throwaway788

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by throwaway788 3y ago
Yeah, but that carbon-based brain should have also obtained the learning material legally. Why would a “silicon-based brain” be any different.
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by throwaway788 4y ago
The banks are required to stress test those loans with somewhat stringent requirements. When the loans were granted they take the current retail interest and add around 3% and ensure that the loan recipient could still afford it. Last year
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by throwaway788 5y ago
NSW removed all restrictions right before Omicron. They had zero of these so called “extremely strict rules” in place for the last month or so. The premier only changed tact when it became obvious that hospitals would be overwhelmed (back t
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by throwaway788 5y ago
Thats over the last 21 days. There was 47 community cases yesterday.
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by throwaway788 5y ago
Isn’t the point to avoid severe outbreaks in the first place, and thereby not needing extensive periods of restrictions. I think the perfect time would be when effective oral anti-virals are readily available, they are just around the corne
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by throwaway788 5y ago
The 95%+ vaccinations rates (12+) in the three major cities and 92% overall (also 12+) would somewhat help. Along with the fact community spread is already present and has been for a few months, the measures in place have kept uncontrolled
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by throwaway788 5y ago
Over the entire pandemic to date, NZ has had lower levels of restrictions than all other OECD countries. For the majority of the pandemic there were zero restrictions and businesses and people were operating as normal. NZ had a election mid
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by throwaway788 5y ago
Perhaps because over the course of the pandemic only 50 people have died in NZ from Covid. Going through MIQ and the systems built around it has enabled seeding events to be limited to only several incursions supporting elimination and then
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by throwaway788 5y ago
When it comes to MIQ allocation they aren’t put ahead of anyone - everyone who has the ability to enter NZ has the same chance and ability to obtain MIQ slots.
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by throwaway788 5y ago
The last allocation of MIQ slots had 800+ rooms that were not taken. Anyone who urgently needed to return had the ability to secure a room in December. When Omicron appeared and it hadn’t been detected within the community in NZ it was obvi
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by throwaway788 5y ago
I don’t know how serious Google take GCP. BigQuery Data Transfer service has been failing with internal errors when trying to copy datasets between regions for the last 2+ days. Must be no alerting/monitoring on the service. Doesn’t in