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by venus 13y ago
Australia is a member of the UKUSA intelligence treaty, so you can assume your mail there is under broadly the same scrutiny as in the USA, if not more so. Frankly I wouldn't trust any commercially hosted mail service to be immune from
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by venus 13y ago
Australia has never had anything like the 4th Amendment. It's common knowledge amongst people who care that active monitoring of phones has been going on for decades, no-one pretends that it's only foreigners who are of interest.
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by venus 13y ago
> Everything else is barely noticeable except for some performance numbers. Did you type that with a straight face?
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by venus 13y ago
> democracies paralysed by idiots with votes Or, as we call them, "democracies"
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by venus 13y ago
You know what, I had a job like that for a while. It's called being a sysadmin at a medium size company, because after a while, if you're competent, you basically automate yourself out of any regular work. Every now and again would be somet
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by venus 13y ago
I used the word wealth because I was replying to another post which used it when trying to set up a false dichotomy between political freedom on one side and "wealth" on the other, as if they're opposites and you can have one or the other,
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by venus 13y ago
> There is a problem with centralised political power Well yes, of course. Even the laziest student of history knows that. I am not trying to advocate for that extreme end of the range of political possibilities. The elephant in the roo
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by venus 13y ago
> a great place to live as long as you do not try to exercise a political freedom I'm not arguing with that. What I'm trying to say is that I don't think it has been conclusively proved that being able to exercise that freedom leads to
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by venus 13y ago
> protesting something I call "Singaporification." I love how people always cast Singapore as some kind of horror story cautionary tale. No-one seems to have told the actual people of Singapore, who are perfectly free to leave their ni
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by venus 13y ago
Yeah, but you don't need that to get people's attention. Any nuclear bomb at all is a Big Deal.
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by venus 13y ago
Good quote from one of the comments: >> “With modern weapons-grade uranium, the background neutron rate is so low that terrorists, if they have such material, would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield explosion simply by
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by venus 13y ago
Gee, sorry for trying to be helpful and trying to have an adult discussion. Right, yeah, whatever; on the question of did X article from Y years ago happen to contain the number 16 then you were right and I was wrong. Congrats.
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by venus 13y ago
Huh. You're right; I totally missed that. And I didn't call you a liar. The world isn't black and white like that, OK? Nonetheless, you singled out this easily-missable page 2 speculation and cast it out like a solid gold internationally ac
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by venus 13y ago
I read that article (again - I read it when it was first published) and it doesn't mention the number 16 anywhere. Look, I am broadly sympathetic to your point of view (I think). I agree we need to take drastic measures to control CO2. I th
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by venus 13y ago
> We have 16 years at current burn rates to end fossil fuels 16 years? Where did you get that figure? What is this deadline you're talking about?
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by venus 13y ago
Funny how language evolves in microcosms. In my circle of friends it's the Xbox 1, and the original PlayStation is the PS1. "Original Xbox" sounds a little unwieldy to my ear.
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by venus 13y ago
> Japan is quite lucky because much of the island is unsuitable for habitation pushing many of the cities into a narrow band Lucky? How is that lucky? I believe this is the first time I have ever heard someone describing a lack of habit
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by venus 13y ago
It's always good to see people building stuff - anything! - but many of these are less original, viable inventions and more just plain models. Number 34, for example, is quite obviously not a serious attempt to build a working aircraft. In
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by venus 13y ago
The "compact" excuse is a cop-out, IMO. LA and SF are two massive cities well within high speed train range. Of course there's nothing in between them - there's no transport! You're thinking backwards. Put a station 150km outside of SF with
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by venus 13y ago
The tohoku shinkansen in Japan can have trainsets with up to 1600 people in one 16-car train, and can slam them down the line at 250+kph, one every 3 or 4 minutes. A couple of E5s could do 1400 people at 320. If that isn't efficient then I'
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by venus 13y ago
I'll second all the anecdotes on this page plus add that I often won't even enter stores, especially small ones, if I judge it likely there will be too many "vultures". I don't begrudge retail workers, really - I suppose they have a job to
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by venus 13y ago
What if there's no blog post? I could write a blog post saying exactly what I said here.
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by venus 13y ago
You're maybe the fourth person I've heard who is talking about MicroConf like it was the best conference ever. I'm beginning to really regret not attending. Was it all that?
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by venus 13y ago
Ah, it's the same in Japanese - 過労死 (mandarin has the simplified characters).
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by venus 13y ago
The dealers can grasp for whatever reasons they want, but I have no sympathy whatsoever. They're rent-seekers, pure and simple, with no value add at all. Half the time they don't even have stock! > "Buying an iPad is not buying a car,"
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by venus 13y ago
I disagree with this article. Apathy didn't kill anything; the unstoppable juggernaut of technology can, is and will replace all pseudo factory robots with actual factory robots. What we do about that is the question of the ages indeed. If
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by venus 13y ago
This is so common in Japan they have a word for it. Which came in useful for naming our group at a previous company: "Team Karoshi".
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by venus 13y ago
Materialised views! Damn, I really could have used that a year and a bit ago..
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by venus 13y ago
Your accusation that he deliberately lied, rather than simply changed his mind, has no foundation whatsoever.

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