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I wonder if either of the two companies have introduced many new products recently?

When you only have $1m you might as well poke around various ideas and see if you can get another million or ten. Now, if you're sitting on tens of billions of dollars your priorities change - it's far more profitable to grow a $10b pie by 10% than a $1m by 1000%. I'm pretty sure that's what happened to Oracle and IBM, hence we rarely hear about them anymore.
I feel like even when they do get coverage it doesn't matter. This issue has had plenty of coverage but the situation is pretty much "yeah? well what are you gonna do about it? Both parties support it"

Even the greens have been supporting objectionable laws relating to tech. I feel a good chunk of people do care but there is not a single thing that can be done about it.
So I'm Australian but from the part no one ever visits (ie Perth). I say this because for most visitors Australia = Sydney, maybe Melbourne.

Anyway, I've gone to live overseas a couple of times now. The most recent time was to the US 11 years ago. I'm still here.

As many problems as the US has, the one big selling point it has is career opportunities and earning potential as a software engineer. Like... it doesn't even come close. I'll take what my US compensation buys me in NYC over whatever compensation I could get buys me in Sydney (in particular).

Property in Australia is like a game of musical chairs but the music stopped in Sydney in 1978 (in Perth and Melbourne it was more like 2003).

One thing I like about the US tax system is there is no negative gearing (mostly). Specifically if you earn over a certain amount ($150k but it starts sliding down at $100k) then you can't offset ordinary taxes with passive losses. I really think Australia desperately needs this system but negative gearing is so ingrained in Australian culture now that it's political suicide to try and change it. I believe Labor made noises about this in a recent Federal election and suffered the consequences.

It's a shame because Perth and even Melbourne used to have a relatively low cost-of-living and high quality-of-life. I honestly don't know how anyone does it now.

As for the politics, it's a bit of a mixed bag. Australia doesn't have the crazy evangelicals that the US does, for example. Like when the gay marriage issue was decided even the highly conservative former PM Tony Abbott basically came out and said the matter was settled and it's time to move on.

As for climate change, while I believe in it I also don't think anything will change out of pure altruism by any large group of people. And that's anywhere. It's not unique to Australia. Look at what's happened to the price of solar in the last decade.

I'd say the ugliest side of Australian politics and culture in general is actually the treatment of refugees and the so-called (this name still sends shivers down my spine) Pacific Solution.

Oh and we can't forget Australia's most pustulent export: Rupert Murdoch.
> compulsory voting

This always seemed like madness to me. You can force someone to vote, but you cannot force them to vote responsibly. They may just vote "screw you" just for revenge.

The right to vote includes the right to abstain from voting when one does not care.

Forced voting sounds like a recipe for bad election results. I would expect the same from paying people to vote.
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I suppose - I personally would love the subtle, artsy approach of having it as a 'hidden' detail, but yeah, it wouldn't be as 'cool' I guess.
Thanks for coming here and mentioning some hard facts like the ability to count, and ability to do calculus. I had in my own amateur way came up with the fact that compound interest would be something that some people will never be able to grasp fully.
(Infact I had to to come up with a whole way of screening people people based on traits that I had to to define, which roughly tend to model themselves along conventional IQ)
I really hope they will be able to get spectrographs of exo-planet atmospheres, but there is almost no chance that the Webb telescope will deliver meaningful science. The Project leaders are already starting to telegraph that message:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/nasa-science-chief-s...

This should have been cancelled 3 or 4 years ago when the sunk costs were only $8B. Instead we dumped another $2B into this almost sure failure
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once the global climate gets sufficiently inconvenient we will definitely figure out a way of regulating ocean albedo via microorganisms or micromachines or something similar. human ingenuity will find a way. yes it might be a bit messy for a while...
And while Mars and supercomputers are cool and important for society and humanity in general, there is also no denying of the immediate impact that Windows has in most human-interfacing applications.

Supermarket checkouts, public services, small-scale logistics, health, just plain old office workers, and so on.

An undeniably large slice of companies and public sectors that do not have a dedicated IT staff rely on Windows-based computers to organize and operate their activities. Outages to those probably have more direct impact on actual everyday people going about their lives than an outage in a Mars rover or lack of WiFi access.

Just to be clear I'm not playing teams here, *nix-based systems are ridiculously important too, but the open-source base is arguably a more - democratic? healthy? stable? I lack of a better word - development process, and its importance does not lessen the importance of other systems.
Your financial account security is being micromanaged more than you realize and probably also functions as a convenient honey pot.
Yeah but uc schools are still an option maybe Berkeley
Let’s not abuse words.

Here is the tweet:

> Proud of #USSupremeCourt affirming the Texas law banning abortion for babies with a heartbeat. As an entertainer I don’t get political often. Yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of this issue, I felt it was important to go on the record as a pro-life game developer.

Where is the hate?
> These new laws being introduced if used in the spirit they are intended could be good

We already know they won't. Here's [1] the Australian anti-terrorism Police arresting a young online journalist at his house, because he was asking probing questions to a politician that said politician did not like. Video of the incident clearly shows the Politician lied multiple times in his police statement (which is a crime).

Yet the anti-terrorism taskforce was used to arrest this person at his house.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g
Just plankton and algae and the largest ecosystem on the planet, right? There's always a gotcha, because nature is a chaotic, complex system that is mathematically impossible to account for all the consequences of exercising leverage.
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The comment I replied to was asking for a citation on ACLU expousing authoritarian causes, which I did.

I fail to see how a US Supreme Court ruling is relevant to this.
Will the JWST downlink be unencrypted?
Why there won't be an open POWER10 workstation for awhile
Yeah obviously you want to hire the guy that puts his head down and does whatever you tell him
The rest can eat dirt
> These new laws being introduced if used in the spirit they are intended could be good.

Please find me an example of a government throughout any point in human history that has not turned on its citizens.
> In Australia the "democracy is majority rules" meme (which is a lie) is very strong

I don't have much idea what you mean here.

> Just ask the Australian Indians.

Uh, could you explain what you mean here?

> Aboriginal Australians...did not get that right until 1967

I thought that too until recently, but not true.

On the history of Indigenous Australians’ right to vote: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/indigenous...

On the 1967 referendum:

While many people think that the Referendum gave Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples the right to vote, this wasn’t the case. Aboriginal people could vote at the state level before Federation in 1901; Queensland and Western Australia being the only states that expressly prevented Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from voting.

It wasn’t until 1962, when the electoral act was amended, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were given the right to register and vote, but voting was not compulsory. Full voting rights were not granted federally until Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were required to register on the electoral roll in 1984. ...

When the Constitution first came into being in 1901 there were only two parts that referred to the First Peoples of Australia: Section 51 (xxvi) gave the Commonwealth power to make laws with respect to ‘people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any state, for whom it was deemed necessary to make special laws’; and Section 127 provided that ‘in reckoning the numbers of people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted’. ...

On 27 May 1967, Australians voted to change the Constitution so that like all other Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would be counted as part of the population and the Commonwealth would be able to make laws for them. A resounding 90.77 per cent said ‘Yes’ and every single state and territory had a majority result for the ‘Yes’ vote.

https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/1967-referendum
From the context I think he meant “turn into a shithole.”
If we move to ipv6 majorly I suspect reflex scanning will become more of a thing (see a connection from X, scan X).
And yet black Texans are in the top 10...
Work at Igalia.
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Holding or contributing to source code?
> Like when the gay marriage issue was decided even the highly conservative former PM Tony Abbott basically came out and said the matter was settled and it's time to move on.

Australia recognized same sex marriage in 2017. That was 3 years after after the USA did. I'm not sure I would call Australia as being progressive by that measure.
Antarctica has clean air, cheaper healthcare than the US and is more habitable than Florida.
Just leave it all alone.

If the "upcoming climate disaster" (lol) eliminates us all, then so be it - it is what it is!
Source? I think we would avert disaster if we got net zero today. We wouldn't avoid change and things would continue to warm as you say. But it wouldn't be the end of civilization, just very inconvenient. In the other hand if we don't stop making the problem worse we will eventually activate feedback loops that can't be stopped and that do end civilization, kill the majority of humans and other species, and make huge parts of the Earth uninhabitable by us.
I've had this happen to me before. Not sure about Jeff's eBay listings, but for me, I cut down on scams by restricting the sales to just the United States.
But looking at what a candidate can do is objective. Trying to compare how tough each one had it is extremely subjective. Is being a woman harder than a minority? Is having a low iq harder than being poor? Being a single parent harder than being addicted to alcohol?

Maybe Charley had depression and anxiety and never made any friends while Joe is outgoing and did allowing him to form study groups easier. Maybe Charley's parents insisted he become a lawyer and he never touched code until college. Maybe Charley has a speech impediment, maybe he is ugly, maybe he is on the spectrum, maybe, maybe, maybe.

We are here to judge how someone can do the job, not go through their life history trying to judge how much harder or easier they had it than someone else.
It still goes on.

The book 'One Device' about the iPhone has interviews with the original team who built it. They discuss how a number of them had marriages broken and whatnot from the pressure to build the iPhone.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32603496-the-one-device
> I would expect the same from paying people to vote.

That's already the case pretty much everywhere since populists promise benefits to whoever elects them. So de facto you are getting paid for your vote if you are in a special interest group.
Of black voter engagement (via some metric). Overall they are in the bottom 10 of voter engagement. I guess it should be ok to be compared to Mississippi.
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The only problem with Godot is the 3D engine is nowhere near as good as Unity or Unreal . Godot 4 is a lot closer but given Godot’s history , it will take years to arrive . With all of this said , I am rooting for Godot . Long term , an open source game engine will be better .
There are hundreds of people in the same area, I’ll take that bet.
Well as long as they leave their back doors on these systems open for the rest of us, i think its ok :P

Would love to distrubute zk-chain validators via self replicating router malware lol
It will be interesting to see how much of what is pulled out can be recycled, and what ends up in a landfill. I wish them all the best.
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It's true that a hand-written recursive parser is better for a real compiler, but the main reason is that it's much easier to write sensible error messages that way. Parser generators are only really good at the happy path.
Online dating will become a lot more akward
I think that I would be okay with compulsory voting if there was a 'none of the above' option on the ballot. If "none of the above" wins the vote then all the people on that ballot are disqualified from running in any election for a period of time, say 10 years and there is a do-over on that particular electoral district election.
I'd like to hope that would clean up politics real quick.
It's compulsory to submit a vote. If you wish to abstain, you can vote informally.
I appreciate all the sources here. Even if I disagreed I would still have to admit this is a high quality post.
>Vote.

Compulsory voting with good preference system already in place which means we have a ~90-97% participation rate.

>Protest - particularly direct action

Agree, but increasing using/changing laws to reduce this (declaring environment activists as "terror" groups).

>Challenge them

Not even sure what this means exactly but more people are organizing support for independents/minority parties over the major two. This combined with the ability to form minority governments I think is the best chance for progressive change, but a lot of money is being spent to keep the status quo.
It's interesting to come across this just four days later, considering today's news.
Chess is a politically-themed wargame featuring monarchy. The King, being top kick, makes the rules of the land. Of course the King would enact such a rule that makes putting/leaving him in danger illegal.

Think about actual, medieval monarchs in their castles, holding literal absolute power over everyone. If someone were to invent a board game featuring a King, and the King were to be made aware that you moved him into danger and got him captured, he might have your head.
Do you ever get the feeling that advancement of technology is tied to two things?

- Ad-Tech

- Adult pornography consumption

We’re not doing anything but creating a more seamless experience for the “thing” we interact with to send an API call for every keystroke, click, or tap.

Maybe honesty or performance doesn’t sell anymore; “We dumped all this crappy poorly performing JavaScript components, spent 3 months addressing tech debt, and things are generally faster - using 38% less memory, and rendering HTML 13% faster”. Now the message is; “can you just buy a newer processor and make sure you don’t use our operating system with less than 16gb of ram and an SSD?”
“The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers.”
- Clive James
I've got some old clothes I'm planning to take to take to the recycle shop and Democratize over the weekend.
(I am not a lawyer.)

The USA recognized same sex marriage in 2015, but we did so via a Supreme Court ruling. The Court's composition has changed since then, and the new Court has signaled a willingness to overturn settled precedents.

While our current detent may persist, I would imagine that an action taken by the Australian Parliament would tend to be more durable.
> They could at least make a note that the author’s claims are unverified.

You are assuming they didn't verify it. They are publishing this under their brand and name and will suffer the consequences.

What else should they have to explicitly call out? Maybe the author isn't even Chinese I didn't see any mention of seeing his birth certificate.
Well maybe the point is that it's simply not possible to even design a telescope like this without a huge activation energy of R&D costs. If we had deployed more, cheaper devices, it might be the case that those devices, even taken together, would not have given us the information that JWST will.

Take the sunshield - the huge tarp-looking thing that you always see below the telescope itself. My understanding is that this is critical for JWST to see in the deep infrared, since otherwise heat will interfere with the imaging. Probably a lot of money was spent on the development of this. But if that money had just been spent on 20 other telescopes, none of them would have been able to capture that part of the infrared spectrum that JWST will.
That's one of the main plot elements of The Ministry for the Future.
Cue the Animatrix - The Second Renaissance Part II
> but it doesn’t have the same features of something like Facebook or LinkedIn or google

But it does seem to have most of the features of something like Reddit.
You could contrive that this breaks the "don't editorialize titles" guidelines, in the lack of a better option.
You can just submit a blank ballot.

https://www.quora.com/As-voting-is-compulsory-in-Australia-a...
What percentage are property owners? Sounds like it's absolutely fantastic free money if you own property.
It's not one or the other, as mentioned in the linked article. In any case even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped today, which is not possible or even desirable, we'd still have a roughly 1.5 degree rise in average global temperature within the next couple decades. So, it's a question of whether we decide to live with the inevitable effects (the beginnings of which we're only starting to see) or do something about it. If the latter, what method balances effectiveness and safety in a scalable way, and marine cloud brightening is one of the best candidates for that.
Dwayne Day has a good series of articles over on The Space Review covering the Manned Orbiting Lab. Gotta do a little digging through the archives, but there are some good nuggets on the NRO in general, as well.

https://www.thespacereview.com/archive.html

John Charles also has a good writeup: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3752/1
The government isn't a private organization in that only the government can put people in jail. This is what freedom of speech is really about: the ability to say just about anything and not be fined or imprisoned.

But it has never guaranteed that you'd have a platform from which to say those things... which is the same guarantee you get from Facebook or anywhere else.

Goverment: no guarantee of a place to speak, cannot put you in jail because of the First Amendment.

Facebook: no quarantee of a place to speak, cannot put you in jail because they're not the government.

Also, it's unclear what legal mechanism could even be put in place to prevent companies from banning and censoring. And it's fraught with problems because you're trying to guarantee a platform, something the First Amendment never intended. Are companies allowed to delete comments? What if they're old comments? Do you have to keep them forever? Who pays for that? Can you delete porn? The First Amendment allows you to say "f--k" over and over and over as long as you're not threatening. Can you imagine people on, say, a religious board posting that over and over? And the organization wasn't allowed to censor it?

It's a massive can of worms.

Finally, on my blog I want the freedom to delete any comments for any reason or for no reason.
> We should optimise for productivity + life outside of work instead

Says who? If you want to work 40 hours a week, have your weekends off, and relax more, that's great. You are optimizing for more time off than me as you value it more than I do; cool. However, if I want to work more than 40 hours a week and my total output ends up being higher than yours then I should absolutely be rewarded by my company for it. All things being equal, I should promote faster; I should get better raises; etc. You are optimizing for one thing, I am optimizing for another, and that should be fine.
At the least animatrix was as good as the original Matrix movie.
> AFAIA, Australia doesn't provide that option.

To be precise, there isn't a specific "Abstain" option on the ballot paper, but it is perfectly legal to leave the ballot blank. After all, if they could trace blank ballots back to the voter to punish them, it wouldn't be a secret ballot.

For context, "informal votes" (i.e. those votes which are rejected at the counting stage) have typically accounted for less than 5% of votes cast, and blank votes were about 20% of the votes cast in the 2001 federal election[0]. That suggests that about 1% of the population is "abstaining" in this way.

[0] https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joi...
I get so sick of Apple reshuffling their interface around just to make it "new" and "modern" every major release that I can almost seriously see myself using Serenity OS as a daily driver one day. I have no idea what's going on over there, but it's like they adopted all the worst design trends from web (things changing on hover, hamburger menus hiding everything to look "clean") to pulled it into macOS.
>I think that yes, we should literally abolish the police and replace them with something better.

It’s really easy to say that but I have heard of no viable proposals to actually replace the police with “something better”. Nor do such proposals ever elaborate on how the new system would operate without vagaries and wonderful nice-to-haves like unconditional free housing for the homeless and UBI. It’s extraordinary easy to say a hypothetical system would be better. But how do you actually implement it?

I also think those brutish types you mentioned from high school might be the only kind of people willing to accept the dangers and anti-social elements that officers have to put up with. If you thought working in retail was bad, the kinds of people the police have to deal with are in a league of their own.
> If you have expectations (of others) that aren't being met, those expectations are your own responsibility. You are responsible for your own needs. If you want things, make them.

Great advice for life generally.
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