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by ben-gy 5y ago
Your statement is contradictory - on one hand you agree that the US values Australia therefore justifying their decision for this agreement, and on the other you say Australia is independently matching itself to China - it’s not appropriate
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by ben-gy 5y ago
It’s a lot more strategically complex than that. Fo example, America manages the majority of its signals intelligence for a large chunk of the Asian content through various faculties such as pine gap [1]. You’d be foolish to postulate that
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Nope - that’s basically the equivalent of saying “does anyone else find it odd that that person who got their driver’s license 6 months just died in a car accident?”
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by ben-gy 5y ago
It blows my mind that US tv shows and newscasters are making fun of Australia/New Zealand for the all of their harsh lockdowns whilst stuff like this is going on at the exact same time right their own country…
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Yep - 100% correct - brain scans can identify early signs of CTE processing after a single season for a soccer player in a defensive or offensive position that heads the ball regularly.
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by ben-gy 5y ago
IMO it’s the latter, plus a sprinkle of COVID-19 lockdown distraction (source: I’m Australian). We haven’t had a prime minister see through a full term in quite a while (they keep getting shuffled out mid-term), and right now everyone is so
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by ben-gy 5y ago
I’ve been following concussions in sports for while as part of a company I’m launching soon ( https://ocula.ai ) - it’s seriously scary stuff now that longer term, validated studies are beginning to be published - it’s worth notin
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by ben-gy 5y ago
That is genuinely a very interesting paper - thanks for sharing
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Likely to be a hydrogen fuel source (record flight time so far is ~12 hours) - https://cryogenicsociety.org/36975/news/hydrogen_fuel_cell-p...
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by ben-gy 5y ago
This is impressive for sure. It really makes me think how hackathons must be evolving with this type of tech available (last hackathon I participated in was ~8 years ago). That said, and I feel a bit old for saying this, but I still prefer
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Heroku is by far the easiest and cheapest (free for light usage) way to get a Rails app into production. Heroku‘a preference is Postgres over SQLite: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/sqlite3
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Also - what’s the deal with exactly 150 employees being laid off - clearly not trying to identify problematic employees, but instead finding an excuse/methodology to lay off a specific quantity of workforce.
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Uh yeah… that’s how it’s supposed to happen. Every code change should have a ticket/issue, a bit branch, and a pull request attached - no matter how small. What’s not supposed to happen is have those analysed to be used as some dumb pr
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by ben-gy 5y ago
IMHO, yes and no - I think it’s important to look at both; collective outcomes (net output), and cultural response to threats. I’m Australian and a 100% believer this concept of creating metrics for developers is complete trash and is more
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by ben-gy 5y ago
I’ve been using copilot for the past couple to months, and it’s seriously becoming a part of my daily coding workflow. The majority of suggestions are not quite what I want but then I’ve found the more I comment my code the more personalise
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Australia - NSW currently have the worlds harshest lockdown rules to date… The works doesn’t revolve around the US as much as it once did ;)
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by ben-gy 5y ago
I can’t remember ever having experienced a slow or laggy Netflix experience, on any device…
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by ben-gy 5y ago
I disagree - the average person is not capable of securely managing their own data, which is why they pick a consumer brand like Apple to do it for them - providing an option to do so would likely result in significant exposure of personal
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by ben-gy 5y ago
This reminds me of Bill Ackman’s war against Herbalife, which in my opinion, is a perfect example of a pyramid scheme that is too big to fail. Ref: https://www.investopedia.com/news/billionaire-bill-ackman-du... Whethe
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Just to be clear, I don’t disagree with the tone, the position this person has taken, or the strength for which they communicate their position. But it is 100% achievable without using derogatory, inflammatory profanities.
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by ben-gy 5y ago
This type of language isn’t why I read hacker news everyday - please try and be a bit more eloquent with the points you’d like to make in the future.
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by ben-gy 5y ago
I find it strange that an offical government body is posting a blog promoting the use of Google Analytics over link shortening tools for click tracking analytics purposes. I understand the argument to use a secure, formatted, link shortened
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by ben-gy 5y ago
That’s pretty interesting. It also begs the question, if it is easier and cheaper to create and run a business (in theory, more profitable per time unit), it makes sense that more businesses would exist, making the landscape more competitiv
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by ben-gy 5y ago
This resonates with me completely
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by ben-gy 5y ago
I like reading stories like this on HN - thanks for sharing :)
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Ask HN: Are accelerators worth it anymore?
4 points by ben-gy 5y ago|5 comments
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by ben-gy 5y ago
After reading that article (and after having worked in and with government) I don’t see how the contents of this article and your comment are connected? I’m not seeing any political manoeuvring exposed in this write-up? What in that article
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by ben-gy 5y ago
This looks great - well done! My two cents - I personally get put off by business models that include a lifetime access one time purchase option. From my personal experience (as a prolific SaaS early adopter) it typically indicates that eit
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Most operators in Thailand (maybe other high tourism GDP nations in Asia as well) recycles SIM card numbers every 30 days.
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by ben-gy 5y ago
Stripe doesn’t “need” to do anything - you get what you pay for - pick a cheaper gateway with an inferior product if you’re willing to pay less for a lower quality outcome

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