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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the worst consumer product I have ever bought in my life, the absolutely abject Samsung "Smart" TV:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2414066

Basically bricked after a hopeless remote update pushed by Samsung, Plex stopped working six months ago, Skype appears to have been deleted but mysteriously appears when my brother calls, nothing else works as advertised.

Replaced once when the panel failed (at great effort, their consumer support was similarly terrible in Australia).

It is an absolute dog. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Depends what you're hiring for, grammar never troubled James Joyce.

Gilts have historically been there-or-thereabouts in terms of interest rate with respect to US Bonds.

Certainly in the last decade they are near indistinguishable.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/08/28/the-special-relatio...

It's the remotely controlled support vehicle.

Remotey Remoteface?

Structural editing, paredit, 100%.

I say that not being particularly accomplished with it. 15 years of programming Java, now 3 in Clojure, would dearly miss slurp and barf, the lesser appreciated virtues of homoiconicity.

Because he's a nobody with a track record of prevarication who wants to be talked about.

Because that's better than being a nobody with a track record of prevarication who is not talked about.

And here we are, talking about this confidence huckster.

What mechanism do you use to choose who can live in a central district, if not the ability to pay market rent?

Right to live where you are born? That adversely affects anyone not born in a central district.

$180k is a dangerously small amount to pay someone with James Comey's responsibility.

Next time, just link:

https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...

It's a statement of fact, not a judgement.

You're welcome to your opinions of HR departments, and of Yarvin.

"But the conference wants to have an air of professionalism"

There is very little chance Yarvin would get past the HR department of any client I can think of, are there professional environments you can think of where his reputation wouldn't cause significant difficulties to participation?

I'm not sure an argument from professionalism is the appropriate one. More if you have a club you can invite whoever you like, and if others are not comfortable with the members they can choose not to attend.

I'm sure John De Goes is earnest, the risk is that his conference may be attended solely by similarly earnest people who look precisely like John De Goes, and for whom emotional assault is unverifiable and incomparable, hypothetical.

Being heavily armed (and also being white) alters how the police treat you, the Oregon stand-off demonstrates as much.

There would likely also be a presumption, as a heavily armed white person, that you're extremely confident in your ability to recite the constitution, quite possibly spoiling for a fight to defend particular rights that you see enshrined in the constitution, that you will not submit to a warrantless search, and are even less likely to allow the police to steal your money.

You don't need to put holes in the police officers, they would profile you from a mile off and assume you're a red-neck nutbag who is potentially going to put holes in them, move along citizen there's nothing to see here.

Ask some poor people if valuing time over money makes them happy, then get back to me.

Worked with Java from '97, Clojure for the last two years, agree with you completely.

"For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity"

I take that to mean 'Coal will provide the prosperity that takes Australia forward', rather than 'Coal will continue to provide our electricity'.

i.e. We should invest in Coal, train our children to mine for it, research new ways of producing it, at the expense of other fields like high tech.

FYI non-Australians, I give you (former) PM of Australia, Tony Abbott:

July 17, 2015 - "For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity"

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/17/for-tony-...

That just about sums up the amount of vision in Australian politics.

Didn't you hear? Coal is the future, get digging.

The IRS have something similar, Bradley Birkenfeld received more than $100M when he blew the whistle against UBS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Birkenfeld

That's an extremely broad title.

If an individual soldier is motivated by their moral sentiment that they are fighting for democracy in Afghanistan and so that Afghan girls can get an education that is meaningless, the motivation of the leaders who took that decision is the primary cause of the violence.

My belief is that Western nations fight wars for economic reasons, but uses a moral argument to assuage the population and provide exculpation to the troops.

We simply do not put boots on the ground or bombs in the air for moral reasons, no matter how it's cloaked.

Yes you make a series of perfectly good points, and I learned about the Frankpledge, so thanks for that.

I agree it is not a utopian system by any regard, but I still think a country that has trial by jury is superior to one with bench trials only. Perhaps not in each individual case, but as a means of rebalancing the power of the establishment vs the people.

I've a friend who is a prosecutors assistant in Australia, having quite a dim view of the ability of my peers I asked him just last week how he rated the performance of the trials he had watched and he said he didn't think he had ever seen a jury get it wrong.

Then again he's just a big bag of relatively well educated prejudice and blind-spots like all of us, so there is that.

Every complex system can be defined in terms of trade-offs, right? Trial by Jury has a fairly extensive history outside of the US, and while not perfect it is a balance against a potentially corrupt establishment. I think if I had to choose trial by a jury of my peers, or by a judge, I'd probably opt for my peers.

I think the bigger problem in the US appears to be mandatory minimums, prosecutors driven by win ratios, pre-trial plea bargaining, and clearly a deep vein of institutional racism (something many other countries also suffer from).

Beyond that, I thought the original article was beautifully written, I enjoyed it.

I've been working remotely for the same client since late 2012, in general it's been ideal in a number of ways and the positives out-weigh the negatives.

I do miss the casual social side of having colleagues in an office from time to time, but I tend to be quite a social person. That, and maintaining delivery over a long period of time requires focus and discipline, no small effort.

Oh boy. That's my weekend gone.

We all breath through our mouths. I could have described him as having 'slopey shoulders', I doubt the progenitor of that insult intended people with back problems to take insult, though I guess some may take it too literally.

"Filled with" was intended as "there are plenty of" rather than "a majority of".

Yes, to imply low intelligence. I think it's an American term? Though I'm not entirely sure where I picked it up from.

I didn't down vote your comment, the timing was coincidental.

I responded to it because I think a removal of all subsidies alongside correctly pricing the consequences of consumption is a valid end-goal. Personally I'd continue to subsidise renewables because I approve of them but I agree politicians are generally bad at picking winners.

Only if you also calculate and charge a price on carbon emissions, and the current Australian government stopped that scheme last year.

I'm not a citizen of Australia, they didn't win a majority they won a plurality, and regardless I don't feel any compunction when describing Abbott as a mouth breather.

As I explained clearly in my comment, I have never experienced anything like the paucity of talent in Australian politics. I'm capable of disagreeing with the government of the day while respecting the intelligence or talent at play.

I'm perfectly comfortable with my description of Abbott and I stand by it.

I'm not overly concerned with subsidising residential solar, however I think subsidising research and innovation in solar, wind, and other alternate energy systems is worthwhile and funds like this are one way of stimulating a market.

Also, you changed your question as I answered it.