BirdieNZ

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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
Meanwhile in New Zealand, I'm a good developer with a few years experience, doing well for my age locally...at USD$69,000. How can someone like me get a piece of US salaries without moving to the USA?
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
Why are gold prices more or less the inverse of the other commodities (including other metals)? Is it because it's used more as a portfolio hedge than a commercial good, whereas the other metals have more industrial applications?
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
House prices don't really go up; land prices go up. Land prices go up because the desirable land (land given value by its qualities, whether inherent or through value added through improvements) becomes more desirable. Land prices also
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
But where's your evidence? For any economic school of thought to be a good approximation of truth, it needs to be able to make models that both describe what has happened, and predict what will happen. Any economist that can't do
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
It's not pump and dump, though, it's a short squeeze. It's happened before, many times, with the most famous prior case being VW ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_squeeze#Examples_of_shor... )
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
I've been using Linear ( https://linear.app ) a little recently (no affiliation), and it has settings to automatically close and/or archive issues that haven't been completed in the configured time period. It seems
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Winston Churchill on land value taxation (1909)(savingcommunities.org)
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
She also got dementia. There is some evidence that lack of sleep contributes to the development of Alzheimer's and dementia.
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
It doesn't follow that it's a necessary state of affairs, though. New Zealand milk farmers are not subsidised and milk is cheap enough (about USD $2.80 for 2 litres, which is only slightly more expensive than milk in the USA, and
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
In New Zealand, we call it Tall Poppy Syndrome. The typical acceptable way to be successful in NZ without receiving ostracisation in some form is to attribute your success to the country, rather than to yourself. At a very basic level, it a
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by BirdieNZ 6y ago
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dolla
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by BirdieNZ 7y ago
I imagine there's a spectrum and certain strengths are at opposite ends of a gradient. I have weak (but existent) visual recall and imagination, and strong spatial awareness, with a strong preference to text over visual learning. Perha
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by BirdieNZ 7y ago
I remember playing Exile: Escape from the Pit. Great game, the graphics didn't matter because the story was what was important.
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by BirdieNZ 7y ago
Just thought I'd add that I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue by a medical doctor. I was pretty annoyed, after researching it, because it seemed entirely pseudo-scientific. In reality I had stress-induced depression with a high degree
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by BirdieNZ 8y ago
That's known as the prosperity gospel, and it is not the same thing as the Protestant work ethic. It is also a particularly modern problem/belief, and unlikely to be the cause of the economic differences between Catholics and Prot
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by BirdieNZ 8y ago
The last time I read some studies on the subject of physical discipline, the conclusion was closely aligned with what you observed. Children who were physically disciplined but understood their parents loved them and had a consistent approa
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by BirdieNZ 8y ago
It would be pretty interesting to see one or two of the bots playing with humans on their team.
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by BirdieNZ 8y ago
I believe the article said that Blitz rated the bot last-hitting at about average for humans, although he might over-rate what an average human player last hits like.
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by BirdieNZ 9y ago
This is exactly what I do! I just start "day-dreaming" some story with myself as the main character, often with the setting being from a fantasy novel. I never manage to find out what happens in my story though, because I fall asl
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by BirdieNZ 9y ago
Dividends also exist as a point to buying stock.
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by BirdieNZ 9y ago
Developing countries have different influences on job choice than wealthier/Western countries. Countries in Scandinavia typically have high gender disparity between the sexes in most occupations, because they are wealthy enough that me
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by BirdieNZ 9y ago
If women do actually naturally prefer non-STEM fields on average then is the science on the subject being sexist? I am more interested in the truth than in making the numbers between men and women be exactly 50/50 in everything.
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by BirdieNZ 9y ago
Which Google guy?
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by BirdieNZ 9y ago
What are your sources on these statements?
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by BirdieNZ 10y ago
> If you accept the existence of racism, you should accept the evident existence of race. This seems to be a non sequitur to me. I can accept that people exist who divide humanity into X number of races based on some perceived fundamenta
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by BirdieNZ 10y ago
I don't think the article is arguing to be completely disconnected, but rather to stop consuming TV and video news, and instead read quality articles on different subjects (current or otherwise). This results in being more informed abo
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by BirdieNZ 10y ago
I don't think this is always accurate; a lot of poor people are poor through spending habits and poor financial management, not through lack of income.
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by BirdieNZ 10y ago
"A free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting mono
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by BirdieNZ 10y ago
Volunteer organisations also have regular meetings, and if you're involved with multiple volunteer organisations then it can quickly become a time management issue.
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by BirdieNZ 10y ago
You mean you haven't been cashing in your monthly white-privilege cheques?

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