JimTheMan

The last guy who tried (Turnbull) got knifed. It's a sad world we live in.

Or you can do the real deal.

Aren't futures dependent on storage capacity anyway?

Like at some point at scale, it's got to be better to do the physical rather than contract equivalent.

I think it shouldn't be objectionable to protect the public from decisions so bad, they might as well be scams.

I have a book from the 1700s on my bedside table I can read just fine...

My lived experience is I can read texts from hundreds of years ago just fine. Old mate is struggling with 50s tv.

The only tip is to use stable language. IE don't use the term dab or vibe or whatever the latest fad niche speak is.

I think whoever is interested in a 500 year old website is going to be ok.

Ironically the dictionaries you mention have greatly stabilised language. Language is going to be far more stable over the next 500 years. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest.

I feel like a lot of people are commenting about sport, when the point of the article was an allegory about lazy or badly applied adoption of a practice...

Surely people actually read the article?..

Reading the brownstone institute at large, it's an anti vaccine, anti lockdown rag.

This particular article is.. just trying to drum up why people shouldn't get the vaccine. Without saying, "don't get the vaccine."

Should people get natural immunity? No, what a daft idea when a safe vaccine exists.

You wouldn't say the same about smallpox. Good lord.

Just goes to show, the most important thing is vaccination rate which Australia is trailing the rest of the developed world on.

500 apparently can be attributed to Grand Final Celebration! (American equivalent of the super bowl but for AFL)

Get vaccinated everyone so we can escape this hell we all call living!

Medical bills are overwhelmingly huge in the US. Getting rid of them would decrease the problem to simple unemployment.

Sure being unpaid for a time is bad, but you won't be massively in the red...

And this specific example, the guy is well off. Which if not for medical bills, they'd all be fine.

To reword your comment, " Something very bad is happening, but because the remedy wouldn't completely go away it's not worth doing?"

It's a true joy to be able to learn a modicum of computer science from MIT as an engineer in a different field.

And it's so enjoyable because you don't really need any special tools beyond a basic computer, which most already have.

Thank you MIT. You helped me when I was made redundant, gave me something productive to do that I enjoyed (beyond frittering away my time.)

PS. The lecturers are amazing. Similarly those who run the tutorials.

It's skyrocketing for a real good that people consume in the everyday of industry.

Not some silly fantasy speculation good, like crypto or... overvalued stock.

Wages in the broader workforce haven't risen with increased productivity (in the developed world). Any additional profits aren't exactly getting shared with workers.

The article kind of a raises a moot point, if regular wages aren't tied to productivity what should minimum wages be tied to?

I believe that minimum wage should probably be set to some social factor, above some level of worker exploitation and a wage that a person could actually live on.

I second that. The Yes Minister series is brilliant.

Yet another excuse I can provide for letting myself go and growing out a beard like a professor or a 'person of no fixed address'.

"Yeah, like it is totally proven that it helps with punches to the face. It's like an armor like that."

I think you are assuming we have access to the vaccine like the US. Where at this point, if you want to get it, you have the opportunity to do so.

We don't have enough vaccine to do that yet. We have a shortage and consequently we are in 'a race' to get a somewhat limited supply of jabs into arms before the delta strain gets out of control here and starts killing folks like it's the peak in America.

I would say, Australia cares more about it's citizens than in America. But there are definite downsides, like for instance, we don't produce Pfizer or have the very strong industrial/tech base (and the good jobs that go with it)

I guess I don't really follow the reasoning with the examples.

Syria has always been a somewhat dangerous place. Ukraine got invaded by Russia. Hong Kong was taken from China by the British, became it's own nation and is currently being ... taken back against its own will in a sense.

Not that it couldn't happen. But Australia is not really a place I would imagine a violent uprising happening compared to most other places. I think we have too much social cohesion, even between those who are politically opposed.

For the day to day, actual lived life of an Australian, I can't think of any media I want that I cannot get.

Completely agree, especially due to the incredible expenses involved with going to court.

A quick and dirty way to distinguish between work/stress fatigue and depression would be simply if you don't recover even when removed from work for a significant period of time.

I completely agree. Sure it might be work stress that caused the depression, but I suspect the author and others here are calling it burnout as it is more socially acceptable and palatable for them to accept.

And I mean this in the least judgemental way possible.

It's incredible isn't it. And they are the ones who will (and are) be paying the price as well.

And very little acknowledgement of the impact their choices have on others in their community.

For a non-programmer I do enjoy using Python to get my work done and automating everything boring under the sun.

However sharing the code with others always seems difficult and fraught with dependency issues. To a non-pro this next level of use feels out of reach.

Fox News realizing that the propaganda it usually puts out might be literally killing their audience, decides to pull back on the stick.

The tall tales of Mr. Feynman, is an instructive guide that one can assist the narrative about themselves if only they cared to try.

While I am sure he was a maverick, he loved to talk about himself as such even more!

The pipeline is welded the full length, so a linear leak rate doesn't really make sense.

Where it could leak would be at valve station flanges, which by code are required every X km depending on the land risks.

You can test to see whether the flanges are leaking, and you can tighten accordingly in most cases. Effectively this leaking can be avoided in a transmission/industrial sense with the right amount of applied effort.

'Inflation' is not the price increase of a single thing to demand/supply.

Inflation is the systemic increase in all costs of what a household would buy as money itself become less valuable.

Prices 'inflating' on a single product because there's a shortage of... base materials or whatever is not inflation as an economic term.

A shortage is not inflation

I can see the appeal for urban zones to have new underground high voltage lines (even though it's not ideal from a technical/operation standpoint) to appease land owners, who don't want big new easements for overhead transmission eyesores in their backyard.

That being said, in a typical neighbourhood it's still wires everwhere to the house. I even went as far to drop the little man in google maps and have a peek. Wires everywhere the eye can see!

And yet a popular activity seems to be "pig sticking."

Which broadly speaking, involves using dogs to find and hold a boar so you can jump in and stab it to death.

Some people are crazy wild!

To add to the other commenters, above ground local powerlines are the default around the world. They cool easily and are easy to build/fix/maintain.

I am curious as to where you live where underground is the norm? I wonder if they build them differently than elsewhere..?