Empathy and self-centredness: A couple of graphs
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The power and passion of privatisation
Grossly offensive political ads about the alleged dangers of Chinese purchase of electricity “poles and wires” during the last week of the New South Wales...
Banter Blitz
https://youtu.be/lGn8ZLMU1-Q Something that’s fun for chess patzers like me is watching really good players play blitz and seeing how much further their chess intuition goes. This...
More metadata musing
In answer to my post earlier today about the data retention bill, frequent commenter Patrick Fitzgerald made a rather important point about the data retention...
Ahead of the zeitgeist on metadata
Data security and retention are very much in the news at the moment. Indeed the Abbott government’s data retention bill is currently being debated by...
Yanis Varoufakis’s latest blog post
I remember being excited when Barack Obama was elected, but largely because he was such a fine orator and black and reasonable. I didn't hold...
Housing bubbles…
Joe Hockey has received a lot of flack after his ‘thought bubble’ that first home buyers could be permitted to withdraw from their superannuation accounts...