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Comment · 2 months ago
I most liked that just before his death Roy crafted some poetry. Creating Art? Isn't that what it means to be human?
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Comment · 2 years ago
Successive federal governments wanted to keep up appearances with the US, & kept them on station for too long. Oversight & discipline became frayed. Certain US special forces wouldn't work with them because of it. The grunts were sacrificed to protect the top brass, but especially the politicians who looked the other way. Particularly embarrassing to do otherwise when one (Ben Roberts-Smith) has already been given a Victoria Cross.
Comment · 2 years ago
At a meeting of the 'Five Eyes' months before on Vancouver Island, Australia was nominated/volunteered to start the Western anti-Huawei campaign.
Comment · 3 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
Betadine gargle is 1% povidone-iodine. As a nasal spray dilute by 50% with water. Active protection for 3-4 hours minimum (again according to numerous studies)
Comment · 3 years ago
Povidone-iodine (taken nasally or as a gargle) kills viruses and bacteria. All types, including Covid, with 99.9% effectiveness according to numerous studies. Has worked this way (and safely) since the 1950's. Given that it's effective, and cheap to produce it's no wonder big pharma lobbied so hard for their own expensive partial treatments.
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Comment · 4 years ago
We already have self driving cars. We call it public transport.
Comment · 4 years ago
from the twitter link ..."The Optus hacker says they accessed an unauthenticated API endpoint. This means they didn't have to login. The person says: "No authenticate needed. That is bad access control. All open to internet for any one to use. The API endpoint was api[dot]http://optus.com.au. Yes, that looks weird, but the hacker says it worked otherwise a DNS error occurred. That API is now offline, so there is no more risk for Optus. It was used in part to let Optus customers access their own data."
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Comment · 4 years ago

  It's reasonable to assume that Apple chose 30% because that was the prevailing standard in the physical retail world.
That markup has been competed away in some circumstances (eg Costco) but otherwise still holds generally (Walmart 32%) It reflects unavoidable costs to all retailers, like local rents, staffing, transport etc Given that tech does not have a retail's fixed costs why has that markup not been competed away to establish a markup based on tech's unavoidable fixed costs?
Comment · 5 years ago

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