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norp posted:When you use it outside of the cryptocoin bullshit you can probably use the name it was given in the 70s - Merkle tree Come now, using up to date marketing speak is not exactly unheard of. Literally Merkle tree is used in bitcoin so imma gonna go ahead and hazard a guess that Merkle tree is part of the syllabus. Ranter posted:In the supply chain context, what's the difference between 'blockchain' and any other distributed database software that we all agree to use? Like I just make my SQL DB API accessible to anyone I want. Why is ETH better? I would probably have to take a Merkle tree course or some other course that provides education in electronic tokens, hash tag tech etc to give a good answer. I hear RMIT offers something like that.
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Ranter posted:How many tens/hundreds of thousands are y'all in rn? Why can't you answer a simple question with a simple answer? The only thing I know about blockchain is a course run by our BI team with Boston Consulting Group on digital revolution. I was busy with other stuff so didn't attend a lot but it ranged from blockchain, machine learning, data warehousing, cloud architecture and virtual software provision, data analytics, etc. I am so afraid of investment that I don't even own exchange traded funds or shares of any kind let alone bitcoin. Instead, my industry fund super and an entirely inappropriate amount of cash sitting in a commbank account. TLDR, you guessed wrong.
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Recoome posted:The tl;dr is that we have a system "designed" by a bunch of people who never had to go through the hoops that currently-trained psychs have to go through and it really ratfucks us and society/people that rely on it. If the ALP had announced greater funding to address how psychs are trained then maybe it wouldn't have been such an issue but again it's a combination of psychs that are counselling/clinical are poo poo at self-advocacy and the ALP being dumb as gently caress. Thanks, really good explanation. The issue for me is not funding. It is about stripping out gatekeeping for gatekeeping's sake. Surely a 4+2 Psych with years of experience and up to date professional updating education (which is already quite the requirement in medical fields in QLD as far as I understand) can be transitioned over to clinically qualified without consuming tertiary institution education resources (which a lot we know will be overlap). Sure, I can sit here and say that I would rather be treated by a 4+2 that has gone through a 5+1 as well to become clinically qualified (as opposed to RPL most, train the gaps) and just say the simple solution is that government should just ramp up the resources to deliver 5+1 for all, but I can think of many, many things that those resources could be put towards that provide the same sort of incremental risk reduction at a demographic scale. The same gatekeeping is in place for foreign trained professionals, except it's much easier to amplify the disaster of each time a mistake is made by an immigrant as opposed to a mistake made by a ridgy didge Aussie. If you want the news the general theme is immigrants make mistakes (often getting named, a photo so you can see where they come from, etc like Patel) the system let everyone down when locals made the mistake (hospital is looking into why multiple poor outcomes like ward 10B in FNQ without naming names even though obviously one or two people were core to what went wrong) Medicine is a field that likes to eat its young (the US system of 24 and 36 hr shifts for junior doctors is just bonkers) but it is slowly getting better, I think.
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The thing I don't understand with nurses is their pathological dislike for fixed rosters. It just removes so much drama when you have your 5:2:4:3 or 2 N/S, 2 D/S, 4 off or 5/5/5 or whatever and leave it to the crews to swap around shifts amongst themselves for special needs if they have consummed all their leave or were too slow to put in for it (assuming maximum two per crew off for a given day for eg). The crews then get assembled to work as a consistent team and there can't be argument over who got what public holiday. Instead, it is a system where (depending on the matron or hospital) everyone puts in for shifts and it is divvied up on seniority or first in first served, matrons favorites or other hair brained scheme that shits on the meak or new. The other farcical situation is that where Christmas fell on weekends, the purple circle would work the Thursday and Friday public holiday (and hence attract the Xmas penalty rates) and the plebs would work Christmas day and boxing day and only get normal weekend penalty rates.
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NTRabbit posted:In my (admittedly private, not public) experience there are way more nurses on casual rather than permanent contracts, seemingly so that they can be on the books for 3 or 4 employers, and take or drop shifts for them in order of highest to lowest rate on any given day, and also be able to work every single day of the week for a month at a time while dodging fatigue concerns that would otherwise force a full time permanent nurse to take 2 days off every week. Nursing has basically turned into multiboxing food delivery drivers to make ends meet. I can understand, if not support the pursuit of massive hours (old timers didn't fight for 40 hour week on the premise of two jobs and normalizing two jobs is asking for something we don't really want) but even outside that, I have yet to meet a nurse that was not weirdly opposed to fixed rosters. My mum has enjoyed her seven shift fortnights for like 20 years and refuses to do an additional shift unless it's to help another nurse, she complains about weirdo one day, two evening, one day off, two nights, four days off, one night, two days off style of roster when it gets foisted upon her for doing some nefarious thing like get implied permeance converted to permanent contracts for other nurses that want it as the union rep and yet it will be over her dead body will she admit to any value to fixed rosters. Maybe it is to give the option as you suggest. My favourite roster I worked was 12 hours, two days, two nights, four days off. I like just doing two night shifts as you don't fully change over before back on days. The 3n,2o,2n,3o,2n,4d,7o,3n looks pretty cool though (I assume the green is night shifts) - take 3 days off and get a 12 day break is pretty good - with the 20 shifts of a year, I could take six - 12 day breaks a year and use the last two days for emergencies. Or if going overseas (really want three weeks), you can trade two 12 day breaks for one 21 day break. Yeah, I really like that roster.
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Recoome posted:I think it's actually really good to chuck it all on the table. I came across an opinion by a ALP-er to the effect of "the only people caring about this change is the people in the industry" and that really resonated with me, basically because there's really little visibility on how loving insane the whole situation within psychology is outside of the profession. What was a seismic shift in the way psychs were trained (the axing of the 4+2) didn't register at all outside the profession because it's just a huge mess. I really enjoyed the discussion and I thought about why the ALP seems to have a pathological dislike for psychology. I can only come up with the old school Union resistance to the post grad professions like the AMA who overwhelmingly support Liberal despite being a glorified union themselves. That and it's plainly obvious that the civil war is at least partially about the clinically registered psychs working to pull up the ladder or gatekeep the numbers of Psychs, most of which demographic health need to be technically competent professionals applying the latest knowledge/best practice as opposed to research or academic study specialists. I see a similar thing in my old alma matter, the old Mr X or Ms Y no longer lecturing their specialty subject matter expertise because PhD being a minimum requirement to be a Uni lecturer so now the same subjects are instead presented by PhD havers with no specialist or deep understanding of the subject matter other than what is required in general in the industry. Not to say that lesser education is better, just that it is not strictly better to add additional years of pure education. I really think the crossover from pure education to practical exposure + updating training is late then it needs to be as a means to gate keep (also, I did it this way, so shall the young). Here is my idea, 20 sessions of non-clinically registered psych made available, or 10 sessions of clinically registered. Once the associations sort themselves out and get a sensible proposal to unify the registration without adding years of retraining, then we can talk about methodical systems to ensure the number of sessions is unlimited where required but inherently targets discontinuing sessions where a reasonable expectation of efficacy is not there.
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Capt.Whorebags posted:You'd probably get away with doing WWII re-enactments dressed as a member of the Afrika Korps because you thought Rommel was a military genius, but I'd recommend staying home for the Waffen SS club nights. I agree you would probably get away with it but I think it would be ill-advised to dress up in any German (or Italian or Japanese) uniform. Agreed that it is much worse to have the Gestapo dress gear on but the days of running amok as a youth and it not being stored for use later on against you is over. I have mates that cleaned up their social media of pictures of them smoking. It was not a big deal at all 10 years ago to be a smoker but in another twenty or thirty, it might be a hit in electoral/job chances as being so dumb as to smoke when in uni or whatever.
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Laserface posted:Vapes are basically everywhere. It's acceptable. Smoking is only on the way out because of the cost. huh, I thought there was a hate on them. Bad example then. Next one is pure breed pets, something that is likely from a breeder as opposed to an animal rescue bitsa (unless it is a service dog in which case there is a very good reason blind dogs are specifically bred).
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I understand from a convenience, cost and personal taste grounds that people want their preferred choice but there is no question that on the basis of animal welfare, that there is a surplus of bitsa's, that shelters struggle to house problematic animals (either behavior or health issues or not cute enough) and that puppy mills are often problematic in and of themselves. And while it may take time, money and effort to mitigate the issues with the less popular animals, pets are a choice so it is easy to expect that the money, time and effort can be made available. And to get back to the original point, the younger generation are way more aware of the problems of pet ownership and industrial, made to order provision of pets. That us old gen-x's and millennials and our expectation of a pretty pet puppy with no problems (or it gets replaced) are probably going to be out of date with gen-Z/alpha/people being born now so probably better off not being in the habit of talking about/breeding memes on how you only like pure breed mastiffs/ blue Persian or whatever on social media.
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Capt.Whorebags posted:Targeting incentives at first home buyers isn't about subscribing to a John Howard 1950s view of newlyweds spending their first night together in a new home. It's a recognition that the first step on the property ladder is incredibly hard. Saving a deposit whilst paying rent and watching prices climb faster than your saving capacity, only to be slugged with a stamp duty, puts it years further out of reach. Once you have that first home, even with a crazy mortgage, you have equity building up and it is so much easier to then use that equity to buy a bigger home if/when you need it. On board with this, I find it disappointing that Labor is opposed to land tax. The available stock of (for eg) three bedroom handily located properties will go up if the retired couple rattling around inside instead sells up and downsizes to something more modest. Land tax promotes that cycling of properties to fit for purpose users and remove some of the motivation for just hanging onto the wrong property just because it is desirable to someone else. Same for decent farmland, let go fallow instead of being kept in full productivity because the old man is not up to keeping a hundred acres productive and instead enjoys the best home veggie patch of his life.
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QLD done a big effort to rationalize the councils 20 years or so ago. There was resistance to it as you would expect but they did achieve a lot and the benefits are less fiefdoms, more systematic approach to problem solving and less putting cross walks and zoning to suit individual councilors.
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And someone that gets into the public service is going to atrophy their operational industry knowledge over time so in effect you will have staff and resources that will sit around waiting to do analysis that you want and when the time comes, they will recommend getting in industry consultants and will administrate the work.
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I think that is a good idea. When crook overseas, generally my first port of call has been a pharmacy - Europe, Africa or Asia you see a pharmacist, tell them the problem and they will give you some sort of horse pill for it or tell you to go see a doctor if they think it can't be solved with medication alone. In fact, a lot places, the most recognizable/useful for navigation landmark is the pharmacy. You say the closest pharmacy to where you want to go to the taxi driver or getting rough directions. Something you think might be life threatening (eg malaria) you don't muck around, just go straight to the hospital. Megillah Gorilla posted:Great, just what we need more of - overprescription of antibiotics. This is a real problem, however. I think Doctors are more likely to push back on people demanding the pill they want to have compared to pharmacists.
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froglet posted:Yeah, and that's great! (Coz gosh I know I've been there and it is excruciating). Considering that everything goes through the medicare card, you think it would be easy for statistically optimal procedural based automation to spit out recommendations according to services/medications purchased "hey buddy, a twice daily buy of oxy for the last few weeks and no doctor visits - maybe you should go see a doc?" / "hmm that odd combination of tests and medications suggest that it is not a heart problem like you and your doctor think it is but is actually a reaction to the contraceptive pill you are on, better check for that",/ "you have a cold, antibiotics are probably not necessary and pharmacist x has a history of handing them out like candy".
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I remember when Ita Buttrose was first announced as heading up the ABC and someone on SA commented something along the lines of "oh great, soon all ABC headlines will change to hide the details in the body and have coy headlines like "Bridgett's car launches off bridge and you will never guess what happens next!", instead of "Two injured in single vehicle accident at Old Mooney Bridge". Turns out it was so painfully and remarkably true, the ABC news reads like a New Idea cover nowadays. On broker advice, who is good to talk to for investment advice? I have nearly all my life's savings in a Commbank account, and I get anxiety at the thought of investing in anything even though I know it's the stupidest thing. I'm like Comstar that all the bad noise about brokers/investment scams has me terrified.
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It's interesting the real wages decrease because Aussies are some of the most expensive people to hire. A role that will pay (net of local taxes) USD130k per year (say an artisanal supervisor level) to an Aussie for will be $110k USD for a brit, yank or a EU candidate (maybe a bit lower for the yank), $50-70k for a South African, Ghanian, Filipino or Indian and about $30-40k for a local West African national. For a tradesperson (heavy diesel mechanic, high voltage electrician, etc), an Indo or Filipino will earn about $20 k a year which is cheaper than employing local nationals, but local employee development is obviously the bigger priority. Not sure Aussie rates relative to other countries is dropping though. The covid lockdowns were always going to have dramatic effects on cost of living so it doesn't surprise me it has gone this way. Energy and fertilizer costs due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is probably the single largest other cause of inflation. Electric Wrigglies fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Feb 22, 2023 |
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There used to be brothel tours of Langtrees Kalgoorlie, I gifted my sister a tour back when being edgy wasn't ogre,. It had some awesome merchandise in it like a signed on each half split wicket from the tied test match between Aus and India, a boxing glove with five of the top heavyweight boxers (Mohamed Ali was one of them and evidently it was quite rare for him to sign mech) and other crazy stuff. I don't remember any kids there but it would have been unremarkable for a baby to be with one of adults on the tour, it looked pretty much like any tour group you would see in Rome down to the retired rich as gently caress American retired lawyer and his wife we befriended on the tour.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:"My wealth will surely protect me!" from any kind of minority is always bleakly funny. I agree and it needs to come from the Police Union itself, not the management. The political leadership can say how much they want the cops they manage to be as part of the community they are policing all it wants but I wont believe they are successful for a second until a majority of beat members vote a resolution to the effect you describe.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Speaking of Cops That's wild. I guess it means they are interested in the police that are much more loyal to the department than the people the are policing. Are the hurdles to be accepted into police school that high? Police jobs are generally very sought after as well paid and stable.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Nobody with a soul wants to be a cop. How very droll, but we are talking QLD so no souls are at risk.
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Don Dongington posted:They might have been high paying once, but our glorious cabal of neoliberal ALP premiers have been persuing public sector wage freezes and doing everything in their goddamn power to avoid giving nurses, cops or teachers more than 2-3% per year in EBA negotiations. Less than half of what they've already lost to inflation. I did go and look it up; Website posted:Constable: $64,921 - $81,067 So starting out at median Australia salary (~$1,250/wk) with decent conditions and up from there, especially if you are happy to live outside the city so on top of a premium, the living costs are lower as well. Not so shabby. Not sure if a pensions are available for the police like in the old days but the super scheme is very good in any event. So I think it comes back to how are they gate-keeping the roles? I assume minimum heights have gone but are they expecting great OP score or something?
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My sister started out as a soldier (served in Timor), then a nurse and most recently in the AFP. You better believe working conditions and things like stress leave are loving unbelievably good in the AFP versus being a returned serviceperson or a nurse. For her, getting an AFP job has been like winning the lottery. To be fair, I understand the State coppers don't have it anywhere near as good.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-06/perth-mint-sells-gold-former-hells-angels-bikie-without-checks/102048620 This is interesting for me because one thing most people don't realise, is how much looser regulation is for government entities compared to private. A good example is Muja powerstation in WA had stacks without Electro-Static-Precipitators (ESP) or other flue gas emissions scrubbing because environmental laws were not applicable to them as a government organization. Fair trading and the like at your visa office? - they are exempt and so on. This is for good and bad reasons but generally is utlised at will be government entities (bit like the official secrets act). This generally means govt orgs are nowhere near as self-introspective on overarching legislation as you might think. This then comes up against an absolute international beast - Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering (and related) legislation/international efforts. Lithuania (Or maybe Latvia?) decimated its own banking sector in the name of AML/KYC, Commbank got slammed and many other examples abound. A big selling point of some Crytpo is circumventing KYC, etc. Perth Mint seemingly just trucks along completely oblivious to AML/KYC despite being a multi billion international wealth business and that it will just be a few technical issues to sort out. Whilst I don't think anyone is going to goal (not least because a govt employee going to goal in the line of govt business would be quite remarkable), it is quite a story. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-06/perth-mint-gold-doping-china-cover-up-four-corners/102048622 This seems a bit underdone as a story. Doped is too strong a word for me or their implication of it. You have a spec - you blend to it. 99.99% pure is the spec? Well, why add in a free 0.005% for free? Maybe you have some gold that is 99.985% and some that is 99.9995%, just blend it together to hit the overall spec and job done. Specs for bullion also exist for heavy metals such as cadmium, antinomy, etc and is measured in parts per million or parts per billion (30 ppb is 0.3 ppm is 0.0001%). Now of course this assumes your assays are correct, that the other side has good assays and that a dispute mechanism exists to mediate a difference between assays and that you both understand the contract/conditions (was the contract stated to 99.99% +/-0.001% accuracy or was it >99.99% or was it stated as the former but also referred to the Shanghai SX) The Chinese also have a reputation for challenging assays/specs once the product is hard to access for follow-up samples (even if it is in the contract) basically forcing the seller of the goods to abandon the complete consignment or the seller may even pay the buyer to take it for free to avoid storage fees (bit different here as the end result could be the Aussie govt pays to get all the gold back to confirm that it is indeed all within spec of the contract). I think it is very possible the mint was doing its normal things and the Chinese buyers are playing hard ball. A big clue is that normally contracts are written that once you accept a shipment, you can't retrospectively challenge assays - unless they have a lot of historical samples and loose contract writing. It is generally incumbent upon the buyer to challenge the assay within a period of receipt (or the seller to challenge the buyers assay if the buyers assay was the one written as the default).
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23 Skidoo posted:I feel it's a bit poo poo to lump Labor as the decision makers for subs... they may support it, may not behind closed doors, but this AUKUSward policy technically is a Liberal policy and if we were to renege or walsh on the deal like we did with the French subs we'd be better off financially until we weren't due to souring of relations. It's a good point although I do feel part of the reason for AUKUS is that the US/UK subs will not need re-fueling compared to French nuclear subs (which reportedly we could have had) and Labor was very strident on this point of no nuclear processing in Aus. Not 100% sure if that was part of the Lib/Nat government compromise or just made it easier for the Coalition to try and help out their mate Johnson in the UK. Separately, I find a bit laborious the concern trolling about a few hundred tonnes of nuclear waste in 2050 being even a consideration. Fly ash dams are chock full of more nuclear waste exposed to the elements than ever will come from a mature nuclear industry. The nasty substances that are part and parcel of rare earths ore processing is a reason why all the processing is done in China. That is the price of doing business but a few hundred tonnes of waste in 2050 from a 350 billion dollar killing machine program is a remarkable bogeyman.
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swimsuit posted:how many countries has Australia invaded in the last 40 years, and how many has China? China has mucked around on its edges for decades (Bhutan, Nepal, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, etc) and Australia has done as it's told by the US when the US has wanted moral support for its own mucking around outside the Americas. Australia also has also fiddled with Indonesia and E. Timor.
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Recoome posted:I’ll tell ya, this is a bit of a creative interpretation of what happened in East Timor. How else would you describe spying on them to win out negotiations for an unequal carve-up of resources located between the two nations?
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Recoome posted:i was more thinking about Indonesia's occupation of East Timor Ah, you referred to East Timor in your post so I thought you meant when East Timor was a nation post 1999. But yes, Australia fiddled with Indonesia and had opinions about what Indonesia should look like up to and including sending troops into borders previously recognized by Australia to separate out East Timor again. My old man earned his war service loan from Konfrontasi (learnt how to speak Bahasa Indo even) and my sister served in E. Timor during the Dili Dash for Cash (including getting traumatized by the civilian torture victims she treated as a medic) - I am well aware that a much greater amount of hyperbole could be utilized. The point was not why Australia fiddled, just that we did.
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Recoome posted:Gee we get it, you like China because you are in your edgy SAlt phase. How about the AFP slamming Lidia Thorpe down today in Canberra?? eh he has got a fair point, the US will go around being absolute bastards and yet people from the US insist that everyone should get on board and wreck their own way of life in pursuit of US values (read: interests) because it is the "Right Thing To Do TM", but if you say "well, if it is so important, why not when/there...." they will bring out some mealy mouth paragraph over why the US way is different and therefore understandable/forgivable or just outright declare "whataboutism!" That is not to say that the US is not the best of a bad pick, the article that someone posted in this thread that Australian choosing allies is about keeping at least one powerful potential enemy close is very good way of looking at it. Allying with them is not to agree universally with the US or to agree they have the same values as Australia, just that if you have to pick a side (and often you do), try and pick the one that can wreck your poo poo the most and be ready to pay the piper even as you try and keep pursuing your own interests as best you can.
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huh, I thought Labor would not have the tiniest skerrick of a chance. Endemic corruption is the absolute worst thing that can happen to your government (outside genocide or other crimes against humanity), so NSW Labor getting a long time in opposition for Macdonald's (et al) antics is what I expect.
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And so I am completely wrong.Pleasant Friend posted:And so Tasmania became the Liberal heartland. haha
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The Peccadillo posted:I was genuinely surprised that the greens and independents didn't get a bigger piece of blowing out the Libs rear end pie Maybe there was a perception it was going to be close so people were more inclined to make their vote certainly count instead of protesting against their otherwise preferred candidate (LIb/Lab).
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