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by cam_l 7y ago
Yes, it is a good example of misinformation. Firstly, by the NSW police for conflating the severity of the current bushfires with the people they have arrested for arson - even though they have pointed to no-one being arrested for starting
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by cam_l 7y ago
This article enumerates the numbers of deaths expected from increased particulates at a local scale at least. https://insidestory.org.au/slow-burn/
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by cam_l 7y ago
The projected rise in funding was cut, and then largely reinstated. There are also some other complications around funding which allows both sides to claim it was/wasn't cut do to firefighter entitlements. But broadly, there was n
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by cam_l 7y ago
Great example of the kind of misinformation this article is talking about. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/08/polic... edit: and you missed (as did everyone else reporting on this) th
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by cam_l 7y ago
Like this?[0] (Valve had a prequel for portal planned before portal 2 with a very similar idea) Edit: but not nearly as cool as this demo. [0] https://thenerdstash.com/an-inside-look-at-valves-abandoned-...
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by cam_l 7y ago
...Australia? We have cane toads. Lots of cane toads. We used to have cane toad drives when I was a kid to stop the spread south. We would fill up wheelie bins full of them and freeze them. Must people just used cricket bats. In the end we
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by cam_l 7y ago
Murdoch newspapers in question.. caught not actually covering the fires. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/04/the-australian...
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by cam_l 7y ago
8 Million? Found three in the news Orica, Penrice Soda and Clives Nickel. I remembered hearing about a few in the news at the time and went looking for it. Not sure if Orica is the one you meant. But if it is, the links really do tell a sto
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by cam_l 7y ago
The refusal to use back burning / fuel reduction has been fairly widely reported and also very thoroughly refuted. But if all you read is country newspapers or the Australian (or worse) you may be forgiven for thinking those damn green
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by cam_l 7y ago
> to me the if is perfect Sometimes i think autocorrect has a sense of humour.
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by cam_l 7y ago
Australia does not require voter id, has compulsory voting, paper ballots, postal voting, weekend voting, very low levels of voter fraud.. and right wing parties still win elections. The republicans shouldn't be so worried.
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by cam_l 7y ago
>people like myself who prefer GPS when traveling to always keep the map pointed north Argh, google maps appears to have pushed an update which seems to remove the ability to use directions in this mode. The driving mode to me is absolut
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by cam_l 7y ago
>parents worrying too much about unknown forces corrupting their kids. That is a pretty good definition of puritanism..
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by cam_l 7y ago
The thing that really impressed me in Amsterdam was how freaking polite the drivers were to both pedestrians and cyclists. ..coming from a city where cars will speed up if they see you crossing the road, and regularly muscle bikes into the
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by cam_l 7y ago
Take another look at the amount of greenfield and brownfield land inside the metro zones, or the actual occupation rates of housing. Australian cities are not land constrained within their boundaries. (The lack of development of regional
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by cam_l 7y ago
It may not be a construction problem, but it is also not primarily a housing policy problem. I see this argument time and again. But mostly this is just not the issue. In most places in the world housing supply far outstrips demand. I say t
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by cam_l 7y ago
Indeed. Hacker News, Hubris Views.
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by cam_l 7y ago
Percentages, not absolutes. Most of your list could equally be phrased as, highest number of people living... Not to mention deliberately missing the greater point.. Very much the apocryphal story of the peak time to be alive for the thanks
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by cam_l 7y ago
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/21/edward-snowden-permanent...
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by cam_l 7y ago
Was thinking about why privacy is important, reading the Snowden post on HN this morning. And it stupidly occurred to me, the privacy is only important insomuch as it is related to power. I say stupidly, because it is such an obvious thing,
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by cam_l 7y ago
Well, i don't know, but i don't think it's possible to believe in spiritual energy without thinking it can be located in a physical object. I mean, what would be the point of it, if it could not interact with the world. And i
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by cam_l 7y ago
>about 5% to 10% of our parliament is the Green Party Was curious about this. It represents about 6-12% of the vote. Australian green party regularly gets 10-15% of the vote but only ends up with one seat in parliament. Whereas the entir
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by cam_l 7y ago
But really, as long as everyone believes in MAD, there is really no reason to carry it out. Engineers working on these systems could quite reasonably, and in good faith, install break points and avoid meaningless loss of life. Then the only
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by cam_l 7y ago
Well, there are painting apps like Krita or Rebelle. But my favourite watercolour app in terms of realism for water flow, damping, brush behaviour etc is Expressi. It is quite awesome, though quirky. http://www.expresii.com/
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by cam_l 7y ago
We are currently having some parliamentary inquiries in Australia to start a nuclear program. I have always been against talk of nuclear on two main grounds [0,1] (but against decommissioning existing plants). However a local economist has
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by cam_l 7y ago
Sorry, can't find the original article at the moment, but here is a wiki link about the royal spy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt
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by cam_l 7y ago
Your little game theory puzzle actually just goes to show that 'intelligence' is mostly FUD. There was a great article posted the other day on HN suggesting that MI5 had not, in it's entire history during the cold war, uneart
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by cam_l 7y ago
As i posted in other comment, the high spot process are entirely manufactured. The reason for the 14k spot price is because that is the cap. The energy suppliers have been gaming the market. Restricting demand for short periods in order to
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by cam_l 7y ago
From the article you linked: >Generators were “gaming” the system: using their power in concentrated markets to create artificial scarcity of supply and so force prices up. It is not so much physics and math (which of course do not apply
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by cam_l 7y ago
It's a thin line.

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