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by shirro 5y ago
It was possible to keep covid entirely out of remote populations like Iceland, NZ, Australia using biosecurity measures. Actually turned out to be almost embarrasingly easy compared with the reality in many countries. It is not practical, e
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by shirro 5y ago
This is ignorant. We have a social contact with our government who we elect to provide for our common security. In my state (SA) this is public health data only that is protected from the police by legislation. There is lots of weird data i
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by shirro 5y ago
I guess the difference between me and a billionaire is I don't try and turn all my dumb ideas into products. Eventually if you throw enough crazy ideas out there and refine them I guess some of them work. I am still awestruck at the st
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by shirro 5y ago
This isn't all that crazy in the context of a place like Australia or NZ. In my state in Australia we have only had two very brief lockdowns of several days since the pandemic started and they were to let contact tracers get out ahead
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by shirro 5y ago
A controversial headline and a bit of opinion creates controversy and gains views. Once this sort of information would be written in a plain text HOWTO and posted to usenet but now we have to clickbait everything so it gets posted to HN. SM
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by shirro 5y ago
The Australian federal government didn't order enough vaccines or a wide variety. They were overly dependent on locally manufactured AZ then their health advisory group recommended most of the population not take AZ. And the only other
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by shirro 5y ago
While PBS is a player (Spacetime, Eons, Deep Look etc) science/tech content is covered in much greater depth and with more expertise on Youtube than anything that was ever on traditional broadcast tv if you curate your subscriptions. O
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by shirro 5y ago
I wouldn't mind the electric powertrain but the giant ipad display and gadgets would piss me off. I don't want the distractions. My ideal anti-tesla could include advanced safety features and driver assistance as long as they stay
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by shirro 5y ago
This isn't the failure of an individual. It is a failure of management.
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by shirro 5y ago
I thought this was good for teaching things to look for and attention to detail. If I did this sort of exercise more often it might help me pick up more mistakes. Some of the styling may have been subjective but I think the aim was consiste
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by shirro 6y ago
Fortunately my kids grew up with access to high quality fta tv and streaming app from a public broadcaster (ABC Kids in Australia) which draws on educational consultants, great performers, writers, animators etc. I don't understand why
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by shirro 6y ago
I have never strongly associated the word master with slavery. I think of a master copy or a ships master, master/apprentice as much as anything. Master/slave specifically seems problematic. It does express the relationship betwee
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by shirro 6y ago
There was a much publicised terrorist raid in Australia where the police raided a suspected Muslim terrorist and proudly displayed an evidence bag containing a sword which turned out to be a common Shiite plastic decoration that wasn't
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by shirro 6y ago
I don't use either but the hotmail/live/outlook system is a disaster. I think people who have addresses there must just use them as throwaways as they don't seem to have much utility. You can be a small email sender with
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by shirro 6y ago
They have to take whatever designs are coming out of China and can only make minor adjustments to the specs. Apple has huge volume, big margins a very tight supply chain and a mountain of cash in tax havens. They have a lot more options. If
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by shirro 6y ago
Bathtub Curve, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
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by shirro 6y ago
Sounds similar to how I do my tax on gov.au here. There are a lot of federal government services on there, most I have never used, and an OTP app. Income tax takes a few minutes. It knows about any contributions. If you have simple financia
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by shirro 6y ago
We have no national ID in Australia and the federal government has limited constitutional powers. We have tax file numbers and medicare numbers but they are only used for tax or medical payments and for nothing else. Like the US it is a fed
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by shirro 6y ago
I feel like Lua solved this problem a long time ago and did it with a language fast enough for game logic and easy enough for children to learn. Although the s-expr people would justifiably argue scheme/lisp solved it much earlier.
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by shirro 6y ago
NSW is kind of weird though. They have religious education in government schools which astonishes most Aussies. Nearly everyone gets their car serviced regularly every 6 to 12 months and they risk being defected if driving with a fault. My
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by shirro 6y ago
Australia, although I think this would not be uncommon for most developed countries as it is a big cost saving for government. Licensing and registration are state responsibilities and each state has different systems. Vehicle rego can be c
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by shirro 6y ago
I only carry my debit card and drivers licence as a backup incase my phone goes flat. My digital drivers licence is accepted by police and vehicle registration has been entirely digital for years. If I lost my physical one I don't thin
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by shirro 6y ago
South Australia pricing suffers from a failure of deregulation, not renewable power. The gas/wind/solar mix for generation is fine for a state with a very small population and abundant wind, sun and natural gas. SA has very poor d
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by shirro 6y ago
I was a Firefox user from the Phoenix/Firebird days and I keep trying to make it my primary browser again and reduce my Chrome usage to fight the monoculture. I am probably about 50/50 between them. One of the few Chrome plugins I
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by shirro 6y ago
Many of our civilisation's needs and desires have been created by marketers. Whether it is people selling expensive child care equipment or books promoting fads. You don't need most of that shit. There is some good stuff to know f
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by shirro 6y ago
Time for NASA to admit the same for SLS/Orion.
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by shirro 6y ago
Ideally I would be looking for an affordable and customisable mechanical with sockets and open firmware that is a matrix rather than a specialised ergo/split. Most "enthusiast" ortho mechanicals seem to be smaller like the pl
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by shirro 6y ago
I already have more staggered keyboards than I can use from 60% to full size. Not much incentive to buy more unless you are Chryosan22 and need all the keyboards. But I don't have an ortho. I am curious to try one but I know from exper
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by shirro 6y ago
They also sell computers with open firmware running open source operating systems. I sense a connection.
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by shirro 6y ago
It is the same in any language post here or on reddit. Language designers all optimise for different needs and if they find an audience they are doing something right for someone even if it isn't you.

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