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Garfgon

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    Comment #16927080

    And the US system is one of the main reasons there's resistance to loosening single-payer in Canada. Wait times for MRIs (and other procedures) depends on need -- low priority case…

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    Comment #16663081

    If your employer has an RRSP matching plan, any matched contributions (both your contribution and the employer matching funds) are generally tied to a specific provider with limite…

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    Comment #16441446

    Could you use debug information for this? I think the stack frame layout should already be included there.

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    Comment #15918723

    Apparently it scales with the fourth power of axle weight ( http://www.nvfnorden.org/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=601 ), roughly.

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    Comment #15484874

    When I did avalanche safety training, we were told your chance of surviving an avalanche with (shovel/probe/beacon) is about 50% overall. Roughly 25% of people are killed in the av…

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    Comment #15261553

    With the square root of the length.

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    Comment #14973135

    If there's no APM limit you can do things like micro every worker's resource gathering. See http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/484849-improving-m... .

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    Comment #14824899

    I'm partial to Upper and Lower Slaughter myself.

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    Comment #14815080

    Contents may have been unimportant. Apparently books could be ordered by the yard for decorating manor libraries.

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    Comment #14705478

    Yes. Youtube tries (tried?) to autocaption videos, and the results were infamously bad.

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    Comment #14696989

    That's the same thing they said about web companies in the mid 90s.

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    Comment #14640157

    I believe in some cases a licensee also has standing to sue over copyright; e.g. if the licensee is granted an exclusive license.

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    Comment #14539841

    Generally people would rather live in a city, so companies offer higher pay and possibly other benefits like 2 weeks on/2 weeks off.

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    Comment #14516796

    Per Wikipedia the different New Testament texts have a 99.5% accuracy with each other, and the oldest existing manuscripts were written ~200 years after the original: https://en.wi…

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    Comment #14361898

    I think it's backward compatibility, not speed. Functions with no arguments lists were supported in C89, so changing it now will break someone's code somewhere. In fact not specify…

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    Comment #14344240

    Which is one thing if your product is on a yearly (or quicker) release cycle. But it's a whole different level of pain if the project is in maintenance mode and the development tea…