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by Tsagadai 13y ago
Murdoch was a major force in getting Gough Whitlam (of the Australian Labor Party) elected which was probably his first major step into the political scene. He was also a major force behind the election of Malcolm Frazer (of the Australian
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
Most of the value you can get from universities is through networking. If you don't meet anyone while you are there your degree truly is worthless. It isn't merely a matter of learning it for the sake of learning it is a matter of
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
Not keeping up with the latest fashions is value destroying. Not buying a new car every 3 years is value destroying. If I could modify my vision to not show me billboards, brands and placards I would. While I still have a choice whether to
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
You still aren't listening to the point about low value work. Do you want to be in a military with armed people behind you who have no interest in being there, doing a good job or your welfare? Conscription is a horrible failure of a policy
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
Almost everyone asks "Boy, I wish I could have a house like I want". You are thinking too small, imagine a 3D printer that makes houses at a 10th of the current costs. Just looking at what they do now is not enough. Techniques are improving
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
Imagine a higher rez kinect and holographic display for CAD. CAD will always take a long time though due to our limited input abilities (we can only really do one thing at a time) for highly detailed things. The real magic comes in assistin
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
I voted yes. My real name is not hard to find. I have used my pseudonym for long enough to find me in person without too much trouble. I am not afraid of what I say publicly. If someone didn't want to employ me because of my views I am cert
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
I use it to fix things. Ever broken a handle off a drawer or snapped a catch on something? Print it, sand it and paint it. Done. I also use it for making little plastic doodads (like those you see on home shopping channels) where the idea w
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by Tsagadai 13y ago
In Australia it is possible to get companies that send unwanted texts banned from sending texts on Australian networks.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you’re detracting from them because all your efforts are focussed on making them look attractive to other people. But that is the point for m
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
It has almost nothing to do with the domestic IT product market and everything to do with demand. Australia has a very high demand for talented programmers at all levels. It really surprised me when I came back just how many companies are u
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Spend some time with monkeys or apes and you will no longer be surprised by the "insights" in this article. Pieces like this are written periodically but they say nothing new, original or intriguing. Diamonds are a status symbol in many cul
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The dark side of silence(bbc.co.uk)
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I don't like ads and I don't click on ads. I prefer to help content creators I enjoy in more direct ways, like buying their books, apps and donating to their projects. Advertising sets a very low minimum fee for content. Web advertising is
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Imagine if we could outsource prison guard duties (especially the dangerous, interpersonal stuff) to robots. And if those robots could also ensure the prisoners work efficiently in their prison jobs.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
It is bunk that Japan is known for good bookkeeping. Some large Japanese financials are still using paper-based risk assessment and transactions. Some are losing millions of dollars each month to human error.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Off the top of my head some of the culprits I have caught in the hen house: * Snakes (sometimes, having a snooze still full of young chickens), * Eagles, * water rats, * wild dogs, * foxes, * feral cats, * neighbour's dogs,
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
The winning quote: "[sic] surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working." How many people are identifying with that premonition right this second?
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
GST is not relevant. The UK has a 20% VAT tax[1] on many things that are substantially cheaper in the UK than in Australia. Legal software is cheaper in Thailand than Australia (where the market for legal software is smaller). The only reas
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Many top and higher mid range universities make the majority of their money from things that aren't tuition. My university was making more money from real estate than it was making from domestic tuition fees.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I find there are less awful developers over 40 than under 40. Eventually your reputation catches up with you and it is very difficult to hide decades of incompetence.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Why are we giving airtime to this sort of junk science? Observing the present and inferring about the past without a testable hypothesis is not proof of anything. It is storytelling. Gorillas didn't evolve into humans, we probably have a co
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
File bugs with those tools. These sort of issues should have been sorted years ago and any program that can't do 3+ byte character encodings should be named and shamed.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Thanks for clearing that up. Apparently, it is a common misconception that it is 'phase' and 'faze' is the incorrect spelling: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze
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A link to their source: http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/11/13/ahn-pledges-to...
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Most of the time the experience is fantastic but like any shop you can get ripped off. I've been ripped off a few times on ebay and craigslist too. Certain product categories tend to attract scammers and I know many people who have never ha
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Taobao is fantastic for buying anything China makes (which is almost everything). It is part auction house, part business-to-business sales. There are even quite a few services to get around the language barrier. A word of caution, if somet
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
What elitist tripe. I've worked polling booths in Australia where people have come in and done exactly that (they have actively made a decision not to vote). That is their choice and I think that should be respected. I have no respect for t
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
You said the C word (class) and you weren't downvoted into oblivion. Thank you, Hacker News readers, for not voting purely on political biases. Class mobility is essential for a healthy society. When everyone who starts life at one income l
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I have a Korean no-brand 27" 2560x1440 IPS screen that I picked up for 250,000KRW (that should be about £145). I'm in Korea so that makes the big difference on cost plus lower taxes. They will come down in price far more yet.

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