Blockchains offer real advantages, but only when you do not want to have or cannot have a central location which has is used as "source of truth". In this case, the ASX better be the source of truth which makes the whole blockchain overhead pointless. Took them long enough to see.

The new technology may appeal to kids used to interacting with voice-activated digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana.

You can hear someone at Google say "Ouch!"

love my standing desk at the office. But the important part is to be able to switch as needed resp. wanted: after lunch I prefer to stand. In the afternoon I prefer to sit. When thinking, I like to stand, but for mundane tasks sitting is better. Also I learned that standing all day is really bad for my shoulder. While sitting all day is bad for my back. There's zero exercise going on here though, but that was never my point why I wanted it.

If you lie on a sheet of paper and at the end it says "I confirm that all I wrote above is best to my best knowledge", and I bet it has that on it, then anything wrong there which might be done on purpose, which is a lie by all definitions (except one currently popular one), HR will find out and simply reject you, even if you pass every future interview. Do not mess with this. Leave it empty.

Yes you can. Not exactly 24kHz. But 32kHz. Which works very well with the Owltech fan (4 pin) I have. http://www.formfactors.org/developer%5Cspecs%5C4_Wire_PWM_Spec.pdf says: 21-28kHz. When I use lower frequencies I can hear a buzzing. It worked at 500Hz just fine, with the exception of the slight but annoying noise. Running the fan at 32kHz PWM works fine. No noise, and the fan spins fast and slow as required.

I can highly recommend this: let people meet once in a while. One member from each country visiting one other office. So for 4 office locations, 4 people need to travel per year, e.g. for one week. Makes a huge difference if within some years everyone has met everyone else. We have regular video conferences including some fancy Telepresence meetings (highly recommended when face-to-face meetings are not possible due to costs). Nothing replaces personal meetings though.

I second this. Instead of working to earn money to pay someone, you can do it yourself in the first place.

Back in my home country it is (in the country side) common to let someone (AKA people who know what they are doing) build the outer part of a house (basement, cellar, walls, roof) and some other important or safety-critical parts like heating system, staircases, electric wiring (not allowed to do without proper qualification) and water pipes (you don't want them to leak in 5 years), and maybe finish enough rooms to live inside the house (kitchen, bathroom, one bedroom, living room), and then do the rest yourself.

There are enough books to read about the needed tools and skills.

The best part about this is when later something breaks, you have the tools and knowledge to fix many problems yourself.

And carpenters and related jobs are unpopular enough (no one wants to learn this type of work any more) that there is enough shortage of those people so that their hourly rates are surprisingly high and they get away with it. So it's a nice "Plan B" in case your current computer related job no longer earns you enough.