Posts by Sacha
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Frankly more concerned with Steven Joyce continuing to claim that the whole rail system including urban passenger services should be profitable when they aren't anywhere else in the world. Strangely enough he's not making similar noises about truckers paying for their fair share of road damage (ie: nearly all of it). Another smug suit who knows about cost but nothing much about value.
Oh, and Mike Lee has a go at putting him right about who has paid for Auckland's rail.
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alignment of mission
Without reading his speech, the overall shift seems to be towards CRIs acting in the national interest rather than their own individual one. I guess we need to see the Budget next month to know if that's more than hot air.
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double post
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There are some politics between university-based researchers vs CRI-based ones, right?
Instead we will get more productivity out of CRIs by changing their performance indicators. It will be interesting to see if this is a successful approach.
Mentioned hereabouts recently that it's working a treat in Health with DHBs slashing home-based disability/aged support hours because they are not part of the Minister's performance targets.
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I had heard that evidence shows removing bins works - though yes, it seems counter-intuitive. Maybe all those who would have used the bins take their rubbish away with them, and the others do the same as they would have anyway?
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Master Chief
I thought it was a PS3-inspired gaming reference
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Heat vs Light ratio though..
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when faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept the subject rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.
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Then there's issue of people always looking for agendas behind questions.
Always a problem if you are playing by the rules and the other guys are not.
The unthinking public respect for science mid last century seems a long way from today's attitudes. US politics have not helped, with decades of systematic attack on evidence-based policy by well-resourced and networked cronies and right-wing think-tanks - in favour of faith-based 'decisiveness'. Evolution, schmevolution..
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Our noble rulers are such lucky people