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  For larger orders, I prefer human checkers Here the self-checkouts require to to individually scan every item. Buying 24 cartons of rice milk. Sacn one. Place on exit scale. Scan next one. Place on exit scale. {repeat ad infinitum). With...
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  I'm firmly in the category of I could walk there. I bought new walking boots a while ago so obviously I walked home in them. About 15km. Good news: they work! Equally obviously normally I'd ride a bike or train...
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  When it works well it's great, but the failure modes are truly awful. Sadly it seems that given the choice between easy to use or annoying to steal from, most places are going for the annoying version. Amusingly the local...
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  I didn't realise how bad it was until ~9 months in when he dropped the modelling comment. I was apparently misled by both my ex-gf's doing it just as a normal part of the process (one an architect, one a...
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  I found it hard enough to deal with an architects vision problems when it was just me. I think partly delinating the bits I don't care about clearly, but partly his "professional opinion" that large windows and steel structure is...
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  My parents still live in Bumfuck, NZ, but in their newly constructed single-story small home. They have moved several times since I left home and spent bloody ages pissing off architects before they finally built the current thing. They sold...
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  The house I own is brick and asbestos. That means that the cost of renovating the kitchen starts with "remove asbestos" and that would cost roughly the same as demolishing the whole house. Removing all the asbestos would require demolition...
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  Office buildings are usually designed to be refitted multiple times during the life of the structure. So you get much higher ceilings than residential, and generally a suspended ceiling hung under it. But the concrete-and-steel bits plus the facade are...
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  One of the disadvantages of both mud brick and hempcrete is that they're hard to take apart. But if you do you can reuse them. Or you can just wash them out of the building and into a big drum,...
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  colonization that rely on "send embryos, not live crew" are doomed to failure: what you'd get would be a Decree 770 Romanian orphanage in space Chicken keeping folk regularly observe that it's much better to bring new chicks into...
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  Canada: forgot to build houses ... The government, especially when democratically elected, caters to the increasing share of the elderly Australia and Aotearoa: government listens to elderly and refuses to do anything that would risk lowering the rate at which...
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  other countries -- like, for example, Turkey -- have a birthright citizenship law whereby anyone of Turkish ancestry can claim a Turkish passport. You can't actually renounce Turkish citizenship Australia and Aotearoa have birthright citizenship but allow you to...
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  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361320919286 Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective These findings are consistent with prior research indicating that autistic people experiencing close social bonds and empathy with other autistic people, though may experience specific difficulty interacting with non-autistic people (Crompton et...
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  Thanks. I definitely understand the disconnect between what you mean and what comes out......
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  "Why Switzerland is Obsessed with Guns" by Johnny Harris is on nebula now, youtube soon. He comes to the realisation that the difference between his home in the USA and Switzerland is why people have guns. Switzerland it's all about...
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  Others may want to suggest examples, if any exist, of sorta-democracies coming to power by force. It might be easier to look for examples of democracies that arose other than by force. The British famously "negotiated" a democratic system by...
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  I'm wondering if there are any serious alternatives to either candidate The US electoral system is designed to exclude that possibility and it works very well in that way. It does few things well but that's one of them....
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  obeying the law is another social structure Peace Treaty Which ties back to the increasingly common comment that "laws protect me and bind thee". This is most blatant with "law enforcement" who don't consider themselves bound to obey the law,...
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  It's bad enough when various leaders claim their have hot daughters (Tony Abbott has four!) but I am not really keen on other people pointing them out. OTOH it would be really good if having teenage daughters was a prerequisite...
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  It's bad enough when various leaders claim their have hot daughters (Tony Abbott has four!) but I am not really keen on other people pointing them out. OTOH it would be really good if having teenage daughters was a prerequisite...
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  Twas partly in jest. It's more why don't you know... mostly it's because he doesn't have nukes and therefore the US doesn't care, so Eritrea doesn't get covered in the media. He's more or less non-expansionist, so isn't a threat...
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  I'm going to say you're racist here. Isaias Afwerki has done better than any of the Ils, for longer, and with fewer problems. By almost any measure of "dictator for life" he's better at it (Eritrea is below North Korea...
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  Imagine a world where individuals in positions of trust/responsibility had to undergo psych assessment/analysis by an AI I expect that would lead to an even narrower range of permitted origins and attitudes. Australia has a fit and proper person" test...
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  Yes. I was more just saying... hey, I've actually met some of these people and they're as oblivious as advertised. I'm going with "people who identify as authors". I'm not judging them. Or paying them to do whatever they do....
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  Australia has a mix of both. The one I remember was a three phase UPS in a server room where everything was plugged into one phase. I found out because it kept tripping the overload and my boss didn't understand...
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  the median novelist made significantly less than £5000 a year From the amateur-authors I've met I think a great many of them are like the musicians who play in a pub or busk every now and then quite literally as...
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  I think the theory is that if enough people claim vigorously enough that the rule of law is important Trump will change his mind and agree with them....
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  solution that would work very well with human supervision. That is, the AI assesses the claim and proposes a solution, the human glances at the assessment to confirm it's reasonable Australia has a significant problem with housing quality. Even...
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  realised just how big they are I have a friend whose first introduction was while we were camping. She was cooking dinner on a little gas stove and a juvenile one swopped in, knocked the stove and billy over and...
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  owls are closer to kingfishers Try telling an Australian that kookaburras are kingfishers and watch the boggling. Then show them photos of another kingfisher and a kookaburra and the resemblence is obvious. So you get to do your kookaburra call...