WaylonKenning

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by WaylonKenning 7y ago
I've just blocked all Facebook.com cookies in my browser. If you're not using Facebook, why do you ever need its cookies?
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by WaylonKenning 7y ago
I enjoyed reading this. I've personally found it difficult to shoehorn work into the 8-5. I've found that I work best speaking to people face to face and formulating ideas from 9am to 12pm, and I work best putting together slides
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by WaylonKenning 7y ago
Pretty tough when it's your bank. I get marketing phone calls from Bell all the time trying to sell me on more TV channels. Joke's on them - I don't even own a TV! I tell them every time they call, they say thank you, and I g
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by WaylonKenning 7y ago
In New Zealand we balance wind availability with fast cycle natural gas turbine plants. Wind goes up and down. That's fine. But there needs to be something to cover those gaps. And it's either 2,500 batteries, or some gas turbines
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by WaylonKenning 7y ago
I'm not sure that fundamental right is correct, at least, outside of America. There's no fundamental human rights of freedom of speech and no censorship in New Zealand for example, as enshrined by law.
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
If people stop using Facebook, is anyone around to like its posts? I stopped using Facebook (though still use Instagram and Whatsapp) and my life is much the same as it was before. And here's the secret - I'm not even loyal to Ins
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
One packed bus does not make a service, if it's unreliable. And over those distances, they may not be profitable at the ticket prices they charge. And they may not be commercially viable if the ticket has to recoup all the costs + prof
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
A warrant? It's the border. There's no need for a warrant to inspect your suitcase. A sovereign country has the right to inspect things crossing the border.
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Kia Ora. I hope you still consider New Zealand. We have an island mentality, which means we treat borders pretty seriously. We don't have a wall, we have the Pacific ocean as our border, and Australia (known as the West Island). If the
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Yup, out of 3.733M annual visitor arrivals.
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
As a New Zealander, I'd say we're unashamed in trying to balance the welfare of our citizens with growth opportunities from new immigrants. If you're likely to be a drain on the public healthcare system, then you're not
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Riddle me this - what is the alternative? Don't look at a phone? Why do we look inside suitcases? Why have the concept of customs? We search things across borders for things our country does not want. We don't want drugs. We don&#
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Some material that can be stored on your phone is not permitted into New Zealand, like child pornography. If you had that stored in your suitcase, it can be discovered, and a prosecution started. If you had that stored in your phone, it can
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Or take a layover. Explore Addis Ababa, take a break, check out Dublin, then reach Washington.
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
I've just purchased this. For a 9 hour flight from Auckland to Honolulu, it's $230 USD additional per couple. Basically you're paying $230 for the extra seat, for more seat pitch, and for a leg rest that turns into a flat sur
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
My private health insurance in NZ costs $1650 USD a year, including dental and optical, and nearly unlimited hospital care. On earnings of $~100K USD, you'd pay $26.5K USD in income tax, $1.2K in compulsory accident insurance, for a to
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Tried out upwork.com?
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Everyone is obsessing about the detail when there's already a company that pretty much does this - Subway! You could pretty much automate the sub construction process since the ingredient prep process is done at an industrial scale and
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
I think you have to bet on some things. You can't just make yourself completely technology agnostic. You have to pick a development language, an IDE, a database technology, an operating system, network infrastructure etc. So then is it
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
Outcomes and measures. These quantify your success. Sounds like these outcomes are failing: * Technical Issues Cleared * Deliver on requirements of existing customers * Understand complaints of existing customers * Strengthen relationship w
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by WaylonKenning 8y ago
In the race for attention, is this article interesting because it's a new model for implementing and delegating work, or more the fact that a company has decided to rapidly cut down on contractors? Because there's lots of companie
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by WaylonKenning 9y ago
In New Zealand, we have Government Super, which is set to 65% of the net average wage (1). Of course, this is expensive, which is why we have the Government putting aside money into a sovereign wealth fund to help pay for it (2). We also kn
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by WaylonKenning 9y ago
It's interesting that you're an Entrepreneur (not a Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights) and yet you've rendered this entire report meaningless, in-spite of all the additional body of evidence considered in
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by WaylonKenning 9y ago
I reached the end of my career progression in IT Architecture. Started as a Solutions Architect, then reached Enterprise Architect. And there's no where to go after that. So I took the leap and tried something different - became a Prod
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by WaylonKenning 9y ago
Your Amazon link I think is for an older model that doesn't mention GPS I believe?
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by WaylonKenning 9y ago
Pretty rough to not tell people what that 'very simple' thing is, and how deactivating their account through a terms of use violation is 'for the protection of users'. I think with great trust comes great responsibility,
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by WaylonKenning 10y ago
It's not free healthcare for all. It's healthcare paid for the taxpayers, by the taxpayers. And if the costs go up - it's because perhaps healthcare is better as a not-for-profit system rather than a for-profit system. Pretty
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by WaylonKenning 10y ago
Have you see the New Zealand Health Care System - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_New_Zealand ?
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by WaylonKenning 10y ago
It's not every bank, you can use ANZ.
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by WaylonKenning 10y ago
In New Zealand, interest rates were around 8% when I was growing up, and were around 20% when my parents bought a house. Would have been cheaper to put it on your credit card...

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