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by NamTaf 7y ago
It's also worth highlighting that the universities here have become so reliant on that money that they were paying students up to AUD$7500 in some cases [1] to not drop out of the academic semester, by either remote study or flying and
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by NamTaf 7y ago
3.28 million? Really? With the lockdowns of retail, hospitality, etc. in Australia, a country of 25 million total, we've seen nearly something north of 800,000 unemployed (temporarily or permanently). This can't be an accurate fig
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Absolutely agree with everything you've said. I had dreamed of a Libib[1] for my kitchen, but knew I would have to do all the painful data adding and it was too much of a bother. The other big challenge I never resolved was how you&#x2
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Means-testing it isn't necessarily that difficult. When Australia implemented the same idea during the GFC, it was paid out on a scale up to ~$130k based on the previous year's income tax report. Whilst not perfect, I'd be wi
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by NamTaf 7y ago
A loan may not encourage spending in the same way free, no-strings-attached money does. For example, if you're poor and struggling pay-to-pay, would you like the idea of borrowing knowing that it'll bite you later on when you have
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by NamTaf 7y ago
This is hardly a UBI. It's also been done before, for example in Australia during the GFC. The idea is to get money into the hands of people who will actually spend it - the poor will tend to go buy their kid a desperately needed new p
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Countless. Here's [1] an example of the Board pursuing a company and their Professional Enigneers for an org structure that facilitated signing off of engineering work without satisfying the 'direct supervision' clause of the
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by NamTaf 7y ago
My biggest issue with wireless office mice is that if the laptop de-prioritises bluetooth interrupts due to CPU load or whatever, then you get this really laggy response. I'm not entirely sure exactly what's going on, but if I ope
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by NamTaf 7y ago
It's PoE, I guess , if you treat any concept of standards compliance with dismissive disdain to the point of intentional malice.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Orbital speed is defined by sqrt(G*M/r). If this 'following' the ISS and at a lower altitude, it will slowly travel away from it because by definition its orbital speed is slower. Let's assume it's the Cygnus as poi
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Honestly, this runs so counter to the experience that not only I but everyone I know has experienced here, that it almost sounds made-up (though I'm not accusing you of that). We use contact for everything , with the limit being (for
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Not particularly, anyone here who deals with sales for any amount of Americans will quickly see that they're the odd one out with contactless. It's not that there's heaps of different scenarios, it's that there's Am
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Reading between the lines on this, it's plainly apparent why there's been repeated attacks on encrpytion by the US government. From this, through RSA's Dual_EC_DRBG, to the present day, it's obvious that the US highly va
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by NamTaf 7y ago
We have this weird self-depreciating pride about losing the War, and like to talk it up a bit. It doesn't surprise me that a bunch of larrikans keep trying to put it back on the page. Pushing back against Wiki's uptight rules on s
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by NamTaf 7y ago
To expand on the parent's latter, said PM told kids, during the school climate strike, to stay in school and stop worrying about climate change. This is among many other statements over the course of his tenure: https://www.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
I don't really have anything besdies my biased anecdata with which to go by, but I think those who vote for the current incumbant largely don't really register climate change as a point of concern for them. It doesn't directl
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by NamTaf 7y ago
I was able to link my foreign amex to wechatpay a year or two ago. I couldn't deposit money into it, but it let me at least open a wechatpay wallet. Then I could use red envelopes from acquaintances and give them the cash equivalent. T
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by NamTaf 7y ago
As of this August just gone, SS and Wireguard were my go-to options. I also had my parents use Wireguard about 2 months ago with no issues.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
I’ve got keepass set up so that any change to the kdbx file automatically triggers a second save to my Dropbox sync folder. That way any changes on my PC auto-push out, and I can always get them from my phone. The downside is that my phone
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by NamTaf 7y ago
This is the option I was given in Australia. I don’t quite understand it (I can see arguments, I’m not sure however if they’re valid), but I’m glad not for the choice but rather that I was involved in the process. It was healing.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
It’s odd here in AU. It is opt-in, but I still (as the de facto partner) had to give final authorisation to go ahead with it. I don’t quite get it, and wish it was more respectful of the deceased. It’s worth noting though that the process o
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by NamTaf 7y ago
When my partner died (4 years ago now), this was one of the first things I got in order. The AUS organ donor registry was on the ball and actually contacted me first as soon as her death was flagged with with government (these things are ti
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Good point. They claim they need the money to further in their mission to improve the internet, but they’re throwing out the one good thing they’re well-known for doing (and I’m doing so, trashing their reputation amongst the public) in ord
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by NamTaf 7y ago
If this was supposed to reassure people then I want to meet those people as I have something to sell them. 10% per year price increases are insane! You can’t exactly just change domain names to a cheaper option either, like say insurance. Y
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by NamTaf 7y ago
For those downvoting, this comment does have a nugget of truth: it holds if the materials are equivalent . Curved surfaces are a lot stiffer and deform less easily than flat surfaces because they have some out-of-plane depth to their overa
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by NamTaf 7y ago
I mean I don't have proof positive that it doesn't meet those requirements, but if it doesn't do so then yes, at least here in AU if it doesn't meet those requirements then you simply cannot register them and therefore t
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Those are not made out of this apparently super-hard steel. This thing's sales pitch sounds more like a tank than a car. But yes, as sibling replies have pointed out, I was more aghast as the fact that the US does not give one iota of
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Naturally. Even here in AU, the people that buy US-sized utes tend to be in the vast minority. I'm sure it's a negligable market that they can safely ignore, it was just an interesting thing to note as an outsider.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Does it not being mainstream even matter, though? Because at least here in AU, and I believe in the EU, to even register it as roadworthy it needs to not compromise its collision protection which includes pedestrian collisions.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
That was my immediate thought. Granted, I've not watched the video as I'm at work so if it was covered then I've not seen it, but that thing looks like it has absolutely no crumple zones, and the lack of curved surfaces would

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