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by daemin 9y ago
Where the app is usually just a browser window with some different chrome components. Still uses the same "slow mobile web" underneath.
842.
by daemin 9y ago
Yes, but there are differences between taking hours to dry on a clothesline, taking an hour to dry in a dryer, and taking less than an hour drying in a clothesline (in the shade even).
843.
by daemin 9y ago
No, the Government of the place you are living is taking 15% of money out from your salary to pay for the services that it provides to both citizens and residents. It does not have to divide equally between the two groups.
844.
by daemin 9y ago
I was thinking of the Torrens Island power station. Last I knew it was a coal fired power station along with gas turbines for peak load.
845.
by daemin 9y ago
One of the reasons I can't seem to buy groceries online no matter how lazy I feel like being.
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by daemin 9y ago
LA and Sydney are natural comparisons, both are large cities with similar climates. Although I would argue that LA is drier (despite it raining both times I have visited).
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by daemin 9y ago
I remember that, there was a heat wave through the south of Australia and the main ice producing plant had a power failure.
848.
by daemin 9y ago
> Many (most?) households don't have clothes dryers, using clotheslines instead. Why bother having a clothes dryer when for most of the year you can hang them up in the shade and they will be dry within the hour. There are only a co
849.
by daemin 9y ago
That is completely false. There is no way the state could have all of its baseline power needs met by just solar and wind. As far as I know the power plant up in the port is still running and burning coal as it always did. The buying of pea
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by daemin 9y ago
My dad worked at a paper mill in Australia, and all around were plantation pine forests. The plant was making all sorts of household paper goods - paper towels and toilet paper. I don't think it made actual writing paper though.
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by daemin 9y ago
I'm not saying restrict services to non-citizens, I'm saying do not have the government pay for those services for non-citizens. If you pay a private company for health insurance then you should be covered by that insurance for th
852.
by daemin 9y ago
I'd say a lot of the growth has been by exporting dirt and food to China and other Asian countries. This made Australia resistant to the GFC crashes because our raw materials were in great demand. It was also regardless of immigration
853.
by daemin 9y ago
I'd say restricting fully government paid healthcare to citizens is a good step. For non-citizens (full time residents etc) the government would give basic healthcare, but anything elective or above the baseline should be funded by tha
854.
by daemin 9y ago
The government doesn't want to do this because they will lose the next election if they do, guaranteed. They will never get enough votes from younger people to offset the guaranteed loss from the older people.
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by daemin 9y ago
What he means by that is the old definition of auto, which C++11 deprecated in favour of making it do type deduction instead. auto foo = func_returning_int(); to my knowledge worked in C because 'auto' was the lifetime keyword - l
856.
by daemin 9y ago
As I have commented elsewhere for this article, there are other countries which require and record ID for every phone number and sim. I see this as more of a control issue (from the Government perspective) since it won't be used by cus
857.
by daemin 9y ago
So basically as long as a hacker wouldn't mind paying your phone bill for a month they could easily take over billing of it, then clean your accounts out, then cancel the number. This is another one of those messy human areas where com
858.
by daemin 9y ago
Well in many countries you are required to show and submit ID to the provider that ties you to a particular sim/number. While I see this more as a control mechanic than a security measure, it does give some reason as to why organisatio
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by daemin 9y ago
My comment was on people putting too much trust into computerised systems, of which facial recognition is one. It also referenced comments other people had made here for when the rules and programming in such a computerised system broke dow
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by daemin 9y ago
I think the big thing people forget when they automate systems is that they make them too strict. As in you're always expected to fit within the parameters and pattern of behaviour that the system was built with. It tolerates no deviat
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by daemin 9y ago
"Without firing a shot" - I'm sure people in Ukraine would disagree.
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by daemin 9y ago
I'd say the reason that the people in power want to be able to collect all information is not to protect the people, but instead to protect themselves and their friends in powerful positions. One of the main threats to these large orga
863.
by daemin 9y ago
To me on the Desktop only graph it looks like Chrome is meant to be a logarithmic growth curve not an exponential one. It seems he wanted the data to fit the projections rather than the projections fit the data.
864.
by daemin 9y ago
A "free market" is still by definition a market, and all markets have rules. Thereby the definition of "free" is up for debate.
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by daemin 9y ago
I spent the better part of a year in a team that was merging and bug fixing our companies engine releases into the customer (and owning company) code base. We also had to deal with different code repositories and version control systems. We
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by daemin 9y ago
That looks cool and all but it only generates Slavic or old English style towns. What I mean by that is it doesn't generate German style towns, where the central square is actually square with a grid going out from there to the walls.
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by daemin 9y ago
It also means that you can't use any common tools that use the same letters as your shortcuts.
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by daemin 9y ago
What I'm talking about is cultural things like slavery, honour killings, child sexual exploitation, blasphemy killings, making homosexual relations illegal. I would hope that we can agree that these are things which are unacceptable or
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by daemin 9y ago
As the old saying goes "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". Why should people not assimilate into the local culture of where they are fleeing to? Or at least discard elements of their previous culture which are incompatible with w
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by daemin 9y ago
Whenever I read a meta article like this I think that part of the reason it is written is so the author can appear or feel superior to the people reading and the other people writing about the same event. Much in the same way I am (in some

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