gizmonty

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by gizmonty 6y ago
News Corp is losing money across almost all of its Australian properties. The government keeps finding ways to prop them up under the guise of subsidies for local sports coverage because News Corp provides them with such favourable coverage
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by gizmonty 6y ago
Oh how wonderful it would be if Facebook were to pull out of Australia.
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by gizmonty 6y ago
Please don’t add any more flights to Australia.
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by gizmonty 7y ago
I live in Melbourne and drive a Tesla, but without a wanky number plate. I would love to use public transport, but it's completely impractical for me. It takes me 25 minutes to drive to work or 45 minutes (or more) on public transport.
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by gizmonty 8y ago
Actually, the train system in Melbourne, Australia was doing exactly this to passengers in the very recent past. The private operators realised that there were penalties for getting to the end of the line late, but not for missing stops, so
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by gizmonty 8y ago
I can remember my C64 being out of action for weeks at a time (months even?) due to the power supply failing and having to wait for - I don't know what; repairs? parts? It happened more than once. This was in New Zealand in the 80s. It
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by gizmonty 9y ago
Isn't this last week's problem? I thought Tesla was fine this week.
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by gizmonty 9y ago
There are more than a thousand chemical compounds in anything you eat that came from nature.
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by gizmonty 9y ago
I was pretty astonished by this article. I work in the medical field in Australia and I can’t imagine any hospital here responding and coping in this manner. Our trauma is generally from car crashes and only rarely from guns. I think the vi
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by gizmonty 9y ago
Free or subsidised healthcare. If you're an overseas resident living in Australia and can produce a valid medicare number you can get access to a fairly comprehensive range of medical services under somebody else's name. It would
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by gizmonty 9y ago
I'm in Melbourne. I ordered my Tesla Powerwall 2 today.
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Tesla says its batteries could fix Australia's energy problems in 100 days(smh.com.au)
3 points by gizmonty 10y ago|0 comments
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by gizmonty 10y ago
It's taken 25 years for Li-ion batteries to get from the lab to the current level of industrial production. If this technology pans out it will probably take a similar time to do the same - maybe a bit faster given the greater interest
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by gizmonty 10y ago
Optional but actually semi-mandatory. You have to manually accept the software update to install it, but there was recently a case reported of someone who was refusing to do this and stay on an old firmware. Over time, Tesla gradually deact