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wisdomdata

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    Comment #30122288

    Killer whales hunting baleen whales in concert with humans of the coast of Australia is well documented and probably predates European settlement - search 'the law of the tongue' f…

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    Comment #29222554

    I would argue actual bills paid (as shown in the camstar data) is important to the average voter vs wholesale price as you have quoted.

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    Comment #29222339

    https://www.canstarblue.com.au/electricity/average-electrici... South Australia does not have cheaper electricity bills. We also had a multi-day outage in 2016 which was partially …

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    Comment #27618561

    there was a bottomless pit of money to pay for advertising on facebook to get it up to critical mass, I wonder where that might have come from?

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    Comment #26832566

    the question is, are the downvoters paid or incentivised to do so? we will never know.

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    Comment #26431553

    At what cost? we've saved a few 80 year olds, but lost hundreds of younger people via suicide and created a huge long tail of mental health problems along with poor educational out…

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    Comment #26244774

    thanks that is really great perspective

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    Comment #26236704

    not similar, but relevant: https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/03/05/3957316.htm

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    Comment #24864196

    easy to imagine such a thing recording covid status being a pre-requisite to entering hospitals / government buildings. Other options would be offered initially.

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    Comment #23026614

    Does anyone else see the irony of herding people off beaches to protect them from covid-19?

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    Comment #22144181

    on currently published numbers the death rate is around one death per 30 infections. (25th January, 41 people dead from 1287 infections). According to wikipedia the spanish flu had…

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    Comment #21700781

    My meaning was that it is too far for a transmission line to make sense, and once the transmission line gets to South Australia (the state closest to Western Australia) you have on…

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    Comment #21678817

    that comment (while technically correct) is undoubtedly from someone who has obviously never driven across the nullabor.

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    Comment #21472429

    South Australian here - In South Australia keep in mind commercial scale solar is also generating against residential rooftop solar which is sold back via a feed in tarrif to the g…

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    Comment #21112645

    Mentions of China and the US could be swapped in that paragraph, the only thing out of line would be the population estimate.

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    Comment #20936660

    australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.

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    Comment #20734296

    A tool with a camera and other sensors you can log into remotely and drive wherever you like in Washington (for example) and then have it loiter while it beams data back to china. …

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    Comment #17807122

    On remote beaches I have visited in Australia there are large items but nothing like the amount of small items in this photo. I wonder if you could use machine learning to automati…

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    Comment #16262949

    Exactly. Create the right conditions with little grazing pressure and reduced weed competition and regeneration will often happen naturally. There may be technical solutions to bum…

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    Comment #15121191

    NK will not be going to war, unless by miscalculation. Kim knows that of all the scenarios in a war, none end with him munching on caviar in a palace. There are two major powers th…

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    Comment #15042373

    next dilemma for a startup - figuring out which bit of the splinternet you are going to target - the chinese, the confederate, the islamic or the general part.