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> am I misunderstanding why Australia is going to these extremes?

Australia had 923 COVID deaths total, for a population of 25 million. That’s 36 cases per million.

For comparison, the US has 1,887 deaths per million. Most European states aren’t much better, or even worse, per capita.

Now, you can argue if these extremes are worth it, or not, but it seems clear that what they are doing is saving lives.
Qt has switched to GPLv3 and is going pretty strong as a community. Can't find the figures for the official forum, but an unofficial one has 75k members.
But Firefox doesn't require the password on reboot - or to even access the plaintext password in the password manager!

So just fire it up, and access the passwords. The on disk encryption is pretty redundant.
> There is no way the prices are driven by domestic money.

How can you be so sure? With the way mortgages work, and the way people who bought starter homes ~10 years ago are more than capable of affording a downpayment on a bigger home, you don't actually need a large amount of domestic money for housing prices to be bid up into the stratosphere.
Technical debt implies that it is a technical decision, when mostly it’s a business one.

Debt has a negative connotation, where as it’s more like a mortgage.

I always wonder if there’s an equivalent term in manufacturing.
I don't think you'd need anything other than pointing out that the person refused to take minimal precautions, even though it was available to them. I'm pretty sure employers have been sued for this one - not doing the basic minimum to keep others safe.

Civil courts, at least in the US, don't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt, after all - which is why you can get found not guilty for felony charges but still have to pay a wrongful death settlement for the same incident.
Can we extrapolate that to 1000x more infectious than the original strain?
If you have to deploy your military on your citizens you have in fact ventured way beyond into the extreme.
There's a difference between being deployed sitting around at your base doing Really Important Stuff and

> Australian Defence Force soldiers will undergo training on the weekend before beginning unarmed patrols on Monday.
I tell all my coachees not to use "technical debt" outside of technology, if ever. Same goes for the phrase "refactoring", don't use it outside technology.
Meanwhile the earliest appointment to get the Pfizer vaccine in the area I work in (Western Sydney ) is November, because of our Prime Minister's incompetence.

( Pfizer Vaccine: Risk of myocarditis 55 - 450 / 1000,000 )

The AstraZeneca vaccine is available tomorrow, but the Prime Minister's flip flopping messaging means that laypeople are terrified that they will get blood clots and so refuse to have the vaccine. The PM's vacuous and incompetent messaging has even managed to get some physician collegues of mine terrified of this insignificant risk.

( AstraZeneca Vaccine: Risk of thrombotic thrombocytopenic syndrome with cerebral venous thrombosis 33 / 1000,000 )

We have an election coming up soon and our politicians are desperate to impress the median voter. That is why we have ridiculous stunts like this.

Even worse, some of our politicians are still distributing COVID denial and vaccine denial pamphlets, in order to attract votes from the lower end of the bell curve.

See: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/30/clive...

Clive Palmer disregards TGA call to stop spreading misleading vaccine material

"Clive Palmer is defying a call from the Therapeutic Goods Administration to stop spreading “misleading information” as his new pamphlet containing disputed claims about the impact of vaccinations is being distributed across the country, including to residents in greater Sydney.

It quotes figures published by the TGA on post-vaccination deaths and adverse reactions out of context, criticises the body for not ceasing the vaccine rollout, claims there is no pandemic in Australia, and accuses the TGA and the government of spreading misleading information.
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We hate them but recognise their importance. I live in Melbourne and have been in 6 or so lockdowns.

NSW is really fucking this up.
My best guess would be a pre-arranged "on call" schedule where a shuffled set of blocks of time are reserved / allocated to each team member
The deployment isn't a standard practice. Just something that has been enforced as of late.
Someone, to author: Thanks, dude, I owe you one!

Author: this has no clearly defined principal and interest, so "owing" is not a word you should use

Someone: ... Never mind
Sounds good, although it would have to be context aware. For example, code that often gets removed in a production environment might be dissimilar to choose that is typically removed in dev or testing.

There are also other triggers of code removal and refactoring that are outside the code base, such as an organisation migrating to a different platform. An AI trained on a large public commit history could encourage a general shift towards already-established big players, punishing smaller organisations.
The government completely messed up the messaging for the Astra Zeneca vaccine, a lot of people think it is very risky due to the reports of blood clotting (which are actually lower than for most common medicines!!). It doesn't matter though because even the AZ vaccine is hard to get, you need to be over 40 or have medical reasons and even then you need an appointment.
EDIT: And you can't even leave the country without government permission so its not like you can fly a country with vaccine availability to get it.
I would respectfully suggest that you've lost perspective if you don't see military deployments to keep people in their homes as extreme. Maybe it's justified - I'm certainly not gonna go around telling other countries how they ought to handle a pandemic - but this is not just your normal every day decision.
Censoring opinions isn't equivalent to removing scam and spam.
Normal for Australian soldiers to police the streets to keep people locked in their homes?

When has this happened before 2020?
> This is somewhat of a semantics argument

It is important to occasionally have arguments to clarify semantics so we maintain the meaningfulness of our language. Otherwise, we lose the ability to communicate.

Some people believe that meaningful communication is unimportant. Those people are wrong.
>I believe something like a million kiwis live abroad.

For context, New Zealand has 4.9 million people (almost exactly one half that of Los Angeles County). Imagine 60 million Americans living abroad, rather than the actual about 9 million.
I don't think ordering the JSDF to deploy to the streets of Japan would end well...

...for the person giving the orders
It's not a good term, but the meaning is clear enough. You can't keep sweeping things under a rug indefinitely, your ass is due for some biting because of accumulation of poor decisions.
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> The same logic though could be applied to startups or any business. The first people in do a large amount of the work in helping it grow and are rewarded for that. Maybe too much but that’s hard to quantify.

With a business where you hold shares, the business generates cash flow. That cash flow is invested in the business, in share re-purchases and in dividends. This cashflow increases the intrinsic value of each share of the business. The expectation is that holders of equity will be rewarded through the future performance of the business.

Those early folks are rewarded by people who derive value from the system - the customers of the business, whoever they are. They're rewarded for building a business not shilling their equity. The equity value is a consequence of the business being built.

On the other hand the sole source of gains from crypto come from future buyers. Worse, miners, especially on PoW chains, have to be paid and so constantly extract huge quantities of welfare from the system. With Bitcoin, it's something like 20-30 million dollars per day. That gets turned almost directly into CO2 and e-waste. 67MT of CO2 and 6.5kT on e-waste per year.

Early holders are simply rewarded for shilling, hoping someone else will grab their coins for a higher price. It's just an MLM scheme which yields zero intrinsic value.

Ergo, bitcoin is strongly negative sum while equities are positive sum vehicles.

The thing is, most people don't understand the economics or the fundamentals. Those who do get it (especially bankers, ex-wallstreet folks) intentionally downplay it rather than educating folks because they know their paycheck depends on people not understanding. The community pretends or fails to understand and looks the other way. They're all convinced they're "getting in early, on the ground floor of the future of money" - classic MLM stuff.

They're really only superficially similar, in the sense they're traded on brokerage-like services.
It's hard to tell exactly what went wrong. But it seems like the Government literally just didn't buy enough. There's not much Pfizer so only health workers and the elderly have been getting it.
Then when we actually got AZ. It's rollout has been extremely slow.
Then the Blood-clot risk came about AZ was restricted to 40+ only. Now anyone can ask for it, but you have to go get a note from a GP. It's very confusing.

tl;dr Effectively most people (in NSW at least) haven't been able to get a Vaccine until very recently, and there's weeks of waiting to get a booking.

If you want a case study of a bad vaccine rollout. Australia is a good bet.
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Agree with your statement - NSW is the biggest threat to the rest of the other States.

We also need to drive vaccination rates up. Too much hesitation around either vax option (Pfizer/AZ).
That's not the point.

We've gone months without any community covid cases and suddenly there's a break out.

The point in military involvement is to to make sure the lockdown we run is actually effective and doesn't drag on for months while we finally push vaccination rates up
These lock downs are a proven tool to stop transmissionof covid.

A multifaceted issue like the pandemic requires multiple approaches and this is how we have controlled the virus. And we have controlled it well.
while not as ultra cheap by a long shot, this isn't the end of celluar kindles though, Amazon still sells 4g kindles
What do they try to use it for?

I've only ever seen these terms used in programming contexts
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Different strategies. Australia wants to completely eliminate covid from the country, it means going all out when even a single case is detected, and no restriction otherwise. It is a strategy well adapted to a large, low density island country.

Your country has decided to live with covid and adjust its response gradually.
I never thought Linux could become any more monolithic. But somehow it is!

(Not that it's a bad thing.)
Think of that as on the order of as opposed to precisely.

Human cognition operates at rates of faster than 1 second, but slower than 1/100th of a second. In most cased, assuming about a 1/10th second response cycle is about right, and, in the context of the article and book, it's when nonhuman mechanical systems began to become capable of operating within that timeframe, that they exceeded human capabilities.

The eye and memory will register only a vague blurred impression of an event taking less than 1/10th of a second. With very standard photographic equipment, it's quite possible to capture a single frame in clarity at 1/100th to 1/1000th of a second. The former is considered relatively slow, though good for freezing virtually all macroscopic motion. At 1/1000th of a second, virtually all human-scale activity (say, sports or activities) is frozen, though very high-speed events (high-speed machinery, explosions, bullets) may still show motion blur. A good film camera would typically have a minimum exposure of 1/1000th to 1/2000th of a second.

Moreover, mechanised sensing equipment can distinguish between events at these levels. Human perceptions will simply get causality and order all out of sequence. It wasn't until June of 1878 that the very common phenomenon of a galloping horse was conclusively choreographed by means of Eadweard Muybridge's photography, and the motion of the horse and its legs in motion accurately understood.

Muybridge's sequence consisted of 24 photographs, at 1/2000th of a second (see discussion above), with the total sequence taking about 1 second. (The cameras were placed 27 inches, or 67 cm, apart, the total span was 16 meters, the horse was galloping at a 16m/s pace, or one mile every 1:40.)

Each frame then captured 1/24th of a second, about half the 1/10th second limit discussed in the article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_in_Motion
Saving lives maybe, but how many people have basically lost 2 years of their lives by now?
The country literally cannot get vaccines fast enough to roll out to the population. Astra Zenica, which Australia has millions of extra doses of, has only been recommended for use in over 60s due to blood clotting risks. We do not have enough alternative vaccines (Pfizer) to put into the arms of those under 60.

While I can understand that in comparison to the rest of the world, Australia has faired comparably well, we are poised on a knife edge between harsh and costly restrictions that save lives and just "letting it rip", and seeing the same brutal results that occurred in the US, India and the UK (among other places).

Without more of the population vaccinated, we don't have any other options.
I know you're asking a rhetorical question, but the answer to your question is: none (and in some places like Victoria, suicides were down compared to 2019).

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/health/distress-levels-up-d...
Very welcome. Sometimes the amount of classes needed in Tailwind is enormous.

I paid for the TailwindUI pack too. But as nice as Tailwind is, the guys who built TailwindUI don't really get or understand a lot of real-world design patterns.

A lot of stuff in there is needlessly complicated. Our team end up trimming down things to 50% of the markup that they use, while retaining full responsiveness.

Overuse of flex for simple paradigms is a constant complaint of mine.

Hope DaisyUI improves Tailwind in some way.

Anyway... sorry to get sidetracked on a sidebar.. lol.
...and I think that's exactly the technique the "Monkey Island PC-Speaker coders" used to overlay the percussion over the melody. The IBM PC and its descendants had the advantage of having a relatively fast CPU which could partly make up for the primitive sound system - i.e. it could only play a square wave, but it could be a very complex square wave. Some games even played voice samples - they were extremely distorted, but more or less understandable. Similar to how you can show photos on a monochrome display (like the good old Hercules) - they won't look pretty, but you can do it...
Can you create a work/life spilt by having a separate office in a separate part of the house?

Or even have an external office on the property.

If you knew you can work remotely 100% of the time, that frees you up to consider cheaper locations where you can get a better house for the same rent.
Before the 170 daily case 'outbreak' we were able to go a fairly long time without any community transmissions. The point of military involvement is to try enforce an effective lockdown so people take lockdown seriously and we stop the spread as fast as possible while we finally start rolling out vaccines.
The basic multigas cartridge that comes in the half-mask bundle at Home Depot will happily adsorb VOCs.

I have a 6000 series with bare P100 filters installed, and they certainly cut smells, but that's probably not what they're designed for. Amusingly, throughout this entire pandemic I've only worn it for wildfire smoke-- it appears to be completely impossible for people to understand what I'm saying while I'm wearing it.
in many countries the military has a role to play during states of emergency or disasters or otherwise unusual situations like this, not every country is the US with its hyperbolic aversion to government or the state. The same bad takes keep happening every time an Anglosphere journalist sees the Gendarmerie on a French street.
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It might also be from the billions of unemployment and SBA fraud sent overseas during covid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23213162
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27480619
> …some of our politicians are still distributing COVID denial and vaccine denial pamphlets, in order to attract votes from the lower end of the bell curve.

I assume you’re referencing to IQ and The Bell Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve). Can you show any correlation between intelligence and being sceptical to the COVID-19 vaccines?
Why are Russian athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics despite the ban?
The Australian government bet on a single brand of vaccine: AstraZeneca. We also had some Pfizer stock but not enough for the entire country.

This would have been fine until reports of clotting disorders started coming in. The official advice was revised so over 50s and then over 60s should get AZ. Technically you could still get the AZ if you wanted to, but due to the advice, no one did.

Meanwhile, only 40s and over and at risk demographics below 60 could get Pfizer. And by now they did such a good job trashing AZ, no one wanted it. Then Delta hit and no one wants AZ. So here we are.

Reports are Pfizer offered our government a deal last year, and they could have locked in enough doses for the entire population. But they declined.
There wash a time that home ownership was considered a liability, not an asset (source: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”.
I'm not sure whether military intervention is right or not, but for everyone making comparisons based on absolute numbers, please note that the population in Sydney is tiny. If you take the lower population density into account, all of a sudden ~200 cases no longer appears to be a trivial number.

I see people constantly breaking lockdown restrictions outside of my window here. It's pretty damn frustrating for those who are obeying the restrictions.
Agricultural land is being bought up too. Small farms are being bought up by big agricultural firms.

Bill Gates and Michael Blurry (big short game) are heavy invested in agricultural land.
Most people I know (including myself) find them a hassle but completely necessary and appropriate.

NSW has terrible leadership that has blundered the entire thing. The “lockdown” in Sydney is an absolute joke compared to what other states have been doing, and the proof is in the numbers.

I’d much rather have strict enforced shorter lockdowns that actually stops the spread (like VIC/etc), than this bollocks half-arsed political-stunt stuff that ends up not containing anything and dragging on forever.

Not to mention the costs involved that could’ve gone towards immunisations. People WANT to get immunised. The immunisation hubs have queues of people wanting it but the Government just isn’t willing to pay for it.
Does Perfectionism Help or Hurt?
Hmm, that would actually be one of the few legal uses of the JSDF I suppose?
> The point in military involvement is

There's no point of military involvement whatsoever. This is just to expand the government power over the civil society and they doing it through the military. If you are worried as government about covid cases, well start with the vaccine. Buy more or do more to distribute the shots. But enforce lockdown and then send the military? This is so disturbing.
Australia and NZ are going for "zero covid"; the suppression of general community transmission when it appears, rather than letting it become endemic or having runaway caseloads.

I've not seen this explicitly articulated but I think it may be linked to their long-standing onerous biosecurity rules for plants and animals, e.g. https://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/arrival/pests/plant_di... . If Australia can be free of certain plant diseases, why not of human diseases? The result is a low death toll and really heavy lockdowns.
It's admittedly minimalist on purpose, but you can get a 1040 PDF on your phone, that's pretty nice. What would you change?
"Is routine drug testing universally considered acceptable?"

In the US, yes. There is a very, very, very good chance that your cashiers, call center workers, and a slew of other low-level (and store management) positions have had to take a pre-employment drug test. A lot of government jobs require it as well (IIRC, the government has some issues getting tech folks because of drug test requirements): Some have to take random drug tests during their employment.

It doesn't matter if it will affect your job at all. In some states, they can reject or fire you for nicotine.

I don't think this is as acceptable outside of the US: I'm in Norway now, and it would probably be illegal without reason (pilots, for example... perhaps). And a real reason, not just wanting sober employees or to sort potential employees.
Intersting. In where I live (Singapore), it's very common for young married people to get a loan/etc from their parents to cover the down payment (~25%) for a 20-30 year mortgage.

Also, rent here is so expensive that most Singaporeans still stay with their parents even in their late 20s~30s. (Most people renting a room or apartment are none-Singaporeans (30% of the population).) So buying a house makes perfect economical sense if you are married and can somehow cover the down payment.

I wonder if this is becoming a trend across all first-world countries, as the world gets less predictable and people get more risk-adverse. Esp when rents are driven up by none-citizens so it becomes economical to buy instead of rent.
For those wondering why Australia deploys the army in such events: it's because soldiers are public servants and have been deployed in the past for different reasons including natural disasters.

They won't carry weapons, because they're jobs aren't just killing people unlike other armed forces of other nations.
What are your primary investments? Do you own any real estate?
As far as I know this applies to anyone divorcing; divorce laws apply equally to spouses these days, not just to men.
They can drug test you. Isn't that just controlling what you are allowed to put in your body?
Everyone I know in sydney is quite frustrated but also fairly compliant, it’s a reasonably relaxed lockdown compared to others or Melbourne’s (unless you’re in one of the 8 local government areas at the epicentre).

Personally, and as a doctor with many colleagues who are treating patients in this outbreak, we’ve had like 2800 positive cases (with a test positivity rate of ~0.01%, so we can be fairly confident we are reporting most of the cases) but have 150 patients in hospital and 58 in ICU at present including quite a scary number under 50.

So, it’s warranted in my view, and for me personally, I’m 5 minutes walk to the beach and a swim every day in the middle of winter (there are no limits on hours of exercise) is quite a good life, but I’d like to be more free than I am now.

However my livelihood hasn’t been affected, and it’s not overly affecting my mental health, and I sympathise with those who are at risk of losing their business or who are doing it hard psychologically (or trapped in abusive relationships).

I should also point out that there is a fair bit of government support, but it’s been a bit slow coming and is being unevenly applied (ie Melbourne’s last lockdown basically got told to go suck it, liberal governments playing favourites).

Generally, there is a lot of anger at the government’s bungling of the vaccine rollout which probably would have meant this whole thing didn’t have to happen