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by aplummer 9y ago
It wasn't though. The rollout follows political seats exactly to the street. In Brisbane this means that it followed the border of marginal ALP seats that cross the river and back again instead of doing adjacent houses. It's also
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by aplummer 9y ago
This is a great summary, and a large number of people I know are doing exactly this. Using 4g since the 4g network in major cities on Telstra is extremely fast, and fits their lifestyle (really just using phones at home, or a hotspot in a p
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by aplummer 9y ago
This is an extremely biased and misleading take on the situation. Look at premises passed when the LNP came into power. https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-ro... Total activated in
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by aplummer 9y ago
I disagree about the original plan being preferable. The original NBN plan was a pipe dream in terms of cost feasibility, the rollout was aligned electoral boundaries, and the country first mentality means you get 12 megabit per second ADSL
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by aplummer 9y ago
We all thought Malcolm Turnbull was supposed to be exactly what you are describing.
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At a Steel Plant, Layoffs and a Request: Train Your Replacement(nytimes.com)
4 points by aplummer 9y ago|2 comments
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IGN acquires Humble Bundle(pcgamer.com)
2 points by aplummer 9y ago|0 comments
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by aplummer 9y ago
Like anything it has it's pros and cons. For some thing it's the best IDE out there and for others not so great. Xcode 9's speed improvements to the editor are fantastic, but stability has been an issue for me at least.
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by aplummer 9y ago
I think a Mac would work too, but that relies on trusting individuals.
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North Korea hacked allied war plans, Seoul lawmaker says(ft.com)
2 points by aplummer 9y ago|0 comments
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by aplummer 9y ago
I think a lot of these comments are directed at Xcode and tooling, not Swift specifically. This is unfortunately just the trend with where we are at with new desktop mac software, hopefully High Sierra's focus on improvements over feat
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by aplummer 9y ago
Not just Americans, Australians too.
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by aplummer 9y ago
I was so sure it was british racing green!
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by aplummer 9y ago
> The 0.2% of people that do might actually be really good [2] but these consultancies don't tend to put their employees on improving the internal state of affairs. I think your percentages are off (over ~60% of the firm's reve
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by aplummer 9y ago
The privacy is great but they also really know how to sell it. The picture of the child at the top wasn't chosen at random.
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by aplummer 9y ago
My old school used grey water for sprinkler systemss It was like 99% clean but not “drinkable”. Big red signs everywhere, seems fine. I would think golf courses must do something similar but don’t know
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by aplummer 9y ago
Basically they are saying tax water nestle uses and use the money to improve water access elsewhere.
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by aplummer 9y ago
Interesting how this works once you go back to currency. This extortion money being "legally" worthless, being the proceeds of crime. (Illegally obviously worth the picture on the front.)
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by aplummer 9y ago
I think you're right in this case. The ransomware authors functioning similarly to the state. If i couldn't access my computer I would have to buy bitcoins with my other assets.
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by aplummer 9y ago
I agree with what you are saying to an extent (it is just paper), however at a minimum the value of government backed money could possibly be expressed by the mobilisation of resources a government would rally to give it value. Lets say eve
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by aplummer 9y ago
I think it is interesting, particularly how GDP changes and quality of life indexes don't reflect things like this. Our quality of life in the first world changes for the better somewhat, but we had 150 trillion dollar equivalent devic
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by aplummer 9y ago
I was mortified reading this part. As well, telling people rescue is soon when you don't know (or know it isn't) can be disastrous.
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by aplummer 9y ago
Yep, changing government department colours in my case. About 6 departments wanted the same components and each had small themeing changes, really just colour and font.
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by aplummer 9y ago
Interesting they see the pattern as going -> one pilot -> full automation. I would prefer to go from 2 pilots to no pilots if it happened. I don't like a single person being in complete control over the aircraft due to mental hea
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by aplummer 9y ago
Wow down-voted again on this post for pointing out two simple facts about the rally. It would be great to get a comment from the anon on here about what was so wrong.
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by aplummer 9y ago
I'm not surprised about the downvotes, I would point out they had nazi flags and yelled a known nazi slogan as a group.
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by aplummer 9y ago
I find the free speech thing to be unappealing in the anything goes case. Like what if you trace an anti-vaxxer website causally to enough dead children. What if it's not even the person visiting the site's children. Should your c
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Show HN: Resolve – Buy and sell insolvent and distressed companies(resolve.expert)
1 points by aplummer 9y ago|0 comments
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by aplummer 9y ago
Hey, I'm using Vapor (in production). It's really great to work with and moving fast - feels like the early days of rails. There's a real technical advantage to having the brevity of swift (like ruby) but with the type checki
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by aplummer 9y ago
I think most people just use a string extension to allow str.substring(with: 7..<11) or something similar.

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