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by Affric 3y ago
Right, but like the article says, in Poland westernisation was set as a return to Europe. “Europe” has for centuries defined itself against Russia. The last time Russia looked to the west, rather than inwards, they got shock therapy. Beyond
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by Affric 3y ago
Russia has demographic problems. They still have fewer citizens than in 1989. Russia’s economy was thoroughly fucked by the collapse of the USSR. Putin’s campaigns in Ukraine have been barbaric and I don’t pretend to understand the logic bu
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by Affric 3y ago
I am sorry but Ireland, Kenya, the Malayan emergency, the Indian mutiny, the Vietnam war, Portugal’s wars, Algeria, Suez, Spain from 1820s+… I would not call any of that quiet. And Suez was definitely an invasion. Hell, US hegemony was chal
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by Affric 3y ago
Part of the problem with batteries (apart from the tech) is that Australia has retreated from trying to get people to pay for their power and are resorting back to subsidy and cross subsidy for political reasons. Whether or not it’s a good
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by Affric 3y ago
That doesn’t provide an answer to the comparative question. The level of bureaucracy in Australia would make most Americans think it a dystopia.
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by Affric 3y ago
> We'll pay ourselves by mining monero A policy which incentivises turning excess solar energy into one step above pure heat. Classic.
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by Affric 3y ago
In Brazil? In Australia ROI for solar is 3-5 years. Why do you think the discrepancy? Aircon? Grid prices?
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by Affric 3y ago
I am a Linux user but am interested in the architectural decisions you have made. I use doas and I know there are other alternatives. When coming up with your sudo what were your inspirations and what does sudo do that you decided you wante
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by Affric 3y ago
> it will limit what you can do in all sorts of ways You are literally adding N + 1 complexity to the universe. There is a whole world of possibility opened through having children. What you see as reduced options is actually a series of
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by Affric 3y ago
“People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people Jeremy.” The popularity of SUVs is driven by a whole variety of factors. Eventually some of those factors will start to weaken. One of the factors is that many of the cos
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by Affric 3y ago
Life is what any of us make it. The antinatalist position is fundamentally fatalistic. It’s a total negation of the one redeeming feature of the universe: anything could happen. I respect not having kids. The idea that you’re inherently bet
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by Affric 3y ago
You complain about people being friendly. You complain about having to actually learn a language. It sounds like your phone is preventing you from the very normal human interactions that made society pleasant. There’s no amount of asserting
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s 3 years old at this point. Can curl use hyper as a backend yet?
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by Affric 3y ago
Still looking for one like the Sun.
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by Affric 3y ago
Have you lived in countries without compulsory voting? Have you worked in electoral politics? Would the population be more engaged without compulsory voting? Different countries do not amount to controlled experiments. Brasil, North Korea,
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by Affric 3y ago
Unless you have an electorate wide multi-member electorate (not as common as proportional systems rare) you will require geographic electoral boundaries to be drawn. The UK’s AV referendum was not for proportional representation but instan
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by Affric 3y ago
Rates of informal voting of 5.1 % in the house of reps and 3.4 % in the senate nationally at the most recent federal election put paid to that comment. With all due respect, I find it hard to believe anyone with any knowledge of Australian
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by Affric 3y ago
No, it's not. Compulsory voting drives engagement. Representative democracy saves the public from themselves. The vast majority of people vote for who they trust.
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by Affric 3y ago
Compulsory voting is an option.
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by Affric 3y ago
iTerm is the software I miss most from Mac. Is not the fastest terminal emulator but it’s the best looking by miles.
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by Affric 3y ago
In Australia this was the case for our incentive rates for early adopters but their windows were all quite small and they started to wind up. They helped hugely with bringing the cost of installation down and also creating a positive attitu
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by Affric 3y ago
Bingo. Give me a guarantee for money back no questions asked. (I might not read it, I might think it’s bullshit) then perhaps I will consider parting with money.
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by Affric 3y ago
I think this is pretty measured. A whole bunch of tech guys fundamentally don’t understand how naïve many users are and how hostile the environment is. What we need is a fundamentally different model for device security in our users. Their
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by Affric 3y ago
They mean Linux. Linux support is on there. Mac uses a very different graphic stack.
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by Affric 3y ago
Yep. Navigable by canoe leaves Australia with about 50 km of two rivers in Gippsland to be navigable. It shows the Hunter and the Nepean as a single system. Connectivity between ephemeral waterways which are joined by ephemeral lakes is poo
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by Affric 3y ago
I found Dyson vacuum cleaners to be harder to get into than an iPhone. Awful plastic that you need to be very careful with.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s all pedantry until you are writing software for a 1970s nuclear power plant. /s
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by Affric 3y ago
How do you mean?
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by Affric 3y ago
Great article. Not so sure about the usefulness of these devices without having a battery though.
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by Affric 3y ago
Krebs is great but there is one thing that's killing me: > "hacked" Where is any of the evidence of hacking? I see inadequate protections against fraud from the sellers. I see an account that has been compromised. I don&#x

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