The buybacks aren't to remove them from people who will cause harm, they're to reduce their prevalence so that in the future when someone who would cause harm goes looking it's much harder to find a gun to use.
I think they increased personal details at the same time that they eliminated immediate destruction 2 censuses ago. The change came alongside a promise of "anonymisation" which was roundly mocked for being not actually anonymisation (rather deidentification) and trivially reversible. IIRC they made one minor change that didn't really fix anything and called it a day. Nobody talked about it the next census.
That's the Household Spending Index, which is a small portion of inflation.
"Inflation" conventionally refers to the Consumer Price Index
The largest contributors to annual inflation were Housing (+6.8%), Food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.3%) and Recreation and culture (+3.3%).
Only one of those categories is considered discretionary. Note that the CPI infamously excludes mortgages.
This has the same issue as raising interest rates as a form of inflation control; inflation is not currently being driven by discretionary spending, so reducing discretionary spending has limited effectiveness.
Briefly addressed in the discussion:
Rather than targeting long-lifetime wearable garments, these materials are more naturally suited to short-term or single-use textile-like systems where environmental sustainability is prioritized. Representative use contexts include biodegradable packaging, temporary exhibition or artistic textiles, and architectural display installations, settings in which conventional materials often persist environmentally despite brief functional lifetimes.
In the context of living textiles, additional metrics such as washability, abrasion resistance, breathability, and wearer comfort have not yet been systematically evaluated and will require further co-optimization of biological and material parameters for practical translation.
Very cool. I love that they didn't pull punches with the dress design
Where's the violence?
Do you know why you end up owing? I've mostly ended up owing when I've gotten a significant pay bump, which it's hard to feel too bad about (rebates still feel good though).
Alternatively maybe the reductions in HECS have increased your taxable income?
If it helps there's a standalone version of the logic.
At a rough scan, it looks like it tries to find a best guess "main content" node by stripping unlikely nodes and then scoring each node. Element type and content contribute to the score
/**
* Loop through all paragraphs, and assign a score to them based on how content-y they look.
* Then add their score to their parent node.
*
* A score is determined by things like number of commas, class names, etc. Maybe eventually link density.
**/
This is much better than I expected based on the title. Axes are based on politicalcompass.org which should in no way be considered a politically centred test, but the results as shown are still interesting.
Minor criticism - I don't think the mirroring control as described in the prose was good. I'd suggest the appropriate opposite of "the rich are taxed too much" is "the rich are taxed too little" not "the rich are not taxed too much". Yes the latter is a literal inversion of the meaning, but I would expect biases in the same direction to come through with almost identical wording. I didn't check the data set of reflected questions.
Major criticism:
While I do publish my results I decided against publishing the actual reverse engineered scoring from politicalcompass.org. It is their instrument and their secret to keep, and reverse engineering it already feels like enough of a liberty.
Please release the scoring. The idea that a libertarian organisation promoting rigour and transparency in politics hides their methodology is worthy of ridicule. The scoring should have been released as a public good given how many people take the scoring as gospel.
If you store your timers in absolute time and keep them sorted, you only ever need to check the first timer rather than decrementing every timer every step.
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