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by icu 13y ago
Hi, yes it is an official policy. It has to do with New Zealander's objection to nuclear weapons which was brought about by nuclear weapons testing in the pacific by the French. This has a knock on effect of straining NZ and US milit
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by icu 13y ago
Good link, thanks.
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by icu 13y ago
I think the problem in NZ (like most of the western world) is that individualism has overtaken collectivism and the climate for collective social revolution isn't present anymore. People may stick it to the Man in a personal way, but n
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by icu 13y ago
There are a lot of political things going on in the background with this case. 1. New Zealand (NZ) desperately wants closer economic ties to the US but is constrained by public sentiment Because New Zealand is primarily a low value added co
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by icu 13y ago
I believe it goes much further back and is much more deeper than 911. In 1975 Senator Frank Church said the following: "In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfec
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by icu 13y ago
Every time I read about the rise of the American surveillance state I always ask myself this, "would our founding forefathers actually agree to this?" I cannot see how they would allow for persistent surveillance as proposed in th
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by icu 13y ago
I'm currently doing their 'Math Degree' it is self pace and excellent.
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by icu 13y ago
Thanks mofeeta, for this post. I'd really recommend people seeking to increase their willpower (and productivity) read Getting Stuff Done by David Allen. I'm a lot more organized after reading this book and the author does talk a
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by icu 13y ago
I don't know about Knight but in the big London trading desks developers and traders are in the same building for just this reason. As you can imagine traders can be quite demanding when things go wrong. Also plugs will get pulled if
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by icu 13y ago
ams6110, I wish for a world where your quote "I want to get back to a place where routine facts about me do not need to be secret or something I worry about" were true. However, pandora's box is open and we can never ever go
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by icu 13y ago
Having lived in the USA and the UK I've experienced the political contrasts. My gut feel is that the American political engagement, the way the media reports politics, and how people think as a result are to blame here. So exactly wha
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by icu 13y ago
Thanks MIT_Hacker for the article. I'd like to extend your ideas a little and make the point that: 1) When you combine the two extremes of programmers you can get more than just harmony, you can gain synergy, and 2) As "new-found
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by icu 13y ago
Thanks cylo for the post. Sadly we can't seem to trust the credit agencies or Government agencies with data protection. We need a politician who will champion some sort of legal offence (Federal?) for digital data protection breaches
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by icu 13y ago
Someone at the NSA just pressed the wrong button...
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Has anyone from HN actually taken any of these courses and could comment on them from personal experience?
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I feel this is one of the most important articles I've read in the wake of Snowden's patriotic disclosure. Thank you Libertatea for sharing it.
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Meet The Super-Smart Rich Kids(raconteur.net)
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This was bound to happen and it is terrible consequence of spying that Snowden has revealed. If there was any doubt about the ramifications of this spying has on the pillars that uphold society this is it. This type of spying can conceiva
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by icu 13y ago
Okay well guess I feel I have to respond to the "from a NZ perspective, we have to suffer for our art". Yes, we do suffer as entrepreneurs in New Zealand (NZ). But I disagree, I think the suffering is self inflicted. An entrepr
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I think differently to you pedalpete, how fantastic that this guy can live by his beliefs. Although my beliefs about economics are different I can still respect his right to pursue them and it challenges me to more strongly stick to my own
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Living in London now I've not really kept up with the start up/entrepreneurial scene in New Zealand (actually it's one of the many reasons why I left New Zealand in the first place but New Zealand's start up prospects ar
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by icu 13y ago
I agree that trying to force open source alternatives on your workflow after using Microsoft Office for a long time can be difficult. I tried to switch from Microsoft Office to the other open source alternatives and while I did like Open O
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by icu 13y ago
Thank you mh_10 for this great article. It reminds me of the presentation that Sequoia Capital gave to its portfolio company CEO’s back in Oct 2008 with the title "RIP Good Times" found here: http://www.scribd.com/
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Another sucker duped by official numbers. Ask yourself, "What happens when nearly all the central banks in the western world print tons of money?" Then follow that line of reasoning and look at how official inflation figures are c
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This is clearly a piss-take on the state of web 2.0.
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I think you got balls for this posting, however I agree with ynoclo. Although the f-bomb is an attention getter it is also a turn off since you could have--at the very least--used asterisks for an equally attention grabbing title and omitt
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IBM researchers get closer to brain-like computing(gigaom.com)
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I've passed your post on to KEA ( http://www.keanewzealand.com/ ) via email info(at)keanewzealand.com. Lets hope they can post it to the "more than 100,000 talented Kiwis and 'Friends of New Zealand' aroun