I once had to opposite a very senior IT executive over dinner explain to me that teaching was just a matter of loading the bits into the brain store. Had to nod and say "how interesting".

Another one of those things. Only those who have never experienced poverty of access to knowledge or entertainment paint it as desirable. As a ten year old I had access to a library bus once a week. That was it. No, it was not a utopia.

it makes NZ a much less appealing tourist destination as you spend a lot of your holiday in a rented car.

the 60% who voted against the voice, I suspect. This stuff resonates.

the subtext here is that tunnelling is easy. It's not.

I cannot believe they just let Jacinta Price’s stuff go unchallenged. Unforgivable

This is on a par with the industrial emissions face mist…

group.vattenfall.com/what-we-do/i...

only makes sense as a last resort when storage runs out? Also in Oz winter make it in Darwin and pipe/ship it south?

until recently around here some very expensive real estate relied on volunteers for fire defence and I don’t think this is good

$250k paid over 20 years is scandalous

I did this and didn't get the free month.

this whole discussion is very reminiscent of people who argued the internet would fail because there was no guarantee that capacity would be available when it was needed. That only top down provision would work. The rewards are more than sufficient to motivate people to develop solutions.