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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

I came across it from a post/comments on Twitter and people were proposing that a character from the book resembles one of our current Billionaires who does car, space, social media things among others.


OMG!

The Alien's have arrived!

That's a very expensive laptop!


Very expensive, poor battery life in eco mode and has a ton of bad reviews.


I thought in Australia all we had to do was open a tobacco shop, put in a self loading cash ATM and off you go.


The lesson they should have learned from Commonwealth Bank is KYC, Know Your Criminals:

  “But if they don’t understand local money laundering and terrorism financing risks, they are failing to meet” obligations around such activities in Australia. 
ComBank knew how to put a tray of ANZAC biscuits out, provide little tin MoneyBanks with a slot for the CrimJrs, and partner in FrequentFlyer points with QUANTAS.

According to the article Binance Australia seems under resourced for such things:

  Austrac also raised concerns about high staff turnover along with a lack of local resourcing and senior management oversight at the Australian unit of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume.


Has been published now on iview.

I liked his other comment about how we are used to using enery to power physical work, we now need to get used to using energy to power mental work


We've identified a problem with Sonos Radio on Sonos and are working with them on a fix. You may not be able to browse Sonos Radio menus in the Sonos app until it’s resolved.


I started as an apprentice electrician at 16 years old way back in the late 1980's for a large company. I believe the reason I was successfully offered the apprenticeship was due to bringing to the interview my completed and working LED VU meter Dick Smith electronic kit (big in Australia at the time). It was something real they could hold and look over. I remember them spending a fair amount of time looking over my soldering, cutting of component legs and wiring. Then asking a few basic electronics questions. Something real pre-internet to stand out from the crowd :-)


Very nice.

Years ago I applied to a weather centre for their data and supercomputer team. I color-printed screenshots of a game I made: a 3D Mars sim with real Mars terrain data where you built and collected data from Mars weather stations. Similar to your story I think. Super helpful to have something real in an interview instead of just a piece of paper.


Legend!!


I've used Linux for many years in my work environment but rarely at home. I recently installed Mint on a 15+ year old Dell. It is our only device with a DVD and this week my wife asked if I could rip an old home movie DVD. I googled a DVD ripper for Linux. I found Handbrake and with the Minute software manager application it installed seamlessly. I ran the software, stuck the DVD and within 30 minutes, the 2 hour movie had been saved to an mp4 file. Very impressed!!


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