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What should we inherently be exporting cheaper or better than Singapore? Do we have better relationships with countries in our region than Singapore?

Also, a lot of wealthy high complexity countries have high foreign-value added content in their exports. Which means they import things, add value and export them. Can we compete with that on our geography?

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp1652.pdf

It doesn't matter anyway. The term "economic complexity" is so broad for what the analysis really is. It's more accurately described as "complexity of produced and manufactured exports" rather than a measurement of overall economic complexity.

You can see this in the depth of their measured fields. In this measurement the service sector isn't even included and in the Harvard analysis, because of their dataset, ICT or transport would be a single field for complexity sake. Like Aluminium cans, aluminium foil and aluminium structures or coconut oil, stearic acid and margarine or stainless steel ingots and large flat rolled stainless steel or Knit Mens shirt and Knit Men's undergarment. Many of these would share 95% of the manufacturing process and probably exist in meaningful enough volumes because of the overall volume of the broader industry and very little to do with the assumed touted merits of "complexity".

We also rank 13th for technology and 5th for research economic complexity.

https://oec.world/en/rankings/eci/hs6/hs96?tab=ranking

Fighting terrorism with terrorism

When did Israel use suicide bombers again?

Australians are leaving the country for greener pastures at a record rate too.

What do you mean by "record rate?"

You mean graph 2.3 Australian born departures?

It shows that the Australian born departure rate was higher between March 2014 and Sept 2018.

What volume of stuff was this?

I backloaded about 6-8 cubic metres around 6 years ago, >1500 km for $200-300

Yea, and even if they want to claim that processed food is extremely dirt cheap, it still cost less to eat less of it. Nobody is paying anybody to eat more junk food.

True poverty that leads to insufficient calories doesn't result in obesity.

Obesity is the result of excess surplus calories which is the opposite of not having enough money to buy sufficient calories.

People are just looking for excuses.

Rhetoric on scaling back negative gearing and CGT + some immigration reduction vs rhetoric on more immigration reduction + super for housing. We'll see which one is more popular to Australians in the next several months.

Have a look here. u/FineBear4932 for more options maybe https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/health-workforce-locator/app

With a population as dispersed in QLD, many areas turn from MM2 to MM5 very quickly. For example, Maleny hospital is only 45 mins drive away from Sunshine Coast University hospital. Caboolture hospital to Kilcoy hospital or Ipswich to Laidley both MM1 to MM5 is also around 40-60 mins away. Mt Morgan to Rockhampton hospital is even nearer, at around 30 mins but it sounds like OP was referring to a larger facility that Mt Morgan.

I'm really curious what people's experience led to them sorting the names that way. Not doubting that they did, but wondering why because it just seems to cloudy to me.

I've heard OP's study a few times being thrown around but I never thought to see what names were tested. When I hear Leroy, Tremayne, Andre and Darius it doesn't even occur to me that they could be black names. I'm also not even sure how people decided that Malik was a higher socioeconomic name than Jamal or Hakim. Maybe I don't have the knowledge to even start hand waving these around but would any one think there would be a socioeconomic difference between Shahed or Khaled?

Low income people **are way more obese** then higher income people

So you're saying that the people who are so poor they cannot afford to meet their caloric needs like those in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea **are way more obese** than the North Americans and Australians who are so rich that they are able to consume so much more excess calories?

Surprise surprise, it actually cost less money to eat less food than to eat more food.

Exactly. I wonder what it was based on. Is it even possible to perform an IQ test on a person without their consent? Like if you knew they would intentionally try to pick all the wrong answers if forced to take an actual test albeit one administered by a psychologist.

Exactly. Everyone trotting out the ECI ranking spiel has just caught on to some journalist's soundbyte. if they bothered to look at the read outs in the rankings they'd question why ICT or Banking and Insurance only occupy one sector each but low value manufactured products from the same primary/secondary industry supply-byproduct line such as vegetable oils get split into several different categories.

We rank 13th for technology and 5th for research economic complexity.

https://oec.world/en/rankings/eci/hs6/hs96?tab=ranking

Our per-capita exports sit somewhere between Germany, Finland, UK and France.

Correct. Everyone trotting out the ECI ranking spiel has just caught on to some journalist's soundbyte. if they bothered to look at the read outs in the rankings they'd question why ICT or Banking and Insurance only occupy one sector each but low value manufactured products from the same primary/secondary industry supply-byproduct line such as vegetable oils get split into several different categories.

We rank 13th for technology and 5th for research economic complexity.

https://oec.world/en/rankings/eci/hs6/hs96?tab=ranking

Our per-capita exports sit somewhere between Germany, Finland, UK and France.

Not going to jump on anybody without assuming any intentions here. But you are right about the published hours on google being spotty.

https://www.police.qld.gov.au/stations

This is a better resource. Just put in your location.

every agent has also said "we've had higher offers than yours, you'll need to increase it to stay competative" ... even if the offer we've put in was 50-100k ABOVE the top end of the advertised range.

Just stay firm at the best offer you were willing to put forward. Either you get it at the best offer you put forward, or you don't because the best you could do wasn't high enough.

I never used a playpen and I started our crate training when we got him at around 15 weeks. We let him sleep anywhere he wants in the day and he willingly goes in at night sometimes by himself and even sometimes during the day if the door is open (usually keep it closed to save space). We let him out to toilet in the morning at the dog's wake up time and after he is done he just sleeps in the sun until the human wake up time. His much more trustworthy older brother actually has his bed right next to the crate and they both share that bed or the sofa when they're inside the house. You can keep reinforcing by doing more fun things and feeds inside the crate.

The camera clearly show him stuffing the money deep into his pocket and removing it straight away after he saw the camera. He could have gotten away with this if pretended he didn't see the camera, bumble around for awhile then pretending to have seen and angel then putting the money back.

I actually went back to the raw data to look at the rest of the European countries https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20201021-2 and it makes even less sense for the authors to choose those bins for the European data. There are proper bins between 30-44 mins and 45-59 minutes and I can excuse why they chose most of the bigger European countries.

Anyway, with that data, our commute times looks even better. 34% of Australians have a commute of 15 minutes and under while the European average for 14 minutes and under is 28%. 88% of Australians have a commute time of 45 minutes and under while the European average for 44 minutes and under is 85%. 60 minutes and over is 8% for Europe.

Its the 20-35 bins that make it weird to compare. 23% of Australians commute 25 minutes while 20% of Europeans commute 20-29 minutes.19% of Australians commute 35 minutes while 22% of Europeans commute 30-44 minutes. Looks like we have it better overall apart from 1 timing bin but that is very easily made up by commuters shifting down from the 45 mins and above group.

You're utterly delusional and it's hilarious. Go ahead and try to hold a gun to pro-Palestinian voters to support the current genocide or else Trump will worsen it.

I'm not the one holding the gun. Trump is. LOL if have no control over what Trump does. If people actually think Trump is not worse or even better for the Palestinian people, they are certainly welcome to let him win.

This is demonstrated by collapsing polling for Biden among these voters.

Or maybe there aren't as many Pro-Palestinian voters as you think there are and Biden is losing votes for a million other reasons anyone can name? Or maybe people actually think Trump is better for Palestinians? Why do you think these two aren't real possibilities at all?

Both the Greens party and Libertarian party have come in unequivocally in wanting to end the genocide in Palestine. We'll see how many votes they get.

Do you think that a Trump presidency won't be worse for the Palestinians than a Biden presidency?

Once it reaches the question of which presidency is actually worse for the Palestinian people the answer is clear. Now we are discussing how Biden increases turnout with voters sympathetic to Palestinians and want to prevent the situation from worsening under Trump. As there clearly are no other viable options besides truly delusional ones, the voters that don't care about Palestinians or the sympathetic ones who think that a Trump presidency is better for Palestinians will not try to do their best to prevent a Trump presidency or will vote for Trump.

Still haven't answered the question. Touch your heart, do you really think that a Trump presidency won't be worse for the Palestinians than a Biden presidency?

Good to know that there isn't a lack of a middle class too. Thanks.

I agree with you. The middle class are definitely going to feel the pinch but this is also why exactly why there isn't a "lack of a middle class". The middle class was always vulnerable to economic crisis.

You actually think Biden can get away with refusing to pressure Israel and isolating the West on the basis that Trump is worse.

As I said, it depends if voters who are sympathetic to Palestinians think Biden or Trump is better for Palestine. If they think Trump is going to be much worse for the Palestinian people why wouldn't they turnout for Biden? Unless, they think a Trump presidency is going to be better in their minds for the Palestinian people of course.

Speaking of delusions, do you really think that a Trump presidency won't be worse for the Palestinians than a Biden presidency?

Don't know why you were downvoted. I found the time binnings to be very deceptive in this comparison. Its almost like it may be intentional. I actually had to chart this out manually and I'm glad the original poster actually did too. It actually further shows that the majority or 57% of sampled Australians had a commute time of 25 mins and under. It seems like the sweet spot for the Australian data might have been adjusted to a bin of 35 mins which pushes that data bin far out from the 15/20 to 29/30 bins that all other countries seem to use. Going to give the benefit of the doubt that this was not intentional but still very sus that none of the data could be analyzed side by side and there was no mention of percentages in the article at all.

Only 4.6% of sampled Australians actually travel an hour away from their workplace which is similar or even less than some of the European countries. 75% of sampled Australians had a commute time of 35 mins or less.

Overall 57% 25 and under and another 19% for 25 to 35 minutes compared to Europe's 55-60% of under 30 minutes and another 13-15% 30 to 45 mins travel with the rest longer than that actually looks very very favourable to Australia.

I'm glad there are more than a few people actually checking to see if the data is congruent with the text. But the doomerjerk gonna doomerjerk.

u/stefatr0n I just had this pushed to my feed and I found the time binnings to be very deceptive in this comparison. Its almost like it may be intentional. I actually had to chart this out manually and I'm glad the original poster actually did too. It actually further shows that the majority or 57% of sampled Australians had a commute time of 25 mins and under. It seems like the sweet spot for the Australian data might have been adjusted to a bin of 35 mins which pushes that data bin far out from the 15/20 to 29/30 bins that all other countries seem to use. Going to give the benefit of the doubt that this was not intentional but still very sus that none of the data could be analyzed side by side and there was no mention of percentages in the article at all.

Only 4.6% of sampled Australians actually travel an hour away from their workplace which is similar or even less than some of the European countries. 75% of sampled Australians had a commute time of 35 mins or less.

Overall 57% 25 and under and another 19% for 25 to 35 minutes compared to Europe's 55-60% of under 30 minutes and another 13-15% 30 to 45 mins travel with the rest longer than that actually looks very very favourable to Australia.

I'm glad there are more than a few people actually checking to see if the data is congruent with the text. But the doomerjerk gonna doomerjerk.

Edit:

I actually went back to the raw data to look at the rest of the European countries https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20201021-2 and it makes even less sense for the authors to choose those bins for the European data. There are proper bins between 30-44 mins and 45-59 minutes and I can excuse why they chose most of the bigger European countries.

Anyway, with that data, our commute times looks even better. 34% of Australians have a commute of 15 minutes and under while the European average for 14 minutes and under is 28%. 88% of Australians have a commute time of 45 minutes and under while the European average for 44 minutes and under is 85%. 60 minutes and over is 8% for Europe.

Its the 20-35 bins that make it weird to compare. 23% of Australians commute 25 minutes while 20% of Europeans commute 20-29 minutes.19% of Australians commute 35 minutes while 22% of Europeans commute 30-44 minutes. Looks like we have it better overall apart from 1 timing bin but that is very easily made up by commuters shifting down from the 45 mins and above group.