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by daemin 6y ago
One thing people seem to skip over is that once you have bought a house you will still need to pay many fees. Just owning a house isn't free, there will be property taxes, fees for services, and other actions that require money from yo
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by daemin 6y ago
I'm an Aussie in Europe now as well. Back when I lived in Sydney the average price of a home near where I lived was about 1.3 million, now I checked the prices last week and the estimated price is 2 million. Somehow there was only a sm
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by daemin 6y ago
The problem is there's already a lot of demand for property in those smaller towns, at least the more desirable ones. So the locals are now the one's getting priced out of the market as more and more city-dwellers are moving to th
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by daemin 6y ago
Also given that the median house prices are just below a million in Melbourne, and "slightly" above a million in Sydney, it makes saving up 20% for a deposit quite an endeavour. Then you need to account for all the other fees and
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by daemin 6y ago
I guess you can use "sashlic case" then...
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by daemin 6y ago
The end result of these things is that it makes it harder to account for and pay taxes. More of a cognitive burden on everyone for no real gain.
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by daemin 6y ago
It's an opinion I have based on outside observation of the political culture surrounding tax in the USA. There are groups of people (political association) and vested interests (lobbyists) who want to make tax harder to pay than it nee
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by daemin 6y ago
There's been a few articles here on HN relating to free filing and automatic returns and how the tax filing industry is fighting it. One name that popped up after a quick search inside a long article was Grover Norquist. From his Wikip
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by daemin 6y ago
Yes, but even with a 5 or 6 story limit you can fit 10x as many families living in the same area of land than you can with single family detached housing. The problem is that people that own these detached houses don't want to see more
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by daemin 6y ago
There are a few details with that: Does the sticker have to show all taxes or just the sales tax/GST/VAT? I know that pretty much every country in the world has an alcohol tax that is applied to things like wine. So should the sti
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by daemin 6y ago
But why not give them stock options as well? Why shouldn't all the people employed by the company share in its success? Even if it's the CEO's decision which determines the direction the company will go, it's all the peo
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by daemin 6y ago
The problem is the working environment in general, doesn't matter if it's at home or in an office, if the surrounding environment is full of distractions then productivity will be as bad everywhere. For a knowledge worker where th
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by daemin 6y ago
Well there is a difference in artists that produce a few good songs and then fill the rest of the album with other tracks, and artists that make an entire album be a journey of audio. There's also a lot of albums which are shorter than
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by daemin 6y ago
You forgot cane toads, foxes, cats, wild pigs/boar, water buffalo, and horses. All are non-native and cause damage to the native animals and environment. People have introduced a lot of animals for their own purposes which are not nati
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by daemin 6y ago
Yep, recruiters like other middlemen make most money with volume not price/quality. It's not the size of the deal it's the constant flow of deals which makes them money. For them to pay lots of attention on a single deal it h
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by daemin 6y ago
But they also launched it with a big bang like any other big console maker. Therefore shutting down first party studios is a big red flag that they intend on not supporting the device going forward. Imagine what the message would be if Micr
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by daemin 6y ago
Yes games are doing analytics. What do you think half of the achievements are for in a game - a very primitive form of analytics. There is usually an achievement for making it past the first level or prologue, there's another one for f
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by daemin 6y ago
I said this thing in response to Game Development crunch, which also applies to startups. The original creators of the company, now people in charge, have equity and that is a big reason they worked so hard to grow the company from nothing
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by daemin 6y ago
As the old saying goes, the game or application is like a swan swimming gracefully on the water. If you were to take a look underneath into the source code you would see it furiously paddling in an ugly manner.
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by daemin 6y ago
Screenshot of some text because Twitter has a word limit, but you can easily attach as big an image as you want. In this case a picture is worth a thousand words. Not hosting on their blog because they just need to disclose this breach so i
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by daemin 6y ago
No I don't think so. Thank back to the HL2 source code leak months before release of the game. The game still isn't open source even after all this time. But yes I wholeheartedly agree with your Factorio point. I've bought 2
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by daemin 6y ago
Podcast link: https://www.twoscomplement.org/ , I think it was the latest episode.
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by daemin 6y ago
Except when a theme park ride malfunctions, maims and kills most of a family in a gruesome fashion. Of course then you cannot sue because you've agreed/signed an arbitration clause in the terms of service.
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by daemin 6y ago
I heard on a podcast recently that a trading system needs to keep logs of why a particular trade was executed for several years just in case the authority wants it. So it isn't too much effort to build a similar report or log of behavi
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by daemin 6y ago
At my current job I do at least 150-200GB of writes per day. 50GB for code temporary files, 70+ GB for data files, x2 that for packing them, and then also deleting some of those to make some room to do it again. Also the disk that it'
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by daemin 6y ago
Back in 2012 at a previous job we tested compilation performance on spinning disks versus solid state. On Linux it made almost no difference what so ever, on Windows however it was a game changer. The builds were an order of magnitude faste
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by daemin 6y ago
Also they end up customising how much moving the steering wheel turns the actual wheels for each race. For example at Monaco they end up making the limits of the steering wheel move the actual wheels far more than on a faster circuit.
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by daemin 6y ago
Not necessarily that colourful people leave, but that outsiders leave. For one because they can and have somewhere else to go to, but the other because if they stay they will be viewed with suspicion and bad things might happen to them. The
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by daemin 6y ago
A great technical article, enjoyed reading it and finding out some more details of the platform. Though I think some of the flow graphs are a bit confusing with some of them having signs that I think should be the other way. Some things I l
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by daemin 6y ago
This government is reminding me of a Communist state more and more each day.

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