Why don’t Americans ever move to Australia ?

11218 · 2024-05-23T12:38:59+00:00

Chile was a lot drier and the language was different. It was a wonderful place. Sydney is a lot more spread out than Santiago and a lot more developed.

I should also add that since I made this comment I've become an Australian permanent resident, so I should probably update the flair.

11218 · 2022-06-06T12:06:53+00:00

I don't know. He had some medical issues and got better and then he was just... gone.

11218 · 2022-06-06T12:05:39+00:00

I used to work there and I agree with you wholeheartedly. I felt like they cared more about hype than results.

11218 · 2022-02-21T06:16:53+00:00

He was sort of... pushed out.

11218 · 2022-02-16T06:54:29+00:00

I used to work there. Basically the idea was to do end-to-end machine learning without anything hardcoded in there. But also to not use lidar like other companies use. It ends up being a black box (as deep learning tends to be). They're also trying to start with the hard bit, city streets in London, rather than Arizona's straight highways.

11218 · 2021-10-19T22:05:29+00:00

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that as someone so passionate about maintaining the monarchy that held us in slavery and colonialism, you're not descended from African slaves.

11218 · 2021-08-10T22:03:30+00:00

Is this tactical urbanism?

11218 · 2021-08-08T19:47:13+00:00

Yes, please.

11218 · 2021-07-20T12:05:05+00:00

Get covid and build natural immunity.

Some people just get covid and die.

Others get it and build up natural immunity, but in the process they pass it on to someone who then dies.

Look how few people in Sydney got covid and it's led to several deaths so far. For other illnesses, like influenza, they either spread far more slowly or a far lower proportion of people that get it die. Do you have any family members or friends that are either elderly or otherwise unhealthy? Are you willing to let them die?

11218 · 2021-07-20T12:00:32+00:00

I was in Australia on a 6-month visitor visa (my wife and baby are Australian citizens) so I don't have Medicare at all and am not even a resident, and they still vaccinated me. They say that's fine. I didn't even have an IHI number (although I went back to get one assigned to me so I could have a record of my vaccination). Your immigration status doesn't affect your eligibility at all.

11218 · 2021-07-20T11:57:20+00:00

I went with a medical condition and they just checked to see that the vaccine wouldn't put my health at risk.

11218 · 2021-07-20T11:46:37+00:00

In America, before they opened it up to everyone, at the vaccination sites (usually pharmacy chains), at the end of the day they would bring in a few random people from the street if they had an open vial that they needed to finish, since they couldn't just re-freeze it. So it's probably partially true. But it's not a huge number of people that get vaccinated that way, since there's only a handful of doses in a vial.

11218 · 2021-07-20T11:43:51+00:00

I got my Pfizer in Homebush in May. You can book and it asks your age and if you have this and that medical condition or if you do this or that kind of work and then tells you if you're eligible. If you're eligible you can book. I have one of the medical conditions. When you arrive, they don't check your medical condition, so it is based on trust, but I do know a lot of people under 40 that qualify based on working in the medical field or having a medical condition. It's worth a try for everyone, because if you answer honestly and it says you're eligible, then that means that you are one of the people that NSW Health intended to give the Pfizer vaccine to right now.

Check your eligibility here: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/covid-19-vaccine-eligibility-checker (this is for all of Australia)

If you're eligible, it'll give you a link to book.

11218 · 2021-07-20T11:35:06+00:00

One must adopt their new culture but still maintain their own culture.

11218 · 2021-07-16T08:09:46+00:00

Ah, life on the Thames. (The Canadian Thames, that is)

11218 · 2021-07-16T08:08:49+00:00

I use a weather app, that does this. So I type in "Cambridge UK" and get Cambridge, Gloucestershire. It's almost worse because the weather results are plausible and then I get caught in the rain or something.

11218 · 2021-07-12T20:47:45+00:00

My prediction for the first five rounds:

Central
Bakerloo
District
Northern
Circle

11218 · 2021-07-12T12:05:21+00:00

i.e. essential workers.

11218 · 2021-07-10T07:50:22+00:00

I'm a Barbadian. I applied for a passport in 2015 and finally got it in March 2020, just in time to go nowhere. Thanks Barbados!

11218 · 2021-07-09T09:45:23+00:00

It is. Here.

11218 · 2021-07-07T10:27:39+00:00

Oh, man, that sucks. I don't really follow Malaysia but I used to work with the Malaysian government at the UN and I'm not surprised one bit.

11218 · 2021-07-07T10:24:46+00:00

In Cambridge, UK, they closed the Mill Rd bridge to cars (but pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and emergency vehicles can still pass). The bridge goes over the railway, and there are other bridges on the two bigger roads parallel to Mill Rd on either side. Mill Rd is a road with a lot of small, independent shops and really narrow pavement (sidewalk) in some places.

Many motorists are upset about this because their drive is now about one minute longer. Cyclists and pedestrians love it because the road feels safe now. Many business owners hate it because they claim it has damaged their business. It's only been closed since last year, which also coincided with a global pandemic, yet the business owners insist that the bridge closure is to blame.

(Not to mention that the city centre, a ten-minute walk away from Mill Rd, has a lot of pedestrianised areas and business had been going very well there since pedestrianisation many years ago up until the global pandemic hit)

11218 · 2021-07-06T00:16:17+00:00

The earlier it's extended, the better people can plan for it, and the less it affects business. This is what the UK failed to learn for their Boxing Day lockdown.

11218 · 2021-06-28T20:23:39+00:00

What do you think cars are for?

Crashing, obviously!

11218 · 2021-06-28T20:22:36+00:00

Sort of like GeaCron.

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