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by dwd 7y ago
I lived for a couple of years in the Melbourne CBD (off Lt Lonsdale) and never had a need for a car the whole time. Different story later living in Elwood and working in Port Melbourne, not having a car to commute along the Esplanade would
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by dwd 7y ago
Define learning and growth. Do you mean being proficient with the flavour of the month shiny new language or framework; applying the latest syntax in a specific language, adding an additional domain of knowledge you can write code for or be
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by dwd 7y ago
Monitoring services should be baked into any online system that stores personally identifiable information. The GDPR requirements are a good example of what should be required by law. Any system you are required to provide information to sh
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by dwd 7y ago
Pretty sure funnelling some of that money into health and education would be a better deal for the average US family. American multinationals would however argue more needs to be done to protect their overseas investments and access to mark
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by dwd 7y ago
I once left cash on a machine and sat with store security while they went back through the video to see what happened to it. (They were happy to give me the money after seeing someone quickly pocket it before the attendant noticed) If they
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by dwd 7y ago
I prefer to self bag, mostly that I don't need some teenager just throwing the fresh chicken or detergent in with the loose vegetables.
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by dwd 7y ago
There's one gotcha though with using a Debit card for car hire where you cannot access the money for the holding deposit until the hold is released. Learnt that the hard way. With a credit card it's not money you intended to use s
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by dwd 7y ago
Nice idea, but I think this misses the reality of what is happening. Instagram is removing likes because it incentivises an economic system that they are not only left out of, but is a net cost to them. Top influencers make a lot of money b
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by dwd 7y ago
Memorising sequences is not the right way to look at it - it's simply a result of practice (or playing it too much): More like muscle memory where you see and act without consciously thinking about it. Watch speed solving Rubik's
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by dwd 7y ago
It's exactly the same except the cabbie licenses/medallions were often shared among multiple independent businesses. I'd be interested to know what the contract covered and the rules around placement and clearance rules, acce
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by dwd 7y ago
Clive Palmer was elected to the House of Reps but had sway over a number of senators from his party. I live in that electorate and it was a shocker how so many Labor and possibly Green votes went to Palmer. Good example of how naive tribali
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by dwd 7y ago
There's no collective shrug - unfortunately the inner city outrage becomes self-serving ignorance the further north you go. Mining jobs have always paid better, and no one want's to change careers to work in tourism or reskill for
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by dwd 7y ago
Agree, I was there a month or so back and it made me instantly nostalgic. What these photos don't capture though is the sound - particularly when standing in the crowd in the rain at Shibuya crossing. Every photo makes it seem like the
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by dwd 7y ago
Totally agree failure should be announced for another object to observe and decide to do something about. I didn't feel the author got the messaging part. 'You send some data to an object' kind of misses the point. Going back
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by dwd 7y ago
Having gone to see the cherry blossoms in Japan this year, I was wondering why we don't celebrate the jacarandas even half as much. Grafton and a heap of other small towns all have jacaranda festivals and we're obviously really ba
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by dwd 8y ago
What you're saying on GST is correct. Ideally it would be higher while dropping the corporate and individual rates. There is another issue of having a level playing field as a locally based company pays corporate tax while the transnat
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by dwd 8y ago
I think we will find that applying human tests for sense of self can't be applied to other animals. Our primary test is visually based such as a mirror/marker test which doesn't work for animals that have relatively poor eyes
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by dwd 8y ago
Just stick with brilliant, and there is also the equally clever second series - Yes, Prime Minister. While it was satire, the was a lot in it that could very well have been reality.
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by dwd 8y ago
Yes, you get a vote which is a simple yes/no on whatever is brought to a vote - but you don't get to say what is voted on.
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by dwd 8y ago
Yes, 100 Yen Shops. I wandered into quite a few last week mostly just looking at all the types of goods you just don't see in Australia. Bought a lot of weird flavoured Kit-Kats.
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by dwd 8y ago
Agreed, and if you don't like how the company is being run - sell your stock. Generally speaking, this idea we have these days that activist shareholders can come in and dictate how a company is run is insane.
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by dwd 8y ago
Muji is interesting in that many individual stores only carry specific departments (which are listed on the website). The one in Zest Oike, Kyoto for example was quite small and dominated by a very large selection of socks.
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by dwd 8y ago
Was slightly disappointed that none of the researchers' names was Max.
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by dwd 8y ago
That was the one scene that stuck with me when I first saw it in the early 80s when it came out on video. It's still probably my favourite scene.
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by dwd 8y ago
Sounds like a recent experience I had trying to book tickets to a Disneyland park online: Registration, email confirmation, multiple options and numerous validation pain points for it to report their payment system was offline at the end. T
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by dwd 8y ago
Upvoted you on looking for clues with a hex editor. Little did you realise you were setting yourself up for a lifetime of debugging. I remember getting stuck in an early C64 text adventure and reading the BASIC code to try and find a clue.
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by dwd 8y ago
I quite enjoyed the movie: Oddball, though definitely biased as I grew up in Warrnambool. Every scene was a familar place but weirdly shuffled. You used to have to wade out to the island when I lived there in the mid 90's. Even back th
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by dwd 8y ago
The Australian usage is more along the lines of an weak or effeminate man, similar in usage to pansy.
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by dwd 8y ago
They tend to look like that in your Apache logs when they target at the web application level. Once you're flooded and your process load spikes, you can't see what your web server has run out of workers to handle. Netstat will giv
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by dwd 8y ago
Convert each page to an image. You can't stop them but you can make it more difficult. This is more for online job search where you don't want them parsing your resume for their database when you just want to apply to one specific

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