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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 thi…

The Government of Canada is.

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 …

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 t…

Good point - a subscription model would probably be better.

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 p…

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 par…

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.

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 …

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 th…

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 - E…

>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 t…

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 employ…

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 referen…

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 hu…

Right, thanks! My US geography is a little rusty.

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_po…

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…

And to a bag of slices from multiple pages of text.