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Good stuff, sometimes aggressive measures need to be taken to look out for the interest of the shareholders. Plus the fuel discount is a perfectly timed Christmas gift, exactly what Australia needs in a cost of living crisis. Bravo Woolies, very proud to have my superannuation invested in a company that cares!
In this experiment, external funding is paying for the handouts.
In a self-contained system, the same system/community providing the handouts would be generating the revenue for them (e.g., via taxation). Think of existing social welfare where “the system” generates the revenue that pays for the welfare programs.
I agree it’s a useful insight, but it’s the only sentence in the entire article that isn’t instead discussing the merits of lump sum vs regular payment. Saying that “it’s the takeaway” from the linked article is insanity.
The Wikipedia page for Hitler includes the sentence:
The stock market in the United States crashed on 24 October 1929.
That doesn’t make it the takeaway of the article!! If you want to make a case for something, bring the right evidence. As the researchers themselves have said, this study can’t just be generalized to high-income countries.
I’ve never seen the stats before and 8% seems really high?? Is there some subset of Australia that tips all the time that I rarely see?
Edit: nvm, the stat is confusing as other commenter pointed out.
The number of payments with tips has remained stable throughout the last year with 0.52% of payments throughout the hospitality sector including a tip in August 2023, according to Lightspeed.
Given that they remind readers what brands an Android phone phone could be, I don’t think the article is aimed at many aussie zoners.
I guess they’re trying to drive home that the scammer isn’t coming at you with a poorly worded email riddled with typos here - the overlay can look legitimate (even if in some cases it still has typos lol). Probably would’ve been a bit much for them to cover every banking interface tbf.
I really enjoyed Scienceworks and the Melbourne Aquarium as a kid. Not sure I’d go far as to call them must-see, but worth checking out if your crew is keen on them!
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Through long and weary travels,* I bring the gift of source preserved by the workers of the great archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20140831164530/http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons
* (they weren’t that bad honestly, a kind soul that took the journey 9 years ago made mine much shorter)
Welcome to the statistically-likely club!
Honestly I was pretty content with the fees involved when I used it for Euros a couple years back. Afaik the fees aren’t trivial but at least they’re not steep (unlike e.g., using PayPal to do the same thing) - I didn’t really feel robbed but it’ll depend on what your expectations are!
I’ve used Wise (formerly TransferWise) for international transfers a couple of times. They use “mid market” exchange rates so tend to be on the cheaper side as far as total loss of value on a transfer (fees + exchange rate losses).
Admittedly it’s been a couple of years since I last looked around at these services though!
Regarding Fedia.io, it’s currently inaccessible as I’m working with developers to debug the problems and sadly symfony exposes way too much in debug mode
Not that it really matters much, but here’s the original version of the image: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/google-android-phone-characters-group-royalty-free-image/458243847
Covid, yes, but not widespread lockdowns which is basically what the article is reflecting on. For example, I hadn’t really thought about how it could affect child social development due to significantly reduced social exposure.
This isn’t really a “covid is over” piece. ‘It’s still a serious human pathogen’ wouldn’t be a sub-heading if it was.