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by tjmc 16y ago
I'm not sure why you were voted down as I don't see anything wrong with your point. My brother lives in Mountain View, works in biotech and has long said that the scene in Australia just hasn't got the critical mass it has there. But the nu
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Yep. Details from the Dept of Immigration: http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/462/usa/ You're right that it was previously just Commonwealth countries, but I think US citizens were included as part of the US-Australia free tr
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An easier alternative - I'm really surprised that out of work graduates from the US aren't getting Australian working holiday visas and flooding down here. Due to a resources boom (thanks China) unemployment is only 5% here. There are skill
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I'm becoming increasingly cynical about the way energy "breakthroughs" are reported. It's not the science side - it's great that they've worked out how this compound remains stable after absorbing energy. But you can't present this finding
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Better still - post the backscatter photos of those congressmen and senators online. I just hope I don't see them!
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I think he's just rallying against this postmodern delusion that all opinions are equally valid, when the weight of scientific evidence is clearly on his side. And he's not exactly chasing people down, he's just responding to people who are
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It's not frivolous because fundamental research often leads to unexpected commercial benefits. One example - Japanese physicists doing research into quantum tunneling led to the shrinking of satellite dish antennas from 2m to about 30cm. On
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> Iridium could have pivoted Agreed. One thing missing from the article is that the Iridium satellites only offer a paltry 2.4Kbps for data communications. In 1997 and 98 the business world was still largely on dial-up. Internet access
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What am I writing? This link to a friend's website: http://101reasonstostopwriting.com Unfortunately he abandoned it after only 17 reasons. Perhaps he convinced himself?
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Big problem with Step 5 - people couldn't run Windows on their Macbooks except under emulation. That would be a deal breaker for a lot of potential customers (pretty much all the gamers for example) and Apple knows it. Personally, I don't t
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> It’s hard to conceive how he was able to accomplish so much with so little in those days. So for someone to build consumer products in the 1980s beyond what we did with the first Mac was literally impossible. Hmm. I guess that Amiga 1
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> The only function for a roof mounted solar panel is to look really cool in concept art. Not true. The Prius has a solar panel option to power cabin ventilation when parked in warm climates. This makes a lot of sense because the aircon
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Zed's right, but SaaS providers will have to start taking the "back end" a lot more seriously as they become more mission critical. Virgin Blue's hosted airline reservation system recently went down, costing the company $15-20 million by th
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I think we're discussing different things. Clearly there are plenty of independent artists - punk rock has a long tradition of independent label publishing going back decades for example. Anyone who just wants to put their music out there n
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The idea of simply creating a different distribution mechanism (eg CDBaby) for unsigned artists so that they don't have to sign with a major label is popular with the tech crowd, but fundamentally flawed. It assumes that unsigned artists ca
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"Sara Lee switched to sugar in two of its breads last month." This line was revealing. If you look at the ingredients list of bread in Europe for example, you won't find any sugar added. Sara Lee must figure that going "cold turkey" on suga
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This post is “very Sydney” as they say there. I lived there for 5 years and deliberate lateness was very much a part of the culture – a social signal that your time was more important than someone else’s. I fondly remember a quarterly kicko
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Excellent explanation Patrick. Perhaps PG should run his finance related posts past you in future! IMHO he's assuming more of a financial background than his usual hacker audience has. I once read that the road to mastery of a subject is: 1
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Oh there's a few of us... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528106
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Awesome site and fantastic to see another Aussie startup! Being in Perth, I'll definitely use it and I love that the founders have focussed on the low cost carriers first. Hope that they add a few of the high capacity international majors t
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by tjmc 16y ago
Yes, it's a bit of a tradition both here and in New Zealand to travel for a while. I remember when I was backpacking around Europe over 3 months in 1993 meeting a couple of Microsoft employees who explained that they only had 2 weeks to ach
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My wife is an optometrist and runs her own independent practice. The field is fascinating but the clinical side doesn't pay the bills. So success means being a good retailer as well.
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Don't forget Mr Murdoch
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Is that Jason Calacanis in picture 10?
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Your post should be in the HN submission guidelines. With the banishment of politics, religion and the other usual suspects, "formal education" has become HN's flame war topic. It would be an interesting experiment for pg to list flame war
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Perth, Australia if your startup involves digging stuff out of the ground and selling it to China. Otherwise not. We do have nice beaches though.
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Indeed. I think they got away with the $100 billion property bubble collapse, sovereign default and people thrown into debtor prison, but the business world will really notice this one!
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He must know his philosophy on selling is fundamentally flawed though. The high-budget computer game question (which he side stepped) is a good one. Why would you spend millions of dollars on a software product if you could only count on se
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I mostly agree with you but I think Australia is a special case. We've got a largely white population living in some extremely hot areas so the risk of skin cancer is far greater than the risk of Vitamin D deficiency. For people in northern
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Agreed. I loved the Amiga. Owned 3 of them. But due to it's unique video architecture, the Amiga was in trouble once VGA displays became mainstream on PCs. Only the high-end Amiga 3000 was capable of a non-flickering 640x480 display as stan

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