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by mb_72 8y ago
Isn't that the same argument that could be applied to child actors / singers / performers? I don't know the statistics, I admit, but there seem to be not so many people who were those things are a kid who are happy and w
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by mb_72 8y ago
Nice in theory, but China goes out of it's way to force it's viewpoint on others outside of China and Taiwan (eg political interference in Australia, propaganda distribution in Australia, the whole South China Sea debacle where Ch
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by mb_72 8y ago
All these items would need to be in stock somewhere locally for delivery to be that fast, and if they are I'll either go and get them myself or pay 3-4 euros to have them delivered to a parcel locker 5 minutes away tomorrow. I'm f
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by mb_72 8y ago
Please try and convince me that someone operating a fleet of delivery robots that costs many thousands of euros each is going to be 'cheaper' than utilising the current model of people + their own cars. Where I live (Estonia), del
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by mb_72 8y ago
Starship Technologies has been going at this for ~5 years already, and I feel extremely skeptical about this entire 'autonomous last mile delivery' thing. Home delivery is a solved problem; we pay a few EUR for it and a human turn
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by mb_72 8y ago
A sad sign of the times, and it looks like the researchers were in the USA. Perhaps the media people thought this angle with garner their invention more attention.
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by mb_72 8y ago
For those who are not into rock music or music in general necessarily, this article is still worth reading and thinking about. A couple of lines stand out for me, especially: "...every group has a threshold for tension that represents
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by mb_72 8y ago
Well... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-16/are-china-cheap-loans... ... not sure what 'bashing' you are talking about. This 'debt-trap diplomacy' is a real concern here in Australia.
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by mb_72 8y ago
There are spelling errors on each page I've looked at so far (eg travel "Iternary"). Personally I'd never trust such a site; I'd rather rely on my own research of visa conditions direct from official sources for the
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by mb_72 8y ago
Not in this case. China, Japan, Thailand - all countries where no matter how well you speak the language, know the culture or how much you spend creating companies that employ locals, you will always be a foreigner and 'less than'
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by mb_72 8y ago
I can also only assume the same thing (and I'm on your team - I've listened using decent but not awesome headphones i.e. HD 380 pros); the large number of 'OMG this has changed my life' comments on the various videos see
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by mb_72 8y ago
"There are a few different ways you can make it, but it’s really distinguishable when someone makes 8D correctly. When it’s done wrong, the music doesn’t sound like it’s in the room with you. It just pans back and forth." That&#x2
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by mb_72 8y ago
Good for you. I've had a 'no online gambling / no defence work' clause in my resume / Linked-In profile for a while now, cuts down on a lot of crappy or dodgy offers, that's for sure!
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by mb_72 8y ago
They were huge in Australia also - I recall visiting a 'computer show' in 1981 in what was then a population of 32k people city, and next year I convinced my Dad we ... ahem ... I needed a TRS-80 Color Computer. Putting aside the
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by mb_72 8y ago
At one stage a company I worked for was considering licensing the code for a school time-tabling application, rather than paying the company to do the (fairly minor) changes we required to meet (non-USA) state requirements. The company was
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by mb_72 8y ago
Billions of dollars and still charging a pretty penny for the hardware? Should have put several million into making free headsets available to developers vetted to some basic degree, and see what happens
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by mb_72 8y ago
When I first started out (in 1994 - strokes greying beard) I decided I wouldn't work for any defence companies. About 10 years back I added online betting/gambling companies to the exclusion list. These exceptions are listed in my
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by mb_72 8y ago
That 'short window' was some period of months, I thought. It's not cool the problem happened but sounds like you didn't consider it high enough priority to get onto it.
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by mb_72 8y ago
That's an interesting take, as often the ABC is accused of pandering to the left and being anti-government. Living outside of Australia I rely almost exclusively on the ABC website for news about Australia, and IMO most of the time it
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by mb_72 8y ago
South Australian here - I was unaware of the origin of the term, so thanks for that. I have an interest in such history as my distant relative, one "Johann Heinrich Both" arrived on the Bengalee back in 1838: http://www
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by mb_72 8y ago
Putting aside immigrants, this is ignorant of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia who have been here for some 10s of thousands of years.
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by mb_72 8y ago
Speaking of salaries being before tax, in Australia for example you'd only see 63 cents in the dollar out of that 5k (assuming a salary of $80k a year, probably not unreasonable for a lot of Australian developers). Might you also consi
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by mb_72 8y ago
XPO (Devexpress' ORM for Windows) fan here; I've used this for years to deliver solutions for a number of clients, and it's still possible to use SQL directly in the few percentage of cases where it's necessary. I'm
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by mb_72 8y ago
Or is is that such crimes are under-reported by the state-controlled media? Or that statistics for such crimes cannot be easily located, or at all? Someone else has posted on this thread stating they couldn't find relevant statistics e
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by mb_72 8y ago
Hopefully it's just a 'soft' delete, and this can be undone. I can't imagine FB actually hard-deleting any information that might help them in terms of ads etc.
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by mb_72 8y ago
Schools can both allow some educational gaming and real-world digging, it doesn't have to be one or the other.
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by mb_72 8y ago
I love them because it's a reminder of how I became interested in computers and programming in the first place. 1980 -> '84 I lived in a country town in South Australia (then the second-largest city, but still only around 30k p
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by mb_72 8y ago
Speaking as someone with dual Australian / Estonian citizenship, I never saw it as racism that it's a PITA to get a Russian visa, however the Russian view that anything that is an inconvenience to them is 'racist' is sad
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by mb_72 8y ago
Sorry to hear about these problems, but if 'garbage' works for you, then that's all that matters. I swap between my model M (for my Windows 10 PC) and a 'garbage' low end USB generic keyboard, and find both work fin
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by mb_72 8y ago
Another 1987 model-M (compact mini to be precise) user here. I have never once even thought about how 'hard' it is to push down a key, hope you haven't just jinxed me! Yes, occasionally needing to unplug and replug the USB -&

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