tryonqc's comments

The way the US media handles news the same way throughout their network is very scary and it's hard to believe anything they say when they repeat word for word what everyone else says.

LWT has great montage on this.

After the live streaming of a mass genocide by israel and the words used by mass media during their coverage it's 100% understandable.

good to know! Now I understand better why they had all the transit info for beijing loaded into google map ;)

I showed a google map to a police officer (border control on the highway) to show where I was going, no problem. Had setup a few VPN on my iphone before going to have options in case one or two got flagged. My uni VPN worked during my entire stay.

Everytime I read something about termites I can't stop thinking about Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Retreat from Earth".

Awesome short story, go read it. (or listen to it on youtube, but the mouth sound the narrator makes are awful imo)

From The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg

> The First Great Secret of the Medical Profession: 90% of all illness cures itself with absolutely no intervention from the doctor. Each of us, after all, is the direct descendant of innumerable unbroken lines of survivors

Looks like it's based off https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-749519/?page=1

You don't need to speak french to work in Tech in Montreal, but you won't be able to work everywhere. I know many people who don't speak french and work in mtl.

Montreal is probably the only city in the province where you don't need to speak french though.

oh yeha you're right I didn't use the correct term sorry, you get permanent residency.

Normally once you have the PR, you only need to spend the required time here and pay the fees to get the full citizenship. It's pretty straight forward (Friends are in the process)

Canada also have the "investor program (not passport, thanks robteix)". (grants permanent residency visa)

It requires you to be accepted through an application (no criminal / health problems) and to 800k loan interest-free to the government for 5 years. You also need business experience and at least 1,6m$ in legally-acquired assets.

Maybe Australia also have other criteria ? I think countries on that list don't ask many questions...

Pretty bad "article" overall. It could've offered so much more information :(

It appears there is indeed a link between short/long sleep and mortality. As you said, the possible causes are usually not reviewed. This concerns me as I do sleep 9h+ on average. (But then again I do have an eye-illness that require a lot of concentration to overcome)

> Conclusion: Both short and long duration of sleep are significant predictors of death in prospective population studies. > (...) > Future studies should be designed to answer the question whether sleep duration is a cause or simply a marker of ill-health. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/33/5/585/2454478?sear...

> Long sleep was significantly associated with mortality, incident diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, stroke, coronary heart disease, and obesity. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1087-0792(17)3...

I thought I did a good thing :(

The use of their / they refering a single person doesn't come naturally to me as english is my 2nd language and we're taught its plural. (it can indeed be used as "third person plural singular" according to oxford dict.)

Since its the "least bad" (to my ears) of the gender-neutral pronouns on the wiki page I'll try to use the "they/their" instead.

He/she means this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17517155

Today's post is way more in-depth. Good follow-up indeed.

You are correct. China only tax when you sell / buy property. The porperty tax "reform" should be in place by the end of 2019 though.

I think house prices in china can't really be compared with other country for lots of reasons, eg: they don't own their homes (70y lease), very low interest on loans (1-2%), real estate is seen as a very good investment in china, etc.:)

and those ressources are usually shared between systems!

> "I tell people that if it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." It's when something isn't in the news, when it's so common that it's no longer news -- car crashes, domestic violence -- that you should start worrying." (Bruce Schneier)

as someone with a visual impairment I am always amazed at how little we talk/learn about accessibility and its lack of inclusion in the tests of new products.

I like this "inclusive desing" term better though. (even though its the method to achieve accessibility)

Book: Vagabonding: an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel.

Why ? Opened a world of possibilities to me. Changed my mindset on a lot of topics. His books don't offer many answers, but helped me put my goals / life into perspective.

excerpt: “There is still an overwhelming social compulsion — an insanity of consensus, if you will — to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well. And, in spite of the fact that America is famous for its unhappy rich people, most of us remain convinced that just a little more money will set life right. In this way, the messianic metaphor of modern life becomes the lottery — that outside chance that the right odds will come together to liberate us from financial worries once and for all. Fortunately, we were all born with winning tickets — and cashing them in is a simple matter of altering our cadence as we walk through the world.”

there's a full free chapter on Tim's website: https://tim.blog/2010/05/12/living-well-vs-doing-well/

Not really. This is old thinking. The theory of sexual selection has been evolving in the past few years.

BBC has a good intro on the subject: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160624-we-have-the-wrong-id...

Reminds me of a talk by Hamming that went like:

"What are the important problems of your field?"

And after a week or so, "What important problems are you working on?"

And after some more time I came in one day and said, "If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?"

Full transcript @ http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

I feel like most people don't know what are the great problems in their field.