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Should be noted that Australia, and even NSW, had quite a few different systems. Country NSW was largely done by the (local) county councils and they didn’t seek to profit by once the debt was cleared and instead wanted to give out cheap power until they had to take on more debt.

This was deeply offensive to the economists of the 80s and 90s and so they were taken over by the state government and turned into a for profit company.

It was corporatised before it was sold off. Privatisation of the NSW energy market began about 30 years ago at this point.


I thought e was optimal


Needs to be generic in the United States, and only the United States... which is funny considering the global jurisdiction US courts often assume.


Get a determined ex-partner who knows a lot about you and wants to harm you or kidnap your children. For most people this represents the greatest immediate risk with this kind of data.


How will they get access to this data? Hax into Toyota to track this one specific Rav4?



Why wouldn’t they?

Dataset is readily available for most places. Pull local on entry to jurisdiction on every drive…


Have you ever actually worked with geodata in depth? It's a wall-to-wall nightmare.


Never for production at scale admittedly, only for research and on fixed line connections, mostly public transport related. Some datasets are better than others.

Internet connected options here in Australia generally have good speed limit data but there are generally very few variable speed limits that allow you to travel faster than usual.

Transition is never perfect but surely regulation would account for that?

I genuinely don’t know but to me it’s an interesting problem.


Tragic


If you decry bloated web apps and use Chrome on their Mac... there's Safari. It's far more efficient and has a far snappier UI.


There's also Epiphany web browser for cross-platform desktop support and the Fulguris browser for Android.

It is noticeably faster, but Chrome is the new Internet Explorer in more ways than one, and many web pages don't work in WebKit browsers.


Posts like this makes me feel like I’m using a different World Wide Web than everybody else. Where are all these pages that don’t work in WebKit browsers?

I use Safari as my main browser, I open Chrome only when I encounter a web site that doesn’t work in Safari. It happens maybe once or twice per year, and half of the time, it turns out that it doesn’t work in Chrome either.


Chrome is the most advanced browsers on each platform. For example I have hundreds of tabs And chrome is the best at saving up RAM in the backgrouns


It's just closing the older tabs and re-rendering them from cache, when returned to. WebKit does the same thing.


Bingo. I know I would.

I am the king of knowing immediately when I have fucked up.

“Undo” has made us far too comfortable with mistakes.


Well said but by the time mobile phone towers were built we had been tapping phone lines for a long time. Hard to not think that to an extent default insecurity for telecoms was a choice.


When it was developed it was assumed that the cost of cellular equipment and, in some countries, the regulatory hurdles required to get authorisation to purchase radio transmitters that operate on licensed bands would make it almost impossible to do this.

I worked in a company that had a base station emulator in their testing lab in 2008. I can’t recall the cost but it was well over $10,000 and only worked with direct antenna coupling, it couldn’t broadcast.

Now we have software defined radios.


No milk though


And it’s actually attempting a periodic table rather than just using the aesthetics as found in Mendeleev’s.


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Mendeleev's periodic table was organized by periods of chemical properties...


Yes, the cheese are arranged by properties rather than just looking like a periodic table.


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