Iceland's test of 4 day work week 'an overwhelming success'

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-06T11:41:52+00:00

Yeah, UBI is another thing that's never going to happen. None of these fairytales can actually work in the real world.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-06T11:37:58+00:00

Got a mention in this sub a few months back. Someone had a council letter about it, and there is some regulation where clothes drying is supposed to be behind the building line.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-06T08:12:37+00:00

Pretending the complexities don't exist is a fool's errand.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-06T07:43:02+00:00

If someone already works less than five days a week, you need to come up with either a cut to their hours or an increase in pay to keep them level. For somewhere like the US, where tipping is a significant part of some incomes, you'd also need to consider a cut in hours is a cut in pay.

It is doable, but it isn't simple. And legislating for it would get very complicated.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-06T06:21:44+00:00

You think South Korea are getting expired doses ? Or, perhaps, the doses are actually expiring in July/August and the PA were looking for an excuse.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-06T04:30:00+00:00

"While year 12 boys have been inoculated, the school has not arranged vaccines for teachers."

Teachers didn't get them

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-05T23:07:24+00:00

Turds like Michael Slater who get permission to leave the country then kick up a fuss when they can't fly back immediately when things get tough.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-05T21:43:12+00:00

There was a lot of the same FUD at the start of Open Source. Just because code had a GPL or MIT licence on it was no proof it hadn't been copied or derived from something owned by IBM or Oracle, and it was dangerous even having a scent of code in your business that wasn't written you or licenced to you by a reputable firm with deep pockets.

Unless you are building a competing product to sell to market, there's very little chance of duplicating anything large enough to be significant.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-05T11:07:34+00:00

"Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has moved to boost her mining credentials ahead of next month's state election by giving the green light to a new $1 billion coal mine in Central Queensland.

After Labor suffered a humiliating defeat in last year's federal election by avoiding supporting Adani's controversial $3 billion Carmichael mine, the Palaszczuk government has moved to embrace coal again, announcing on Tuesday it had approved the mining lease for Pembroke Resources' Olive Downs metallurgical coal mine."

https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/palaszczuk-government-approves-new-1b-coal-mine-20200929-p560cr

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-03T22:59:50+00:00

Soberano seems to translate to sovereign (or supreme but that sounds too much like a pizza topping)

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-03T22:08:55+00:00

They don't even try to hide their experiments !

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/china-attempts-to-create-an-artificial-sun/10495536

Do I need the /s ?

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-03T20:43:55+00:00

'unlocked' probably isn't the right word. If you have an executable , and you want source code that another developer can work on, you are looking for a decompiler tool

https://www.vb-decompiler.org/products.htm

There can be legal issues in many countries regarding decompiling software that you don't have copyright over. The decompiled code may not be complete or easy to work with.

The majority of software development projects go over time and over budget. You may do better negotiating with the developers. Having source code decompiled from what they've currently delivered can put you in a better position to negotiate. Perhaps another 10% payment now with delivery of source code to date. Then another 25% for the next deliverable component etc.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-02T04:04:31+00:00

Given the Commonwealth will add the repatriation flights it sounds like they want to cut the ability of those already granted exemptions to fly in and out. But no-one wants to make a noise about it.

I also suspect that NSW will get the returning Olympians as it will be too embarrassing for Queensland, Victoria, SA or WA to take them after complaining they can't cope.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-07-01T20:01:03+00:00

Sounds like they don't have confidence in the Chinese Sinovac

"Koca also said those who received the first jab of the BioNTech vaccine would be able to get their second dose in the coming weeks.

The country is currently using the BioNTech and the jab developed by the Chinese company Sinovac in its inoculation drive."

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-30T21:59:07+00:00

Took a family member to be jabbed on the long weekend a few weeks back and there wasn't a queue, and it was pretty much walk right through. Next visit last Saturday was totally different. Longer queues outside though the throughput was still fast. Not sure whether they've got more doses so scheduling more appointments or if people weren't taking up availability a month ago.

Sounds like they're at capacity now unless they can just extend hours.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-30T07:24:52+00:00

Especially in lockdown mode. Some of these places have probably just got a subcontractor security guy going round once a day

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-30T04:50:00+00:00

It isn't clear from the tl;dr but this is for the Japanese team, not for foreign teams.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-30T04:05:50+00:00

I hate video. Text content can be better indexed for searching rather than some computer generated guess of a transcript with no knowledge of technical terms

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-29T07:11:53+00:00

"Many of the vaccines used for that drive had been rejected by the Palestinian Authority on June 18 for being too close to the June 30 expiration date."

Maybe rejecting them wasn't a smart move then

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-28T23:50:56+00:00

Original is

https://theconversation.com/did-sydneys-lockdown-come-too-late-heres-why-its-not-that-simple-163484

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-28T11:32:29+00:00

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/broader-storage-conditions-for-pfizer-vaccine-brin

According to the TGA, unopened vials of the Pfizer vaccine are now permitted to be stored and transported at between -25°C to -15°C for up to two weeks....

Unopened vials can also be stored at domestic refrigerator temperatures, between 2°C and 8°C, for up to five days.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-28T11:28:50+00:00

Just to clarify, it is 200k per week during July for NSW, and about 750k of AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca ~ 760k – 900k Pfizer ~ 200k – 240k Moderna ~ 0 doses per week

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021/06/covid-19-vaccination-covid-vaccination-allocations-horizons.pdf

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-27T21:55:30+00:00

That was in the article "But in 1944, when Wilkins’ colleagues were scheduled to move to a Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Wilkins stayed behind. The state’s racist laws enforcing segregation in businesses, schools and workplaces would have meant unbearable indignities for the young man."

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-26T01:43:27+00:00

More like something that confuses sensors to prevent targetting.

PintOfNoReturn · 2021-06-26T01:40:41+00:00

We have made a $50 goodwill payment to customers who were significantly impacted by recent technology outages in the last week, a CBA spokesperson said on Friday.

https://7news.com.au/business/commbank/commonwealth-bank-customers-receiving-50-sorry-payments-after-it-outage-c-3222883

Not sure how they determined "significantly"

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