tomflack

> You really need drivers for safety reasons.

One incident does not a point prove. There are many completely unattended trains in operation, several of which are in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains

"good showing"?

I don't follow the actual makeup too much but labor have 31, the coalition 34 and the crossbench 11 with momentum swinging away from labor (and greens?) it seems like it's an uphill battle for labor to hold on to the current numbers.

It's effectively the same problem as smoking cigarettes and "respecting others."

The gentlemen who live next door to me love to chain-smoke on their balcony. It annoys me but I have no legal recourse. I can only ask them nicely to please not smoke when I have washing on my balcony, or I'm sitting out there enjoying the sunshine, or I have the door open to air out my apartment.

Replace cigarettes with marijuana, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, loud music or any other substance people use for enjoyment and it's the same story. You're 100% right in saying it's a problem of people respecting others.

I'm extremely curious about what "basic maintenance" the Lun receives currently, and why. Anyone care to speculate?

27 years old, have not owned a car since 2008 when I sold my childhood dream car.

I'll buy it again, exactly the same model but it will be as purely a hobby car never as my main form of transport.

The numbers just don't add up for me to drive every day.

> Conservatives have responded by telling Mr Miyazaki to stay out of politics.

The nexus of creative entertainment and politics alienates many. If one of your well respected entertainers makes a political statement that you don't agree with it can come as a shock. This attitude of "Stay out of politics and stick to entertaining us you court jester" is present probably in every country, and the most saddening because it has an implicit attitude of "I'm allowed to state my opinion, but you are not."

It would be trivial for someone to record you saying it without your knowledge, to unlock your phone at a later date.

Can you quote someone being "bluntly honest" with him?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/ "In Time"

Whilst not exactly this scenario, it gives me the same feeling. The egalitarian in me seeks access to life-extending technology for all people, from janitors to data scientists.

The same way I support financially charities that bring the benefits of contraception and family planning to all people, regardless of nationality, citizenship or caste.

Edit: I just realised Google could extend this theoretical perk to their janitorial staff, which would make it the most competitive cleaning contract in the world.

If a site can show they have a lower percentage of adblock users than standard, it's a boon for them.

If I am not blocking their ads, there is a chance I'll see something that interests me and click on it.

You don't need to explicitly state "I will click ads every day" to make it not "dumb".

You're not understanding, so I'll just stop.

You don't need to apologise for not sharing my view, but you do need to realise things aren't as black-and-white as you like to see them.

Your rage is directed at the wrong person. The guy up front isn't the guy who originally proposed it. That's not how political parties work.

Mate, the last thought I'll leave with you regarding the censorship fiasco: it was party politics. There are elements within both major parties that salivate at the thought of censorship, some of which hold the reigns on some policy directions.

I still feel it's unfair to vilify the man personally like the Australian internet has done so for the past several years. When censorship and filtering proposals return with someone else at the helm, is it still Conroy's fault?

I pay for Arstechnica premium for this reason. I have adblockers turned off on The Verge, and emailed them asking for a subscription option but received no reply.

I don't want advertising in my face, full stop.

Having spoken with the man in person, I think your original post was entirely unfair and based purely on media representation.

You'd be surprised how much worse candidates for the position are out there. I'm no fan of censorship or filters, but can respect the man's work and the effort he put in to understand things.

That's a bit harsh, the guy was very receptive to technical arguments. Particularly regarding IPv6 and the NBN. He just became Internet Enemy #1 because of filter proposals.

Exactly the same as the comments that I was replying to: zero. I posted it to illustrate this, since they are exact opposite experiences and now we have two statistically insignificant data points contradicting each other.

What's the value of your anecdotal experience? I can add my own - my 6 month old Lumia 920 has been back to Nokia for repair. Twice.

Nokia hardware may have been legendary, but it certainly isn't any more. Some of the fit-and-finish on their stuff is weak now (sim tray on 920, dust getting in the front facing camera on the 920) and the rest of the industry has moved on.

The 710 isn't even two years old. It's at most, 19 months.

Clearly he's referring to cable company as in Cable TV company, not company that runs a cable in to your house while on division sells internet and another a TV package.

I subscribed to your newsletter (life is too short for beta software, but once it hits 1.0 I'm all over it!) and you're on Elizabeth Street!

I'm based out of Canberra at the moment, but it's great to see local guys pop up on HN occasionally.

Referring to the "eight circuits of consciousness" I believe. I'd google it up, but I'm on the company network right now.

I've seen line-of-sight microwave used for similar needs, but not in built up areas.

Edit: clicking through and actually reading the link, the picture clearly depicts Microwave backhaul. Probably to a site in the vicinity they have a nice big land-based pipe.

And if you take the next obvious step (chargeback on credit card, item received was not as described) some automated system will kill off your entire Google Play account. Effectively holding all the apps you've purchased as hostages.

The first thing that went through my head was "It needs to be rate of hateful tweets against the baseline tweet volume of the county, not just overall rate"

1RMB notes are an abomination, and considering that there is a coin of that denomination I'm surprised they haven't been abolished. In my wallet now I have a couple of them dating from 1999. Dirty.

A side note: I'm currently in China, and as the article describes I have huge wads of 100RMB bills in my possession.

They smell terrible.

Is this usual for paper money? My home country went polymer over 20 years ago so I can't actually remember. Do used american bills smell like the sweaty palms of the thousand people who used them before you?

> Looks amazing for $72, there's a huge market for this, even in US. I see dirt broke people paying $200/month for iPhones and data plans when this would do them just fine.

I feel this statement shows a fundamental misunderstanding of people. iPhones and other premium-yet-achievable consumer devices fulfil more than immediate usage needs. These people may do fine in this Nokia handset, but they won't want to do fine on the Nokia handset. It's cheap, they don't want to be cheap. Things are generally sold by people looking "up" instead of people looking "down".

Which fluids are you talking about specifically? I've very little knowledge of anatomy but I think most of the liquids in our body are in "closed-loop" pressurised systems, with nowhere for the fluid to "go" whilst being forced in to motion by our muscles.

Why not do both! Your original comment "How damaged are NFL fans brains?" was glib bullshit and you know it.

We get it, you don't like sports. As a geek who grew up playing the occasional sport but not really enjoying it, finding a sport I truly enjoy at the age of 26 (baseball, not so popular in my country) and following a team has been eye-opening.

Sports fans have welcomed me, and been very accommodating explaining parts of the game I don't understand.

And then there are other geeks like you - that have an almost visceral reaction to the idea that people would enjoy something like that. I don't understand people who have such a negative view of others' happiness.

Oh I'm sure you have some kind of horror locker-room story where the football team did something disgusting to you, but sports wasn't what did it. Those alpha males would have some something similar even without the context of sports.