remote This is something I've been considering for a while, but now the pandemic is pushing it forwar…
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Comment #22519154
Yeah, I had a GF that worked for a government research department. The last quarter of the year the department staff did ridiculous things to ensure every penny of the budget was s…
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Comment #22515552
Nope. They just walk on through the front door, or sneak in the back one when someone is getting off. I just spent the last 1.5 years commuting down Vancouver's infamous Hastings S…
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Comment #22514487
Right, I forgot about the government tie-in. This part of free rides is definitely dysfunctional. Bus drivers aren't obligated to do anything, for their own safety, except notify t…
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Comment #22514225
In Vancouver, Canada, this is a problem. But we also have the bigger problem that the public bus system, operated by private companies, allow the homeless to get free rides. It mak…
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Comment #22514200
There are some of these public toilets near the high-density of homeless in Vancouver, Canada, but not nearly enough.
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Comment #22514176
This is exactly how Google maps knows traffic conditions.
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Comment #22509362
As far as I know, he had a business model involving an emerging technology, and wanted to select a product that would be most successful with it. He felt books was that product. He…
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Comment #22509338
And then there is the whole construction / contractor / material aspect of it. A big problem with a renovation is the uncertain number of surprises that the contractor will encount…
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Comment #22509231
It really depends on the area of law, type of firm, type of client, etc. In immigration or family law there is lots of procedural work, the lawyer might be solo, and the client is …
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Comment #22501277
"Temp laborers could probably use some software to help with tracking hours etc. Typically all the hours are tracked with just the supervisor writing down on a carbon copy how long…
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Comment #22481139
I made tools to automate parts of my Canadian immigration practice, (as a non-lawyer, licensed legal services provider), but that was only increasing my profit and ability to scale…
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Comment #22380778
I think another leap can be achieved with communication between vehicles. Once there are many more self-driving cars on the road, they can feed info to each other as needed. A car …