Reading through these threads has left me crying on the bus. I’m ashamed that I can’t pay my rent this month after my cat died, and feel foolish for spending that money with the vet that tried to save her. I feel I caused my own hardship. I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet, but I’ve been listing my belongings on Marketplace to try and make up the gap. So if anyone in Australia wants to buy my MacBook Air or PS5, say hi.
Imagining that reference frame is a beautiful thought. Galaxies and stars coming into and out of existence in real time, supernovae exploding like fireworks constantly as the entire universe zips by.
Allow Australia to introduce the concept of: the ute. Functional tray and carrying capacity, without the pedestrian murder potential of the Yank Tanks™.
Sure, but single-payer government healthcare has an enormous ability to influence the cost in the first place. Outside of a treatment that demonstrably has a true cost to manufacture (when also accounting for R&D) that is within that ballpark of say, $1MM per dose, I suspect you’d find the government finding ways to bring the cost closer to reality.
Also, rarely is it the case that such expensive treatments are needed by more than a fraction of the population. I’d say there’s an argument to be made that we all aught to be okay with a small fraction of people getting healthcare that far outstrips their contribution via taxes – given that we never know if that one day may be us.
Reports from a third party ISP is that Optus are flying technicians to at least eight sites across the country, and that it’s a problem with their BGP route reflectors. Facebook faced a similar problem last year IIRC.
Absolutely. Consumer and enterprise alike, EFTPOS, internet, landlines, mobiles, roaming, all down. Hospitals and train networks heavily impacted as well.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of their offerings and ubiquity in consumer mindshare in the states. Comparatively, we’ve had Amazon in Australia for what, seven years at this point?
In my opinion, it’s the relative (hah) gentleness of the tidal forces at the Schwarzschild radius of supermassive black holes that astounds me. Assuming for a moment that the black hole firewall doesn’t exist, the notion that one can pass through the event horizon, alive, into space that is functionally entirely separate from the rest of the universe is incredible.
Exercising today is important, because it contributes to my long-term goals, but it isn’t urgent – I can do it this morning, tonight, or even delay it a few days if need be.
Buying food for dinner tonight is urgent, because without it I can’t eat tonight. It’s not important, however, in that even in the worst-case scenario where I miss a meal, nothing bad happens.
Paying my rent is both important and urgent, in that it’s time-sensitive and has substantial consequences if I fail to do so.
Let’s suppose the motive of wanting more women in tech is to rally against historic prejudices and institutional biases, in order to assist an otherwise marginalised group towards a more equal footing with the traditional power brokers, men. If you can’t see how this extends to trans women, a group that is almost inarguably as oppressed as cis women, regardless of whether you view them as ‘true’ women, then I can only assume bad faith.
Thank you for sharing this. I was born in ‘95—hearing a firsthand account of the early internet in Australia from someone that helped to bring it here is truly special.
“Abortion is subject to provincial healthcare regulatory rules and guidelines for physicians. No provinces offer abortion on request at 24 weeks and beyond, although there are exceptions for certain medical complications.”
Sounds like the state is simply removing themselves from the process altogether and allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best: provide healthcare. Let’s not pretend they’re out here providing third trimester terminations on a whim.
Given the whole First Amendment thing the USA has had for a hot minute now, I suspect not. Baseless speculation aside, if you have genuine examples of this occurring, please show the class.
Not knowing how a CAT scan works, beyond a vague intuition from already knowing what the acronym stands for, and not wanting to look it up before making a guess: can I assume it’s akin to this, in that radiation is shot from an emission source, through the target, to a detector on the other side, with the density of the material attenuating the signal in predictable ways, from which we can apply a transformation to some large number of such measurements to achieve a computed 3D result?
If I recall correctly former reddit CEO Yishan Wong’s tweets on the matter, it was ordered by Alexis Ohanian directly. Yishan went on to describe how Alexis let the at-the-time CEO, Ellen Pao, take the heat for the decision.
In my eyes, Reddit’s distaste for their own users emanates from the founders directly.
Something akin to the anthropic principle seems relevant here. Feeling that ‘I’m’ attached this body is what it feels like to be these atoms. If I were instead composed of your atoms, it follows I might find myself wondering the exact same question.