Viewing profile — jsankey

I see, I did misinterpret your point somewhat. The situation is still relevant to individual would be claimants, though. Even though Egypt and Sudan don't want to claim the region …

The reason Bir Tawil is unwanted is more subtle: claiming it would discredit a claim made to the more desirable neighbouring region: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hala%27ib_Trian…

Chilies are pretty simple to grow yourself, even just by using the seeds from a dried one. A happy plant produces lots of chilies and the freeze fine for most uses. They don't like…

Exactly. It's analogous to the difference between big bang integration and continuous integration. The lesson there is: if something hurts, do it more often. Little steps let you k…

Thanks for the reply Dean. It seems there is room to make this easier, although it can be hard to find and convince the market of that when there is something "good enough" out the…

Indeed, Freecycle have been operating in Australia for a long time. There are several other competitors too, the article doesn't make clear what Curbit's advantage/angle is. I'm al…

The previous federal government in Australia introduced something along these lines: a carbon tax designed to be revenue-neutral. Compensation for lower income earners was worked i…

You state things with conviction but no evidence. There is a big difference between the brain and therefore needs of a 4-5 year old and a 0-3 year old. I'm not sure why you assume …

It's not quite so simple. Many non-essential things are cheap (e.g. iOS games), and many essential things are expensive (e.g. housing, transport). The line between essential and lu…

Nice straw man. I didn't even mention luxury tax, let alone promote it.

Certainly there are ways to mitigate the effect, I was just pointing out that the universality of a sales tax isn't all positive.

I took away something completely different. The OP gives herself permission to fail not because she doesn't want to put in the effort, or has any less desire to succeed. The point …

I don't think the GP was claiming it was more challenging. The point is making the tax flat doesn't help solve this key problem, so all you get is a less progressive system overall…

That's the problem, too -- it applies equally to necessities and luxuries. Sales taxes are regressive because there is a certain amount of non-discretionary spending everyone has t…

But they were bootstrapped and very profitable for several years before taking any funding.

It takes less time to make 7 (or 3, or 12) perfect boiled eggs in a saucepan, it's trivial to do and to clean! I note your cooker also poaches eggs, though, which is much trickier …

I have a daughter approaching 18mo, so not that far ahead of you. Some thoughts: * This is both more work and more fun than you can imagine :). * Don't dumb things down too much. I…

Many of these points are spot on. Thankfully 8 seems to have turned around for now; with such a small local market most tech companies are exporters and this has been crippling for…

Unfortunately the investment culture in Australia is a lot more risk averse. There are exceptions, but raising money for new tech here is much harder than it should be given the re…

People making the argument that the pods are expensive are comparing them to the price of coffee per kilo. This totally misses the point by overlooking why people use pods: conveni…

The business model is well-worn, just adapted to coffee. People are paying for the convenience. It's clear this isn't the cheapest way to make coffee at home, unless of course you …

This is really interesting to me as I've just been solving the same ingredient parsing problem in my iOS app (Zest Recipe Manager) to implement smart shopping lists. Although I was…

The JetBrains suite of IDEs, all built on the same platform, support these and much more (Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, ...). With the exception of AppCode (for iOS) you can also get …

That's what the I in IDE means: Integrated!

Your argument now amounts to "there will always be issues", which is correct but not useful. What matters is what those issues are, how important, and how severe at each point on t…