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by zizee 7y ago
> Which is a questionable behaviour... It's a questionable statement. I haven't ever had this happen to me in Australia.
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by zizee 7y ago
> Every time I go back, I wonder why its such an angry shithole. Australians just seem to be getting madder and madder... Anectdata, but the last German I talked to said "When i first arrived in Australia I was really confused by st
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by zizee 7y ago
> Seats though, is it normal to own a bus in Australia? Two of our last cars have been 7 seaters. Neither have been "buses", just a fold up seat in the boot section. Quite comfortable, even for an adult. > The people I would
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by zizee 7y ago
I'm not sure if it is a thing unique to Australia, but there are seem to be a lot of Australian's that have a chip on their shoulder and will tell anyone that will listen to them about how badly Australian's do things/be
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by zizee 7y ago
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity, but in doing it." - Greg Anderson (Apologies if this sounds condescending, but I thought it appropriate)
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by zizee 7y ago
I imagine there has been many a time with someone making a hateful speech where they believe every word that they are saying (regardless of whether are right or not). Politicians are also masters of speech where they are technically correct
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by zizee 7y ago
Ignoring the fact that this doesn't work, can you imagine if you could accurately detect someone is lying with devices that everyone carries with them? Just imagine the power that such a technology a totalitarian government could wield
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by zizee 7y ago
Is this true though? PG&E has to seek approval on rate increases. From all reports it is expensive to bury power lines, and PG&E would need to raise a significant amount of money to bury even a small percentage of their lines. (Fwiw
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by zizee 7y ago
Please reread what I wrote. To be clear, I really dislike noise pollution, and welcome the day when noisy lawnmowers, leaf blowers, jetskis and motercycles are banned from where people live, relax, most places really. I think it is really s
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by zizee 7y ago
My comment was deliberately extreme as I believed the parent comment to be. The activities/devices I mentioned can be appropriate in certain locales, and inappropriate in others. To suggest this new vehicle has to operate at a level to
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by zizee 7y ago
>>Evil > Shareholders act in their interest, employees act in theirs. Often everyone ends up fairly satisfied. Is that not how the system is supposed to work and is describing it plainly without effusive praise now automatically su
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by zizee 7y ago
> This is about how much noise your aircraft are allowed to create. Sounds good. The same rules should apply to lawn mowers, motor bikes, construction, bars, stereos, drones, public transport, bands, dogs, children...
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by zizee 7y ago
> No it's about money and who gets it. > Owners are pushing for the first, labor wants anything except the first. There are two important actors left out of this analysis: consumers and parts suppliers. It doesn't fit the ev
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by zizee 7y ago
No snark intended, but the article mentions "dairy" four times. Addendum: Actually, you might be talking about the discussion here, rather than the article...
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by zizee 7y ago
> I find this 'people are but cogs in the machine' view of economics especially appalling I resent your implication that I think people are just cogs in a economic machine. People move location all the time for a variety of rea
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by zizee 7y ago
One of the arguments for UBI is a decreased bureaucracy because there is not a requirement to verify conditions on its recipients. > your dependency and wield this power against you? If there are conditions placed on the payment, it is n
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by zizee 7y ago
UBI would increase people's mobility, allowing them to move to cheaper areas where employment opportunities are not quite as strong.
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by zizee 7y ago
Correct. Fun fact: For many years after the rest of Melbourne University moved to unimelb.edu.au the computer science department kept the domain cs.mu.oz as a nod to that history (and that they were one of the first institutions in the worl
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by zizee 7y ago
This is the part that is questionable: > our far-right government, which loathes and fears any technology more recent than coal & witch burning.
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by zizee 7y ago
Agreed. As per the HN guidelines: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle HN is a great place for considered discussion. Let's keep it that way.
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by zizee 7y ago
> Two other solutions exist. One is spinning the window, you'll see it on ships. The other is making the window hot. There are two more solutions I can think of: hydrophobic coatings, and blasted air. I believe these both perform qu
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by zizee 7y ago
I believe that you have the power dynamic reversed. I.e. The drivers will go where the customers are more than the customers will go where the drivers are. A driver only gets paid if a passenger rides. If Uber increases the costs of their r
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by zizee 7y ago
I'm not super knowledgeable about this, but my understanding is that there are significant losses during electrolysis and probably when burning hydrogen. I expect just using an electric furnace would be more efficient.
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by zizee 7y ago
Lots of speculating why it is cheaper to ship from China than domestically, a lot of it misguided. The root cause is that quite a few years ago the consortium of national postal providers which setup agreements on who pays for which parts o
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by zizee 7y ago
> it's inefficient to split water to produce hydrogen You also have significant losses when you convert it back electricity/heat with fuel cells, or burning it. > Oxygen is great for producing syngas This is really interesti
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by zizee 7y ago
I don't think your landlord was right. From memory, splitting water into Hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis, only to be converted back to electricity is very lossy. I believe that most hydrogen generated at industrial scale is derive
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by zizee 7y ago
> Real cities have metros underground, full stop. I am not sure if this implies you think Melbourne is lacking a underground metro? Or perhaps you're just making a general statement. FWIW Melbourne has both trams and a underground m
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by zizee 7y ago
> Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)
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by zizee 7y ago
> If the next level above me couldn't spend at least 45 minutes thinking... Grandparent comment did not say "next level" above. People are often talking to people in different parts of a company, or more than one level u
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by zizee 7y ago
I'd really like Netflix to add a feature of "hide this shitty show from me forever because I will never watch it", it would be an obvious win from a user's perspective. Why don't Netflix provide this? Because people

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