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by ux-app 8y ago
> I absolutely, as an Australian citizen, resident and voter, have skin in the game. sigh , I meant real skin in the game, i.e. you would face another 4 years in opposition if Murdoch and mates politicized your "support of ISIS&q
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by ux-app 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it, I'm not well versed in foreign politics, so digging into these examples now. Germany, in particular seems to be a great example of political plurality.
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by ux-app 8y ago
Greens don't count, they have no real political clout, and their tiny base rewards them for an anti-stand.
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by ux-app 8y ago
>Shorten/Labor let it through because they support it yep fair comment, and fwiw I agree with you, but I take issue with people who think it's reasonable for an opposition party to take sides on a complex technical issue that u
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by ux-app 8y ago
>Your comment only works because Australian politics lacks any real clear distinction between the two major political parties, and also lacks any real leadership. Yes it fucking sucks. But please point out to me any other democratic coun
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by ux-app 8y ago
> I can't believe someone actually bought that line. I didn't buy the line, but be realistic, what percentage of Australians could even make a coherent argument against this bill? It's a vanishingly small percentage. I wat
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by ux-app 8y ago
you're preaching to the choir here mate. It's corrupt though-and-through, but the Murdoch media controls the narrative in this country, and the vast majority of Australians a) don't care and b) only consider the "but wha
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by ux-app 8y ago
>So "99.99% of Aussies" don't care that their software industry (or at least, security-related stuff) gets destroyed Yes, I'm sorry, but in AU "Information Media and Telecommunications" sector employment mad
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by ux-app 8y ago
>Saying they would "die on their sword" is wrong. Nobody would care if they said "we're waiting 6 months because we want time to debate". Again, be realistic, and account for the context of the situation. The LNP
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by ux-app 8y ago
> It’s legislative and electoral cowardice more than political pragmatism. The only reason you can say this is because you have no skin in the game. If you were in Parliament, faced with a fringe issue (I don't think it is, but the
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by ux-app 8y ago
This is, at best, a very fringe issue for the voting public. That's sad, and I'm disappointed that it's turned out this way, but seriously, it is the only sane position for Labor to take right now. You can't affect much
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by ux-app 8y ago
> It's just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately. I'm sick of all this idealism. Life is not a Disney movie. Labor did what they could under the circumstances. I hate it a
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by ux-app 8y ago
> those with courage resign and sit on the cross bench you expect Shorten to go to the cross bench? get real.
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by ux-app 8y ago
it's bipartisan in the interests of pragmatism. Labor were forced to collude because idiot Scomo and his buddies decided to go for the cheap "keep Aussies safe over Christmas" banter. Labor capitulated with the proviso that t
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by ux-app 8y ago
sorry for inserting my own product into the conversation, but I am running out of ways to understand the failure of my product. I wrote a prototyping application ( https://www.ux-app.com/dev/editor ). It's on life
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by ux-app 8y ago
> soured my view of him forever. He’s revealed himself to be a man of no principles. I don't have a strong opinion of Shorten one way or the other, but I've read a lot of people express a similar POV and it strikes me as extrem
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by ux-app 8y ago
>There is research showing that online pornography distorts people's views of sex I'd cautiously agree with this wrt commercial porn, where the negative effects, coercion etc are well documented and "sex negative" as
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by ux-app 8y ago
> If you look at the OP's photos of his yard you'll see that it is just a mess of plants with no rhyme or reason. I think it looks wonderful. 1000x better than the bland, sterile putting greens in front of boring mc mansions.
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by ux-app 8y ago
> I'm arguing that mere truth is unknowable without faith Does the infantry man's faith in ballistic charts affect where a mortar will land? Yes it turned out that Newtonian physics doesn't describe absolute truth, but it
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by ux-app 8y ago
I'm a high school IT teacher, and can definitely relate to the lack of knowledge of the file system. It's particularly bad with students using a mac. We're now seeing a 50/50 split between win/mac and it seems that
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by ux-app 8y ago
> "...why is that too much to ask? " because it's bloody hard to create civil, thoughtful communities. HN is interesting since the general user base seems to have learned to self-moderate, buuuut, it has made HN a pretty d
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by ux-app 8y ago
> "probably" ...
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by ux-app 8y ago
> while Shannons still happily covers it They'll happily take your money, the true test is whether they'll pay up if you have a significant claim (e.g. totaled a Bentley :) )
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by ux-app 8y ago
> Regardless of the answer, herein lies the problem. don't pursue damages?
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by ux-app 8y ago
This is ridiculous, but to save yourself, run backups. I've been doing a full system disk backup every 24 hours for the past 2 years. So far it has saved my bacon once. Fwiw, i use Acronis for bups. The restore process for a 128gb ssd
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by ux-app 8y ago
sure, but you counter research with more research not a personal anecdote.
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by ux-app 8y ago
> I haven’t read the article you quote and I won’t because the conclusions you’re drawing from it are insane They're not my conclusions, I quoted a summary the researchers provided. >Or I could just examine my own experience Sinc
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by ux-app 8y ago
>If children were as stupid as you suggest none of them would make it through childhood. They're not stupid and I didn't say they are. They lack experience and do not have the skills (brain development) that are necessary to cr
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by ux-app 8y ago
> I know how I was as a boy coming of age with unrestricted internet, and I worry about him. did you turn out ok? when I was a kid in the early 80's kids would bring torn out pages from dad's dirty magazines, we'd sneak in
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by ux-app 8y ago
I wonder if these kids need to cross any streets and what the accident rate there is. I'm assuming Japanese 6 year olds are developmentally very similar to western 6 year olds. So according to the research that I linked to above they h

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