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This is what it became: https://volantio.com https://amadeus.com/en/airlines/products/volantio https://amadeus.com/en/blog/articles/creating-a-private-resa...

I love to think that it’s your shared love of Custard that’s kept you and your wife together all this time! I too wrote for my campus newspaper - Monash Caulfield. I didn’t intervi…

Well, Triple Z is an independent/community station, not ABC! I know that song/line well and remember mentions of Custard being “banned” by Triple Z in the band’s early days, but I …

I suspect they had him in mind right from the start and even developed the character for him. Custard/McCormack are Brisbane-based and Bluey has been produced from a Brisbane studi…

For those not aware… The voice actor for Bandit, Dave McCormack, was not previously known as an actor or voice artist, but he has been known in Australia since the early 90s as an …

They’ve cranked up the fees for renewals. New registrations of .com domains are €11 whereas renewals are €32. Some long-tail TLDs are much much more. When you have as many domains …

I felt a lump in my throat as it came to mind while I drove around today with my 4yo son in the back, thinking about how to give him a “good life”.

Indeed, though HN didn't use a database when it was first built. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515628

Good on you for being willing to try improving. HN doesn’t really distinguish between “punching down” and “punching up”, and prefers to avoid “punching” at all. The guiding princip…

That’s not my argument at all. You’re responding to a straw man interpretation of what I wrote. I’m saying that for a country like the US, the idea that brain-draining the best fro…

I’m just saying every perceived benefit has some kind of cost or perverse consequence, eventually. Please feel free to point to a specific example of a policy that has been success…

Yes of course but when articles like this (and the general policy/assumption in the US) just blankly asserts that we can just “brain-drain” our way back to prosperity and dominance…

> This is basically an argument that China should become more like North Korea rather than the other way around. How exactly? I’m no pro-China advocate (I’m Australian and live wit…

I worry that all the replies to my comment will be claims about what percentage of the smartest and most productive people will want to move to the US in practice, thereby avoiding…

I edited that sentence to be less absolutist, but still, isn't this essentially what this article and many people are advocating? Attracting all the smartest and most productive pe…

There's an implicit assumption in the article and the comments here that "brain drain the world" is a free lunch. But does anyone think through to the end-game of that? That when y…

I just deleted it from my phone, yesterday. I haven't actively used it in I don't know how many years; maybe briefly last year when traveling o/s and needing to make a landline cal…

Yeah it’s not a great explanation. To me (and I’m of the era they’re describing so I used it a lot) it’s simply that _blank is a reserved keyword that means open the link in a new,…

Consider Melbourne if you prefer Northern CA climate and, well, other differences.

It's not "castigating" or criticising potential users. It's advising founders not to waste resources attracting large numbers of visitors who are unlikely to be potential users, an…

"...once it is updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System".