Topicle Betap4r4d0x🇦🇺
Joined 3 months ago · Based in Australia
In Australia at least, couriers are pretty well compensated with a minimum wage of $31/hr because of the efforts of the TWU and Labor government. The worker protections in the US are nonexistent so ironically the Australian version of these platforms is better for workers than the country in which it was invented.
Everything has a 20-30% markup on the apps compared to store prices, but also you don't have to leave your house. There used to be an Australian option in Menulog but unfortunately it's only US-based multinationals now, so depends on your appetite for supporting US based companies in the current political climate.
I regularly use them, but the financially prudent option is obviously to get it yourself direct from the store, or at the very least use the pickup option in the app which saves on courier fees.
Bitcoin mining currently consumes the equivalent of an entire state's worth of energy annually in the US (2% of the total power grid output). Ethereum has done a great thing here, pity Bitcoin will never do the same due to lack of centralized governance.
Labor's big issue right now is they refuse to discuss immigration at all. While ONP voters are single-issue anti-immigration voters and net overseas migration is still running at record highs as recently as January. Attacking her character is the same mistake the Dems made in 2016 against Trump. It will end up the same way if Labor isn't careful. Hopefully for all of our sakes, it doesn't end the same way, with the populist being elected.
One of the turning points for Starmer was when he claimed to be uninvolved in the Iran war. Until it was later revealed the whole American operation was running out of two UK airbases (due to Europe refusing to be involved) and he lied to the public.
SpaceX has a negative profit-to-earnings ratio because the company loses $5bn/yr and a 94x profit-to-sales ratio. For comparison, Nvidia trades at 23x profit-to-earnings ratio and is considered overvalued. So by comparison, SpaceX is absurdly overvalued and the public float exists more or less to funnel retirement fund money into Elon's pocket. Grotesquely scammy person and company.
Sounds well handled, Capcom are on a roll recently:
To shape Resident Evil Veronica, Hirabayashi explained that the team is combining their respect for the original Code: Veronica with player feedback. However, this is not just recent player comments but player feedback from the entire series up to Requiem. Hirabayashi added that the team has even been digging up comments stretching back to when Code: Veronica originally released in 2000 to get a feel for “what gamers enjoyed about it back then.”
Iran already severely damaged three Amazon datacentres in Bahrain, so they demonstrated they're capable and serious about hitting the facilities of Trump allies.
Lehman actually predicted Spotify and other music streaming before it happened after realizing how DMCA couldn't put the genie back in the bottle with file-sharing:
The most interesting – and surprising – presentation came from Bruce Lehman, who now heads the International Intellectual Property Institute. Lehman explained the U.S. perspective in the early 1990s that led to the DMCA (ie. greater control though TPMs), yet when reflecting on the success of the DMCA acknowledged that "our Clinton administration policies didn't work out very well" and "our attempts at copyright control have not been successful" (presentation starts around 11:00).
Moreover, Lehman says that we are entering the "post-copyright" era for music, suggesting that a new form of patronage will emerge with support coming from industries that require music (webcasters, satellite radio) and government funding. While he says that teens have lost respect for copyright, he lays much of the blame at the feet of the recording industry for their failure to adapt to the online marketplace in the mid-1990s.
The Gig economy in Australia
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