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by sien 13y ago
On the other hand searching for some text in a hundred physical books is very inconvenient. Also with an ereader travelling is fantastic. A library in less than 300 gm. It's also easier to access that library on your phone which is wit
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by sien 13y ago
Ha, Sorry, thanks for that. Say hello to David/Michael, he does a great job!
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by sien 13y ago
The Micromort concept is explored thoroughly and very enjoyable in the book 'The Normal Chronicles' by David Blastland and Michael Spiegelhalter. It's well worth checking out. Blastland was one of the creators of the excellen
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by sien 13y ago
There is a really good long two part interview with Dino Dini on the Retry Asylum podcast. retroasylum.com/ep-37-dino-dini-interview-part-1/ retroasylum.com/ep-39-dino-dini-interview-part-2/ Of particular interest is why
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by sien 13y ago
Rinehart only owns 15% of Fairfax. Also, what about all the TV and radio networks? Their ownership is wider than the three people you list.
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by sien 13y ago
Murdoch's papers supported Rudd in Australia when he won in 2007. Was that undermining democracy?
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by sien 13y ago
Good point. It's also worth noting that healthcare costs in most of the developed world, while lower than the US system, continue to increase substantially. However, what you are saying raises the question of how on earth a system can
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by sien 13y ago
The outrage at scalpers relates to how people feel what something is 'worth' against what you pay for it. The existence of scalpers is curious. Artists could get the money they do. There are reasons why they still exist, one of th
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by sien 13y ago
This is remarkable. Concert tickets are also being bought this way by bots for scalpers. Ebay sniper bots are commonly used. High Frequency trading is the high end this. Perhaps it is unavoidable, perhaps other means for selling things onli
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by sien 13y ago
The feedback loop at Kinko's would be quicker. If you had a broken widget you could take the widget to Kinko's, print a test part and then get the size just right. But Shapeways, like online photo printing services might take a lo
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by sien 13y ago
Thanks for that. It's hard to say whether that augers well for 3D printers or not. In what must be a big early adoption community only 8% of people have one but that 'maybe' group of 60% is huge. Who knows, perhaps it will be
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by sien 13y ago
Great point. It would be interesting to see a Hacker News Poll on how much people have and use 2D printers now even, let alone 3D. It would be great to have access to a good 3D printer at a low price that was convenient at, say a Kinkos or
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by sien 13y ago
The Amiga had an excellent ecosystem for office stuff. Prowrite on the Amiga wasn't bettered for word processing until Word 6 5+ years later. The Amiga could also be hooked up to a laser printer like a Mac, but not quite as well. The main r
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by sien 14y ago
It depends on the monitoring. If you cook that you're golden regardless of what you do. Actually determining bias is difficult. There is also Meet the Press on the commercial stations and Sky News is actually well worth watching if you have
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by sien 14y ago
Like The Economist? Are the ABC's internal metric's available? What about the audits? Their selection of journalists on current affairs shows is interesting though. Chris Uhlman's wife is an ALP MP, Barrie Cassidy was a Hawke staffer, Maxin
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by sien 14y ago
The Economist. It's not neutral. It's pro-market. But it is concise and if you just read it you'd be better informed than almost everyone.
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by sien 14y ago
Many other countries have laws that allow negative gearing. The US has substantially cheaper housing (even at the height of the bubble in much of the country) and there you can deduct the interest on your own house against your income and g
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by sien 14y ago
Rugby World Cup domination.
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by sien 14y ago
There are 40+ million smartphone sales per quarter in China. http://bgr.com/2012/08/26/china-smartphone-sales-q2-2012-len... So There are 140+ million Android sales per year in China.
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by sien 14y ago
Was this before or after drones had become important for the military?
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by sien 14y ago
Why not just hold elections on a Saturday like Australia and many other countries do?
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by sien 14y ago
If they can hit $3 / gallon why does it matter? Tesla's cars are wildly price inefficient because they cost $100K. For 10K you can get a decent car that has 4 times the range. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster How many gallons
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by sien 14y ago
This is a good reason why Tesla cars are folly. This is why electric vehicles won't work. I'll copy in most of a comment I made a few days back. Let's say tomorrow some grad student gets fusion going at a very low price. The best way to use
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by sien 14y ago
Did you read his link? The point the guy makes is completely correct. Let's say tomorrow some grad student gets fusion going at a very low price. The best way to use this to power cars would be to use it to create a fuel with a high energy
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by sien 14y ago
True. Other than PCI, PCIe, USB, Bluetooth, discrete 2D graphics cards, 3D accelerators, multi-core x86, DDR, SSDs, High quality LCDs and hundreds of other improvements it is worth saying has you do, Reg, 'What has commoditization ever done
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by sien 14y ago
While it appears there are not that many sports fans here it is worth noting that for sport this is already happening. The NBA and others have started online subscriptions for their content. For people in places like Australia where cable s
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by sien 14y ago
There are an estimated 460 000 New Zealanders living overseas or 14% of the population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealanders By comparison, there are 6 million Americans, or ~2% of Americans living overseas. http://en.wikipedia.
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by sien 14y ago
As someone who has lived in the US, AU & the EU in a few places I'd have to say this article is great. It's something you wind up doing if you live in other places. America is #1 in quite a few things, such as software, just try naming
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by sien 14y ago
The Farebox recovery ratio even for big European cities is well below recovery rates for mass transport. Only a few Asian cities get more than their public transport systems cost to run back. This page has more info: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by sien 14y ago
Apple spent years suing MS in the 1980s and 1990s because of claims that MS used ideas from Apple, rather than Xerox, in creating a windowed shell for an OS. So the days when Apple thought they didn't need to do this were the days of the Ap

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