elyobo

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by elyobo 9y ago
This is definitely a major contributor and absolutely needs to be addressed, but it's not the only thing. Improving supply by permitting an increase in density has to be part of the solution, but without also fixing the tax incentives
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by elyobo 9y ago
To be fair, it was likely doomed whichever way Winnie went, because both outcomes would have still had Winnie in there.
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by elyobo 9y ago
Got my popcorn ready for 2.15PM AEDT.
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by elyobo 9y ago
I can't comment on the worldwide situation, but it's pretty clearly the main AU + NZ driver and it's one that's very easy to address; removing the tax perks would be fairer even if it had no effect on prices at all anywa
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by elyobo 9y ago
The 5% threshold has a lot to answer for; needs to be either removed entirely (minimum threshold to be whatever the % is required at the time to get a single list MP into parliament) or, to appease those terrified of small parties, at least
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by elyobo 9y ago
I'm not proposing that we take on board the corruption, but of course you can have a law with appropriate penalties for violators of it in an open, globally connected country. We want people to invest; we don't want them to break
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by elyobo 9y ago
Nailed it.
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by elyobo 9y ago
The main driver in AU and NZ is property speculation, driven by terrible tax and pension policies in combination cheap money.
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by elyobo 9y ago
TOP's policies with regards to taxation were very interesting; no change in overall rate of taxation but broadening the tax base in such a way that would have significantly increased the tax on assets and decreased it on income. Too p
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by elyobo 9y ago
Australia's policy is weak with regards to enforcement and penalties; NZ's may or may not end up being more effective. Agreed that foreign speculation is at most only part of the problem and that the drivers you mention are a larg
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by elyobo 9y ago
I'm OK with that on principal if the "foreigner" is someone that has the right to permanently reside in NZ (basically the rules as for the right to vote - http://www.elections.org.nz/voters/enrol-check-or
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by elyobo 9y ago
I'm happy that National is out, but concerned about Winnie being in. This policy might be a good start, but so far looks like window dressing that's not going to achieve much.
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by elyobo 9y ago
The main price driver is speculation, so I'm not confident that increasing supply in anything except for absolutely massive numbers (which 10k/year is not) would have much price impact.
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by elyobo 9y ago
Yeah, if they're planning on allowing those with only temporary residence rights to continue to buy then the policy is useless.
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by elyobo 9y ago
The main obvious thing is to make property speculation neutral with regards to tax, rather than the tax avoidance hole that it currently is. Hopefully they'll address that too, but given that Adern has been quoted as saying they'
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by elyobo 9y ago
It's not really loopholed; those that actually live in NZ _should_ be able to buy property there (our voting laws are similar, those with permanent residency are also entitled to vote).
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by elyobo 9y ago
Australia's is toothless though, in that enforcement is minimal and so are the penalties. NZ's may be equally crap or it may be quite effective, but I haven't seen details on the above and so it's hard to compare the po
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by elyobo 9y ago
Given the way that they seem to crash in sync, it would appear that they offer very little in the way of diversification.
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by elyobo 9y ago
Firefox's new focus browser has been great for this when opening links from RSS/FB/whatever else as well.
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by elyobo 9y ago
I'll use a ternary if I want something in the "else" case, but otherwise the `&&` / `||` approach is more readable to me (there's more to read in a ternary to figure out that there's nothing happening i
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by elyobo 9y ago
Hmmm, I really like the terseness and obviousness of that approach, I use it all the time :) I have sometimes been caught out by doing `{somearray.length && thing}` though, which leaves `0` hanging out there in the false case...
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by elyobo 9y ago
Redux's core minimum is already pretty incredibly minimal; I have a hard time imagining things much more simple than that. react-redux, which is neither redux nor the only way to integrate redux with react, is a bit more complicated bu
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by elyobo 9y ago
I guess it's taste, but that's far less readable than the JSX with `.map` example to me. JSX is easier to use and read because you just use the JS constructs that you already know rather than a whole new DSL.
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by elyobo 9y ago
As someone who has also been working with PHP since early 4.x, I find I have a lot of sympathy for the haters. It has improved a lot, but there's a lot to hate. https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-
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by elyobo 9y ago
Thanks, not sure how I missed it. Prices seem to be highly variable even within the state, which I didn't realise. My rates in VIC are about half those quoted for VIC, well under the price of NZ. It would be interesting to see these
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by elyobo 9y ago
And having contacted them now about that offer, they've come back with $.56/day supply and 13.3c/kWh. I'm not complaining.
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by elyobo 9y ago
And having mentioned that, I thought that it had been a while since I checked... Seems I can get $0.72/day supply and 14.9c/kWh now, I guess it's time to change.
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by elyobo 9y ago
Unsure whether to laugh or cry :D / :(
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by elyobo 9y ago
What sort of place are you living in? I haven't lived in NZ for 11 years now, but I recall heating costs of $100s/month in Winter (poorly insulated Christchurch housing as a poor student). Perhaps the high costs were due to high
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by elyobo 9y ago
Possibly relevant: I do look at my usage and compare providers and I am with what appears to be the cheapest possible provider for me (according to https://compare.switchon.vic.gov.au , with smart meter data providing a very accu

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