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The issue in oz, is that energy investment by power companies is locked in with decades long contracts - raising power prices for everyone. But investment by individuals is subject…

It is probably not what you are taking about, but apple itunes deleted my entire music collection, first on my iPod, then on my hard drive, as I tried to sync one to the other. Tha…

Not only that, I used to use businessname@mydomain.com for setting up aliases to interact with different businesses. On more than a few occasions I had some very confusing back and…

To be fair, barilaro called himself 'pork barilaro'. I don't think anyone shed a tear for him being run out of politics. I certainly don't think it has anything to do with this.

Fwiw, most mould is caused by buildings. Poor ventilation, leaks, no waterproofing, substandard building materials. Yes, you can avoid mould in older buildings by carefully airing …

I never got into rebelle, though this demo is pretty cool. I used to use expressii, and always thought it was one of the most under rated painting apps. Has a very natural feel to …

Behind every ideological move is a rich man trying to get richer. That is to say, ideology may do some heavy lifting, but the buy-in to actually translate that to action requires a…

Seems like with this kind of carry on, they could possibly end up in breach of their supplier agreement with Lego itself. Crazy that they would risk that for a little spat. I guess…

>It means even if your total income for the year is low enough that your normal tax rate should be 16% or 0%, the government steps in and forces a flat 30% tax on the asset sale an…

I honestly get that, architecture is such a time intensive degree. It is drilled into you to produce results more than to care about the process.. and to spend more time on explora…

I remember being asked in class what we all thought was the message of 1984. I was like, obviously it was about the danger of giving up your power to other people and the corruptio…

Agree, and funny also that the author shows the F91W. It has a thriving hacker community built around it. You can get a new arm motherboard with a breakout for a sensor board. Sens…

I also mostly use only my thumbs and index fingers, but probably only up to 60 words a minute because that is how fast (or slow) I think. I always thought I was a touch typist beca…

Again, it is kind of crazy to take polar opposite views on this. We mostly all grow up starting off with very few personal liberties and gaining them as we get older. We routinely …

Why does it have to be either/or? Why not just ban the thing you don't want and just criminalise the whaling?

>This was the greatest act of political courage and decency of our lifetime. What a frighteningly hyperbolic thing to say. I think you have been watching too much sky news. It was …

I have seen them fall off their bikes in the middle of intersections on more than one occasion, hit people riding on the footpath, more than a few try to bully me off the road, doi…

and fuck.. pinochet? arden is indefensible, but you like pinochet? your barometer for a good right wing government improving the quality of life is an actual dictator who tortured …

Well for a start, he outright lied about the introduction of the GST. Not once, but twice. First that he would never introduce one, second that it would replace other sales taxes t…

Howard may have talked a lot about decreasing the size of government, cutting red tape, and reducing legislation and the cost of government. But all these increased under his terms…

I dunno about that. I bought a Casio at a garage sale in the late eighties for 20 cents, and sold it to a mate 10 years later, give or take, for a couple of bucks. It was still run…

The cost of doing more complex designs is analogous to the cost of doing more complex builds. If you can afford the extra cost for someone to figure out how to build the blue sky d…

>Why is it the responsibility of private industry to support a “living wage?” Because if they don't, they are externalising the true costs of labour to the government, or the commu…

Ditto for windows. Source: Personally (like the other poster) I have got both into a state where it became a huge headache to update.

Just because he is playing 4d chess, doesn't mean he is good at it. Hanlon's razor is wrong to suggest an either or scenario when it is just as often some mix of stupidity and mali…