gizmonty

News Corp is losing money across almost all of its Australian properties. The government keeps finding ways to prop them up under the guise of subsidies for local sports coverage because News Corp provides them with such favourable coverage. It’s blatant corruption.

Oh how wonderful it would be if Facebook were to pull out of Australia.

Please don’t add any more flights to Australia.

I live in Melbourne and drive a Tesla, but without a wanky number plate. I would love to use public transport, but it's completely impractical for me. It takes me 25 minutes to drive to work or 45 minutes (or more) on public transport. That 40 minutes a day is very valuable to me. I also often finish work very late when the frequency of public transport drops which further increases the travel time. I also often have to take children to school or other events and public transport is very poorly set up for that type of travel, and quickly becomes much more expensive than driving (once you already have the sunk cost of the car) when you have to pay for 3 trips. Melbourne is a primarily suburban city with very limited public transport available to substitute for the vast majority of journeys. If I was a single person with no children who worked in the city I would ride my bike or take the train every day. But I'm not, and I don't, so I drive. I drive a Tesla so I'm not contributing to the foul stench of burnt hydrocarbons that is increasingly choking this city.

Actually, the train system in Melbourne, Australia was doing exactly this to passengers in the very recent past. The private operators realised that there were penalties for getting to the end of the line late, but not for missing stops, so they just told the passengers who wanted to get off to suck it!

I can remember my C64 being out of action for weeks at a time (months even?) due to the power supply failing and having to wait for - I don't know what; repairs? parts? It happened more than once. This was in New Zealand in the 80s. It was a much more isolated place than it is now (and it's still pretty isolated!) so very slow to get things like this sorted (and service culture then was very poor - only slightly better now). All dealt with as warranty issues if I remember correctly, but the time it took was agonising for a socially awkward 13-year-old!

Isn't this last week's problem? I thought Tesla was fine this week.

There are more than a thousand chemical compounds in anything you eat that came from nature.

I was pretty astonished by this article. I work in the medical field in Australia and I can’t imagine any hospital here responding and coping in this manner. Our trauma is generally from car crashes and only rarely from guns. I think the victims of this incident were very lucky that this guy was running the show that night. What I would like to know is how well they coped with record keeping and infection control. These are the things that I find tend to get deprioritised in a crisis.

Free or subsidised healthcare. If you're an overseas resident living in Australia and can produce a valid medicare number you can get access to a fairly comprehensive range of medical services under somebody else's name. It would be very rare for any medical facility to request ID beyond a medicare card. Actually happens fairly frequently with visiting overseas relatives borrowing family member's medicare cards.

I'm in Melbourne. I ordered my Tesla Powerwall 2 today.

It's taken 25 years for Li-ion batteries to get from the lab to the current level of industrial production. If this technology pans out it will probably take a similar time to do the same - maybe a bit faster given the greater interest in batteries now.

Optional but actually semi-mandatory. You have to manually accept the software update to install it, but there was recently a case reported of someone who was refusing to do this and stay on an old firmware. Over time, Tesla gradually deactivated things like navigation and entertainment systems (if I recall correctly), claiming that they had upgraded their APIs and they were no longer compatible with the owner's firmware. In reality I suspect they are just punishing the owner to coerce them into upgrading their firmware.