Cloud Barbarian
Singapore and Melbourne
Joined April 2015
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Processes that deal with people should be people processes. By which I mean they should be imbued with common sense, capable of empathy, willing to compromise and neither condescend nor patronise.
“Short-term emergencies often arise from long-term factors, which means that urgent action is unavoidable but rarely the answer.” (from @mrseankelly)
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Two charts that sum up modern Australia.
More income tax than at any time in decades.
A decade of deteriorating emergency room outcomes, as fewer and fewer patients are seen on time as defined by the governments own guidelines.
I love the UX on the SBB @RailService mobile app. A lot of tech companies could learn on how to build a simple, clear and informative UI from this century-old railway company.
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These six charts explain the Australian economy.
As @MonashUni's @zacgross writes, three of the most disturbing ones show living standards going backwards, productivity collapsing and household saving falling to a 15-year low. theconversation.com/were-in-…
"The average Sydney house is now $1.2m and the average wage is $94k, making it mathematically impossible for the average person to buy the average house."
Opening Keynote I gave a few minutes ago at @smh Sydney 2050 Summit “The Great Australian Scream” #auspol
link.medium.com/sGJK0uM3Nzb
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To adapt the old saying, all problems in AWS can be solved by adding another load balancer, except for the problem of having too many load balancers. #FinOps
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Increasing electricity prices are approx. 100% due to coal and gas producers charging Australians global prices for our own resources, making windfall profits with no increase in their own costs.
Ignore headlines falsely conflating it with costs of transitioning to renewables
.@FlightyApp you have a data error, 9M-VAA isn't a A333, it's a A21N. flightradar24.com/data/aircr….
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It's time to tax mining and energy giants properly.
Quotes from @RDNS_TAI's latest op ed in @GuardianAus #auspol (1/3)
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The war in Ukraine is NOT the reason for increasing energy prices in Australia
Australia doesn't import any coal or gas!
The reason is that our governments have handed control of our resources to foreign owned energy giants who are forcing us to compete for our own resources.
Dear @GregHuntMP @cpyne @KellyODwyer @HonTonyAbbott I hope you felt very clever for repealing a cost-effective, efficient, market-based approach to tackling carbon emissions, because you also planted a time bomb under your party that exploded Saturday.
Hey @WhatsApp is it really true WhatsApp can't help with bugs in WhatsApp? Because it feels like something you should care about.
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"BuT aUStRalLiaNS reFUsE to piCK fRuIt"
Sergio came to Australia to work on a seasonal worker program. But some weeks he'd walk away with only $70 in his paycheck.
Farms across Australia are treating Pacific Island workers like slaves. And the Government hasn't just turned a blind eye - they've expanded the program.
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Or use temporary visa holders without access to medical leave or societal safety nets to keep essential services running.
Reminder that it is not inherently progressive to allow those with office jobs to hibernate in their homes while low wage service workers cater to them or to lock children out of school so that their moms drop out of the workforce to care for and educate them.
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