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by jeeeb 5y ago
Here in Australia states have been been putting portable air filters in schools, age care homes and so on. Victoria for example ordered 51,000 filters recently to place across all schools.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
This is a more complex question than you’re making out. The declaration also says: > In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securi
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by jeeeb 5y ago
My question was have contract tracing apps overseas performed significantly better than the QR based systems used in Australia (instead of COVIDSafe). Neither of these links seem to show that. The first is a criticism of COVIDSafe. I agree
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by jeeeb 5y ago
The COVIDSafe app was a failure and waste of tax payer money. Everyone knows it. The federal government has spent the last year and a half trying to change the narrative, mostly unsuccessfully. State governments developed their own QR code
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I tried to read this with an open mind but there’s some pretty big flaws in the analysis. To note some that stood out: The author looks at the percentage change in daily cases in the US vs latitude and finds a mildly strong correlation (R^2
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by jeeeb 5y ago
FWIW. You could rent a studio apartment in the Melbourne CBD for ~200AUD a week (search postcode 3000 on domain.com.au for some listings) That’s about 700USD per month which leaves plenty for other expenses.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I was interested and fact checked this. Financial services are a small part of total revenue (about 1/12). They seem to be somewhat more profitable and make up about 1/4 of operating income. Fundamentally though Toyota is able to
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I do think it could have been handled in a more diplomatic fashion, but there was never going to be a nice way to break the news. Further I think if the Naval Group had been anywhere close to delivering on time and on budget then it would h
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by jeeeb 5y ago
It was no secret or last minute change that Australia wanted diesel electric subs. France submitted a competitive tender to provide a diesel electric sub at a particular price point, with much of the manufacturing being done in Australia, a
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I think the Australian actions here were reasonable, the project was massively over budget and well behind schedule. The regional security situation has shifted a lot in the last 5 years since this project was announced. The news could have
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by jeeeb 5y ago
If historical Australian submarine deals are anything to go by construction work will be split between Australia and the US. I think it’s safe to assume Australia will want to develop a full maintenance capability in Australia, which realis
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Good. This isn’t either. This is for 14 days or until you test negative from COVID.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
This probably doesn’t come across to an international audience but Australia is in a really weird state at the moment. On one hand you have QLD/SA/WA which are probably the places least effected in the world by COVID. QLD for exam
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by jeeeb 5y ago
> But the notion that traditional car companies can magically start cranking out profitable EVs (Tesla made most of their money from tax credits which are essentially gone now) is laughable. That seems to be exactly what a lot of traditi
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Good list. One thing I'd add, which you kind of hint at: Good practices from software engineering are just as applicable to Data Science. In particular: Notebooks are great for performing an EDA, and testing out new concepts. They&#x27
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Pretty sure we got done by this at work. Server seems to have been used for crypto currency mining and then participating in a DDOS attack.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
This looks interesting although even in their sample video you can see a lot of tracking loss and reidentification events. I do wonder how it would perform in more difficult scenarios with problems like partial obstruction, crowding and cha
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Australia is the 6th largest producer and 5th largest exporter of aluminium. To me that fits well within the statement “one of the world’s largest” Of course Australia also sells a lot of bauxite to China.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I doubt it. The Australian GDP is up on 2019 (although QE might be distorting the figures somewhat). This is more of a long term trend. Solar power generation has been increasing for years in Australia, and meanwhile large generators have b
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Yup. Australia is one of the world’s largest Aluminium exporters currently, although I doubt that has much to do with using excess solar energy.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I disagree with this. Removing a source of ongoing temptation is a great practical way to avoid that temptation. For example I find it much easier to avoid drinking when I don’t have alcohol in the house.
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I dunno looking at the SO developer survey most respondents were reporting 5+ years experience. Out of interest I had a look at roles advertised on indeed.com in Atlanta and SF for SREs and data scientists. Estimated ranges seemed to match
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by jeeeb 5y ago
I’m not overly familiar with US salaries but it looks to me like you’re comparing net salary for a high paid job in Sydney, to gross salary for a FAANG role in SF. Presumably they have to pay taxes and have a high cost of living as well :)
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by jeeeb 5y ago
To play devil’s advocate though, if a 6% payment fee allows a merchant to make a sale they wouldn’t have otherwise made, then that might be a net win from their perspective. I.E. eating some decrease in profit is better than making nothing
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by jeeeb 5y ago
The flip side of this is that: 1. As long as your LVR isn’t too high your interest payments on a home loan will probably come in well below what renting an equivalent house would cost. Further rent will generally rise over time with inflati
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by jeeeb 5y ago
The figure of 1.5 tonnes you gave for China only looks at direct household energy consumption sources (I.e fuel, heating and electricity). It’s not at all comparable to the German paper. The figure of 1.7 tonnes is only for household consum
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by jeeeb 5y ago
The statistics I posted make a reasonable attempt to quantify consumption based emissions. If you have a better source I’d be interested in seeing it. Just stating dollar based household consumption values seems like a very poor proxy thoug
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by jeeeb 5y ago
So I researched this a bit. Accounts vary on this. The RCG source I linked above puts China's territorial CO2 emissions at around 14 gigatons and China's consumption based emissions (accounting for place of consumption) at around
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by jeeeb 5y ago
> China has around 1/5'th of the emissions per capita compared to western countries. It's western countries that are a threat to the environment. China has roughly twice the per capita CO2 emissions of the UK, France or It
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by jeeeb 5y ago
Right but the advantage of a PHEV is that it can switch to using its ICE. With a full tank you should have a range of 1000km+. Theoretically (if it works well) it’s an EV for short trips combined with an ICE for longer trips in a single car

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