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PhilWright

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About PhilWright

Software developer based in Melbourne, Australia.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #21918983

    Later in the article it points out that an undercover person would arrive on a passport under a name but then check into a hotel under a different name. In that case it would trigg…

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    Comment #21654406

    Sell the developer on the chance to use the latest technology. Sell the developer on the chance for career growth as the company grows. Sell the developer on the fast paced environ…

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    Comment #21635743

    Is this an American thing? Thinking that you can take a companies money and then have the right to tell the company what they are allowed to do. If you are unhappy with the way Goo…

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    Comment #21560679

    I think you are making the mistake of assuming that there is always something more fundamental to discover. It could be that we have now discovered all the pieces of the puzzle, al…

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    Comment #21469508

    There is nothing new in the article. It also does not mention that the latest calculations on the flatness of the Universe make it flat with a 0.4% error bar. That means it is eith…

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    Comment #21351955

    Is this a serious question? What is the alternative, focus on not providing value to your customers? Yeah, I would go with the initial idea and given them something of value.

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    Comment #21330172

    Hollywood always goes through cycles. Remember when most films were simple/generic Westerns with John Wayne on screen every other month. Remember after WW2 when there was a glut of…

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    Comment #21330108

    "Gen IV nuclear energy is clean, efficient and plentiful - why the fear?" Despite all the promises, in practice they are super expensive and take forever to build. The UK is curren…

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    Comment #21320191

    $20 trillion is the yearly output of the US economy. A fair comparison would therefore be the revenue of WeWork for a year, which was $1.82 billion for 2018. That makes WeWork abou…

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    Comment #21287213

    WARNING: This article has nothing to do with UFO's.

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    Comment #21198370

    Please ignore, this is one of many questions asked by the poster on quora.com in order to promote his book.

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    Comment #21142612

    There is no difference between a machine gun and a robot. A person designs a machine gun but does not pull the actual trigger. There is an army officer that orders the weapon be de…

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    Comment #21142370

    Sit down with your business partner and tell them what you are feeling. Indicate you are burnt out/bored with the current situation and scale of revenue. You need significant chang…

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    Comment #21133456

    Think yourself lucky. Being ugly has an even bigger impact on your dating opportunities.

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    Comment #21121541

    Bobby McCool

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    Comment #21111675

    I think you need to begin by understanding why you are having the problems that you are in job performance. Otherwise, you will just repeat the pattern with the next job and end up…

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    Comment #21046136

    Exactly, they should have stopped flying people out when they were within two weeks of closing. If they had secured the funding needed to continue then all well and good and then s…

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    Comment #21046083

    Why do these travel companies always go bust in a way that leaves people stranded? Surely the management must have known a week or two ago that the company was about to go under. I…

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    Comment #20959166

    And you were one of the 400-500 packing the place. All the others were thinking you are part of the problem and they are the legitimate visitor.

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    Comment #20892243

    The time he took to publish is not because he was a 'slacker'. British society was very religious at the time and coming out with evolution was going to cause quite the controversy…

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    Comment #20863391

    > 'Watch the Bugatti Chiron smash through the mythical 300 mph barrier' There is nothing mythical about a car travelling at 300mph, it has been done before and nobody I know thinks…

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    Comment #20815701

    Actually it was 500 feet or around 150 meters.

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    Comment #20799161

    Written by Chris Patten, a long time Conservative party member that has always been very pro-Europe. So of course he thinks leaving the EU is a disaster, because it goes against hi…

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    Comment #20797008

    Nothing. First it will never happen and second, why would China even care? They don't.