jlangenauer

What?

What disingenuous horseshit. Google hires engineers in Australia because the engineers it needs are in places like Australia, London and Silicon Valley. It's rot to present this as some sort of public benefit when it's pure self-interest on the part of Google.

Google in Australia has benefitted from the security and institutions of Australian society, thus it should contribute to them.

If the lightning port on an iPhone starts flaking out, often it's because it's full of pocket lint and shit that then gets compressed into the socket by the lightning plug.

Get a toothpick or similar, and clear it out. You will be _amazed_ at what you get out of it.

Yes, but that's a very specific sub-market with unusual characteristics: the demand for good talent exceeding the supply.

This is probably not the case with fruit-pickers or Walmart workers.

Because the idea could ultimately be backed by the force of violence in the state.

E.g. You will use weak encyption in your product, or we will take your money, your company or even your freedom.

Perhaps, but I know some Atlasssian employees who were there reasonably early, and - let me put it this way - they're not exactly unhappy at the moment.

Yes, but under Australian capital gains tax law, moving the coins overseas is a "taxable event", and he'd have to pay the capital gains tax on the capital gain based on the value at the time he moved them.

It's not a case of believing what's coming out of ISIS' mouth - most people, even on the Left you decry, do. The question is why, when they utter this stuff, do so many people listen?

This reminds me of Australia's startup scene too: it's become something of a "game" with accelerators, advisors, incubators and even stranger things, often lead by people whose business experience (let alone tech startup experience) would be politely described as thin.

It's definitely a case of form without content, and no-one should be surprised if the results from such an ecosystem are less than stellar.

All of which is mediated by the difference in supply and demand for a particular skill. Employers would happily pay software developers minimum wage if they could get away with it.

If you're looking for an alternative to Duolingo, give Memrise a try. It allows you to download entire lessons for offline use.

It's also claimed, though there's no footage in existence, that a barrel roll has been performed in a Concorde.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQS3qAIjAo

It is here I can get to quote the famous justification why Queensland does not observe daylight saving like the sensible rest of Australia: Because it would fade the curtains.

(Interestingly, I'm not sure if this is apocryphal or not: I thought it was Flo Bjelke-Peterson who said it, but I can't find a source.)

When I can, I try to get out into nature, and look at things bigger and more distant than my laptop.

TWO MILLION DOLLARS on a blogging system.

I'm speechless.

Not that it's an easy solution, or even the right one for you right now, but I'll just note something:

There's (generally) no background checks required for starting or running a business.

You have listed the constraints that currently apply to your life. Think about what sort of life you can create within those constraints, or how you can get around them.

The core of the matter is that Greece simply cannot pay back even the payments due on their government bonds / loans without further loans, and this has been the situation for a number of years now.

Now while Greece has made major reforms as already demanded by the Troika, it has also suffered a 25% reduction in its GDP: this is a simple byproduct of austerity, you cannot (easily) reduce government spending without it having a flow-on effect on GDP, and it is rather easy to push an economy into a debt spiral, where austerity leads to reduced GDP, and thus reduced government revenue, which requires further austerity, and produces further GDP contraction.

For it's part, the Syriza government has offered to run a budgetary surplus of around 1% of GBP this financial year (which would affect GDP negatively) to around 3.5% of GDP in 2018 (which is flat-out insane). This has not been accepted by the Troika.

My own view is that the rest of Europe is acting to protect those who made the risky loans to Greece, knowing full well that there was a risk of default, and for which they extracted high rates of interest. There has now been plenty of pain from the Greek people, and to expect more to protect bondholders who knew exactly what risk they were getting in to reeks of moral hazard.

Tesseract is ok, but I gather that a lot of the good work in the last few years on it has remained closed source within Google.

If you want to do text extraction, look at things like Stroke Width Transform to extract regions of text before passing them to Tesseract.

And if you've never made, and eaten, homemade sauerkraut, then let me tell you: you're missing out.

Importantly (not really), is it to be pronounced "dis-queue", or "Disk"?

We used to have the opposite problem (being based in Australia): certain unit tests would run fine locally, but then end up failing when run at certain times of the day on our Travis server which was in the US.

If work (in a capitalist system) isn't slavery, couldn't you just choose to not do it?

The seed funding part, as most of the incubators on the list do funding at levels below £50k.

If "bit" is a portmanteau of "binary digit", wouldn't the analogue in a senary[1] number system be a "sit"?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senary

I would be extremely shocked if this was actually the case. Do you have any source for this claim?

I think it's http://www.kuona.co/

South Korea, 18th C US and Singapore are hardly examples of "free markets", but much more of capitalist state planning and intervention.

There is the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa, though it's not at all straight-forward - you need £200k investment, or £50k under conditions that I'm not sure it's possible to actually meet.

https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-entrepreneur/overview

"Efficiently", in this case, means deploying capital where it will accumulate the most profit. Not where it does the most good, or solves the most pressing or important problems.

I'm with you. I love my iPhone, but it will be a cold day in hell before my wrist sports one of these.

That said, I'm certainly interested to see where it will go - especially, as someone else said - once watchmakers start dealing in tech rather than tech-makers dealing in watches.