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Is that a bad thing? Seems like Japan is a pretty nice place to live.

I had friends in Hawaii who were stock traders, they really had to wake up early

The components we are installing have chips in them, but we don’t worry about what chip because the manufacturer of the product keeps it working the same way. The modicon quantum P…

You have drawings that show how it works and a supply of spare parts. When it stops working people can figure out why using the drawings and then fix or replace the broken or worn …

25k seems excessive, but 10% of a years anticipated revenue might be appropriate. It is not unusual to have to but up a bond in order to bid on a contract.

the building was saved and moved instead of being torn down in order to preserve architectural heritage. From the outside the building doesn't look special.

Giving a grant to an existing company with a long history of technical excellence and delivering products to build a new product and a factory for it means jobs that don’t go away.…

It’s 6000 jobs, generating electricity without producing carbon, sustaining an industry and construction and manufacturing know how, and creation of a product for export. These see…

The cost of the property reflects the value of the rents, the cost of financing, property taxes and maintenance. Rents are probably not that out of wack with the landlords costs. I…

Whistler, BC

There are little air strips all over the place you could land at and then instead of having to figure out a ride to your destination which can be difficult in rural areas you can d…

A Canadian study linked the illness symptoms of Canadian and American diplomats in Havana to heavy use of the pesticide used against mosquitoes for Zika virus. https://www.cbc.ca/n…

It sounds like they changed the settings on the protection relays synch check function to allow it to close the generator breaker with the generator out of sync. Or maybe they adde…

I would be interested in reading one of the studies in which the default was set to an inferior product and people stayed with the default despite there being a superior competitor…

i'm not arguing that it's bad to pay to be the default. If the default service is worse than another people will switch to the other service. People install all kinds of apps on th…

It’s just the default - if another search engine is compelling people are free to switch

are your advantages that prevent industrials from installing their own cogen know-how and economies of scale in project management, procurement, frabrication, installation and comm…

With the downturn in oil and gas in Alberta Is there a lot of talent and drilling rigs available? Maybe it is a cheap time to drill some holes?

I got a Synology 218. It does checksumming like zfs to guard against bit rot. and I didn’t have to spend any time wading through how to’s and blog posts to make it work, “just work…

Ac transmission lines are regularly 500kv with some famous ones in Quebec being 750kv. I believe there are even higher now.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/canadian-research-... Or google Havana syndrome pesticide

The attacks in Cuba were found to be illness brought on by new pesticides and aggressive use around embassies to kill mosquitos to prevent diplomatic staff from catching Zika virus…

Where I live sellers have to disclose underground furnace oil tanks that they know of. We don’t get hundreds of pages of disclosures, maybe 10 pages of documentation such as zoning…

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I think the repurposing is as an alternative to powertop as he is looking at what makes his laptop use more or less power. He wants to use the power measurement feature of the WiFi…