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by mb_72 7y ago
Any time 'analog' is used with reference to boutique guitar FX it's because they want to try and convince you to pay more money than other equivalents. Same goes for 'hand-made' etc etc. In a crowded market where 90
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by mb_72 7y ago
It's similar to a trademark - if you don't defend any even small slight or 'misuse', it becomes worthless and meaningless. Apparently.
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by mb_72 7y ago
Christian faith, I presume you are referring to? Because there are many other 'people of faith' who are not Christians, and who won't be offended in any way by Life of Brian.
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by mb_72 7y ago
More like there are plenty of people born in Australia or who are longer-term residents than yourself who are jaded after seeing ridiculous developments or promises by successive State and Federal governments. All that aside, I'm not a
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by mb_72 7y ago
> So the cost savings have definitely been passed on to the customer, unless you can find figures to the contrary. I think it's more up to the supermarkets to demonstrate that self-checkout is lowering prices. As a consumer I would
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by mb_72 7y ago
"Europe" covers too many countries and supermarkets to make such a generalisation, I feel. In Estonia at our local supermarket the self-checkout lanes / machines are often extremely busy, and also introduce the chance of gett
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by mb_72 7y ago
> Obviously they’d rather the company hire more workers and charge them s little extra. It's happened the other way around - self checkout didn't exist, and when it was introduced prices didn't drop even though employment
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by mb_72 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely grab a copy.
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by mb_72 7y ago
Anecdotally, my dear old Mum (now in her mid-70s) worked as a forensics investigator on the Snowtown murders (aka the "Bodies in the barrels" case) in the final stages of her career. She took some samples to the FBI in the USA as
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Uber Eats in Australia forced to amend contracts with restaurant owners(abc.net.au)
12 points by mb_72 7y ago|3 comments
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by mb_72 7y ago
What airport is this? At Adelaide airport arrivals I always choose to go through the manual processing queue, i.e. the one non-Australian citizens have to use. Half the time it's faster than the smart-gate system queue, and even if it&
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by mb_72 7y ago
My Mum attended one maths course at university (as a mature age student) with Tao, and I distinctly remember her coming home and complaining about some 'smart-arse kid who wouldn't stop challenging the lecturer'. I guess it c
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by mb_72 7y ago
These days modelling (Helix etc) has reached the point where tube amps, cabs and individual FX pedals can be replaced by a single piece of hardware. As a bass player I ditched my SVT and individual pedals in favour of a Helix Stomp; it&#x27
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by mb_72 7y ago
My Estonian grandfather worked as a police officer in Viljandi prior to and during the German occupation. It was only when the Russians invaded Estonia towards the end of the war that he, my grandmother and mother decided it was safer to fl
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by mb_72 7y ago
Last time I visited the Occupation Museum in Tallinn, the old Lenin etc statues were stored inside - downstairs near the toilets, quite appropriately. There is a German soldier's cemetery in Viljandi: https://www.visitestoni
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by mb_72 7y ago
Re: 2 - I can't agree. Yes, the trams and trains stop running soon after midnight and start up ~5am or so, however that is pretty good time coverage. Many people in Tallinn don't own cars, and use the free public transport a lot,
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by mb_72 7y ago
Exactly my experience; I watched a downloaded version first on my PC, then my wife and I watched the version on our local streamed station (Fox, in Estonia), and we thought it looked terrible. It was so bad we were wondering if they dialed
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by mb_72 7y ago
I've also used them many times, for smaller amounts, and know several people that work there. While their environment seems somewhat cultish, I find it hard to reconcile your 'scumbag' comment with the people that I know - on
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by mb_72 7y ago
This exactly my list (except with different software for 4)). Have been running Windows since Win3.1, and haven't 'caught' anything bad yet; worst was adware that somehow escaped detection inside installer for an old version
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by mb_72 8y ago
What about becoming an Australian citizen, then going the E3 visa route?
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by mb_72 8y ago
Your friend sounds like an outlier in these circumstances; the certification is more likely to be of benefit to those fresh to the field, and in the field of child-care (and aged care also), I think some bare minimum requirement of capabili
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by mb_72 8y ago
I'm very sorry to hear of your condition, and can't imagine what it's like to be in your situation. I have Crohn's disease - nothing equivalent to you, but it is 'something' for which if I thought stem cell tre
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by mb_72 8y ago
Quite the dismissive mention of going 'back to the basement'. I work from home almost all the time (self-employed), and have quite a lovely work room setup exactly how I want, with plenty of natural light and fresh air. My wife kn
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by mb_72 8y ago
I often listen in to support calls when I'm on Skype with my business partner (I'm the dev, he's the sales / support / biz owner); this isn't planned, but happens because he's the only one who can take the
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by mb_72 8y ago
I left one software company, in part because they developed apps for pubs and restaurants, and most of the other employees came from a hospitality background and wanted to get wasted each Friday night. That I wanted to a) spend time with my
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by mb_72 8y ago
"Digesting food matter is a great way to get sick and maintain sickness." So our bodies doing what they have evolved to do is a way to 'get sick'?
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by mb_72 8y ago
"... only you can find out what works for you." How do you know one specific thing worked, and it wasn't something else? Or just mere coincidence? As someone who has Crohn's disease I have lost track of the times someon
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by mb_72 8y ago
Those trades do not require the same level of abstract and logical reasoning, no matter what other skills they do require. It's the former that is in short supply in the general population.
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by mb_72 8y ago
Completely agree. The majority of people are not suited to be even basically competent developers; they just lack the mindset / diligence / intelligence / etc. You can in no way compare this to apprenticing as a plumber or ca
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by mb_72 8y ago
I, like many others, loved and used Delphi a lot in the 90s, but for one major client we identified a major risk was the declining availability of Delphi developers (in Australia, at least), and I did a rewrite of the entire app into C#, sp

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