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Australian police to trial AI tool designed to predict and domestic violence(theguardian.com)
7 points by siquick 5y ago|2 comments
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by siquick 5y ago
All the while being bombarded with ads from real estate companies trying to FOMO you into buying a very average house for a price you really can't afford.
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by siquick 5y ago
100% agree. It's almost like Wall-E was written about Australia in 50 years time. The irony being that 30% of the population was born outside of Australia with a decent part of that in countries which have experienced recent hard times
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by siquick 5y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. In my anecdotal experience, people don't care about politics here and will most likely vote on either "I'd rather have a beer with X than Y so I'll vote for X" or "they&#
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by siquick 5y ago
I've lived in Australia for 10 years and really considering my familys future in this country. We are sleep-walking towards a very average future. An undiversified export economy, out of control house prices, a job-market primarily foc
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by siquick 5y ago
The guy who wrote that book has a good blog too https://www.robinwieruch.de/
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by siquick 5y ago
I’m in a similar situation except I’m still in a HOCL city (Sydney) and it’s really starting to grind on me. What do you like about Brisbane?
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by siquick 5y ago
You could try the World of Echoes Facebook group ran by Francois K, would be surprised if you didn’t get that track ID in there.
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by siquick 5y ago
Try not to compare yourself to others - everyone has had a different journey and everyone has their own issues going on. One thing that’s working for me is to pick a hobby (mine is music production), choose a consistent time that you’re goi
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by siquick 5y ago
Sorry you didn’t enjoy it . It sounds like you maybe wanted the book to be something it was never going to be.
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by siquick 5y ago
PHM is excellent. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is also a good read. Fast paced and interesting ideas.
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by siquick 5y ago
Have you read The Expanse? No love triangles and excellent sci-fi/political ideas of the near future of space exploration.
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by siquick 5y ago
Feels like that chart is slightly misleading - it’s easy for credit card debt to appear to be low when there are so many high value mortgages. $20k CC debt is only 2% of the value of a $1m mortgage.
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by siquick 5y ago
I’ve lived in Australia for 10 years and still cannot believe how flippant people here seem to about getting into debt. Tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt, a mortgage covering 60% of a salary, and a leased car seem to be fairl
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by siquick 5y ago
200kUSD is 270kAUD and I doubt there are many dev jobs paying that in Sydney.
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by siquick 5y ago
I don't really watch that many TV shows, I usually fall asleep by the 35 minute mark.
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by siquick 5y ago
> This is why consuming video content, specifically streaming services with all-you-can-stream crap is so damaging. People no longer have time for shared dinners, clubs, or adult sports leagues because they'd rather binge watch a ne
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by siquick 5y ago
>> I hate how some random Chinese shadow tech company can make Apple do their bidding in the US, so that American individuals/companies can't fight back. Hope you get it solved but this attitude just isn't going to help
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by siquick 5y ago
Same in Firefox - the page goes blank after loading. I get `Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: window.ga.getByName(...) is null` in the console.
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by siquick 5y ago
A Sales Engineer role may be a better fit. It’s a great combination for someone with good tech skills and business acumen. In every SE role I had I still had to code so it’s a good way to dip you toes in without going all in.
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by siquick 5y ago
> So here's the thing: if housing prices crash you still have a house. Until your financial circumstances change and you suddenly can't afford your mortgage. Housing price crashes aren't going to happen in isolation from t
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by siquick 5y ago
> Melbourne and Sydney also suffer from being gravity wells for migration, so that people don't leave for better paying work elsewhere or cheaper housing. This is exactly it, I'd love to leave Sydney to live somewhere else but
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by siquick 5y ago
I didn’t graduate from university until I was 28, up until then I worked in very average office jobs including sales, call centre work, and general admin. It’s never held me back and if anything, it gave me an advantage in that I knew how
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by siquick 5y ago
Product Management always seems like a logical step for technical people on the surface but the reality is different for your average engineer and their skill set/personality type. This is a great read on switching. https://
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by siquick 5y ago
I really tried to like dev.to but the content is mostly low quality blog spam and no better than what is on Medium.
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by siquick 5y ago
You may not expect a reply but there are a great many people who would feel pressure to reply to a senior staff member outside of work hours.
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Why do Americans die earlier than Europeans?(theguardian.com)
7 points by siquick 5y ago|2 comments
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by siquick 5y ago
If anyone wants more then Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko is widely considered to be the bible for the early history of Techno from Detroit. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493341.Techno_Rebels
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by siquick 5y ago
Quality article covering a lot of good ground. Hard to imagine that this kind of music is now nearly 40 years old. If anyones interested in hearing what modern techno is up to this is a pretty good list: https://www.soundshelter.
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by siquick 6y ago
Hopefully the region can start developing more long term industry like this as once the oil is over, the north east of Scotland is going to really struggle.

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