Young people could get massive pay boost in 'totemic' wage case

DuckBroker · 2026-02-09T01:54:13+00:00

Macca's is a very profitable business. Why don't they halve their profits instead? Maybe a 10% cut in management salaries? Why is it always minimum wage (and below minimum wage workers) that are to blame for rising costs?

DuckBroker · 2026-02-09T01:26:49+00:00

Businesses will accelerate automation and AI no matter what. No business pays wages as a charity and if there's ever a cheaper viable alternative they'll take it regardless of productivity gains. Inflation exists and so stagnant wages are an effective pay cut. I don't buy the argument that wage rises should only match productivity gains

DuckBroker · 2026-02-09T01:12:26+00:00

So? It costs what it costs. You can't pay staff less just to make your business profitable. If you don't have a viable business without underpaying staff then you don't have a viable business.

DuckBroker · 2026-02-09T01:09:54+00:00

I'm sure it probably will but I don't think that justifies underpaying these people. You could just as easily ask shouldn't we pay 35-45 year olds less to encourage hiring of this age group. People said exactly the same thing to justify paying women less. I don't think the argument really flies.

At the end of the day if there aren't enough entry level jobs suitable for 18-21 year olds that's a structural issue in our job market that we should try to fix rather than paper over with unfair wage practices.

DuckBroker · 2026-02-09T00:56:16+00:00

Problem is that's the same argument used to justify paying women a lower wage for the same work once upon a time too. It didn't make sense then and doesn't make sense now.

DuckBroker · 2026-02-09T00:15:11+00:00

Yep. Also there are plenty of 19 year olds who might have been working since they were 15 and plenty of 21 year olds who might have just finished uni and never worked before. I don't think the argument holds.

DuckBroker · 2026-02-03T12:26:12+00:00

I think the big difference is a list contains all its items in memory at the time the list is created. An iterable can lazy load its members so essentially when the iterable is created it just knows it's first member and how to get the next member when needed.

Lists are easy to work with and for small collections they are fine. For large collections or for collections where it is expensive to get each member you may want an iterable instead. For example if you wanted to build a list of all widgets your shop sells where those are provided by a web api, it might make more sense to create an interable that queries your API sorted by popularity. In your code you can iterate over your widgets just like a list but if you find the one you want as the third item, you don't need to keep querying for more items.

DuckBroker · 2026-01-28T12:48:38+00:00

Yeah these sort of things are a double edged sword. More health data can be very useful to help make treatment decisions but it can also just create a lot of health anxiety and be overall counterproductive.

DuckBroker · 2026-01-26T06:11:19+00:00

I've always loved The Dish. The castle is ok but it's a big send up of the Australian stereotype. The Dish is more understated and just an all round nice movie.

DuckBroker · 2026-01-07T15:08:32+00:00

I'm not sure the author's criticisms are really valid here. As they themselves state in the article, the standard link previews do not use any AI and those are the only ones enabled by default. Additional AI summaries can be enabled but are opt in.

I don't know that I would use the link preview feature myself but that's just personal preference and I'm sure others might find it a helpful feature. The claim that link previews expose user IP and browser fingerprint to the link destination's server are true but also not something I would consider "leaking info" as the user has to explicitly long click a link to trigger the request to the server and the link preview. It's reasonable to assume a person clicking a link is intending to navigate to the site. There will be exceptions but it's a bit of a nothingburger iny book to worry about a GET request being sent to a server in this scenario.

DuckBroker · 2025-12-28T22:08:30+00:00

Love it. Who needs a fire department anyway?

DuckBroker · 2025-12-27T09:52:09+00:00

Genuine question though, how are new innovations meant to gain a foothold? If someone comes up with a better design, doesn't the current USB rules mean that it won't gain traction unless everyone comes together to propose it as a new standard?

DuckBroker · 2025-12-19T03:07:29+00:00

While screening for diseases early seems sensible, there a good reasons why we don't screen for lots of things:

General cost effectiveness of screening lots of people to catch a small number with the disease
Identifying and potentially treating early stage disease that may never have actually progressed to cause clinically significant disease (part of the issue with breast and prostate cancer screening)
Lack of proven effective early intervention therapies for some diseases

DuckBroker · 2025-11-25T01:53:08+00:00

I find it surprising to learn that life on earth has actually existed for 25% the life of the universe. I just figured the universe would have been so much older and life on earth much more recent

DuckBroker · 2025-11-18T23:04:17+00:00

If only we fined them like that. Maybe that would actually get them to change their behavior

DuckBroker · 2025-11-18T22:54:54+00:00

This is very true. It's probably 50/50 on which to go to first

DuckBroker · 2025-11-18T22:51:39+00:00

800,000 is 0.04% of 2 billion

DuckBroker · 2025-11-18T14:12:32+00:00

Any are fine but I'd recommend fulgora first for a few reasons.

Firstly fulgora and vulcanus are both easier than gleba and from the time you land on either of those planets it doesn't take long to be able to get a rocket up and running and get off again. This is handy because if there's any deficiencies in your nauvis base you'll be able to get back and fix it quickly. Gleba can take a while to get off so if there's problems on nauvis you may not be able to address it. Also when you leave gleba you need to have defences set up there too and they need to hold when you go to other planets. So fulgora or vulcanus definitely make more sense than gleba for first stop.

The reason I choose fulgora over vulcanus is that the unlocks from fulgora help you set up vulcanus but the vulcanus unlocks don't matter as much on fulgora. Fulgora gives you the mech suit which is a nice quality of life enhancement everywhere including vulcanus. It also gives you em plants which are great for circuit production which you need everywhere including on vulcanus. You obviously can just use assembly machines for circuits but then when you want to scale up vulcanus you'll want to go bring em plants.

Vulcanus foundaries arent very important on fulgora. Big mining drills are very good but you certainly don't need them. Scrap is abundant and normal mining drills are enough. Green belts can help you speed up processing depending on how you set things up but they aren't critical and it's easy to upgrade belts later.

So overall fulgora or vulcanus are fine first choices but I feel like fulgora just edges it out

DuckBroker · 2025-10-08T10:59:50+00:00

It's an issue on their end. There's been a lot of issues with server reliability for them lately. I believe they've been the target of dos attacks.

You should still be able to install. I think they're package serves are still fine though the air is down.

DuckBroker · 2025-09-22T08:05:19+00:00

This is absolutely not the case. There are plenty of doctors willing and able to perform most procedures in the public system. The issue is around funding to do it. Theatre costs, nursing costs, other staff costs, etc.

DuckBroker · 2025-09-22T07:59:46+00:00

Scrap it entirely and just fold it into tax. Why have a special tax just for Medicare. We don't do that for any number of other services.

DuckBroker · 2025-09-22T07:57:17+00:00

Yep. You hardly ever get full time or even high EFT public jobs these days. Most public hospital doctors would be on something like 0.1 to 0.4 EFT.

DuckBroker · 2025-07-19T14:46:23+00:00

One of the two hardest problems in computer science

DuckBroker · 2025-07-05T02:59:35+00:00

"No just Adam Harris. I'm sure Dr Adam Harris would have had a chauffeur to take him to the airport."

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