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by plugger 5y ago
What do you think is the appropriate balance between individual freedoms and the freedoms of your community? Honest question.
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by plugger 5y ago
>Real estate agents: 49.1 years old automation/online will change it a lot once the older generations of agents and clients leave the scene. IDK about that. I'm a pretty online person but I don't think I would have mortgag
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by plugger 5y ago
How many enterprises are running their own DCs these days? Very few from what I see. Cloud for your services, StarLink for individual office premises. Sounds fine to me.
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by plugger 5y ago
*In countries with reasonably good wired internet I live in Australia, a 30 minutes drive from the centre of a state capital and I've had a near 10x increase in my download speed and a 4x increase in my upload speed by moving to Starli
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by plugger 5y ago
In the book it was Petrus which is 100% Merlot. They approached the chateau to see if they'd green light the use of Petrus as his unicorn bottle. The chateau refused, and they instead landed on Cheval Blanc. I've always been left
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by plugger 5y ago
how can you say this definitively? do you work there?
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by plugger 5y ago
> The main problem with Blue Origin is that it isn't SpaceX. Really? I'd say the problem is more that they've not produced much in the way of progress despite being at it for years. Beyond the suborbital dong they've
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by plugger 5y ago
Could be worse. We could have our police shooting us on a daily basis.
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by plugger 5y ago
It is a choice. You choose to submit to two weeks of quarantine in either hotel quarantine (that you pay for) or at home; OR you choose to stay outside of Western Australia and accept the risk of getting Covid from places where community sp
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by plugger 5y ago
Do you understand that Western Australia hasn't opted for the 'let rip deaths be damned' strategy that the US has and has instead had zero community transmission for the vast majority of the pandemic? Your comments read like
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by plugger 5y ago
Because they're not criminals and that's a monitoring system for criminals?
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by plugger 5y ago
> So you're okay with increasingly stricter subversion of freedom, because you've consumed media fear-mongering about the pandemic. The pandemic is not deadly enough to justify building a totalitarian regime. FFS. So you'r
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by plugger 5y ago
> We can't keep throwing the baby out with the bathwater! "We" didn't do anything. The corporate board (I assume) made this decision, not us. The guy isn't facing charges, he's just been let go by a private
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by plugger 5y ago
Agreed. Much like the conversation about Google censoring at the behest of the Russian government yesterday it all boils down to the money. Don't mess with the revenue stream. If you do, be prepared to be let go. It's that simple.
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by plugger 5y ago
Yea, I kinda thought the whole idea of corporations, especially the big multinationals, was that profit was ALWAYS the number one priority. When you view them with that lens it helps a lot in terms of attempting to understand their decision
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by plugger 5y ago
> That document (DA 18-980) talks about "importing two-way VHF/UHF radios... used primarily for short-distance, two-way voice communications." I thought it was more along the lines of going after Baofengs, not CB radios,
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by plugger 5y ago
I'm not too sure about that. Having a HAM radio license would allow you to transmit on bands licensed for HAM usage. A lot of the stuff that people want SDRs for (especially for transmitting) lies outside of those bands.
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by plugger 5y ago
Or put the unit in a faraday cage to carry out testing. I believe a lot of people do this to allow them to play with transmission while not breaking any laws.
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by plugger 5y ago
lol, I use Teams in the browser on Debian for work as it only takes a few hours before the "Teams Preview" fat client for linux starts consuming every cpu cycle my host has available.
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by plugger 5y ago
In comparison to Teams, Discord is a godsend. I think the biggest problem in this space is a lack of quality competition.
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by plugger 5y ago
> On the right, it’s a running joke The FBI had been surveiling, infiltrating, and eliminating domestic American Political organizations since it was established, both on the left and the right.
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by plugger 5y ago
So you believe a livelihood is greater than human life? Someone running their own business should be viewed as more important than their neighbor living? Sounds pretty psychopathic to me.
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by plugger 5y ago
> Don't forget they disarmed the people. SIGH. This isn't true and I wish Americans would stop saying it. You can own guns down here, even keep them in your house. Sure, you're limited to bolt actions/side by sides, e
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by plugger 5y ago
Correct. A conscious decision has been made in Australia to prioritize human life over business profits. What most didn't realize is that by choosing this path we're optimizing both, eg because we don't have any community spr
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by plugger 5y ago
the federal government. We had two programs, JobKeeper and JobSeeker. In my opinion this is why we have governments, to support the citizens in their time of need.
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by plugger 5y ago
> Since leaving Australia (and started living in Europe) I have come to the conclusion that Australia is not a "real" country - it is just a continent owned by corporate interests that happens to also have people living on it.
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by plugger 5y ago
> with also having the worst facets of Texas Excluding the gun deaths and socialised health care of course. Those are two things that Australia has unambiguously gotten right that Texas and/or the US seems incapable of addressing.
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by plugger 5y ago
Locking down the entire state ensures community spread doesn't occur across state lines. It's as simple as that.
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by plugger 5y ago
yea, nah. Western Australia has completely proven hard snap lockdowns work. We even had community spread of Delta from the NSW outbreak around a month ago. I'm typing this in the office without a mask because we quashed the outbreak. O
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by plugger 5y ago
It's the solar radiation, not high G's, that is the main problem with colonising Mars given Mars doesn't have a functional magnetosphere. At best Martian colonists will be the modern day equivalent of Morlocks if they want to

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