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the spelling of "silicone" looks intentional to me. the review is titled "Like the US is the only country to produce tech."
'Craig Wright of Australia wrote, a bit petulantly, “Always the assumption that [Satoshi Nakamoto] must be a bloody yank. The analysis of who Satoshi is is always so limited.”'
from this article: http://fusion.net/story/243056/alleged-bitcoin-creator-craig...
here here. That's a global maximum.
I believe this is it, though github is down for me now so I can't really tell.
This needs a few more upvotes and comments. This is a gem. I think you could replace Passive Income with anything really. It's anything a person has decided will help them escape their situation and person.
http://www.davykestens.be/self-improvement/why-im-an-asshole
His followup post is interesting also. After receiving hate-mail for putting down 9 to 5'ers, he explains that he is jealous...
Corpus Delicti, latin for body of crime...
I'm sympathetic to the discussion of promoting a civil and interesting community, however, in this specific example, I believe the lack of sensitivity towards the poster is actually worse than the crime itself.
Guidelines are exactly that, guidelines. When a long time contributor becomes emotional about the brutally honest instruction of killing an industry, which happens to be one he feels aligned to, I would figure the appropriate response is to explain rather than admonish. There is a propensity to over-regulate with respect to the guidelines, which I attribute to a lack of thought, really.
I found the article on Neal Stephenson to be more interesting. A link to it appears in the second last para.
The idea isn't so bad but your copy or communication is really bad. Your tag-line doesn't make sense. "We provide reviews for tech reports." - Why would I want a review for a tech report? Even the clicking on an example wasn't really enlightening. E.g. Finance. There is no attached chart...
Here's Singapore as another example.
http://asiasociety.org/education/learning-world/how-singapor...
Agree with the community being more important than the marketplace, will look to add more web 2.0 elements...
Why another marketplace? Because if I love books, then I want a place to hang out where there is only book related information.
Thanks! We've been trying to contact physical bookstores and online sellers til now. The forums, blogs and clubs may be a better way forward. Amazon does not operate in Australia and the most active marketplace is a minimal free service run by universities (textbooksexchange).
A small minority of people don't need much sleep. They are bound to be over-represented among workaholics.
Why is rmc downvoted for having an opinion? Maybe that's just how he saw it.
Lowering costs to compete with the near free alternative makes your company a poor competitor in comparison to them. This is because you have much higher costs and probably are not sufficiently different to justify it.
Options: 1. lower costs and essentially adopt the crowdsourced model 2. increase costs and quality and sell a premium product
Either way, the main thing is that you have identified that you do not want to tread water.
Disappointed. Was hoping that this was how to find a 'job for hackers', not 'how to find a job' for hackers.
most people drawn to this article are python django programmers?
Would love to hear more about things you've learnt about rejecting companies which later go on to be successful beyond rtm marking harshly.
why??
scanning through the text, your name jumps out at me, which makes me ask myself what kind of HN consumer would call themselves that... to which the answer is, one with high average points karma
Pretty sure I read that applications increased 85% on the last cycle, so (on your numbers) that would take it to 1850 which is close to your estimate.
something about the t-shirt under the shirt look that detracts from the article.
Crossed my mind to ask if anyone saw any parallels with Australia. Glad to see someone mention it.
My rough interpretation of the article is that cheap labour from Poland distorted the Irish economy, and the banking contagion resulted in loans to the Polish who couldn't afford the loans, and subsequently disappeared, especially once the whole economy went sour.
An important difference to Ireland's story is that the people who make up Australia's cheap imported labour face greater restrictions in entering the country as they are, with the exception of New Zealanders who are have the same living standards as Australians, international students (and possibly people on working holiday visas) who, to my understanding, are required to demonstrate sufficient funds to get by. Staying on after graduation of whatever course is not guaranteed and has become more difficult post a recent policy change. Australia runs a points system in issuing residency visas and has just cut the number occupations/courses which receive points.
My feeling is that the same expectations fueled bubble has arisen here (I'm in Melb) but has been sustained by the resilient resources dependent economy as well as the capital inflows from those who see Australia as an attractive place to invest and/or also live/have a holiday home.
"real-estate bubbles never end with soft landings. A bubble is inflated by nothing firmer than expectations."
Although the factors driving the housing bubble in Australia are different from those in Ireland, if we concede there is a bubble in Australia, and we listen to economics professor Morgan Kelly, we're due for a crash.
A couple counterpoints to the above: China's demand for resources will probably span another two or three decades, and also Australia's financial lending practices are not and haven't been as lax as those of Ireland or the US.
Nice article. Should almost be understanding turnover rather than solving it.
There is a reason why people endure higher costs of living to be in locations of higher population density. I'd also like to see the same cost benefit analysis over a 5-10 year window. I guess the alternative US scenario mightn't be much better.
Aside: The part about cramming for tests and getting good grades as proof of being smart reminds me of a piece of research (that I can't recall) which found that kids learn more when they are praised for effort rather than praised for being smart. The kids that were praised for being smart tried to maintain appearances by not working too hard (as per the blog post) and subsequently did not improve as fast as the kids who were praised for effort.
On the comment of going from -3 to +3 without falling between +- standard deviations, my guess would be that you'd have to pass through that territory anyway, rather than a spectacular jump from one end to the next, seemingly overnight.
Was little more subdued than I expected. It could be just a reflection of the nature of tech hacker types but slightly surprised to see no fist pumping or much robust cheering; more polite applause to slightly louder polite applause?
is it any surprise that yahoo does so well in taiwan and japan when compared against google then...
Hate it when they don't tell you who the authors are or the title of the paper. http://www.psy.utexas.edu/
I dunno why but this reminds me of trainspotting. But choose life, right. One could avoid any risk of injury through non-participation but it's a deceptive opt out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
Just to let you know, you're not alone there as a country.