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by davegardner 10y ago
In Australia it's only a $20 fine (approx US$15) for not voting.
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by davegardner 10y ago
I think the main reason why Australia has such a high voter turnout is because it's extremely easy to vote. It is compulsory in Australia, but the fine is only $20 (~US$15). Voting always takes place on a Saturday. There are polling bo
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by davegardner 10y ago
AFter spending some time in Tasmania I can see how it would be easy to imagine there could still be Thylacines living in the bush. The island contains some very large national parks and reserves, and the Thylacine was fairly well camouflage
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by davegardner 10y ago
That's just one of the many words that have different meanings in different countries. We Australians take our barbecueing very seriously and it rarely involves indirect cooking. :-) The most common form of barbecueing here involves co
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by davegardner 10y ago
This is true, however they don't purge any of the old archives. If the robots.txt is updated to allow bots again then all of the previous archives will become available again.
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by davegardner 10y ago
I think the nuance of this advice is in the final two paragraphs of the article. If there’s more than "2 cents" worth of stuff that needs to change, then this rule does not apply. But if your contribution is small, just let it go.
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by davegardner 10y ago
Yet another reason why self-driving cars will be an improvement over human drivers.
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by davegardner 11y ago
The big assumption you're making is that everyone would want another shot at life. I'd be surprised if that were universally true.
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by davegardner 11y ago
My RHR is around 40. When my GP discovered it he ran a few tests (ECG and echocardiogram) that were all clear and then sent me to a cardiac electrophysiologist. He basically said that as long as I wasn't experiencing any of the symptom
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by davegardner 11y ago
It's referring to a television show or station that is broadcast across the country, as opposed to one that is only broadcast within a single city or state. It's a term used reasonably commonly in Australia.
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by davegardner 11y ago
The actual EPA documentation[1] about this site shows that the comparative exposure is not nearly as significant as the article indicates. A handy comparative radiation dose table that they provide shows that you'd receive an additiona
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by davegardner 11y ago
I find it mildly amusing that you used the term "American audience" in the context of your comment.
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by davegardner 11y ago
$43 is for a VIP type experience - smaller number of big reclining arm chairs, food and drinks delivered to your seat throughout the movie, etc. Similar to the difference between an economy and business class seat on an airline. At the big-
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by davegardner 11y ago
In this case it certainly wasn't a serious bug. However it suggests that they did no testing at all on Windows, so in the future they may not be quite as lucky.
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Low-fat diet trims body fat better than low-carb diet(abc.net.au)
7 points by davegardner 11y ago|10 comments
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by davegardner 11y ago
The IMF recently published a working paper[1] on energy subsidies at global and regional levels that might be of interest. They do use an fairly broad definition of what counts as a subsidy (including cost of damages environmental damages a
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by davegardner 11y ago
Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case you want to plant them on the north side of your house. On a somewhat related note, rooftop solar panels have also been shown to have good insulation benefits[1]. [1] http:/&#x
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by davegardner 11y ago
10 years ago the fastest supercomputer was BlueGene/L which was rated at 136.8 TFlop/s. The current fastest supercomputer is rated at 33,862.7 TFlop/s, or 247 times faster. It seems to me that the aim of taking 10 years to bu
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by davegardner 11y ago
In Australia it's a little different as they don't do a cheek swab. You register via a Red Cross blood service donor centre. It involves taking a small sample of blood - if you're donating blood at the same time then they jus
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How to learn 30 languages(bbc.com)
1 points by davegardner 11y ago|0 comments
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by davegardner 11y ago
Surely the disorientation would only last a few weeks at the most, so any benefit would quickly disappear.
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by davegardner 11y ago
In Perth the vast majority of houses are built using a double brick construction, so there's definitely a local market for this.
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by davegardner 11y ago
> As it is out biggest city, Auckland, is experiencing insanely high house prices that folks in the Bay area would grimace at. I was a little surprised by this comment and wondered how true it actually was. According to Numbeo, rental pr
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by davegardner 11y ago
Well that's not entirely true, since her music is available on YouTube.
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by davegardner 11y ago
In Australia there is a political party that is along those lines - http://www.senatoronline.org.au/ . They don't have any seats in parliament though.
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by davegardner 11y ago
The Earth-toned version looks much nicer IMHO http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...
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by davegardner 11y ago
I'm not a doctor, but based on what little research I've done in the past, a basic heart rate monitor such is this is unlikely to provide any pre-warning of a serious cardiac event.
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by davegardner 11y ago
I read that as Immoral Linux and immediately started thinking about what immoral actions the OS could automatically perform.
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by davegardner 12y ago
According to the article the fares cover 175% of the operating costs. So even without the additional income from real estate it's still a profitable business.
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by davegardner 12y ago
Speaking as an Aussie, I'd much prefer to come across one of these in the bush than I would an angry drop bear.

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