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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
How does that negate needing a VPN, storage, networking, media management, remote access, malware? I’ve never met even a data hoarder who has “all of them”, and I tend to watch them one at a time anyways, so I’d argue “ not all of them ” is
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Cheaper & easier - not by much. Australia blocks all the good torrent sites, so now I need a VPN, a reputable one. Also need terabytes of network connected storage, and usually I need more and more of it over time. Better and more netwo
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Maybe they could incascerate the plant and equipment. This week half the photocopiers are in foster care (prison). Next week, half the backup generators.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Are you talking about the June 2024 decision that scraps the Chevron defence ?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Sure. Quite reductionist. But I don't disagree.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Thank you for your contribution here today.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Good points. Governments haven't been all bad. Although more recently, at least in Australia, it would be difficult to claim the federal government, and the Victorian state government, have done anything good. By any metric one mig
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
If they don't notice, and they're on an unlimited data plan, or the usage is such that it doesn't result in exceeding their data cap, what argument is there that harm occurred?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
The information this is based on is reporting from the Australian ABC TV program Four Corners. The ABC is a know, as in they don't even try to pretend propriety, propaganda outlet of the Australia Albanese federal Government. I'm
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
What does slavery, real slavery or anti-China propaganda fake slavery, have to do with the with the presence or absence of pesticides, banned or otherwise?
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Difficult to distinguish between actual slave labour and China-is-bad propaganda. Harm to the end user: none^ Benefits to the end user: more affordable tomato paste Government action to prevent slave labour products entering Australia: none
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
> rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. Harm to the user: none^ > spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and adve
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I’m from The Government, and I’m here to help. One not entirely inaccurate definition of government is a loose agglomeration of third parties. Or, less flatteringly, a stupendously large way too loose agglomeration of way too many third
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
One cannot simply bring up Veritasium without also honouring his arch nemesis ElectroBOOM. https://youtube.com/@electroboom?si=HqjCoJtrn6ci41uw Others that deserve a mention: styropyro https://youtube.com/@s
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I tend to agree. To paraphrase your last paragraph, an idea that hasn’t been tested is either perfect, or just bad enough that no one wants to test it, as, as you say, testing it is would be at least somewhat inconvenient. Chances are nothi
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Sure. But they’re not dependent on my research in particular. If I don’t publish, what, as a result of my not publishing, happens to the companies dependent on data & research? Nothing.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
What do you mean by this? What are investors who don’t have money? Perhaps I should have said investors and speculators , but this doesn’t help you here.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
You could be proven wrong and wither in to obscurity. Better to silo yourself and move in to the penthouse.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Arguably, the point of a startup isn’t to make money, it’s to attract attention and then investors. Once the business is making money it’s not really a startup any more, it’s a going concern. OP is an undergrad student. Attracting attention
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Well that’s good. If we’ve got data, let’s go with the data.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I did mention buying the least complicated complicated, featureless option in my first paragraph. You make some good points, especially about the significant reduction in waste heat compared with gas.
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Fair point. Definitely not an argument in favour of Victoria prohibiting gas in new builds though. I agree those people living in older apartments who don’t have an easy and practical option for externally ventilated exhaust should be subsi
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
> Induction offers the benefits of not emitting noxious fumes, I don’t understanding this criticism. Who in their right mind ie cooking inside at all without an externally ventilated exhaust fan? The moisture control issue leading to mou
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I’ve worked in appliance repair and have worked on induction cook tops. I wouldn’t recommend buying one. The fancier models have a stupendous number of circuit boards in them, and obviously a lot of power electronics, as well as cooling fan
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
We can’t measure the temperature of consciousness like we can the temperature of simulated snow. As you write consciousness does not necessarily arise from computation , but it may, at least to some degree, we don’t know. We don’t have rel
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
I like your argument. It is said that absent any input these thinking machines we are inert, quiescent. That they have no intrinsic motivation of their own. Whereas we, along with at least some other mammals but especially humans, seem to b
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Your argument seems to boil down to a No True Hazmat Suit fallacy. Where if the uniform worn isn’t quite right, and the location isn’t quite the same, and the presence or absence of one arbitrary infectious agent doesn’t match the criteri
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Targeted gene therapy, cancer survival rates, trauma care, the advancements in hip and knee replacement, all sorts of surgery, HIV is now a non-issue with the right care. The list goes on. Drug development is a hard problem because the solu
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
This is completely unsurprising, and this: But let’s think about that 91% failure rate for a moment. When I bring this up in presentations, I invite the audience to consider what the auto industry would look like of 91% of new car designs
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by perpetuallunch 3mo ago
Dramatic arrest footage shows police surrounding elderly women sitting on park bench https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/dra... The arrest of a woman in Australia for promoting an anti-lo

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