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No crocs in southwest Australia. There are many poisonous snakes but they're really not a worry - more scared of you than you are of them. Wear boots and long socks if you're conce…

Was the stake enough to never work again (if you chose)? If so, how do you conceive of the rest of your life?

This is a very sad perspective. You have thousands of years of art, history, media, culture to dive into. There are more hobbies out there than you could ever even attempt in your …

It's better to think of Dwarf Fortress as a simulation project rather than a game. The developers have stated that improving the quality and depth of the simulation comes before ma…

I was there a few weeks ago. The soldiers are still there, in patrols and along roads, but they don't bother tourists. Electricity is pretty solid, cuts are common but long outages…

I'm in Melbourne right now but I'd love to move over the strait to Hobart. Do you have a remote job? The only thing stopping me is not being able to find work there - of the many t…

KL is also polluted and very dirty. I couldn't recommend it to someone used to clean air and clean streets.

I'm a software engineer currently taking a break from regular work to travel the world for a year or so (no real time constraint other than not wanting my career to die). I was thi…

Your tax calculation is low I think - looks like $250k would put you in the 33% band, let alone any other regional tax calculations. $60k/year spending for the rest of your life is…

What number would you place on the threat that Iraq posed to the United States? Would it be more or less than $1.1t?

If you read the sentence just before it, 2% of GDP is the growth target: "[...] the Defence budget growing to two per cent of GDP by 2020–21". The $36b number is the target value i…

Most online discussion sites (reddit and HN, for example) focus overwhelmingly on US politics. This is significantly less relevant for the billion-odd people who use the English la…

The grouping of "leftists" as a singular group doesn't make sense. The economically left person might say that work visa programs are just ways for capital to cheapen labour by exp…

Custom map technically, although the WC3 map editor let you write custom code so the line is kind of blurry.

Depends on where you live. Uber has a per-minute rate in some places.

How bad is the language barrier? I know most Swedes speak English (in my experience, excellent english), but is Swedish the language of business? I obviously don't speak a word of …

So, Google's list so far: - Some top ML talent: Geoffrey Hinton, Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig, Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng. - One of D-Wave's quantum computers to establish their 'Quantu…

Not more important, more profitable. DeepMind is an investment, SnapChat is a revenue raiser. And a big ball of users to foist G+ on.