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by ajdlinux 5y ago
And NZ is having outbreaks from hotel quarantine in the middle of major cities too, exactly like us.
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
I'm not saying the Australian rollout has been good. I'm just saying it's been better than New Zealand.
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
The impression I get as an internet observer from the West Island is that on the whole the NZ government has done a much better job of public communications, maintaining social cohesion, and not trying to police their way out of a pandemic
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
> Australia screwed up the vaccination strategy. They bought AstraZeneca and relied on a domestic vaccine that was being developed which failed in trials. New Zealand also screwed up vaccinations by not buying AstraZeneca - as evidence
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
NZ is well on the path to becoming like AU in the next few weeks - it's not at all obvious they'll manage to crush their current outbreak and won't end up like Victoria currently, and their vaccination and even testing capabi
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
If you've lived around government circles for long enough (in my case, merely existing in Canberra for a decade) you inevitably hear stories of senior public servants running through airport terminals, briefcase with classified documen
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Just to be clear - most of the countries you give as your examples aren't MMP systems, they are other proportional representation systems, and the problems you have with it are common to proportional representation systems broadly rath
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
> in Britain In Great Britain, as opposed to Northern Ireland...
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
What does it mean for a SWF to be "democratically accountable"? Given SWFs generally act like other large scale institutional investors - I suppose democratic accountability has put political pressure on some SWFs to act on ESG co
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
If 75% of the profits go to the government (and arguably, as long as the monarchy continues to exist, the other 25% covers expenses that the government would end up funding anyway), then doesn't that make the Crown Estate actually a sm
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Right to Repair – Australian Productivity Commission Draft Report [pdf](pc.gov.au)
8 points by ajdlinux 5y ago|3 comments
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
The reports you read were likely based on commentary from techies who have no understanding about law, plus a handful of lawyers involved with digital rights organisations that have an incentive to play up the significance of the legislatio
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
While they're less interested in that information than the US is, for the reason you explain, they're definitely still interested - many wealthy people who only pay tax in the country where they live still have substantial assets
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
The intergovernmental agreements signed with the US to enable FATCA reporting often also include a reciprocity clause requiring the IRS to provide information to foreign tax authorities - sections 3 and 4 of https://www.irs.gov&#
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Indeed if you have a fixed fee conveyancing deal (I'm not sure about the UK but it seems common over here) the solicitor is probably losing money just on the administration of filling out the paperwork and then billing you that 4 pound
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
When the likelihood of the risk is small, but the potential damage bill could be financially catastrophic, I think it's perfectly rational to buy insurance if the premium is so low.
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Here's a fun English type of real property right that has taken some people by surprise in recent years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel_repair_liability
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Lois Lew Mastered IBM's 1940s Chinese Typewriter(fastcompany.com)
5 points by ajdlinux 5y ago|1 comments
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Are there any other democratic countries apart from the US where posting arrest mugshots is standard police practice?
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
IBM POWER8 has 8-way SMT, and POWER9 has 4-way and 8-way models.
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Indeed, in some places (eg Nordic countries) the union movement opposes any introduction of a national minimum wage as it could potentially undercut their own role in setting the effective minimum wage - https://www.theguardian.c
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
And in the case of issues that could touch on foreign trade or investment treaties, you may have to justify your policy using certain exceptions such as "national security".
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
Indeed, or at least lobby my government to cut the oil spying whistleblowers, including the author of the said book, a bit of slack... alas these things might be a bit out of place alongside the "get more exercise" and "chang
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
I'm also not sure what "one thing I am going to take action on" means when the current book I'm reading is a history of Australian-East Timorese foreign relations. In general it sounds like a tactic for reading self-help
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by ajdlinux 5y ago
In Australia, phone directories don't generally include mobile phone numbers, and with the massive shift from landline phones to mobile phones over the past decade, this means many people are completely gone from the phone directory. I
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by ajdlinux 6y ago
Wikipedia confirms that the Dutch water boards are indeed a highly significant form of local government... > Punishments meted out by water boards were fines for misdemeanors such as emptying waste in the nearest canal; however, accordin
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by ajdlinux 6y ago
The stock price of Zoom Video Communications Inc (stock ticker ZM) spiked significantly, as you would expect given the Zoom hype due to the pandemic. However, the stock price of Zoom Technologies Inc (stock ticker ZTNO, but at the time ZOOM
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by ajdlinux 6y ago
Someone doesn't understand how parliamentary systems and caretaker governments work...
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by ajdlinux 6y ago
In Australia, the entire city of Canberra is leased from the federal government, with most blocks being on 99 year leases. The original idea was a Georgism-inspired approach to capturing land value increases through rent to help fund the ci
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by ajdlinux 6y ago
For anyone here wondering more about parking policy, I recommend Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking.

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