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What Your Culture Really Says: The Toxic Lies Afoot in Silicon Valley(betabeat.com)
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> In my life, I don't ever anticipate winding up in a new city without knowing where I was going to sleep that night beforehand. You're only one missed flight away from that happening. My wife and I were in that exact situation a year a
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For values of "brilliant" that originate in North America only...
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When a polemicist references another polemicist does that count as facts? I watched the "Story of Stuff" referenced in his article in a class this semester. At one point the claim was made that Chinese peasants are being “forced” into citie
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It will be interesting to see if there's a spike in iOS upgrades now. I suspect a lot of people will have been holding off.
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Great article and discussion. I'll add 2 predictions. Assuming we've mastered genetic engineering, adding the ability to live and breath underwater will be tempting. This would be the catalyst for significant speciation as an additional 70%
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Out of interest, how does that compare with Perth to AWS Singapore? There are direct fibre links in both cases and there's not much in it distance wise.
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Awesome news congratulations Dani! I've just finished 6 exams in 3rd year mechanical engineering and it's visionary companies like Lightsail and SpaceX that inspire all of us to keep going.
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I'm an Elon fan, but his comment about the old Russian engines his competitors are using deserves some scrutiny. He's talking about the NK-33 which has a thrust to weight ratio of 137. That's better than any current SpaceX engines though th
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Are you glad to see North Korea develop its "space program" too? Yes, I know this is HN where discussions about politics are discouraged, but in this case it's bordering on farcical to ignore it. I have a lecturer in fluid mechanics who use
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I don't think anyone doubts that you can make amazing structures with 3D printers. This sectional technique is a nice extension to that. What I find annoying with the current 3D printing hype is that material properties are being completely
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I think the same attitude exists in Australia. Lots of people start small businesses, but the actual startup scene is very small. People who do go out on their own tend to stick to established business models. Nothing wrong with that I supp
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If you're referring to mandatory filtering no - it never happened. Despite the communications minister announcing it. A large ISP also won a major test case against big media about having to report file sharers. Turns out they dont have to.
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Developing an algorithm doesn't generally cost hundreds of millions. Developing a drug and taking it all the way through clinical trials easily can. I think patents make sense for some sectors. Software just isn't one of them.
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Agreed. Learning how to drill to effectively unlimited geothermal power reservoirs can't be a bad thing.
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First wave of Americans settle into Australian mining jobs(au.news.yahoo.com)
2 points by tjmc 14y ago|0 comments
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Do you have plans to cover university student systems? Ours has been "promising" API access to data for nearly 5 years...
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There's a crucial social aspect of queuing that the article doesn't discuss - it makes you feel like a punter. It puts you in your place. And it's far worse when you're in a tiered situation - such as having to board a flight after business
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Anand Lal Shimpi of http://www.anandtech.com is of that calibre and far less partisan - particularly if you're looking to buy components like motherboards or an SSD.
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A fish rots from the head down. Zuckerberg has well-known form screwing over those he does business with. That you're surprised speaks more to your business acumen than his I'm afraid. Your open letter comes across as entitled and puerile -
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The interface is currently broken in Australia where a "ninemsn" logo in the top left corner has pushed the menu bar down to obscure the top of the menu and mail listing panes. Other than that - looks like a big improvement to Hotmail.
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The threat of nuclear conflict was very real during the Cold War. I remember my teacher asking the class (in 1984) who thought that a nuclear war was "likely in the next 10 years" and virtually every hand going up. Some teenage angst there
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Handy. Minor nit - I think the trig functions should default to degrees rather than radians when you type in something like "Sin 45" from the main search
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I didn't say Jobs didn't obsess over details. Clearly he did. The difference is that he knew what he wanted up front rather than testing market reaction to make decisions. The latter is commonly perceived as the "Google Way" and it's more a
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Not a good comparison. Meyer famously tested 41 shades of blue on Gmail. Optimising local maxima is hardly innovation. Jobs was more of the Henry Ford mindset that if he asked people what they wanted they'd ask for a faster horse.
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Don't be so sure. Nokia was a sinking ship before Elop joined and now he's wearing most of the blame. Sure, he could have hitched Nokia's wagon to Android instead. But given that Google own competitor Motorola and are selling the killer Nex
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That's pretty much how it played out in Australia where merchants have been allowed to on-charge credit card fees for several years. Most small businesses charge no additional fees for Visa or Mastercard but many will either not accept Amex
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So what do B and C developers do? I suspect the ones at Apple develop iTunes for Windows
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Probably not. It's important to distinguish the storage of heat and power because the efficiency of converting heat into electrical power depends on how big the temperature difference between your heat source and ambient temperature is. The
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If you were really determined to buy it outside Aus I suppose you could buy an iTunes gift card from here and then login to iTunes via an Aussie proxy. Happens surprisingly often in the other direction. You really would be paying the 'gold

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