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by veb 5y ago
Sorry about that! I should learn to read a bit more. It's very rare you ever see any reporting done on suicides. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/80143183/new-zealand-suicid... I guess to be safe they sort of
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by veb 5y ago
You're assuming the west (or the US specifically) is not actually helping Ukraine out in this way. They've been on this since weeks before the invasion even happened. By putting it all out there, they really messed with Putin&#x27
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by veb 5y ago
This is why it's illegal to report deaths as suicides in New Zealand media as well. https://mentalhealth.org.nz/media/reporting-and-portrayal-of...
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by veb 5y ago
Mate, why don't you start something like this in NZ? We totally need more robotic startups IMO. Years ago I 'worked' at Scott Technologies, around the time they were making this 'smart' straw making machine that had
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by veb 5y ago
Ha, sort of ironic to me as a Kiwi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior We are still nuclear free too - and we still don't have many military visits to our ports or marine territory consi
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by veb 5y ago
I'm in NZ, but I can use https://statescard.com/ and they seem to be pretty good. I use this for signing up to watch HBO Max and some other subscriptions. It's pretty handy.
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by veb 5y ago
NZ has done the high speed fibre roll out really nicely - this includes small rural towns (1,600 people, 433 people from two rural areas near me) this is gigabit fibre. It costs about $95 NZD a month for 1000Mbps/500Mbps unlimited. For
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by veb 5y ago
There's also Cloudcannon! https://cloudcannon.com/jekyll-cms/
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by veb 5y ago
Many years ago I used to be really conscious of my hearing aids - badly so. A few years before I got my cochlear implant I ingested six tabs of LSD and a friend drove me around all night (still one of my best friends to this day, we met in
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by veb 5y ago
I didn't know that about Māori actually, and I am one... heh. Those universities you mention really need to take a hard long look at themselves because that's just fucking disgraceful. Jeez.
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by veb 5y ago
I think you linked to this thread haha. I was confused for a hot second there.
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by veb 5y ago
I can't blame them, you see replies like "how do you feel working for such an amoral unethical company" and you start to understand why they don't like to reveal it anymore.
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by veb 5y ago
I had something like this happen in 2012, and by posting it on HackerNews, I had a bunch of Facebook people replying - and fixing it. I was simply running a fan page, but when someone else (the official page I think) came into existence, it
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by veb 5y ago
Not most countries, but it is illegal in some... see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation In NZ I do know the cops like to kick you when you're down. Let's say you've climbed a scaffold tha
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by veb 5y ago
I think it's usually been a case of bugger all fibre optic connections to NZ at least. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ is a good place to have a look. We are (or may have already gotten) some more bandwidth due to a
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by veb 5y ago
It's strange, I thought they had to provide both in French and English? Nevertheless I found this: https://globalnews.ca/video/8497644/psychedelics-approved-fo... but it's not quite the same, heh. Just u
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by veb 5y ago
Snapchat is pretty popular amongst kids and early 20s in NZ too.
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by veb 5y ago
Laravel is pretty good. Spark definitely reminds me a lot of Django. https://spark.laravel.com/ I think nowadays you can use whatever frontend you want with it, where prior versions you had to use Vue (I think)
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by veb 5y ago
This is a bit mean. You do not know the circumstances of OP. Do you know them personally to be able to say this? Is this so-called more ethical company going to pay them the same or give them the same sort of pay and benefits? What if this
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by veb 5y ago
I've owed Facebook $150 USD from an ad campaign I ran for a non-profit group for years now. Maybe 6? They still haven't banned me. They'll occasionally ask (as a small alert you can cancel out of) for it. I was hoping they&#x
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by veb 5y ago
This one sucks (for twitter at least) because I don't give out my number because I'm deaf. Seriously, I won't even give the hospital my number, just my email. Why? Because every appointment they'd ring me, even though if
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by veb 5y ago
That's really neat stuff, thank you for writing that article. I'm going to give it a go :-) If you hadn't, I probably wouldn't have had any reason to try it!
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by veb 5y ago
I mean, you're right - but honestly it's really fucking cool. I never sign up to newsletters but this made me do it because it's really fucking cool. Though - I'd be keen to pay $5/m for premium access to what they
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by veb 5y ago
This was SUPER interesting to see! I actually (for once) signed up for their next newsletter/scan. It asked me what they should scan next and I suggested cochlear implant processors. It'd be pretty cool to see! The tech on those p
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by veb 5y ago
I actually did! It worked a lot better than GitHub's Lab.
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by veb 5y ago
Good on you for editing your comment. I was about to say you probably shouldn't say that :-) I just checked out Denigma, and it's quite wonderful actually. I may give it a try - the pricing is pretty good, less than a cup of coffe
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by veb 5y ago
This is a pretty awesome New Zealand company, been following them since they first got funding. I love farm tech! Another is OmniEye: https://www.irisdata.co.nz/omnieye I've seen this in person and it's fantastic
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by veb 5y ago
I'm in Dunedin, but I didn't even know these birds came here! That's amazing. Do you know if DOC or whoever are planning anything to help? People aren't allowed to go into the breeding areas on the Otago Peninsula for Al
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by veb 5y ago
My son was born in 2013. For some reason I immediately blurted out "Archer" when we found out we were having a boy. My wife did not like it, I loved the name! I kept referring to him as Archer, and then soon she couldn't thin
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by veb 5y ago
My experience is with South Island, so primarily Ngāi Tahu and others. The one you linked is total crap, I agree.

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