Gambling in general, not just pokies.
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Not even that.
"Let's make a minimum viable product (if we are lucky) and sell it for $190. It might have features our users don't use(we are guessing) and if there is enough demand we might build onto this and add more in the future...
We also go with "Mr potato head"
He legit lost his shit when someone else called him Voldemort
I sound like a parrot repeating this.
But
The graph of gambling spend per capita is a nice straight line. From the minnows, all the way to 2nd place, it's straight and direct. Small increments for each country.
USA is second, average spend of $400 per capita. That's pokies, horses, gambling, Vegas etc.
1st place is Aus. $2400 per capita. 5 times second place.
Aus needs to drastically change our gambling rules and regs. Ban advertising on all media forms including Internet. Block international gambling sites that don't comply. Don't associate odds with sports in any way. Pokies in pubs can fuck right off too. Tax that to the point where they serve no purpose to have on site.
Got a couple of hours in today of the new patch.
First impressions:
Less vector users. Job done there. Still lots of medics, but give it time they might try something else.
Way less aimpunch. It's easier to hose targets your already on instead of getting dinged by a flincher. Feels good overall. Will be interesting to see how that change progresses as everyone gets used to it.
Got a few free rank ups right away due to conversion of the xp system. Cool.
Barbed wire is crackup. Works well. Already seen people setup great ambushes with it on unique locations.
Bandage healing is interesting. I find targets before you would hit and they would duck away to bandage, now they duck away to bandage and then to heal, so it means the delayed engagement takes longer. Also far less assists from this too.
Snipers holding the sniper rifle (not DMR) seem to walk like a snail. Pulling pistol lets you go fast again. This is the only really annoying change I think
Australian electric vehicle sales in first half of 2023 already higher than all of 2022, report says
Yep.
I drove a non Tesla EV from Cairns to Sydney over a few days. It was pretty easy.
The car planned the journey out for me. This included what chargers to use (which plug etc), how congested they were, rate of charge, cost etc.
But it did take time. Each stop was 10-20 mins instead of 5 that I normally would have with fuel. Also the cost wasn't that much cheaper due to all the highway driving (no Regen braking when you do 110kph for two hours non stop) - I worked it out it was $4 cheaper than petrol.
I could have gone slower (80kph instead of 110), and not used superchargers (10 mins vs an hour)... But then what's the point
People underestimate google and the commercial side.
Google bard and the AI platforms behind it have been in progress for a decade. Their ability to separate language models for custom uses is perfect for large scale custom operation and direct cloud integration.
Someone mentioned elsewhere that recruitment of F1 engineers has begun - cryptic titles but listed by names of people working for Andretti.
Hitech being the other favorite are using a recruiter to do it
I agree to an extent.
My opinion is we need a bit of a brute force approach to help correct how far off course compared to the rest of the world we are.
Ban advertising.
Tax the venues with pokies - rla revenue profit model that makes having them in clubs / pubs net negative to anyone running a venue.
Tax online gambling, ban their advertising.
Block non conforming online gambling sites.
Etc.
We are over 5 times the per capita spend of second place on gambling spend globally. Until we aren't first things need to drastically change.