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by jussij 8y ago
A decade ago one major local government agency did in fact move away from Windows in the hope of avoiding those costly license fees. They found out it can also be quite costly to run Linux as an alternative: https://www.techrepub
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But you missing one step where they credit your loan account by debiting their loan book account. Also your loan account is not a bank asset, it is a bank liability. It is money the bank might not get back.
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The Central bank in your link is the Federal Bank. Basically when retail banks need money they get it from the Central Bank through the Open Market Operation. What happens is the retail banks offering up theirs bonds (which are assets), and
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by jussij 8y ago
For every debit there has to be a matching credit so nothing comes out of thin air. If you go to your Friendly Neighbourhood Bank for a loan they are giving you their money, so you can then give that money on to someone else. Now the bank
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by jussij 8y ago
Banks don't print money. Federal Banks print the money, which basically means it's the government printing the money. > If amount of money is fixed, then this problem will go away on its own. There was a time when this in was
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by jussij 8y ago
IHMO you're comparing two different selection processes. The process you tried was to spend loads of time on carefully designed interview questions which then get used to filter out candidates. The OP was not suggesting this approach
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FWIW I learnt to program Z80 assembler using the MicroBee personal computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBee That was during my schooling years of 10, 11 and 12 prior to going on to study engineering. While stud
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I have no doubt this has a lot to do with two super powers trying very hard to flex their muscles, both trying to project a position of strength. However, I don't think China was helping it's cause when a month ago it decided to a
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Zeus IDE Version 3.98r Released
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> The most important of these are a right to vote As an Australian, I would love the Government to take this one step further and also give us the right to not vote.
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by jussij 9y ago
Apple's entire business model is based on locked down systems like the App Store and iTunes and locked OS that void their warrantee when tampered with. For most of it's life Microsoft has never put such restrictions on their Windo
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by jussij 9y ago
> gofmt is a good idea (just like clang-format or yapf), and having it is great, but the maintainers specifically refuse to add simple features This could be one reason why that is the case: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by jussij 9y ago
In terms of an open source projects, they do have more than a fair share of big companies that seem to take an interest: SQLite is developed and maintained by the SQLite Consortium, who's members include Mozilla, Adobe, Oracle and Ado
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by jussij 9y ago
Those inflation figures you quote don't reflect what is actually happening in Australia. Like most of the developed world wage growth in Australia is flat and has been flat for at least the last decade. So wages growth has not driving
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by jussij 9y ago
I think it is all in the timing. Consider this chart of the AUD to the USD over that time: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=USD&view=10Y From the RBA interest rate chart linked earlier you get thes
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by jussij 9y ago
> I always find it amusing when people compare pork barrelling amounts as "only" or "mere". "It was only 5 billion". It was 5 billion over ten years compared with nearly 5 billion each year. When you do that
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by jussij 9y ago
> This resulted in heavy demand for Australian dollars, and at its peak in 2013 1 AUD was worth about 1.05 USD. One of the main reasons the AUD remained at such high levels was because of the carry trade. http://www.abc.net.au
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by jussij 9y ago
And when compared to the 4+ billion the government forks out for the coal, oil and gas companies every year, it is nearly nothing: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-11/coal-oil-and-gas-compa... http://
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by jussij 9y ago
At least when it comes to software development, contract work in that field ain't what it used to be :(
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by jussij 9y ago
> Maybe it only worked well because you never encountered a file consisting of one very long line? You correct when you say very long lines are hard to handle, but I'm not sure this is because of the internal data structure used. In
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by jussij 9y ago
Back in the mid 90s I created a shareware text editor that ran on Windows 3.1 (on a 80386 machine) and was written in C++ using pure Win16. At that time I used a double link list like structure with a line cursor to help with list trave
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by jussij 9y ago
The author of the poem has most certainly made sure not to go over the daily word limit. These are the words actually spoken in the poem: > I only used fifty-nine today. = 5 > I saved the rest for you. = 6 > I love you * (32
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by jussij 9y ago
Only in the USA. By comparison, the minimum wage in Australia is about to be raised to $18.70 an hour.
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by jussij 9y ago
> Because there are 9 people waiting to take his job if he quits. As the article points out, Japan has an unemployment rate of 2.8% and even there wages are not growing. When the unemployment rate is that low, there will be no one waitin
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by jussij 9y ago
> When having multiple files open that are really long; I've not used Atom so I'm curious to what you mean by this. Firstly, what would define a really long file. Is a file with 10k of lines long? Second, I would have though
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by jussij 9y ago
There are many text editors that can do much more than just edit text files.
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by jussij 9y ago
I'm not convinced Trump and the US spend a lot of time worrying about how to defend against N.K. It seems to me Trump would be rather unconcerned if N.K. attacked first as that would then give him the reason he is looking for, the reas
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by jussij 9y ago
And those Windows ACLs form the foundation for higher level Windows security features like Active Directory, which itself is used as a foundation for many other aspects of Windows, so those ACLs are well and truly baked into the OS.
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by jussij 9y ago
> Presumably, Italy keeps its best tomato produce for themselves and I don't blame them I think this also comes down to the trouble with transporting those types of tomatoes without loss due to spoilage. The tomatoes you describe ar
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by jussij 9y ago
Except your facts seem to be more fiction than fact. The Australian economy and population has not skyrocketed in the last 40 years: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/charts-australias-populat... PS: Since I live in Austra

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