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Or for example, there is any free text user input that could be subversive...

I agree, IBM would never send anyone who actually knows anything to these events. The developers are locked away for several good (for IBM) reasons...

Even people on the Enterprise had mental health issues, I think it's part of being human.

Even so, they have to pay their own fuel costs...

I think video card manufacturers were first to cheat benchmarks

Considering how hard it is to pick something to watch on Netflix, I think it will stop when the computer pre-empts what you want to see - 100 channels of interesting generated content!

I think he's talking about the way Australia hides economic problems through immigration.

Unfortunately you don't just need empty space for people to live, just ask Australians who are effectively limited to the coast or the east.

England is lucky in that what little land it has is good for humans to live in.

Very cool, I wonder if the web one ends up responsive given a bootstrap-y model.

nc is the client, if you could host a webserver surely you could have run nc...

>one day you'll be required to have an OBD dongle monitoring your driving data to get car insurance, for instance

FYI there is a company in Australia that already does this, well, you get discounts if your device shows that you're a safe driver or something...

I'm just imaging a 150 way 3-d lane merge at the other end :O

I like the idea, the biggest benefit is of course the "all in one" deal - seems a waste to have to tether your phone to your laptop, or get a laptop with a SIM slot (and all the costs that go with it)

I'd like to see: 1. The source code 2. Support for newer devices (might go hand in hand with 1) 3. Support for wireless HDMI adapters, having to carry no cables at all would be very neat, although I guess this needs a power supply to last for any useful amount of time

It was brilliant for creative people to use, I'd say if it wasn't for Flash we wouldn't have things like Unity editor today.

Canberra, Australia sort of does this - houses were originally built by the government and have a 99 year lease hold, the first of these leases is expiring now.

I think the desktop is more closely related to the tablet platform than mobiles.

Sounds like they're buying the time of an already successful startup in the hopes that their hard work will "rub off" on the rest of the community.

Aggressive rams are partially a byproduct of testosterone and selective breeding, some small scale farmers will leave rams in with ewes and their newborns to protect them from predators.

There are stories of one sheep doing this in the UK and then a week later all of them doing it - usually the solution is to dig the void under the grid deeper so the sheep don't dare risk falling.

I remember having these issues on an x60 series maybe 8 years ago, but my friends who have thinkpads are all running them fine, even on the jankiest distros with a bit of careful driver picking

I think he's implying that there should be more poaching... Personally I find it a strange concept which seems confined to sales and tech jobs (especially in America)

That's globalization I guess, an extreme example is: would you blame a nation in poverty struggling for existence in the modern world for not attracting good techos?

As for contractors, all's fair in the free market except when contracting to government who are blind to /real/ value due to a range of bureaucratic reasons.

I think your comments are coming off as sassy hence the downvotes, but I don't mind.

My argument is more that I believe large injections of money were the original cause of a lot of the problems we have, adding more is perhaps a band-aid solution.

I personally believe we need to suffer the short term pain of looking out for our own citizens above all else, most of which would mean popping the bubble and removing the interventionist policies.

I am worried that this will happen along with the visa changes causing a greater loss of sovereignty than was ever intended...

Yes I do.

Increasing the supply should fix the problem but there are so many other factors at play in the Australian housing market. Tax concessions, foreign investment, wage stagnation, youth unemployment make it a very hostile market for many people. It's all too big to fail and prices need to go up to keep everyone's super from devaluing.

Investment in the education system won't lead to big change without deregulation of university either, something which is very unpopular.

UBI plus the policy you suggest would lead to a system where people can pay once and never have to work.

As Atlassian said, the problem with innovation isn't the money, it's the government which is only now just catching up with the new way business is happening.

>In the same way, preventing monoculture is a simple case of directly subsidizing people's visas/PR/citizenship on various grounds, humanitarian or otherwise, under my scheme.

If we still can't even select uni entrants based on those holistic measures what chance do we have of selecting migrants?

Yes money makes things easier. I think our biggest problems now are housing and the future of employment (aka the youth), unfortunately neither of these issues needs more money involved.

As sanswork said, easy to get new devs, but as soon as they've put in a few years it's very easy to go out on your own or go overseas.

You'll end up with a monoculture of uber rich foreigners - a problem that Australia already has. Maybe it would work when we introduce death taxes?

3 months after launch is a lot more specific, your first comment suggests 3 months after starting...

I've always been in a startup or just a full-time employee - my point still stands though, if that's an average rate then why did the article point it out?

So $100 isn't a lot?

I thought since that was the point they were trying to make that this example was an employee rather than a contractor...