Threading is a great case for a macro.

(-> x (* 2) (/ 3) (- 1))

Is the same as (- (/ (* x 2) 3) 1)

Well, it was legal to do until relatively recently.

Sounds like they’re just going to spend $7.5bn greenwashing? Green-laundering! Power.

Buy “green” power here, claim the green credits overseas, then resell the power as “dirty” power at next to no loss to them because our demand vastly outstrips our supply.

Niiiiice.

We’re going to embarrass the Australian defence planes.

Just fly those new helicopters right to Canberra.

No: Complicated location-based schemes would be awful. I used to live in an area with a number of time-based driving restrictions. The occasional “you got a fine because you drove down that road on the wrong day” sucked, and I lived in the area and knew the roads. I can’t imagine it was fun for visitors.

Yes: fairer charging. Move ACC levies to the usage not the rego. You can’t drive your work car and your personal car at the same time. Barely drive? You’re less likely to be in or cause an accident. Maybe even chuck in charges for general “harm” (ie polluters, massive American ‘trucks’, etc)

No: GPS tracking can fuck right off. Who’s paying for ~6 million trackers? Who’s managing all that data? Who’s overseeing all that data? What’s stopping the govt suddenly deciding “we’ll fine you immediately when you speed. Anywhere, any time”? I’d rather have the shitty prepaid paper system over GPS.

Yes: it is a good opportunity for innovation. But it’s also a good opportunity to funnel millions of not billions of money and data into the hands of a private overseas company to build, test, deploy and manage… Can we not?

Why stop at open banking?

Why not make blocking data scraping illegal.

Why not require any company in any sector with an influential portion of the market to publicly publish their prices in a machine readable, comparable, format.

Banks, insurance, fuel, groceries, internet, appliances, booze, utilities. Force them all to show their hand. Make it incredibly easy for comparison websites to operate. Let people find the cheapest prices.

I think you should be prepared to make sacrifices. Either to your lifestyle, your principles, your safety or your wallet.

Eg. If the new RUC system comes with GPS trackers, what will you do? Abandon your car, abandon your principles, or act belligerently?

If NZ introduces an adult-ID system like the UK, what will you do? Give up ‘adult content’, or pay for an overseas VPN?

Can you afford to protest? To stand by your principles? To circumvent the systems?

It likely won’t come all at once. It’ll be slow and incremental. But privacy will keep being eroded. In this modern age data is money, data is power. Privacy is the anthesis of that.

All… five of them!

The other 7 are all lowercase. (One of you ignore site)

If this actually works, it’s amazing.

It shows just how performative the ID checking systems are.

I predict everyone is going to pay more as the revenue collection will be farmed out to private industry who will all not collude, but charge exactly the same fees.

Ah yes. The company backed by a hedge fund. The shining model of the underdog if I saw one.

As a recent EV and diesel owner, the current RUC system is dog shit.

But I’m not sure how they’re going to make it any better.

Allowing it to be post-paid when you do your WoF would just lead to a massive bill every year unless you stayed on top of it.

But what bills are the ones you don’t pay when you’re hard up? The optional ones. So that would stil impact the poorest despite “being fair”.

Unless they allow you to pay outstanding RUCs over the year, but I doubt that.

And neither of these options sound likely. The calls to “enable innovation” just sounds like a way to tack corporate fees onto a national tax.

Not mentioned so far:

• the costs involved in creating a market competitive AI is high, restricting who can enter the market. Effectively funneling control of what the magic answer box says to a select few.

I will not be surprised when they collectively stop mentioning some facts, then slowly start to deny them, then start to gaslight you into thinking you made it up.

I think the bit that annoys me the most is the flip-flop politics.

Why bother with any long term policies or projects if in 2 election terms it’s going to be attacked by ideology, called a failure and reversed at considerable expense.

What do you use to bundle into one file?

At least these ones are flared at the base.

Them in China can only do a 180 Wivel.

Fuck yeah! Murica!

What difficult conversations? Huh? Which ones?

The “we’re not sexist, we promise” one?

Or the “it’s not our fault new employees are paid more than long time staff,” one?

Or the “you’re valuable to us, but we just can’t afford the CEO and your pay rise ” one?

Now do PM and VOC levels at petrol stations.

Then PM and VoC levels on roads entirely occupied by combustion vehicles, and entirely occupied by electric vehicles.

Or, the PM doesn’t think they’re too far right to be a problem.

Effectively, “we’ve loosened the leash, but don’t want them doing anything too dramatic”. The ‘just-right’ of racism.