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dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Richard Attenborough dies aged 90

how sad - he handed me my degree when I graduated. A friend of mine felt his beard on stage :)

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Always Talk to Strangers

give me your pocket money ;)

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: The Great Chinese Exodus

Not in my experience with Melbourne.

Glen Waverley, Box Hill, Springvale and then the spillover. I can't get a look in. One house went for $200k over the asking price. Glen Waverley has supposedly ~25% Chinese but its a lot more in practice. There are also a lot of Indians looking in the surrounds. There aren't that many anglo people at the viewings at all.

I was talking to a mortgage broker and he said that in some cases the children were advance parties with parents money.

A lot of the estate agents are Chinese as they cater to the Chinese.

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker

I am not a number I am a free man.

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery

Wow - I never expected to find Freemasons on HN. Don't know why but i thought it was a) dying out and b)it was for old people. Well older than my 43 years of age :)

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Friendship Paradox

Its not just your intuiton the bell curve tops outs squarely in the middle of the two not with two nice peaks. I found this out looking in to Myers briggs(I think its very qustionable). People can never work out whether I am introvert or extrovert.

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Hack Your Mortgage

Is this is a US only offering? I don't want to register if it is.

Also it failed at the first hurdle for me. I don't rent or own. (I am deposit saving with in-laws)

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Making of Aprilzero

Would be nice if someone could make an arduino/pi one :) off to hackaday to have a look. $495 is a bit steep for me.

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster

This was created in response to this if I remember rightly: http://hackaday.io/project/86-Mooltipass The mooltipass is an offline password keeper. The concept behind this product is to minimize the number of ways your passwords can be compromised, while generating and storing long and complex random passwords for the different websites you use daily. It is designed to be as small as possible so it can fit in your pocket. Simply visit a website and the device will ask for confirmation to enter your credentials when you need to login.

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Knowledge engine – instant answers to any question

It cant't answer "tell me about abundant numbers" or "should I take the red or blue pill". This reminds me of askjeeves(shudder)

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Is prison contagious?

This is the takeaway for the TL;DR crowd :) ""Under this model, small increases in sentence length led to large differences in the rate of incarceration regardless of race. That means harsher sentencing policy may have the unintended consequence of increasing crime, rather than reducing it.”"

dredwerker | 11 years ago | on: Google Cardboard

I wonder if these would work http://www.aliexpress.com/item/LED-44-5mm-convex-lens-optica...

They look close. I need something in Australia.

That thing on tabao looks so geeky, I am not sure which is worse the cardboard or the plastic.:)

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: Google discloses its diversity record, and it’s not good

Not true for me. I did two majors and changed to another minor in a proper UK university not those polyversities;)

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Find and Watch TV Shows on YouTube with CouchTube.net

I searched for 'the IT Crowd' and it got something that 'the IT Crowd' guy was in and not the actual IT crowd. Looks like a good idea. I am sure I saw something like this for movies but for TV shows is an excellent idea. Keep up the good work.

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: Lessons From McDonald’s Clash With Older Koreans

Install readability in chrome then see it in a much more nicely presented manner

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: CryptoLocker's crimewave: A trail of millions in laundered Bitcoin

I am more worried about cryptolocker than the Silk Road or its derivatives.

These people must be getting the money out somehow via the visible blockchain.

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

This is how a scout leader ran drugs through an airport.

Surely terrorists/drug dealers would dress up like grandmothers if we think like this.

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: Mugshots from the 1920s are Significantly Cooler Than Mugshots from Today

The women weren't looking at their best whereas the men in the main look quite cool.

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math

I bet they invented polymath.

dredwerker | 12 years ago | on: Amazon's German Workers Strike

I know someone who it affected and they were going to buy their kindle from somewhere other than Amazon.

So I guess it does impact their brand but unfortunately sometimes there is no where else to go.