jamhan

I think SuperNinKenDo is right. We are witnessing events now which are unprecedented.

For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successful western democracy gaslighting for pro-terrorism protestors.

The NSW Police just did a press conference [1] where they said "forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House, despite witness statements saying it was."

They did not say who performed the forensic analysis.

If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise.

Here is another example.

On the national holiday, Australia Day, January 26th, in Melbourne, there was an "Invasion Day" rally with "thousands of Aboriginal and Palestine flags". Protestors held a large banner with the message "Kill the Australian in your head" (i.e. "kys in minecraft") and calling for destruction of the country. [2]

Read the article [3] about this incident that occurred near this protest:

An elderly couple had earlier attended the 21-gun Australia Day salute at the Shrine of Remembrance near the city centre. They wore Australian flags in their hats. After that, they found themselves near the path of the protest. A police officer approached the man and said "You are under arrest for inciting a riot".

We just had a copycat crime where teens stole cars and rammed cyclists and filmed it for TikTok [4], just like the well-publicized case from the USA last year.

Edit: Attempted honour-killings: In Adelaide, Afghan immigrants caught trying to murder a daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7weY0gkfA

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-hous...

[2] https://archive.md/XBblW

[3] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/shocked-melbourne-c...

[4] https://7news.com.au/news/teen-boys-arrested-after-cyclists-...

The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act) covers AML in Australia. Tranche (Part) 1 was implemented immediately. Tranche 2, covering real estate agents (among others) was supposed to follow reasonably soon after. It's now been ~17 years and it's still not implemented. [1]

In those years, the Australian property market boomed and states like New South Wales with its Stamp Duty tax generated billions ($9.379 billion for the 2020-21 financial year) in revenue [2]

Last week's arrests [3] are a drop in the bucket.

[1] https://insight.thomsonreuters.com.au/business/posts/tranche...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/stamp-duty-adds-9-379...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-03/afp-money-laundering-...

Linked from Nicolas Wilson's twitter, this video, about a Tory MP and her husband's stealing of GBP 203m of Government money for useless PPE at the beginning of the COVID crisis, is staggering:

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1621174752407851008

Edit: Here's the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Bkshh4jOzME

"Reference guide to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism" (2003):

https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...

My anecdata:

tl;dr: All 3 of my Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs have failed in less than 3 years. 100% failure rate.

My first SSD was a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO. It failed after 2 years and 8 months. It was replaced under warranty with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus.

That replacement has now also failed after 1 year and 9 months.

I bought a 2nd 1TB 970 EVO Plus in May 2019. It has now also failed (2 years and 7 months).

Both are expected to be replaced under warranty.

The 2 970 EVO Plus SSDs clearly had hardware errors (that were not accurately reflected in SMART data) that caused everything from system hangs, game crashes to file corruption on OTHER drives. I couldn't believe it at first but after 5 days of testing and trial and error, I had it confirmed. As soon as I removed those SSDs, my PC was completely stable again.

In the meantime, I have bought a Kingston KC3000 1TB drive as I no longer trust Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs. On the other hand, I have a Samsung EVO 850 SATA drive which has been rock-solid.

Your comment is almost certainly the stupidest thing I have ever read on HN.

I look forward to more insightful comments from you in this vein:

"I'm not sure how I feel about universities (which should be teaching modern history) teaching ancient 27BC stuff like the Roman Empire. Do you really want a new generation of people who think the Roman Empire was perfect and cannot be improved upon?"

I'm sure students would benefit more from MIT running courses such as "7.1729: An Introduction to 23 Not-Invented-Here JavaScript Frameworks" /s

As an example, the MMORPG "Elder Scrolls Online" [1], uses Lua as the interface and plugin ("addons") language. This allows feature-rich, very useful UI modifications such as "Bandits User Interface" [2]

[1] https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/

[2] https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1643-BanditsUserInterfac...

There are/were issues with using the rpi-imager [1] under Windows, which would result in the configuration information not being written to the memory card. They claimed to have fixed it, but it never worked for me.

Instead, I downloaded a live Linux dist, kde-neon [2], wrote that to a USB stick with rufus [3], booted my PC with that, and imaged under Linux. Only then did it work.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager

[2] https://neon.kde.org/download

[3] http://rufus.ie/en/

The codename for Ubuntu 21.04 is "Hirsute Hippo" and "hirsute" means "Covered with hair; hairy."

After having yet another "gaming" mouse fail with the "double-click" problem I did some research which led to this in-depth video.

Essentially it's failed engineering and companies not wanting to spend even tiny amounts of money to fix the problems. Low-quality switches, out-of-spec electrical design, poor physical design (too much lateral movement in the buttons) and newer processors combine to produce mice that are guaranteed to fail.

It wasn't gold foil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton

People can write blog posts criticizing Facebook. But they should not direct their anger to employees.

Please quote the part of the post where he directs his anger DIRECTLY at employees?

How were they rude? His FIRST line was "Hi REDACTED. I know you’re just doing your job."

They weren't arrogant or hostile to the person who emailed them.

He has a strong opinions on Facebook, as do, I'm sure, millions of other people, and rightly so, given what they have been shown to be doing for several years.

I think the arrogance lies entirely on your side.

I wonder if this is linked to the case of Huang Xiangmo, who spit the dummy after his residency visa was revoked:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/12/austr...

Is it a coincidence this report appears a month after it was revealed that China was the source of massive amounts of the banned chemical CFC-11? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44738952

"Fast, instant"? That's, err, just dumb. Fast perhaps. Instant, never.

LinkedIn need to be made an example of. They continue to spam with contact recommendations etc even after I closed my account.

Let's then not forget the 1 billion per year spent on keeping mothballed desalination plants operational, plants that talking heads like Tim Flannery got us into thanks to clueless Labor premiers.

Also: "Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar will receive subsidies of up to $2.8 billion a year up to 2030 to ensure Australia reaches its Renewable Energy Target, according to new research." [1]

1. http://www.afr.com/news/politics/renewable-energy-subsidies-...

I always find it amusing when people compare pork barrelling amounts as "only" or "mere". "It was only 5 billion". I wonder how many companies, schools, hospitals etc would like an extra 500 million dollars per year just for doing the job they should be already doing in a democratic capitalist society. How many people cried for IT workers in Australia when the 457s were imported en masse or Telstra, IBM etc out-sourced their IT to India? How much subsidy or compensation did the IT workers of Australia get for that? Australians complain about all the scams they get from Indian callers and conveniently forget that they only happen because Telstra gave overseas scammers a free trove of Australian consumer data and very little was done to stop it. Globalisation and cheaper prices come with huge hidden costs.

Seen "The Pentagon Papers"? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

Month-old news. He died on 8th September 2017. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/

Relevant?: http://evonomics.com/amazon-accounting-corporate-profits-ric...

Sigh. Clearly I wasn't referring to graduates. Read his comments recently regarding 457s.

I was talking about actual in-the-flesh interviews, which are the only ones that count in the end. Recruiters/companies often do phone "interviews" or "pre-screenings" or whatever and those were the "conversations" I was referring to. So now you've called me a liar as well as having called my CVs "shit". What a pleasant co-worker you must be.

Edit: On that note, perhaps you could post somewhere an anonymised version of your CV so we can all benefit from the pinnacle of CV design.

And now we get to the crux of the matter. I wonder how old you are? Why is it that in IT broad long-term experience is considered irrelevant? If you have not done exactly that something in the past six months you might as well not exist. I love the conversations with recruiters/companies that go something like this:

Them: I see you you used technologies X,Y,Z in your last job. Me: Yes, and <I explain in further detail what that entailed> Them: Did you use <some tangential A-framework> with technology-X at all? Me: No, I used B-framework because reasons. Them: You are dead to us.

BTW, I find it puzzling you are focusing specifically on my perceived failure in the job market rather than the topic of the original post.

Are you really that obtuse? I write my CV. It has 20+ years of experience plus degree from my University. Simple math not your strong point perhaps?

Oh please. Spare us the pearl clutching. I'm willing to bet that if I filed a freedom of information act on this company's 457 applications that 1) there was little or no attempt to find a suitable candidate in the local market and 2) the 457s they did get have some relationship to employees already at the company.

The 457 visa was a government program that was being exploited, and quite obviously too, for quite some time, just like any government program eventually will be. For another recent example, look at what happened to the child care subsidy program. Government programs can serve a good purpose if they are well regulated and audited but comically and sadly for citizens they never are.

I just wonder if the 457 reforms would have taken so long if the Commonwealth Public Service had outsourced their IT to some South Asian consultancy and discovered that suddenly and mysteriously there were not enough skilled Australian IT workers to support them in Canberra (and elsewhere) and rather rapidly offices were filled with 457s. But this is exactly what large corporations in the private sector have done.

In IT and other sectors (notably health), companies are using 457s to save on employee salaries, pure and and simple. I have knowledge of assistants in medical practices being told to accept the lower salaries that their 457 co-workers are on or lose their jobs.

Oh, and it really annoys me what Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes keeps on saying. How about you invest in training locals instead of whinging all the time about not being able to import people?

BTW, I'm a UNSW CompSci graduate, 40+, have a lot of international experience, can operate at the technical and business level, speak a couple of languages, and after my last (5-year) contract ended I spent 2+ fruitless years searching for more IT work, while conspicuously the suburb I used to work in (with telcos, Cisco and software companies) filled with people from certain demographics. Despite all my experience, I didn't get invited to a single interview. Not one. Ageism and 457s killed the job market for people like me.

In Australia we were supposed to have tranche 2 ("covering real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, car dealers and others") of the anti-money laundering regulations introduced over 10 years ago. As this article details, it is "comically" overdue: http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/slated-an...

While political parties can wallow in the extra taxes garnered from sky-rocketing real-estate prices and sizable party donations they have no incentive to introduce this second tranche.

For example, any party in power in New South Sales will keep its budget in the black simply from "stamp-duty" taxes collected on real-estate transactions.

The Foreign Investment Review Board was and is a farce and that's how the government likes it.

Or your name is "Olivia Gray". (True story, corporate mail filter blocked all that person's email)

Just a nitpick but "tithe", by definition, is 10%.