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> If they can't do that, the mediator will quickly gain a reputation as being unreliable and to be avoided. I'm not saying you are a libertarian, but this is an argument that liber…

I've found that the places that typically charge fees or have minimums in Canada are the tiny asian restaurants run by immigrants, and the small corner stores. Similar places in th…

If you said the word 'polytechnic' in Canada, nobody would know what you mean. In Canada, we use the word University, and College, but they mean different things.

I'm a Canadian who is temporarily in the US, and it seems so backwards to me. A signature? You mean writing on a piece of paper that probably never gets looks at allows someone to …

People may want the occasional experience of being a cook, without being super dedicated. It's like getting the occasional riding lesson, but never buying a horse. Horse enthusiast…

The "given" symbol should only appear once in any probability statement.

The price war doesn't benefit the consumer if too-low prices cause the company to go under before shipping any product.

> Note that at e.g. apple the standard procedure when they find out that an employee is looking for a job is to escort them out of the building right then and there. Do you have a …

If its miserable, than it is burnout.

> Do you want to turn it into a product? Probably, they don't want to turn it into a product. Probably, they just want to use it themselves. In this case it makes total sense to im…

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Me and two of my friends want to create a business for 3D printer owners. The idea is that we will design kits which include all the components that can't be printed, like motors, …

For small transactions, it is safe to give the purchases after 0 confirmations. In order to pull off a double spend with 0 confirmations, you need to ensure that the store (or whoe…

> So customers actually requested that you collect personal information on them? "My kid can't walk, so I'm not interested. Please don't try to sell me this again."

But why not let the programmer opt in to manually ordering the field, and let the compiler do it the rest of the time? Similar to how the inline specifier works for functions, the …

The difference between bitcoin and online banking is that your bank will protect you if you are a victim of fraud.

False positives can have a ton of very negative effects. There is the monetary cost of further testing, which can be high depending on what is being tested for, and most importantl…

It shouldn't because it doesn't? That seems like a circular argument. Home technology would evolve much faster if we invested more into it, and it we rebuilt homes every 30 years, …

Unicycle: 1. Lean forward and backward 2. Lean side to side 3. Twist 4. Pedal Bicycle 1. Lean side to side 2. Twist handlebars 3. Pedal

We tend to trade back and forth with Stanford for top at Apple too.

In theory that sounds great, but as we've seen with make, the end result is that the users of make just didn't upgrade. If that's not a desirable outcome for you, then it's on you …

Just installed it, seems awesome so far. Hopefully I don't get annoyed by the additional transition time.

It might not be the best or most efficient way, and you might not be able to access all the features of your hardware but its certainly possible to write an OS kernal in pure C. We…

He already did clarify that he is specifically referring to accents that make the person unable to communicate clearly or easily.