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by aussiegreenie 1y ago
Knighthoods can be hereditary titles. A Baronet is "Sir" and it passes through the eldest son of a Baronet. It is one of the lowest ranks in the Peerage.
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by aussiegreenie 1y ago
Ah, yes, the $1,000,000 AI slide deck. NOW WITH MORE BANALITY.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
No, Teslas are hard to repair. The insurance rates were always higher than similar ICE vehicles. Any extra problems are marginal.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
I find the entire wasted resources thing silly. For $1 Trillion you could give every person on Earth clean water. The world will spend more than that trying to improve the AI models this year.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
>Uhh they don’t last forever. So yeah. They can be controlled like oil if you are unable to make or source replacements. I do not want to resort to Reddit-level insults but you are so misguided to imply you are trolling. 1) The Australi
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
I was reading Reddit and saw a link to hardware.slashdot.org. I learnt that slashdot still existed. And with the relaunch of Digg, I thought I was having a flashback to 1999.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
In Australia, "Blue Collar" jobs are paid extremely high. A normal tradesperson (builders, electricians, plumbers, etc.) earns $125,000 pa, and specialist commercial construction people may earn over $300,000. Even a retired perso
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
Russia can not dominate * ANYTHING* . Its economy is about the size of Australia's despite having nearly four times the population. Its much-vaunted military could not defeat a minnow like Ukraine. Yes, Russia has nuclear weapons but
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
A better headline is the UK is being wasted. It ignores its strengths and uses its weaknesses.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
Europe has * MUCH* higher standards for freedom than America. Europe has privacy and America does not.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
BYD has just cut the prices of * ALL* of its cars by about $9000 per car in Australia. The cheapest car the Dolphin is about USD 19,000.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
All the California is doomed rubbish was always rubbish. Texas probably has stopped growing and if people calculated their tax rates no one would move to Texas.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
The vast majority of "Chinese spies" report on other Chinese. It resembles how the DDR had 1 in 6 people as an informer.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
>being the largest economy, having a vast single market America is NOT the largest market the EU is MUCH BIGGER. And it is not "America" that commercialises technology, but a small portion of California called The Valley.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
A Trillion-dollar company is not a startup. The company is over 30 years old.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
The Gap Year is a year-long deferral from university or college. Sometimes, it occurs directly after finishing High School, and other times, it occurs in the middle of your course. Many countries allow young people (under 30) to live and wo
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
The EU IS the world's "Regulatory Superpower" as all large American companies have discovered.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
It's the classic "Innovator's Dilemma," but as most of Adobe's clients are graphic professionals, they should make gradual changes and leave others with the bleeding edge. Workflow improvements are what most users w
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
I did not know Madoff did Science....
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
Who is old enough to remember when a Billion dollars meant something?
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
Vietnam is the cheapest country to live in Asia. Da Nang is the most affordable "world-class" beach in the world. WFH should be about beaches or mountains or museums depending on your taste. There are few advantages to living in
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
Australia has the "Cult of the Tradies" (builders/plumbers etc). The starting salary of a qualified builder is AUD 125,000 (USD 83,000) and most earn much higher than that. If working in mining even non-skilled labourers are
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
>Aiming to come online in 2030. That is a funny way to type 2080....
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
The BJP (India) uses the same strategies as the Chinese Communist Party. I love both India and China but I self-censor when talking about either because I do not want to be targeted by the "$0.50 army" (CCP) or the BJP IT cells.
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
VCs or Record companies missing "Superstars" is as common as mud. Here is a fun article showing everyone makes errors. https://medium.com/mba-chronicles/the-vc-antiportfolio-top-m...
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
>Are there companies that are making better electric cars than Tesla? Yes, almost every large Chinese EV company has better cars than Tesla. Telsla's technology was the best many years ago but now it is years behind most other compa
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
It is the same as female CEOs. They have a higher ROI and better stats for companies overall. I think it is so much harder for a woman to become a senior anything, the better people self-select. In risk management is it easier to avoid wip
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by aussiegreenie 2y ago
And America spends more than anyone on disinformation just as it spends more on "Defense" than anyone else.
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by aussiegreenie 3y ago
In Australia, the "Traffic Control person" (aka Lollipop person) earns AUD 125K (USD 79K) and even without any qualifications doing home maintenance such as painting, replacing washers on leaking taps, or assembling Ikea furniture
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by aussiegreenie 3y ago
>In this case with Elon Musk's payment from Tesla, it was reasonable at the time ot was agreed to. What rubbish...It was * NEVER* reasonable. It is a public company, DIRECTORS RUN THE COMPANY ON BEHALF OF ALL SHAREHOLDERS! What is

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