thewizardofaus

Local Solar Panel manufacturing isn't the problem in Australia. It's the poor maintenance and refusal to upgrade transmission lines to support increased solar feeding into the grid.

In a couple of years residents in South Australia will have to pay to export solar power to the grid. Likewise, it's already possible for the electricity distributor to remotely turn off you solar inverter if excess solar is being generated in your area.

I think it's important to be realistic with your dreams and expectations for them.

I am an 'elite athlete'. I compete in one of the oldest sports/events in history.

I am top 3 in the country and top 60 in the world.

My dream is to be a full-time athlete and represent my country at the 2024 Olympics and also many Major international competitions.

Unfortunately, I will never make a 'living' from my sport. After sponsorship deals and prize money the Top 5 athletes in the world are making $100K USD (before flights/accommodation/manager fees)

I am perfectly content with that and it has influenced my lifestyle greatly.

I chose to get a good education and work from home and pursue X/Y/Z because it gives me more freedom to Train and pursue my "real-dreams".

Have any studies been completed yet on immune system efficiency/suppression after covid restrictions (masks, hand sanitizer etc) ?

In Australia we were very lucky with the COVID situation. And purely annecdotal, but I know many people who haven't been sick at all during the pandemic. But as we approach winter here and perhaps no longer hand sanitize appropriately, many of these people are becoming "the most unwell [they] have been in years".

Gardening is a great relaxing hobby!

I've done it on and off for the last several years.

During COVID I grew 100kg/220lbs of tomatoes.

Great initiative! Look forward to hopefully making one soon.

Nothing beats the feeling of a printed book.

However, I find that I have a preference for printed vs Ebook depending on situation.

Any book that's more than 400+ pages and/or is more academic in nature. I'm reading in eBook.

Short non-fiction books I prefer in printed (Sapiens, Black Swan, joking Mr Feynham etc).

I often find that flight prices can be influenced by what you have looked at previously (other competitor, clear cache and cookies etc). It's quite a shady practice.

I was unaware that refreshable Braille displays existed. This is excellent. Good job!

From speaking to people working in retail 4 weeks ago; a large portion of items that have "been cleared out" locally were being sent overseas to China.

The amount of bush in Australia is incredible.

120+ million hectares, equivalent to three times the size of California !

Doing this manually would be far too time consuming.

To be honest I think it's perfectly normal. I'm very much the same :)

The only times I don't have this "warming up stage" is when I have a problem from the day previously that I somehow figured out a feasible solution in my sleep

Reminds me of a study they did for... chance to get parole approved based on time of day. Findings were early in morning and after lunch breaks was the most successful time. Just before clock-off and lunch inmates chances were reduced.

I train 20 hours a week for my sport, on top of full time study at University and running my own freelance business on the side.

While I advocate for sport, nothing beats meditation for increased focus!

I have tracked my stress levels over the last few years. During stretches of when I meditated, and did not.

I have absolutely noticed a difference in my internal thoughts and actions.

Before, my thoughts felt like I was in a forest surrounded by fog, visibility was impossible.

But now, I feel like the fog is slowly lifting, I am able to see the outline of the surroundings.

Give it a shot, It only takes a couple weeks of meditation to notice a difference :)

A bit sensationalist. Eastern states don't do prescribed burn off for bushland. Which has made a significant difference in these ongoing fires.

I surmise the following reasons:

Poorer populations have less access to sex education.

The government pays $850 a fortnight to a single mother, on top of a $5000 baby bonus and various other incentive schemes. Poor social classes see this as an easy means of money compared to working a "dead-end" job.

Maybe they have kids to escape their reality. People cope in different ways; drugs, drinking etc. Maybe they desperately want to live through their kids.

Excellent parenting. Kids need to be kids; no matter how intelligent :)

I recently started tracking my diet more and realised I've been having 200+ grams of sugar a day !

Old versions of the app do not remove the like count.

This had got recent attention in the mainstream media. I went down the rabbit hole of reading about McKamey Manor a couple years ago. It's very very strange and somethings don't add up.

Seeing more and more is small scale sample size and bias.

What about companies not taking responsibility of their own data?

You could talk about how FB makes $15 per quarter from users and they give up X,Y,Z of data. Yet 90% of the userbase wouldn't pay $15 a month for a advertisement free platform.

Alternatively, how about the Equifax hacks? And your Thesis could be on pricing users data. And viable compensation measures.

Absolutely devastating. I wish I could help in some way, but I feel powerless.

The same reason that certain stocks are overvalued and undervalued. Speculation.

Cold showers are great for immune system. Been taking them daily for the last 3 years.

I perhaps wonder if he survived due to his unconcious state. Similar concept to how drunk drivers generally suffer less injuries due to their body being relaxed upon impact.

Throttling speed for porn isn't a bad thing. Porn is a waste of time and energy!

I once applied for a scholarship that did not advertise itself as a Male or Female only scholarship. In the fine print it quoted: "women will receive first priority for this scholarship."

Great read. I was only looking into antenna rotors yesterday, so glad this came up.

I developed an app many years ago , helping students find cheap eats around campus. The traction for people to use it was their but I didn't plan for the food stall owners to be extremely stubborn with prices and deals.

Hate to say it but I believe this will be a easy short long term.