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When I was a kid I identified old TV shows because they were black and white...

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  • What they're referring to is that analogue CRTs don't really have a fixed horizontal resolution. The screen has a finite number of horizontal lines (i.e. rows) which it moves down through on a regular-timed basis, but as the beam scans across horizontally it can basically be continuous (limited by the signal and the radius of the beam). This is why screen resolutions are referred to by their vertical resolutions alone (e.g. 360p = 360 lines, progressive scan [as opposed to interlaced]).

    I'm probably wrong on the specifics, but that gives the gist and enough keywords to find a better explanation.

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    • UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAPs

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  • Er, not intended, just trying to drive traffic to those communities to get them more active. People seem to be unhappy about my comment, though...

    • UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAPs

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    • Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not?

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  • If I, then, make a copy of myself on Mars, why would I expect to spontaneously inhabit it?

    As best we can tell, though, you don't inhabit your body, you are your body.

    Admittedly, we don't really understand the nature of consciousness at all, so it'd make sense to hold off on using Star Trek-style transporters until we do.

    • Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?

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  • Without a cloth or loofah, or whatever.

    • What is your dark figure/shadow person story?

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    • Another fossil protesting the rise of WFH

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    • Jeff Kennett proposes pay cuts for public servants working from home

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  • It’s an unpopular opinion, but I think this will happen organically over the coming decade.

    WFH jobs are more desirable, naturally on premise jobs will have to pay more to attract employees.

    For roles which can be either WFH or on-premises, yeah. But in the case of nurses and teachers it's not like they'll have an option, and it's not trivial to switch into or out of those professions. So I don't think you can say this will occur organically across the public sector as a whole. It'll only happen within silos of similar (enough) positions.

    Saying WFH jobs should take a pay cut is just incendiary phrasing. No one wants a pay cut.

    I think Coalition governments would probably like to give public servants a pay cut. Sure, there's not many places the Coalition is in power at the moment, but when they do come into power again I'd imagine they'd find it handy to know where public opinion falls on cutting public servants' wages (or at least reducing increases) depending on whether they WFH. I wouldn't be surprised if Kennett is running this up the flagpole for them.