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They arent adding sugar and increasing the product size, they're displacing more expensive ingredients (fruits? dairy?) for cheaper sugars. This brings the unit cost down.
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Location based price discrimination has it's own affectionate nickname here, the 'Australia tax'. When I travel it is often cheaper (hundreds of dollar cheaper, even after currency conversion) to book parts of a trip from a U
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I think the high level theory is that women have stronger immune systems/immune responses (protective evolution for childbirth) so foods that cause inflamation or gut irritation result in a disproportionate reaction.
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They are making accessible to younger generations - many regional doofs and burn adjacent events I have been to are all ages, existing members bring their kids. If you are asking why they don't go out of their way to advertise to outsi
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The 'something in US culture' is conspicuous consumption and a perception that apple are superior and you shouldnt have to go out of your way to interact with poor android users.
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Dual flush doesnt work as well with US sized bowls. You need the entire toilet fitting to be designed for it, not just retrofit the cistern.
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Follow artist socials, they will promote themselves at gigs. Search for your town name + edm genre on soundcloud, that may tell you the names of regular festivals,events and club nights from the set names. Follow said venue's socials,
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Both good and bad roads in remote areas will likely appear to have zero traffic flow data as there is no cell phone coverage.
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Yes, but I am talking more about non-sensitive roles. Eg. Businesses with cash handling functions may be willing to pay to find out if potential hires have gambling activity recorded (in addition to the usual credit and criminal activity ch
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I would not be suprised if in future gambling activity gets rolled into an aspect of credit worthiness/background checks that employers conduct on staff. Gambling debts make people desperate.
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Management are already hurt by the formation of the union, and not agreeing to a contract is their way of attempting to hurt the union back. I'd agree with you if the situation suggested management were acting in good faith, but 6+ mon
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Similarly, the use of french oak for aging french wines is largely due to a surplus of oak from from government forests that were originally planted in support of naval ship building.
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Devil's advocate: Not having an IG let me filter out a lot more unserious matches on said apps.
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These sorts of 'tests' are not unique to the south. The record keeping and newspapers of the day would just sort of hint that they were necessary to maintain status quo. Australian immigration had a similar literacy/dictation
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Sounds like the awnings are very effective for their owners then.
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If the club holds the license the club owns the machines. Clubs are not for profits and need to return 100% of profits to the club & facility. In practice this takes the form of Club Board members giving themselves generous contracts to
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Higher median wage in WA than other states + higher operating costs to venues (WA liqour licenses used to be the most expensive unsure if this is still the case).
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Religious lobbying + labor protections. This is a state that prior to 2012 had no sunday retail trading (with some exceptions). Also the WA state has alternate revenue sources (mining royalties) that the other Australian states do not. The
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Legislation about plain packaging for other vices, like cigarettes, has been successful in Australia. The idea was to destroy the 'brand value' and positive associations that cigarette companies have worked hard to build. It does
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That is part of the genius of the author though, they were able to create such a reviled character that has stuck with you. I have read 100's of fiction books and would be hard pressed to recall even 10% of their respective protagonist
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There is usually little to no value in revealing that you are a woman in these spaces.
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> Absolutely. No matter how gifted a person is, there is going to be some point in their lives or some domain where pure talent will be insufficient. Unfortunately, for some this comes in university where we see peers with worse grades g
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Australia is similar, howeve, irrespective of how perfect your national addressing standards are, companies ingesting this data providing any sort of to-the-premise service still have to mash and clean and dissect it to fit whatever legacy
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We've had good, free (non ai) media recommendation tools in the past and they got killed by licensing agreements. AI is creating a post-scarcity content economy where quality is going to be the only driver of value. If you are the righ
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I think everyone knows the $$ numbers are made up but when you have millions of cvs to sort through, the $$ are more shiny and compelling to hr/managers who are making $$ based decisions.
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I dont want to use the voice assistant on my pixel but the function is so baked in that if I connect a headset, despite never setting the assistant up, it will interupt any music or playback after 15 seconds to tell me the assistant is read
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If you are road tripping somewhere remote, having too many fast chargers available can overload very small local power grids.
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I do this now, but single guy who sees me using it will inevitably launch into an extensive explanation of how it is wrong/insufficient and some sort of media management server and phone app ui would be better. The file is on my pc, I
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I had not heard of Deskbound, but his other book on stretching is an incredible resource (Becoming a supple leopard).
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Public pools are not as ubiquitous and evenly distributed in the US as they are in Australia. Australian pools are largely outdoors, have longer opening months (ie are more profitable) and dont have to be winterised like they would be in No
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