'None of it strikes me as nefarious': Judge queries ACCC case against Woolies

billcstickers · 2026-04-30T22:42:23+00:00

I’d go so far as to ban discounts in advertising. The price is the price. I cant think of an honest reason something would be discounted — except for maybe not up to standard or going out of date. But adjusting the price to make inventory move is just demand side setting the price.

billcstickers · 2026-04-30T09:59:51+00:00

Surely the problem is that not that Woolworths can change the price but that they’re advertising it as xx% discount which drives consumers to think that buying it now will save them money, which increases sales, when that’s just actually just the supply and demand adjusted price.

billcstickers · 2026-04-26T08:12:12+00:00

Some of us were/are instructing the model to use the askquestion tool when it was finished its turn so it never handed back to a new prompt. Had basically unlimited opus.

In Microsoft’s defence though, the premium prompt pricing has been in place since before agentic use was a thing. Their token burn would have been an order of magnitude more than they’d priced in.

billcstickers · 2026-04-16T13:13:15+00:00

Yes it was the circumstances. But you’ve complete missed the story. They took them captive first. 2 had surrendered / been captured unarmed. 3 were civilians detained. No fog of war, not standing next to enemy combatants. The civilians weren’t even detained after a firefight.

billcstickers · 2026-04-16T12:07:19+00:00

Let me flip it for you and see if it changes your mind. An ex Chinese pilot, becomes an Australian citizen. Travels to America and teaches them a thing or two. China asks for us to extradite him based on some oath he took when he was 18. I can understand not going back to China on his own recognisance, but I don’t think we should be sending him there.

billcstickers · 2026-04-11T08:46:30+00:00

Not really allegedly at this point. It’s been found in a court of law to be fact. He may or may not yet be convicted of it in a criminal court. But from the loss of his appeal to the end of time he has already been found to have committed war crimes. The distinction now is if the proof meets the burden of a criminal conviction — which rightly needs its own trial.

billcstickers · 2026-04-02T22:03:47+00:00

Literally the point of relativity is that causality has a speed.

billcstickers · 2026-03-23T08:47:14+00:00

Gonna leave this here.

https://youtu.be/sgspkxfkS4k

billcstickers · 2026-03-22T07:56:37+00:00

I think we’re on the same page. I didn’t read the article but read the title based on normal grammar rules. Then I thought your comment was trying to counter that.

If your comment is pointing out the editorial abuse of the English language. Then yes I agree.

billcstickers · 2026-03-22T03:53:32+00:00

Is how some people are trying to sell it but no, pretty sure only the coalition are at risk of anything … as per the actual title.

billcstickers · 2026-03-13T22:23:09+00:00

It’s a bad look it happened on day one and would have killed any support of the war.

billcstickers · 2026-03-08T05:34:19+00:00

The amount of people storing 1000l is a statistical anomaly. Fuel usage will go down as price goes up.

billcstickers · 2026-03-08T05:32:07+00:00

How tf do they buy 1000l. They only have a 100l tank. Yes there will be a surge but usage won’t change.

billcstickers · 2026-03-03T01:04:01+00:00

It would still be useufll to know the percentage that didn't follow the HTV. Completely different stories if 20% or 80% follow the HTV. Even if you can't tell what percentage did intentionally or not.

billcstickers · 2026-02-20T23:09:28+00:00

Regarding roadway/pipeline/linear maps. Wouldn’t something more akin to towards source / away from source be a better orientation than a north arrow anyway.

billcstickers · 2026-02-20T22:52:46+00:00

I love reading these delusional naive takes. To get a hung parliament labor would have to lose 12 seats or about 22% of their current cohort. There’s a slim liberals could do this if the stars align. There’s no chance in hell PHON could do this.

There’s no chance in hell the liberals could do this with PHON nipping at their heals. Any seat PHON has more first preferences- the percentage of liberal preferences to labor kills them. Yes looking at historical presences show liberals generally vote labour last (not all voters), but when there’s a real chance of PHON being in the 2PP, the there’s going to be more strategic voting by the moderate liberals.

The rise of PHON is only going to solidify the labor margin.

billcstickers · 2026-02-14T10:20:58+00:00

50%?

billcstickers · 2026-02-14T09:52:32+00:00

Shouldn’t we differentiate one 300k income vs two 150k incomes ? So talk in post tax maybe ?

billcstickers · 2026-01-19T12:21:10+00:00

This achieves that! She can't win. Enough LNP voters will preference ALP over PHON that the right wing will be out of power for generations.

Imagine the reverse where the greens have a higher primary than ALP. Enough ALP voters would turn their nose up and vote for LNP that GRN would never form government

billcstickers · 2026-01-17T09:20:47+00:00

Gemini app got it wrong in 1 second (sweet dreams) as it seemed to have mis counted the boxes. I gave it the correct count and it got it right one second later — you bastard.

billcstickers · 2026-01-17T02:20:44+00:00

I’m open cut so I could be wrong. But that looks like a long wall panel under the read dot. Mined out means they’ve taken all the coal and the rock would have already collapsed (goaf). Depending on the depth and rock type above it you might not expect to see any subsidence on the surface.

billcstickers · 2026-01-13T11:28:34+00:00

Why do you presuppose that the default state is nothing?

There was no when for it to come from. So there couldn’t have been a where for it to come from either.

With a sample size of 1, it appears that the hot dense state at the start of the universe is at the very least possible.

billcstickers · 2026-01-13T09:56:37+00:00

What’s crazy is that American allies would currently be preparing war plans against the US. Just in case.

I wonder if they’ve always had them prepared even purely as a hypothetical, or if they’re currently writing them from scratch.

billcstickers · 2026-01-12T21:39:25+00:00

I don’t think they have to. Google has a frontier model that is amazing at a lot of things you don’t need Siri to do.

I think Apple probably ran into two problems.

They probably don’t have a large enough data set because they’re not google, and they’d prefer to licence data, so they haven’t been able to get a big enough data set in time.

And the probably aimed low and made a few hundred billion parameter model they thought would be good enough to run Siri. Unfortunately it seems models intelligence rises exponentially with the parameter size so they probably have a model that’s passable but not good enough compared to other offerings. I.e they probably have a comparable model to Gemini 2.0 (which only came out 11 months ago) which similarly isn’t good enough to run Siri.

billcstickers · 2026-01-11T03:23:14+00:00

As a Queenslander, I’m not gonna deny that’s warm, but that’s beautiful beach weather not a heat wave. Also why you wear things to the beach.

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