Posts by Sacha
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The only way RNZ's funding will increase is if we change the government.
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Liam Dann points out that 'generations' are an artificial construct anyway, and urges millennials to not be distracted from enjoying their youth.
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Privacy Commissioner to report within a few days.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Lynn Yum,
my understanding is that data mining will make the welfare budget more effective, thus helping more people.
From what I've read the intention is to spend more on fewer people now to prevent them costing more long-term.
Unfortunately there has been no corresponding extra investment so it may play out like the proposed Special Ed shift of focus to the youngest disabled students by taking it from older ones.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Lynn Yum,
We need to agree on what is acceptable information gathering and sharing, and what isn't acceptable
Horse long-bolted. Govt has made that decision for us several years ago and they have been assembling the infrastructure since. Would be good if it became an election issue but most of us citizens have no idea what's going on with it so a lot of awareness to build.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Moz,
As I said upthread, I believe they're introducing it only because it will allow privatised social investment contracting over years of a person's life across different services and contexts - eg: getting payment for a client still being in employment several years later, or not unemployed a couple of years after transitioning from school, or not needing to access other govt-funded services.
All sorts of perverse incentives and opportunties for waste of public funds, but that's unlikely to deter these neolib clowns.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Moz,
They are interested in longer payback timeframes than 1 year.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Welcome back…, in reply to Kimberley Verburg,
hearing Taylor Swift in there
who copied her later sound from Lorde's first album
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
which type of aquifer are you referring to?
the 'under the ground' sort :)
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
the real cleanup , in respect of nitrate has yet to begin, and the economic consequences nationally are massive.
totally agree. fencing off waterways is a feint.