TheSpiceIsLife

Still, we’ve got a little while to go before star formation can no longer occur.

Some estimates put the star formation period from 1 to 100 trillion years.

I’d be more concerned about our collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy in four to five billion years.

Australia spans, what, 40 odd degrees of latitude.

Where I’m at in Aus it’s day light till 10pm at the summer solstice.

No sun to really speak of at the winter solstice though.

That’s funny. I’ve made several <5m I call them ‘unstension’ cords and jokingly say “look, this extension lead is so short, when you plug it in the cord actually gets shorter”.

Dead appliances have their cords cut off and chucked in a box, when I need a few inches more length I put a female plug on the other end. Either that or I open the device and put a longer cord on it, but that’s extra effort.

5G home internet is the preferred in Australia where fibre isn’t present.

Even at my house where I have FTTH, my mobile 5G connection is persistently faster and quicker, that is both bandwidth and latency are superior on my phone from my home location.

Of course, the pricing is structured so you’re better off paying for both, either fixed internet plus mobile phone plane, or fixed 5G and mobile phone plan, depending on what is available at any specific location, but typically not all three options.

Thank you centrally planned infrastructure.

Communism ended in Poland 35 years ago (1989). That's one or two generations ago.

That's long enough for everyone aged about 50 in 1989 to have aged out of the system.

How many decades should pass before we stop blaming present circumstances on the past?

> under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution.

And under the other forms of government thus far tried?

Anyway, Capitalism doesn't explain wealth inequality. The ability to accumulate capital and apply it to industry with limited liability doesn't inherently cause wealth inequality. That's the fault of Greedism, Over-inflated-sense-of-selfism, and Giving Money to Politicians is like giving Whiskey and Car Keys to Teenage Boys-ism.

We're over taxed and over regulated, that's nothing to do with Capitalism.

Looks like that should be 13 T 2005?

Growth? What growth?

Which Western nations have a fertility rate above replacement?

And were always one cyclone (hurricane) away from extinction.

Centurion - 100m / 330 feet, Eucalyptus regnans, 1.5hr south of Hobart, tallest flowering tree.

So you can have thirty percent more not enough!

I’m sorry, we’re all out of solar. Perhaps you can have no wind instead.

Is there more or less pollen in rural areas?

That’s exactly what they are, it says as much on the box.

Sometime there’s vehicle from at least three businesses and two government agencies gathered round an inconspicuous looking civil infrastructure element, and I have to wonder who spying on who. And how much that’s costing.

You’re right, my mistake.

Feed power in through one circuit back to the main board, on a different circuit cause a short, main breaker trips, main board is now isolated from the grid.

Technically possible, irresponsible, bad advice, and probably won’t work in most scenarios.

How does the device handled grid isolation from a single outlet?

I didn’t say that.

Name a social media site that has diverse and worldwide perspectives that also feels welcoming.

Quite the contrary. Welcoming ecosystems are discriminatory because necessarily exclude those who generally aren’t interested, or act in bad faith.

Community is local.

That's great: I pinball machine is an interactive Rube Goldberg Machine.

It's not real helpful to label a bunch of fairly ordinary. useful, and healthy, aspects of work misguided and then offer no alternative suggestions to address your points.

You go for a walk, live in a tiny apartment in Manhattan, and use lighting colour to give a sense of 'work place'.

Well guess what, your circumstances probably don't generalise.

This seems wildly overblown.

I'm running Windows laptops / desktops these days, and drive an iPhone and the sun hasn't exploded.

My HP Elitebook is six years old and has a 4K display.

Happy with the build quality.

I guess the reasoning goes something like: Tesla / Musk / Broligarcy.

That's a very Australian thing to say.

I think the smallest macropod is the Tammar Wallaby?

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Australia does sort of have a land constraint problem too, insofar as there aren't a lot of places in Australia where anyone would really want to live.

Agriculture in Australia accounts for about 55% of land use.[1]

About 70% of Australian land is arid or semi arid.[2]

About 87% of the population lives within 50 kilometres of the coast.[3]

About 0.5% of Australian land area is used for housing.[4]

About 50% of Australian land area is suitable for and used for grazing.[4]

Dryland cropping, dryland horticulture, irrigated pastures, irrigated cropping, irrigated horticulture, intensive horticulture and animal production, account for about 5.14% of Australia's land area.[4]

New housing development in Australia is largely done by encroaching on some of the best land for growing food, where there used to market gardens, crazing, vegetable cropping, etc, close to towns and cities, that production is being pushed further out.

New housing development is largely captured by businesses and companies that can afford to develop the land and cope with all the regulatory burden. Even in the regional areas, a block of land suitable for building a house goes for about $280,000[5] - about 5 years median income.[6] Then you'll probably want a build a house on that land, and that's going to cost you about $300,000.[7] For a total of about $550,000.

Even in the fairly average, fairly ordinary area I live in, house prices are up about 110% since about 10 years ago.

I don't know if there's some alternate timeline where housing in Australia is more evenly distributed, or if that would result in a better life for the majority of Australians, or how to get there if we think that's good idea.

Also see my other recent comment here[8] for a breakdown of ownership of the housing stock.

Thanks for motivating me to put this comment together, I had been meaning to review this data since the last time I look at it over five years ago.

1. https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/products/insights/snap...

2. https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/rangelands

3. https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/coasts/pressures/population

4. https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use

5. https://hia.com.au/our-industry/newsroom/economic-research-a...

6. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-workin...

7. https://www.residentialattitudes.com.au/building-advice/the-...

8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257766

Here's some more Recreational Statistics (a branch of Recreation Mathematics):

There are about 11.1 million residential properties in Australia, 30% of which, some 3.25 million residential properties, are held by investors.[1]

There are 25 million people in Australia, about 17.5 million of those are adults aged 25 years or older, of which about 12.8%, or 2.25 million, own one or more investment properties.[1,2]

Let's assume the majority of investment property owners also own their own home.

So, about 13% of Australian adults own about 60% of the housing.

Does that sound reasonable? I don't know if there's some alternate timeline where housing is more evenly distributed and life is better, or how to get there if we think that's a good idea.

1. https://realtyai.com.au/inside-australias-property-boom-how-...

2. https://realtyai.com.au/inside-australias-property-boom-how-...

Here in Australia, there are 227 sitting Members of Parliament, of those: one in three federal politicians (71) own two properties; one in three (77) own three or more properties, and about one in three (67) own one property. Eleven federal politicians don't own a home, at least not in their name, and of those only one is known to be a renter.

I don't know why we call it Parliament House, it should be call the House of Lords.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/how-many-properties-d...

> private sector will not safe guard the public sphere of the environment.

In what sense are homes for people to live in not the public sphere of the environment?

What do you expect people to do? Go back to freezing in the dark?

What user data? Telemetry from using their antivirus products? Is that what they’re talking about?