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by ajxs 7y ago
This is a good argument, except that the tram line itself is a giant white elephant for the taxpayer. I doubt I'll ever catch it, and I live in the inner city. The allegations of corruption follow from the fact that James Packer deci
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by ajxs 7y ago
Are you joking? Did you miss the fact that NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell dug his heels in and refused to sell Ausgrid infrastructure, then gets thrown out on a dubious corruption charge over a donated bottle of wine? From memory he denie
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by ajxs 7y ago
I don't feel like anyone has addressed the fact that Sydney's new tram system is an absolute joke. There's no point comparing it to Melbourne's expansive tram network, ours covers less than a tenth of the distance and pr
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by ajxs 7y ago
Here's some data here that seems to differ somewhat from what was originally posted: https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/police-officers-2014.htm I would never be an advocate for the kind of no-knock raid
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by ajxs 7y ago
It's disingenuous to ask us to accept this data alone as a reason to disregard the risks that American police face in the course of their work. Whether their job is safer today than at the height of the so-called 'crack epidemic&#
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by ajxs 7y ago
> pretend everything you say to a coworker is on a public ledger Very succinctly put. I probably could have distilled my post down to just this. If there's any one takeaway from this thread, that's it.
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by ajxs 7y ago
You're completely right. I'm glad to see that you're taking the side of the employee in instances like this. In this particular case, it wasn't me who became critically demoralised. It was another good employee who'
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by ajxs 7y ago
The friction I'm describing is what inevitably occurs when workers start openly discussing pay and realise that some among them are paid much more than others. I've seen it happen multiple times in different workplaces. Some longe
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by ajxs 7y ago
It sounds like I'm being very petty bringing these kinds of thing up, but I'll go into a bit more detail. This particular employee was extremely critical of fellow employees at his own level, and would make extremely overt attempt
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by ajxs 7y ago
I learned the hard way to not underestimate how competitive and treacherous some people can be in the workplace. I was a long-term contractor in a large company and had an incident where I confided to another employee about some issues I wa
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I can't be the only person who finds these kinds of so-called 'fact check' sites more sinister than the so-called biased media they're trying to spotlight.
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Of course we should question our political beliefs, I would never advocate for anything else. I like to employ a rhetorical device against myself sometimes to question my more hard-line stances: I ask myself "What evidence would convin
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by ajxs 7y ago
Thank you, that's very interesting to know. I had guessed that there wasn't much, based upon its vintage, but I'd have thought that it must be very robust at some level to have dominated a mission-critical financial niche for
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by ajxs 7y ago
Be that as it may, none of this is a good justification for moving further towards oligarchy or totalitarianism. There has been much talk about how support of big-tech censorship is skewing left, which I consider to be quite ironic since I
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by ajxs 7y ago
There was one in particular post I was referring to, it looks like someone has vouched for it since my noting it. Thanks for pointing that out, I was unaware. I'm not sure I have the rep necessary however.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm a bit young to have had any contact with COBOL, but I've worked in financial institutions implementing mission-critical code handling customer transactions in other languages. The first thing that springs to mind to ask is, wh
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by ajxs 7y ago
Remittances are a contentious issue. I'm a little ignorant of to what degree governing bodies will have oversight of the movement of money. Is allowing for more unregulated monetary trade a bug or a feature of this system?
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by ajxs 7y ago
There are some very interesting posts being flagged and killed in this thread that I feel raise some very valid points. My chief contention with allowing Facebook and ilk the ability to expand their influence and authority is that the motiv
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by ajxs 7y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely an advocate for statically typed languages. Most of the work I'm doing with bash scripts involves command invocation, piping, and filesystem I/O. Which are things that I've never
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by ajxs 7y ago
Very cool list! Maybe Ragel deserves a mention: http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
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by ajxs 7y ago
Many of the comments in this thread seem to be sucked into a false dichotomy. There are better options than _either_ Rust or Bash for writing complicated shell scripts. Perl/Python are more suited to the task than either. The challenge
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by ajxs 7y ago
A fair person would consider that the political leverage possessed by companies like Facebook or Twitter to be an issue irrespective of what political party they supported. Surely the fact that multinational corporations such as these are a
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm a little speechless that so many people seem to think that this decision will empower the owners of these lots more so than investors. It takes a significant capital investment to convert a single dwelling into a duplex. At the ver
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by ajxs 7y ago
Low level system development is very common in the embedded systems domain! There's always been a large corpus of development done on embedded systems in Ada, and there's quite a bit of interest lately in low-level development in
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by ajxs 7y ago
Absolutely agree. After I began learning Ada, I could never look at C the same way again. It's an incredibly fluid and intuitive language that shines in the areas that C has dominated, without any of the pitfalls that make serious deve
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by ajxs 7y ago
Yes, you're completely right. Sydney has some severe problems in this area that there's no incentive for regulators to resolve. I can't comment on S.F, however.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Disclosure: I don't live in Portland. I live in Sydney, which has a much higher population and much higher real estate prices. The population density is hard to compare, since Sydney has a very large and sprawling metropolitan area of
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by ajxs 7y ago
Surely this has 'class-action lawsuit' written all over it. I can't speak with any authority regarding US law, but surely there are grounds for legal action being taken against GrubHub.
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by ajxs 7y ago
> So basically you want US companies and economy to be controlled by the government to the same extent that Chinas companies are? Where the government needs to approve every deal with foreign suppliers and manufacturers? I don't thi
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by ajxs 7y ago
Agreed. While I agree with OP's criticism of journalists, even as a developer with an interest in low-level programming I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough in what is ultimately an extremely niche field. I understand what all of t

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