elyobo

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by elyobo 6y ago
Not sure that we're operating on the same definition of "backpacking" here, it's just low cost travel[1]. On certain visas in Australia you can extend the duration by working in a specified area[2], which is where that f
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by elyobo 6y ago
And that's precisely the point; the news orgs benefit enormously from the traffic that Google and Facebook send them. Expecting Google and Facebook to provide them this traffic and pay the news orgs for it, not the other way around i
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by elyobo 6y ago
That seems only fair!
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by elyobo 6y ago
> Which measurement was highly effective that could also be done in a country with neighbors. ... All of them? I'm not sure why so many people seem to think water is required to make a border effective.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Facebook and Google have not taken opposite tracks; Google hasn't made deals to pay for linking, a major problem with the legislation. Google's deals are around news content, but FB lacks comparable products to negotiate deals aro
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by elyobo 6y ago
Poor choice of words. I would hope that it was better, but not reliably expect that it actually is in reality.
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by elyobo 6y ago
The law requires that they not distinguish between news orgs that sign up to the new legislation and those that don't[1], which strongly incentivises them to err on the side of blocking too much rather than blocking too little. [1] ht
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by elyobo 6y ago
Uh... he's a right leaning conservative, like both major Australian parties. He's not off the scale nuts like the US, but only by looking through an American lens could you conclude that he was left leaning.
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by elyobo 6y ago
> Also I think Facebook should register as a news agency in Australia and charge news publishers if they re-post content from FB. This way FB also makes money I like this, I like this a lot.
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by elyobo 6y ago
I would expect that coverage from those not funded by advertising (the ABC) to be better.
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by elyobo 6y ago
I'm taking Facebook's side on this particular issue only (and I don't even like that, because they're - as you note - bad). I agree with all of the things you want, but this isn't a tax on Google or Facebook (and we
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by elyobo 6y ago
They can choose to block that, even specifically for Facebook and Google while leaving others alone, just by messing with their robots settings. If you post a link to content that is being excluded using robots.txt you'll get a link an
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by elyobo 6y ago
News orgs could already block that content if they wanted using robots.txt, but have chosen not to - indeed, they go out of their way to sprinkle Facebook's opengraph and other metadata to make their content more searchable and present
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by elyobo 6y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm not getting here. If you had infinite inflation you'd only lose 100%.
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by elyobo 6y ago
This was more or less (same reasoning, but not explicitly presented as a caching algorithm) how I justified the state of my room as a teenager.
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by elyobo 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "lost 250% of its value" - that seems impossible, so I guess something has been lost in translation! Can you clarify?
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by elyobo 6y ago
Is an optimist one that thinks it will stay around, or one that thinks it will go away?
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by elyobo 6y ago
Agreed, live on the 37th floor of a 45 floor building - it's not exactly high by these standards, but still decently high. Never hear side neighbours, every now and then I hear something quiet from upstairs. I used to rent here, the ow
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by elyobo 6y ago
I am, but I'm still a real consumer and I do indeed want these files. > no real consumer believes or wants these stupid files
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by elyobo 6y ago
Preferences vary. I only buy and read ebooks, as they're vastly more convenient and somewhat cheaper into the bargain.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I do a lot of reading on a kindle and convert whatever I need using Calibre, but PDFs, because of their fixed formatting, are a bit of a nightmare.
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by elyobo 6y ago
The same could be said of Australia's internal borders, which were largely closed as well. Most people will follow the rules, so simply closing the borders will get you most of the way there. The issue is not whether it's possible
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by elyobo 6y ago
Population density has something to do with it, you're just mistaken about the population density of Australia where people actually live . And obviously you can close a land border as well, it's just a matter of whether you&#x27
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by elyobo 6y ago
I really don't understand the island fixation that so many seem to have. Is it just accepted that non-island nations are incapable of policing their borders?
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by elyobo 6y ago
The argument is not that the experts failed, but that the politicians did. In general the experts have argued for more "oppressive" approaches, because those are the only ones that have worked.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Population densities are not wildly different between the two countries if you realise that most of Australia is effectively unpopulated and the vast majority live in a handful of metropolitan areas.
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by elyobo 6y ago
"Australia" has a low population density because most of it has close to no population; it's easy to be mislead by this if you're not aware of how the population is distributed within a huge area, but the areas where mos
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by elyobo 6y ago
I also miss missing the missus, but that hasn't been for a decade or so now, so I guess I can't blame COVID.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Well, presumably not straggling cattle .
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by elyobo 6y ago
I'm largely uninsured. * I insure my car, because I'm not a good driver - I don't generally drive though, and would prefer to go without, but my wife wants one even though it would be cheaper to Uber everywhere that we actual

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