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by knz 10y ago
I'm curious if you could recommend some alternative sources for news? Every media source has bias - is the NYT really any worse than others?
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by knz 10y ago
New Zealand is at about 80% and that's just for generating electricity. Large countries like the US also have abundant natural resources, between wind, solar, and nuclear we should have no energy concerns. Unlike small countries the US
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by knz 10y ago
Wellington has been electric for decades hasn't it? I think they even used to have electric buses running on overhead wires.
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by knz 10y ago
The problem is that domestic mass surveillance is not that effective at stopping these people. Everytime there is a terrorist attack or mass shooting it seems that we get the same story of "they were known to the local police/FBI&
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by knz 10y ago
> In reply to knz, I hope you see the illogicality of interpreting what I wrote above as "suggesting any argument [I] disagree with is [...]". Passing off the whole of the "alt-right" as "irrational" is exac
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by knz 10y ago
I hope you can see the irony in suggesting that any argument you disagree with (isn't "good") is "pseudo-sociological abstract bullshit". The "alt-right" is not a great example of a rational "movement
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by knz 10y ago
> I would imagine in a libertarian world, these companies would all be sued in court. Why is this not happening now? Or we could decide that it's in our collective best interest to hold companies to certain standards and avoid frivo
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by knz 10y ago
I left Christchurch 10 years ago for the US but still get back most years. The first few trips back after the earthquake(s) were very unsettling - destroyed doesn't fully describe just how different the city is now. It's great to
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by knz 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waihopai_Station may be of interest...
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by knz 10y ago
Drop bears? More seriously, didn't Australia previously have some geological activity? I've heard of lava tubes near Cairns and have visited the Sunshine Coast where I believe there are (dormant?) volcanos?
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by knz 10y ago
The article barely mentions the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes - that did more to awaken people to the potential hazard. Most kiwis know about the Napier earthquake in 1932 but it's a distant memory and until 2010 big earthquake
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by knz 10y ago
It'll never happen. They couldn't even agree to refinance Federal loans during the great recession - students were/are paying 6.8% when interest rates are at historic lows.
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by knz 10y ago
$1,000/hour is over $2 million/year for a 40 hour work week. Google tells me that a GP makes about $200,000/year here in Minnesota.
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by knz 10y ago
To give some context to the cost - between my employer and I, a family plan (the options are single or family) was $14,400 for 2017. That's a high deductible plan that requires us to pay the first $6,000 before insurance pays anything
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by knz 10y ago
Kiwi in the US here. It probably varies depending upon your social circles. Plenty of North Americans repair and improvise, especially those not in dense urban areas. Americans may love their disposable consumer goods but I wouldn't wr
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by knz 10y ago
It's not a rebuttal but if they want to start holding people to that standard perhaps a discussion about the issue of WMD's in a certain middle eastern country circa 2003 would be worth having? Wikipedia says 4,809 coalition servi
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by knz 10y ago
Sure we do. Every living person is here because someone learned from their past mistakes at some point. Implying that "we" don't learn from our mistakes is suggesting that we are all complicit when in reality I'm not sur
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by knz 10y ago
> For example, you can't assign more that two people on a task You can add as many people as you want at the project level but always assumed their philosophy was that that one person owns/completes individuals tasks/sub-t
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by knz 10y ago
> Just use pen and Paper now. To be fair, isn't the whole point of using something like Asana to collaborate with a team? Pen and paper doesn't scale well...
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by knz 10y ago
The first rule of ordering a special meal is bring your own food just in case they don't have it. The cabin crew can usually scrounge up something if necessary as well.
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by knz 10y ago
Air New Zealand usually does as well. I've had ok meals on US airlines flying to Europe but the quality seems to be declining.
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure capitalism deserves the entire blame - some of it is just human nature (it's harder to care about something that happens in a distant location or time). The question is what can we do about it? How do we rebuild publi
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by knz 10y ago
I get your point but it's not unfeasible to think that a western nation may be involved in a conflict that requires operating in one of these megacities - particularly some of the Asian and African cities near existing conflict zones.
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by knz 10y ago
> As far as I know critical thinking is our only "weapon" against propaganda, so I hope you are wrong. Speaking up and attempting to educate people if they are buying the propaganda is another "weapon". Of course it i
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by knz 10y ago
> So you only use 2.5 miles of a highway to get to and back from work - right? Should you pay for the entire highway or just the parts you use? So what if other people only use "parts" of that same highway? Does that mean we su
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by knz 10y ago
If people want to spend their money on a ring then I have no issue with that. Personally my wife is quite frugal about signs of material wealth (raised in a family with money that drove old Honda's etc) and had very strong opinions abo
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't this one of the appeals of the "Don't break the chain"/Jerry Seinfeld approach? My working on something each day, even if only for an hour, you keep the mental tasks associated with development in the "fr
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by knz 10y ago
> Nevertheless, NZ infrastructure is built to withstand this sort of stuff Building maybe. But our main transportation routes often have little redundancy and go through some potentially hazardous areas. State Highway 1 down the Kaikoura
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by knz 10y ago
> he stands a good chance of being the most popular Republican president in history (while simultaneously being the most hated) Trump isn't hated because he is Republican. People are afraid of losing hard won rights like marriage e
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by knz 10y ago
There are some interesting points being made in the article but some of it is crap. > Hillary Clinton, by contrast, epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the pantsuits. The arrogance: the e

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