foobar1962

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by foobar1962 9y ago
Loyalty to Gerry Harvey? I doubt it. Aussies know a good deal when they see it: we adopted mobile phones and DVD pretty quickly. Whe alao know a bad deal too: see how Masters failed miserably.
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by foobar1962 9y ago
Who remembers the System 7 Update 1.1.1?
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by foobar1962 9y ago
In Hogan’s Heros the bombing of ball bearing factories in Düsseldorf was often a plot point. Iirc.
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by foobar1962 9y ago
Twice will scrolling down the site it auto-switched to a fake "you have been infected with a trojan" or "your flash player is out of date" page. Yuk. One is from http://help24center.com and is dressed to look
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by foobar1962 9y ago
If we wanted to make a low-maintenance, low-energy city, we'd use the LOWEST technology possible to get the job done. Round-a-bouts, not "smart traffic lights". My personal view is that to see the cities of our near future, g
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by foobar1962 9y ago
Back in the day when Bill Gates was CEO of Microsoft and was hitting the big money, I remember hearing about his building a huge $5M house (when a million dollars was a million dollars) that would have digital-everything and be 100% buzzwor
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by foobar1962 9y ago
I keep hearing the free upgrade to Windows 10 is over, but I have no problem downloading the latest ISO, installing and activating it.
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by foobar1962 9y ago
>The Wavestorm sounds like the Raspberry Pi of surfboards: a cheap way to get n00bs on board (no pun intended)... Intend it: that was a great pun. :)
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by foobar1962 9y ago
He's been charged under summons. The trick will be to get him out of the Vatican: Australia has no expedition treaty with the Holy See. The police have indicated these charges are not about covering up crimes by other people, but relat
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Australia's Top Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, Charged with Sexual Offences(abc.net.au)
3 points by foobar1962 9y ago|1 comments
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by foobar1962 9y ago
Lookin at the graph of graduates and the dip in CS from 2005 for a few years, I'd suggest the cause is that the potential cs students skipped doing their degree and went straight into a startup.
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by foobar1962 10y ago
The Australian GST legislation specifies that taxi drivers MUST be registered for GST regardless of income.
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by foobar1962 10y ago
>I don't airBnB, but a friend who does was recently berated by a host after leaving a 4-star review; that host claimed (don't know how true this is) that many hosts will refuse to rent to you again if you leave anything but a 5
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by foobar1962 10y ago
Proof that reality is a simulation: somebody forgot to finish rendering Pan.
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by foobar1962 10y ago
It's already dropped below issue price.
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by foobar1962 10y ago
That article needs a TL;DR summary.
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by foobar1962 10y ago
>>>>The shareholders would still be richer and don't have to fear punishment >>This is actually an interesting thought. What if they did have to fear punishment? What about people who may have invested in a fund that
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by foobar1962 10y ago
So when is the Edison estate going to issue a cease order against Theranos for using their name and damaging the reputation?
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by foobar1962 10y ago
But it'd be part of the sharing economy. Must disrupt!
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by foobar1962 11y ago
What was that posted here?
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by foobar1962 11y ago
That Law Review article makes an interesting point: "In other ways, however, underground dining seems quite similar to old-fashioned, antiregulatory libertarianism, with chefs playing the role of factory owners who would prefer to prod
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by foobar1962 11y ago
Good. It's not just me that reads this stuff and constantly wonders at the the complete lack of reason in Silicon Valley. (silly con?)
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by foobar1962 11y ago
So, they went broke because the industry didn't standardise their data so a third party could scrape it for fun and profit. Talia, is that you? -- "An app like Just Landed relies on access to high quality flight data to function c
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by foobar1962 11y ago
It's a waste of beautiful wood. Looks like something the Apple I could have gone into. Nothing beautiful about it.
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by foobar1962 11y ago
Put posters up advertising your business. Dog-fooding, right?
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by foobar1962 11y ago
"The diesel engine is inherently efficient: Even a heavy sedan can get as much as 50 miles per gallon, while producing fewer carbon dioxide emissions per mile." There seems to be a common misconception about CO2 emissions from car