EarthMephit

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by EarthMephit 3y ago
I'd be happy with a self driving car that could just safely stay in a single lane on a freeway for an hour in good weather while I did something else.
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by EarthMephit 4y ago
Its just that you moved from an environment where you knew the product back to front and how everything fit together really well to a new environment that you understood less. I work on two microservice cloud systems at the moment: the firs
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by EarthMephit 4y ago
You don't want HikVision cameras - Unreliable junk. There's a reason that they are so cheap.
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by EarthMephit 4y ago
> None of these are applicable: In any megapolis that people flock to, property prices skyrocket In New York City the price-to-income-ratio is still under 10. Chinese cities are severely overpriced.
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by EarthMephit 4y ago
In Vancouver, a western property market generally considered as overheated and overpriced, the house price to income ratio is 7.8 In China's major cities, the price-to-income-ratio is around 40 or 50. These are figures considered incon
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by EarthMephit 4y ago
Interestingly the RDP client on the mac app store is really good. Its better than the Windows client because it just works as another desktop in the Mac OS, with no bar at the top, and you can jump in to and out of various remote session qu
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by EarthMephit 4y ago
One of the points that the article brings up is that a nuclear power plant takes around ten years to build, and that's ignoring the political red tape that you mentioned which would add on another 5+ years, plus the huge upfront capex
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by EarthMephit 5y ago
Yes, they developed the first WLAN chip. Their Wifi patent alone brought in $430 million dollars: https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/tools-resources/case-studies/...
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by EarthMephit 6y ago
Doesn't that article that you're commenting on address this? The study found that the people on the UBI payments we're more likely to be employed than the reference group - Its clearly wildly incorrect to say that there'
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by EarthMephit 6y ago
We recently had a successful voluntary postal ballot on gay marriage here in Australia No reports of fraud that I know of - A handful of people trying to steal ballots, but they were just invalidated and sent out again
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by EarthMephit 6y ago
From the linked post he makes a direct comparison to facebook, and its pretty daming for TikTok: "For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the
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by EarthMephit 6y ago
Battery prices are also dropping, although as not as fast as solar, but its at the point where in some regions solar + battery is cheaper than coal Modern Gas turbines can also act as a good backup for solar in times where there is unusual
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by EarthMephit 6y ago
I don't understand - Why the choice? Solar + battery backup is currently cheaper than coal, and seems to be continuing its pattern of halving in price around every seven to ten years It doesn't make economic sense to build coal po
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
There's been some very noticable changes to the climate along the east coast of Australia (where the fires are). Along the east coast the El Nino/La Nina cyles are becoming much, much more pronounced. Droughts are longer and more
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
We've seen around a 75% drop in insect population, and its continuing to drop at around 2.5% per year. They are some pretty scary figures https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/why-insec...
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
You are not allowed to copy it, or sell copies of it Under fair-use laws (which vary country to country), you can usually copy a small portion of the work for non-profit educational use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fai
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but it feels like an abuse of monopoly power (Antitrust laws) Google sounds like they are using their control of the Android store to prevent an application being published that competes with their Google Maps Mobile
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
New Zealand, all the Nordic countries, many western democracies all provide very good examples of good government without jailing people who speak up against their rulers and without strict censorship laws They are all really nice countries
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
Don't US cities already have laws around this? In Australia I can't just stick a giant billboard in front of my house or shop without local government permission Any signs need to be in keeping with the existing streetscape and us
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
The good thing about natural gas plants is that they complement renewables well They can start up in around a minute to provide base-load at times when renewables are not able to provide enough energy
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
Its in the article: Its been digitally altered to give the impression she is slurring her words
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by EarthMephit 7y ago
Sweden's tax disclosure laws keep a record of who requested this information, which is a good solution for your concerns Not to mention that there are many other already public & private records that already can provide information
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by EarthMephit 8y ago
The argument for "Ballot Simplicity" is misleading too They seem to have tried to intentionally tried to create a much more complicated ballot paper for IRV Here's a sample of an Australian IRV voting form: https:/&#x2F
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by EarthMephit 8y ago
I agree completely In fact I could be that other engineer (I'm not, but I'm in a very similar sounding situation) I was the most senior engineer and first to join a new startup with a bunch of colleagues from an old work place. I
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by EarthMephit 8y ago
You could make the same argument about Visual Basic 6 vs VB.NET Why was VB.Net & .Net needed at all? Why didn't Microsoft just continue development on Visual Basic 7 & incorporate some of the VB.Net features into it? Personally
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by EarthMephit 8y ago
399 USD is 340 Euros, so that's only a 10 Euro price difference I'd easily pay 10 Euros extra over an iPad for a fully functional computer - Seems like an easy choice
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by EarthMephit 9y ago
Here in Australia there are plenty of builders that will openly offer you quotes and then take off the 10% GST/sales tax if you pay in all cash The builders benefit because they then wont pay any income tax on the job
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by EarthMephit 9y ago
Smaller resturants prefer cash, because it allows them to evade taxes by underquoting their profits. The same reason that builders quote less for "cash only" prices This is one of the main reasons that governments are pushing for
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by EarthMephit 9y ago
You are not as anonymous as you think when you are online - An IP address can easily identify a particular office in a government building There are many, many cases where a journalist has tracked down specific wikipedia edits to a particul
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by EarthMephit 9y ago
Please read the article properly before commenting - It helps you to stop jumping to wild, crazy conclusions It wasn't the DailyBeast conducting the investigation, they are just reporting on it

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