wisdomdata

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by wisdomdata 5y ago
Killer whales hunting baleen whales in concert with humans of the coast of Australia is well documented and probably predates European settlement - search 'the law of the tongue' for more details.
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by wisdomdata 5y ago
I would argue actual bills paid (as shown in the camstar data) is important to the average voter vs wholesale price as you have quoted.
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by wisdomdata 5y ago
https://www.canstarblue.com.au/electricity/average-electrici... South Australia does not have cheaper electricity bills. We also had a multi-day outage in 2016 which was partially due to wind generators shedding load.
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by wisdomdata 5y ago
there was a bottomless pit of money to pay for advertising on facebook to get it up to critical mass, I wonder where that might have come from?
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by wisdomdata 5y ago
the question is, are the downvoters paid or incentivised to do so? we will never know.
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by wisdomdata 6y ago
At what cost? we've saved a few 80 year olds, but lost hundreds of younger people via suicide and created a huge long tail of mental health problems along with poor educational outcomes (Australian here).
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by wisdomdata 6y ago
thanks that is really great perspective
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by wisdomdata 6y ago
not similar, but relevant: https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/03/05/3957316.htm
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by wisdomdata 6y ago
easy to imagine such a thing recording covid status being a pre-requisite to entering hospitals / government buildings. Other options would be offered initially.
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by wisdomdata 6y ago
Does anyone else see the irony of herding people off beaches to protect them from covid-19?
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
on currently published numbers the death rate is around one death per 30 infections. (25th January, 41 people dead from 1287 infections). According to wikipedia the spanish flu had a death rate of 1 in 50 (although the numbers may not be th
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
My meaning was that it is too far for a transmission line to make sense, and once the transmission line gets to South Australia (the state closest to Western Australia) you have only delivered the power to a state with the same problem - to
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
that comment (while technically correct) is undoubtedly from someone who has obviously never driven across the nullabor.
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
South Australian here - In South Australia keep in mind commercial scale solar is also generating against residential rooftop solar which is sold back via a feed in tarrif to the generator at a contracted fixed rate. The generators have to
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
Mentions of China and the US could be swapped in that paragraph, the only thing out of line would be the population estimate.
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.
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by wisdomdata 7y ago
A tool with a camera and other sensors you can log into remotely and drive wherever you like in Washington (for example) and then have it loiter while it beams data back to china. Sounds like a plan!
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by wisdomdata 8y ago
On remote beaches I have visited in Australia there are large items but nothing like the amount of small items in this photo. I wonder if you could use machine learning to automatically classify plastic in photos like this based on color an
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by wisdomdata 9y ago
Exactly. Create the right conditions with little grazing pressure and reduced weed competition and regeneration will often happen naturally. There may be technical solutions to bump this along but for most situations this will not be it. Wh
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by wisdomdata 9y ago
NK will not be going to war, unless by miscalculation. Kim knows that of all the scenarios in a war, none end with him munching on caviar in a palace. There are two major powers that would make certain of that. Why do you think he was so ke
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by wisdomdata 9y ago
next dilemma for a startup - figuring out which bit of the splinternet you are going to target - the chinese, the confederate, the islamic or the general part.
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by wisdomdata 11y ago
as an australian citizen I am interested to know - would this be a ruling a company could push for compensation on under the TPP?
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by wisdomdata 11y ago
If I was microsoft, I would overhaul minecraft mods and make it possible to write them in c# (maybe with a bridge or something). Get kids into your stack and fix an existing pain point.
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by wisdomdata 12y ago
unfortunately (for Australia at least) the camel is in no danger of disappearing, it is a very serious pest of the inland desert areas. The number of camels which range through inland arid areas is now around the 1 million mark. They are ve