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by docdeek 7y ago
> "I checked: conscientious objection and religious reasons do not qualify” That’s not entirely accurate, though in practice it has been the case so far. Subsection 245(14) of the Electoral Act, and section 13A of the Referendum Act
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> When an Air Force missile crashed, it “impacted with the ground prematurely.” When I was a youngster in the Army Cadets in Australia I was told by one of the regular Army seargeants that no one in his company was ever “lost”. They coul
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by docdeek 7y ago
A startup I worked for was constantly seeking to have everyone aligned on things. The original concept of having people pointed in the same direction was admirable, but it quickly became something like a capital-A ‘Aligned’ (meaning good)
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Super Organizers by Dan Shippper Stratechery by Ben Thompson (not really underrated on HN)
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Leaving aside the deck and focusing on the business idea, do people really want to have a different social network (column) for every part of their life? And every influencer they follow? A paid social network option might be nice to avoid
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I’ve read a few times that clouds are a big problem for climate modelers as they are far more complex in their implications for the climate than my grade school planet heats > evaporation > cloud forms > rain falls understanding of
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I was taught as a child in Australia that the Indigenous Australians were the world’s oldest living/surviving civilization.
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> "According to WikiLeaks, witness statements submitted to the court by US prosecutors on Saturday argue that Assange does not enjoy First Amendment protections because he is not a US citizen and because the amendment allegedly does
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This was broadly the position of one of the most influential theorists in international relations (IR), Kenneth Waltz. His paper "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better” is a great read. [1] From his conclusion: "Those who
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FTA: "With schools having largely withdrawn from the practice of making students memorize poetry, few of us today have anything approaching the interior resources of a rhapsode.” My son attends school in France and learning by heart an
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Ah, that might be it - I was talking as an individual user rather than imagining a team deployment.
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It’s surprising to me that the “master key” system on 1Password proved difficult for your users. For me, this is one of the simplest things about it: you remember one password that unlocks everything else. Am I talking about the same thing
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Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230(theverge.com)
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A Google search while in Pamplona, I think. There are more than a couple of these startups, mostly using hostels for the storage as far as we could tell.
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I have used a similar service in Spain when my hotel was a little too distant from the train station to make and end of day return trip feasible. Worked well, good idea.
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Pole of Inaccessibility(en.wikipedia.org)
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I was under the impression that nuclear plants needed to be close to population centers anyway, or at least that it was ideal. The plant closest to my city is about 40km away, easily sighted from one of the city hills here in town.
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by docdeek 7y ago
> I admire Yang's intelligence, and think it is a shame that we do not filter our leaders more for cognitive ability, as Singapore does. I'm interested by this comment. Singapore has had three PM's in its 60 year history,
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Interestingly enough, I was one of the poeple who posted the story previously and with the same title and URL. I only posted again after receiving an email from HN this morning, and I thought I’d join the experiment that was described: Hi t
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Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Pretty sure that the comments I read on HN yesterday said more or less the same thing.
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To replace gas taxes, Oregon and Utah ask EVs to pay for road use(arstechnica.com)
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"...publicly called her retarded" I didn't catch that one - is there a source? All I am Googling up is Trump telling her to chill, watch a movie, and a reference to anger management.
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How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Not so much - as the article notes the police still visit and sweep the place, they just don't arrive with guns drawn, and they even send plain clothes police instead of SWAT teams. My question, though: what makes someone likely to be
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by docdeek 7y ago
It's frustrating that an insufficient plan is in place to address climate change in Oz but also frustrating that I keep reading suggestions that under a different government the fires wouldn't have happened or would've been l
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If you are right, what would voting in an ALP or even Green government have done to avert global climate change and these fires? And when would they have to have been voted in to have stopped these fires being so obviously devastating? I un
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by docdeek 7y ago
Would AirBnB be a monopoly even at 40%? Maybe (likely?) in home or room share, but they are competing against hotels and probably wouldn't have a 40% stake of that market. Or maybe I am underestimating how big they have got?
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If you ban outdoor advertising i' a city there won't be an outdoor advertising company to tax.
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In Lyon the public ad space was traded to an ad company in exchange for funding and maintaining the city's public bike share scheme. It's a trade off, of course, but for just 30 euros à year I (and the rest of the city) get virtua

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