I think freelancing equips you with other skills (knowledge of the Big Three financial statements, ability to work independently, relevant laws, how to value a company etc) that will prove beneficial when it comes time to start a company.
Double-edged sword. On the one hand, I'm only going to marry a virgin now. On the other hand, there might already be kids walking around out there who resemble me.
More seriously, I love research like this that challenges existing understanding. Of course, if it holds true for humans this certainly opens up a Pandora's Box of sorts (which is what I was aiming for in the above comment).
> On the other side of the ledger, Mr Irvine admitted that the debate about civil liberties and intelligence gathering was a valid one to have.
> "I believe however that the vast majority of Australians expect their governments to take all necessary actions to protect their community and further the national interest," he said.
> He said ASIO has no plans for a "grand expansion" of its spy network but said it would need to lift recruitment to meet the demands or cyber terrorism as well as traditional forms of terror.
Agreed. The only thing that will get me personally to switch browser at this stage is more security/privacy. But I'm not everyone - I have plenty of friends who are fine with spraying their lives all over the webs. Have forwarded your link.
> I think there ought to be a moratorium on passing any new laws until there is not any current terrorism scare, it is exactly not the time to be making rash judgements about what laws we need.
Agreed. I think it's hard to orchestrate two police officers getting stabbed (one in the head), but I disagree with the knee-jerk erosion of freedoms, as well as Australia's entry into the Middle East.
The Western world put their foot down when Obama tried to enter Syria several months ago and it gave me a glimmer of hope for the future. The events of the last week have done nothing but disappoint. Why are we all so quick to forget being lied to about Iraq?
What is the most effective forum for citizens to express their concern?
That's all I can think of - Bitpay/Coinbase/Gocoin partnered with PayPal because PayPal offered to acquire one or all of them.
Bitpay and Coinbase* offer only two advantages over PayPal - slightly cheaper transactions, and the ability to transact in Bitcoin. Due to the merchant account requirements of each you lose anonymous transactions, so for example Silk Road could never use one of these services. So it strikes me as extremely odd that these guys would be partnering with Paypal, basically giving away their advantage, if there wasn't something bigger in it for them down the road.
* not sure about Gocoin as I haven't looked at its merchant account offering.
