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by tjmc 12y ago
Same in Australia. It always amazes me how archaic the US banking system is - particularly the continued use of checks. When my wife (then girlfriend) saw that I owned a check book here in Oz she burst out laughing and called me an old man.
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by tjmc 12y ago
Wow - what an amazing ride to acquisition. To think it all started when Justin strapped a camera to his head! Congrats guys!
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by tjmc 12y ago
Huge numbers of people only have a laptop at home which sleeps when they're at work. So the only sync service that's going to work for them is something with online storage as an intermediate step.
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by tjmc 12y ago
I don't understand why you're being downvoted because you make a valid point. It has no iOS or Android client, no cloud storage (unless you buy your own), no versioning and sync conflict behaviour is very different. Ergo, it'
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by tjmc 12y ago
I totally respect that stance and I wish it was more widespread. Just speaking from my own experiences – I’ve been presented 2 or 3 very unreasonable contracts that I renegotiated and the employers were fine to work with. I think the non-co
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by tjmc 12y ago
Why is the alternative to signing walking away? Whenever I've been handed terms like this in a contract I've struck them off and explained why prior to signing. I've never lost a job because of it and it's usually a sub-
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by tjmc 12y ago
There's some good answers to those questions here: http://www.withouthotair.com/ I'm optimistic about renewables. Photovoltaic solar is already cheaper than retail power and competitive with wholesale in many mark
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by tjmc 13y ago
Question - does the equation editor work in Word? When viewing Word docs on iOS previously I could only see about 70% of my mechanical engineering lab reports without it.
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by tjmc 13y ago
Gutted. Oculus just turned into Orwell's telescreen. Hope the board enjoy their 30 pieces of silver.
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by tjmc 13y ago
This isn't true in Australia and many other countries where education costs are more reasonable. I'm in my last semester of a 4 year degree in mechanical engineering. The total tuition cost has been around USD$32K. I've work
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by tjmc 13y ago
Actually Genghis Khan used those exact tactics to conquer Afghanistan in the 13th century.
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by tjmc 13y ago
I hope this works out, but it bothers me when inventors use slick lines like "If you want something to be dirt cheap it needs to be made of dirt." It suggests to me they've been spending more time polishing their TED talks an
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by tjmc 13y ago
Looks like an Aussie domain squatter. Flagged.
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by tjmc 13y ago
Drone aircraft are a much better option than balloons which can't be directed. You can keep a drone over an urban area, deploy, bring it down and keep it separated from other drones in a much more controlled way. Mesh networking them i
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by tjmc 13y ago
Oh God yes - remember having to use progressive JPEG's? Now some sites have full screen video in the background!
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by tjmc 13y ago
Personally I'm looking forward to the next generation of electric aircraft, once battery density improves and costs come down. A Chinese company is already producing an electric ultralight and working on a small GA electric: http:&#x2
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by tjmc 13y ago
None if you don't land! I used to fly into US airspace out of Boundary Bay airport - just south of Vancouver. There's actually no immigration or customs requirement at all if you don't land the thing on the other side of the
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by tjmc 13y ago
Just out of interest - where's the best place to find market rates?
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by tjmc 13y ago
Yeah exactly. Work as a public servant? Retire at 62? Yawn.
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by tjmc 13y ago
Tesla's deal with Panasonic [1] should bring their costs down by a hefty margin. Current battery tech is improving at around 7% per year. So even without a true "order of magnitude" breakthrough like lithium-air batteries, yo
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by tjmc 13y ago
Only since 2011? This stunt's been illegal in Australia for as long as I can remember.
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by tjmc 13y ago
As Australians I think we should acknowledge that life is still pretty grim in many remote aboriginal communities here. Massive rates of preventable disease, low life expectancy, illiteracy, high domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse et
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by tjmc 13y ago
Building a VR contact lens is orders of magnitude harder than this. Key challenges would be: 1. Component size. 2. Power. The glucose monitor is similar to an RFID that can be powered by radio waves. Driving a screen or laser would require
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by tjmc 13y ago
It's not grammatically wrong to start a sentence with "But" if the previous sentence is complete. It's just one of those things you hear is wrong from a teacher at some point.
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by tjmc 13y ago
I'd add teaching. Nostromo is right that you calm down quickly after you start speaking, but the problem is most people only have experience of talking for a brief time. 2-5 min talks in front of the class at school is a common experie
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by tjmc 13y ago
641K of RAM. More than anyone deserves!
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by tjmc 13y ago
This post brought back great memories of connecting my Amiga to the net ~1991. The greatest triumph at the time was FTPing synth patches for my Yamaha DX7 from a server in Texas to my unix account at UWA, downloading it to the Amiga via zmo
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by tjmc 13y ago
Overrated - particularly in regard to the reqs for Microsoft CEO. Sandberg doesn't have a track record of growing new products. Facebook's new product dev efforts thus far have been either non-existent or woeful. What about DuPont
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by tjmc 13y ago
Frustrating yes. Disgusting no. YouTube is provided to you as a free service and advertisers pickup the tab. Google paid over $1B for YouTube and people upload over 10 new hours of video every minute. Did you honestly expect they'd wea
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by tjmc 13y ago
The biggest issue here is that it's the middle level jobs that are being automated, which makes it increasingly harder for low skilled workers to work their way up over time. There was a good article in The Atlantic that discussed this

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