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Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for “modern sensitivities”(telegraph.co.uk)
15 points by Khaine 4y ago|29 comments
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by Khaine 4y ago
I think people are concerned that that content is not appropriate for grade school children. I think they would raise the same objections if it wasn't about a same sex couple.
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by Khaine 4y ago
According to the interwebs, here are some examples and the reason people want them banned from grade schools: Gender Queer - has images of kids performing oral sex https://theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gender
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by Khaine 4y ago
For some reason all the banks or tech companies seem to have the same morals, and as soon as one acts so do the others. so you can't just go from one bank to another. Once twitter banned trump, suddenly so did all the other tech giant
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by Khaine 4y ago
I'm less concerned about people wanting to ban sexually explicit books from children^, and more concerned about all the cultural vandals altering authors works (i.e. Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, the goosebumps series). ^ Its an entire meme
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by Khaine 4y ago
When a building company, building my house goes bust. The government doesn't step in to get someone to finish building it. When I order goods from a company and it goes bust, the government doesn't step in to ensure I get my goods
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by Khaine 4y ago
No. People don't want you to get special treatment. Your firm should have insurance to cover the deposits over 250K, or split the money across several banks. It didn't as such it should deal with the consequences. Which are it
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by Khaine 4y ago
So much for moral hazard. Capitalism is supposed to be about profit and loss, you bail out the losers, there is no end to the loss. I guess we still haven't learned the lessons from 2008. Effective regulation should have been put in p
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by Khaine 4y ago
I learned most of what I know by visiting Iran. I'm not sure what would be a good book to read about this period of history.
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by Khaine 4y ago
High level summary: The Shah tried to rapidly westernise Iran[1], and in doing so became deeply unpopular with Islamic Fundamentalists. His reforms also upset some of the Iranian 'elite' (whose land was redistributed), and his fi
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by Khaine 4y ago
I don't understand why people continue to do IAT tests. One of the core authors of the original IAT paper released a paper last year showing how the test doesn't actually measure bias, and how it is not clear what this kind of tes
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by Khaine 4y ago
Government do get into the business of keeping markets competitive. That is one of the drivers for regulation. You will note, Qantas isn't the only domestic airline in Australia. Airlines are also highly capital intensive. It costs
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by Khaine 4y ago
Qantas has announced plans to create 8500 new jobs over the next decade to grow Australia’s biggest carrier now it’s back to reporting billion-dollar profits after COVID-19 read more https://www.smh.com.au/business/comp
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by Khaine 4y ago
The author himself did not support his books being changed [1]. Even without that, changing the works is cultural vandalism. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/25/roald-dahl-thr...
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Australian Government Flags Possible Cyber Security Act(itnews.com.au)
1 points by Khaine 4y ago|0 comments
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Roald Dahl ebooks are automatically updated to censored versions, reports say(reclaimthenet.org)
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James Bond books rewritten to remove ‘offensive’ references(independent.co.uk)
24 points by Khaine 4y ago|11 comments
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by Khaine 4y ago
What's to stop the people who flee from pushing the failed policies that caused San Fran to become like this in the jurisdiction they flee to?
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by Khaine 4y ago
I didn't think I needed to provide evidence, because it is common sense driven by basic supply and demand. You want a developer, then if all or nearly all developers are employed you need to offer higher wages to them to defect to your
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by Khaine 4y ago
Common sense. Employees can import foreign labour which has the effect of putting downward pressure on wages. Hence why wage inflation has stalled since COVID restrictions have been eased. And in terms of rental market, it has been widely r
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by Khaine 4y ago
The rates you pay on your mortgage is strongly correlated with the RBA interbank rate. You are absolutely right, the government could increase the GST to reduce demand. That would be political suicide, but fiscal policy absolutely can play
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by Khaine 4y ago
That's all our media do. Journalism is dead. Also, like all central banks, he was trying to jawbone to get the results he wants without having to induce the pain of the action required. Even this week, there was talk of 3 more intere
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by Khaine 4y ago
You can see Woolworth's (one of our supermarket chains) 5 half-years worth of results here https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/au/en/investors/our-perfo... H23 H22 H21 H20 H19 911 798 1175 1024 1003 As yo
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by Khaine 4y ago
That's what markets do, they co-ordinate supply and demand. If you can't raise prices to ease demand, what do you do? That extra money they are making, is then used to invest in more planes, and crew to staff more flights to serve
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by Khaine 4y ago
Because companies are profit making entities? They are going to do what they need to, to make a profit. Which is why when inputs rise, they typically pass those costs on to consumers. You will note that Dominos share price fell by ~30% b
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by Khaine 4y ago
so lets look at this closely: Banks - banks make more money when rates are higher, as they can get a bigger spread between what they offer savers and borrows. CBA, Australia's largest bank has a net interest margin of 2.1%. This means
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by Khaine 4y ago
This is absolutely garbage, and doesn't belong on HN. From their 'analysis': "Record profits on petroleum and mining activities (reinforced by a spike in global oil and gas prices following the invasion of Ukraine) led t
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by Khaine 4y ago
This doesn't belong on HN, because its garbage analysis. From their 'analysis': "Record profits on petroleum and mining activities (reinforced by a spike in global oil and gas prices following the invasion of Ukraine) le
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by Khaine 4y ago
Immigration is keeping wages down, and continues to do so. It is also putting immense pressure on the rental market. Want to improve the lives of ordinary Australians? Reduce immigration levels.
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by Khaine 4y ago
But record profits is non-sense. Profit goes up with inflation in nominal terms, so you need to compare real terms. From the article you pointed to: 'Mr Kierath said it was important to note the companies' profits fell in the la

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