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Apparently Eggs. Also the research shows that they enjoy the noise of setting off the trap. They also throw things off cliffs just to hear them hit the bottom.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/09/extraordi...

And all alpine chalets and cabins in Kea habitated areas have warning signs about leaving windows open with pictures of the share devastation they cause when they get inside. Where I live we have Kaka which are related to Kea. All they do is tear trees to shreds.

Thanks for that.

Unfortunately because I live in New Zealand for a global company I often have meetings in the middle of the night so the no computer before sleep is tough, I'm also worked up after those meetings and usually need to wind down somehow.

I do try and do most of the above, including no coffee after 12 (which is tough because I love coffee).

The traps are there to kill the introduced predators that hunt the Kea, their eggs, and chicks.

By disarming the traps there are more predators to hunt them.

I don't think so. I travel regularly to Sydney for work, the flight we catch to get a full working day has a check-in at 5am. None of my colleagues who I travel with have this problem.

I try and deal with it by avoiding early flights if possible and flying the day before and staying the night but it's not always convenient with schedules, etc.

Yeah, I hope they don't stop them. I know someone that works in fecal transplants in Wellington hospital and it literally is a miracle cure for some people.

I found it to be the opposite. I knew I wasn't getting enough sleep and so I would constantly look at my clock, phone, watch, etc. so that I could get an idea of how little I was getting. When I got a fitbit I stopped worrying about looking at my watch constantly to see when I fell asleep as it would tell me in the morning. I still have sleep anxiety and I'm only averaging 5 hours of sleep per night, if I have something I can't miss (like a flight) the next morning I still will often get none, but it's not as bad as it was.

In Aotearoa-New Zealand we set traps for introduced species like stoats, rats, possums, etc. that kill our endangered wildlife that evolved without natural predators.

The Kea which are very smart mountain parrots will go and disarm the traps in order to eat the bait. They're smart enough to have figured out how to do this, and are one of just a handful of animals that habitually use tools, but are unfortunately too smart for their own good because their handiwork means there's more predators for them.

But, some people don't give animals enough credit. Mammals and especially primates are very, very close to Humans genetically. Animals are often very smart.

I use a mac and firefox is my main browser, I don't remember having any problems.

Yep, and facebook too, yet it's very clearly within the ability of both companies to have their algorithms and people categorise non universally mainstream content and only censor what's appropriate to the society that's viewing it.

It's not quite the same thing but a company like netflix offers different shows in different countries, spotify's the same for songs. This is more down to licensing than censorship and the scale is quite different from social media but it's a demonstration on how a company can provide different content per region.

Of course, if you flip the argument on it's head, we're annoyed that a company like Google is censoring things which are allowed or common place in society outside of the US. we wouldn't want google censoring content that we consider "enlightened" into countries which we consider backwards (which they no doubt do) and that's always the hypocrisy of these positions.

Yeah, although I work in the fintech industry and we have to do a lot of work to comply with local regulations and data sovereignty laws in most countries. It's daunting but you can still engineer to have the same versions of applications deployed globally with different configurations per region.

It's the danger that we're getting as these global companies have more influence over the entire planet. The morality of the home country is pushed on those who want to use the service. Same thing with the whole Google / Huawei stoush. US priorities have an impact on users all over the world.

You can have both though, you can have a plaque of remembrance which doesn't involve harsh chemicals and waste.

If composting isn't a good option then there's natural funerals where unembalmed people are buried in lightweight and compostable caskets and have trees planted over their grave.

But you already censor things much less damaging than the live streaming of a terror attack. Instead of creating a beach head on freedoms which are damaging you should look at why the US rates do low on freedom, civil liberties and democracy and why most of the signatories of this call rate so highly and try and inact positive improvements.

I dug further and there will be two people who are in charge of representing the river one nominated by the government and the other by local Iwi.

Sure, but that is only a convenience the concept is that the river has it's own identity comes from local tradition.

The law was recommended by the Waitangi tribunal which is a body that redresses historical grievances by Iwi.

Not only is the river now it's own entity which is not owned by anyone local Iwi received $80 million from the government and a $30 million dollar fund to improve the health of the river.

The article goes into detail about how the river is a living thing in Maori culture.

Iwi.

It's also an acknowledgement that the anglo-saxon way of law is not the only way.

You interact with them and see how they respond and behave.

They're are genetically very similar to us.

So your point about gdp isn't relevant?

They obviously have sales there and probably cloud front infrastructure too. Maybe a az in the future, only they know.

That's not really relevant to the point though. Also how about the gdp of Ireland or Brazil or Bahrain or South Africa or Singapore or Australia?

GDP doesn't have much to do with it.

Yep, there's no aws Russian region but plenty in the US.

Exactly, we're a bunch of sparsely populated and isolated countries. That's why we talk about North and South being different.

Not just something that happens on the other side of the world but even just retaining knowledge. In Wellington we replaced out NZ built electric trains with ones made in Korea, and our NZ made electric busses with ones made in China. So it's good to see this sort of manufacturing knowledge return to the city

Maybe not Mozambique but we do have a lot in common with South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Argentina. We all play the same sports for instance.

But the southern hemisphere is isolated and was largely late to be colonised, it's also half the planet.

I had an uncle who was quite well off and ran an exotic car garage in the US. He had all the insurance, etc. His wife got cancer, insurance wouldn't cover some of the treatment. She died, he went bankrupt, then killed himself.

I'm glad I live in a country where I literally don't even think about treatment or care, it's just not something I worry about. I've had a few relatives in NZ who've had cancer, they've all had excellent care which prolonged their lives and when they passed they didn't leave their survivors with the financial strain in addition to the heartache of losing a loved one.

There's been quite a few studies that learning things like new languages forges new neuron pathways and helps fight off dementia and other age related brain diseases.

I wonder if there's been any studies to the cognitive benefits of teaching the elderly to code?

There's quite a common phenomenon where when people stop working, say through forced retirement, they die pretty soon afterwards. It's the same reason why having time on your hands leads to depression. People want to do things and feel useful.

She's building free apps to help the elderly, it would be a reasonable assumption to assume that she's not making a living off it.