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by jeza 10y ago
I'm in Australia and I don't think I've ever heard of it (except maybe glossing over American recipes online). I've always measured butter in grams. The packaging often has markers so you can roughly estimate to the near
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by jeza 11y ago
Hew Raymond Griffiths, had never been to the US. He was extradited from Australia to the US for something that isn't considered a crime in Australia. The irony is this part: "Griffiths finally returned to Australia on 2 March 2008
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by jeza 11y ago
Where I live, pubs were hellbent against smoking bans. Not a single pub was brave enough to go smoke free alone. They all scrambled to install outdoor beer gardens, but not all could do so for lack of outdoor space. Then when the smoking ba
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by jeza 11y ago
The article said their visas were expiring.
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by jeza 11y ago
At least when the snow melts it returns to the rivers and streams where it came from.
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by jeza 11y ago
I agree that student loans don't do the student much justice and there must be a smarter way of funding education. In Australia our HECs loan system essentially funds research which may benefit society as a whole but hardly benefits st
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by jeza 11y ago
> So Polaris would be pretty close to being a polar star for Mars as well. Poris is only useful if you're in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere on earth we use the southern cross. It's a bit trickier if you&#x2
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by jeza 11y ago
In Australia 10pc is the largest serving of chicken nuggets you can get at McDonalds, with the other sizes being 3 or 6 (I don't know the prices because they're not listed on their website and I don't often go to McDonalds;
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by jeza 11y ago
Two companies. It's more duopoly rather than monopoly but they track each others prices to ensure they aren't offering anything cheaper than the other.
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by jeza 11y ago
Rent is already quite high in capital cities, generally based on what high income earners can afford. I think a basic income is more likely to match an average wage so shouldn't result in higher rent. If anything it should take some pr
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by jeza 11y ago
I think the norm in Europe has been to rent for some time and as such tenants have more rights. Until recently, if you were renting in Australia you were in the minority and the rights of landlords seems to be skewed above tenants. Leases a
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by jeza 11y ago
I gather you could still have something like Medicare (Australia) with a basic income. It's administrated entirely separately from welfare.
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by jeza 11y ago
I find it hard to believe that someone could live off $12k. Then again I live in Australia where cost of living on the whole is fairly expensive. But given rent is a big component of cost of living I'd hazard a guess that this will var
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by jeza 11y ago
That would hardly keep people without jobs out of poverty, which I read in another article is just over $20k.
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by jeza 11y ago
Interesting topic. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia has been looking into the usage of aquifers for water storage in urban areas for some time now (the most recent project was Managed aquif
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by jeza 12y ago
I think I'd rather be neither.
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by jeza 12y ago
Though in some countries, hitting a pedestrian gets the driver an automatic jail term. Collisions with pedestrians don't happen all that often in such countries.
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by jeza 12y ago
The 10-20 year monopoly idea would prove to be problematic if the cable provider is also your ISP. I can only imagine this leading to deterioration in quality of service and over pricing. Regulation might help to an extent. Having a large
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by jeza 12y ago
Installing infrastructure is never cheap nor easy. As such I'd categorise fibre as a natural monopoly. You only really need to install it once to every house hold and once it's there, terminal equipment can be upgraded to keep abr
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by jeza 12y ago
In Australia textbooks typically cost $100-150 a title so I'm guessing that is on par with America. I've also been able to source these international editions at a fraction of the price by purchasing online. However, tech books fr
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by jeza 13y ago
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Yellow_Taxi
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by jeza 13y ago
Isn't it more opt-in because you need to put a link somewhere on the public www before Google can find it?
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by jeza 13y ago
Pimsleur isn't the most efficient way to learn a language. I find Assimil to be a much more interesting method. The audio component is required purely in the target language with no instructional content and very little repetition. So
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by jeza 13y ago
Do you own a trademark in Europe? Your lawyers won't necessarily be much help if not.
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by jeza 13y ago
I gather this is the result of the increasing price of crude oil, making small oil fields that weren't previously considered viable now viable. The output of these wells is enough to essentially stop oil prices from going through the r
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by jeza 13y ago
This just about sums it up: "Don't use kill -9. Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy up the flower pot." (from this answer http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/8927 )
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by jeza 13y ago
Add a thermometer to the stovetop kettle and it'd be perfect! :-) I would much rather boil water with gas. It's cheaper and there's no risk that it will overload the circuit breaker.
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by jeza 13y ago
Unless it's an ad from a recruitment agency. While I'm certain that recruitment agency ads do often advertise real jobs, there are instances where I'm pretty sure there are other recruitment agencies that advertise fake posit
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by jeza 13y ago
In Melbourne, Australia rent and/or mortgage repayments are more than that in a week. Moving out to the country will save a little bit but also limits access to jobs. I don't think you could get a mortgage for a 3br house for $300
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by jeza 13y ago
What happens if a basic income were adjusted for those price increases? One would think it would be linked to CPI and living costs.

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