nevdka

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by nevdka 6y ago
I don't know heaps about it, but for the terminology try adaptive optics and laser guide star.
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by nevdka 8y ago
Our taxes work the same way, but HECS repayments don't work the same way as tax. When you hit the threshold, you pay the percentage on your entire income, not just the income over the threshold. There are also multiple thresholds, so w
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by nevdka 9y ago
My laptop has 2 physical buttons, but the lack of a middle mouse button irritates me. A huge amount of the web browsing I do involves opening links in new tabs with the middle mouse button.
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by nevdka 9y ago
Australia is a federal nation with a GST. How is India's different?
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by nevdka 9y ago
The population growth rate isn't dependant on the base population. You can pretend it is by expressing it as a percentage, but that doesn't make it so. Look at [0]. 2016 had a higher population than 2015, yet the growth was smal
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by nevdka 9y ago
Physical proximity doesn't need to be as expensive as it is, so there's still room for disruption. Think about how University education should compare to high school education, in terms of costs. High school costs about $12k per s
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by nevdka 10y ago
You could also think of a new political party as a startup. Run your own candidates for congress, and run for president yourself.
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by nevdka 10y ago
Your proposal is essentially what we have in Australia with superannuation. Employers pay a minimum of 9.5% of pre-tax salary into the retirement accounts, and then can't touch it.
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by nevdka 10y ago
44% of these startups had only Angel or Seed money. With strong technical founders, their first engineering hire could be considered mid-level.
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by nevdka 10y ago
The observable consequences of PhDs are higher salaries and lower unemployment than Masters, Bachelors or lower [0]. PhD students also spend 'the best years of their lives' working deeply on something they care about. Where's
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by nevdka 10y ago
Excel can name columns using tables. Tables make Excel much nicer to use for complicated things.
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by nevdka 10y ago
In this case, it's like going from "the stingray told us you were in the house" to "we interviewed your neighbors and they say you were in the house". Interviewing neighbors is legitimate and can be used as evidence
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by nevdka 11y ago
Zoning can affect how many residences you can build on that block. If the zoning laws say you can only build one on that lot, then the land cost is $400k per residence. But if you're allowed to build a 5 floor building with two apartme
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by nevdka 11y ago
Common core is a specification that is implemented many, many times. It's not just each textbook or school system - each teacher will implement the spec in a unique way. With so many implementations, some of them are going to be terrib
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by nevdka 11y ago
The companies still comply with the laws. The laws have not been overridden. The companies get compensated for a change in the laws, but compensation for changing something doesn't mean the change is overridden.
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by nevdka 11y ago
Perl6 lets you define your own operators [0]. I haven't seen them used enough to know how it affects code readability, though. [0] http://doc.perl6.org/language/functions#Defining_Operators
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by nevdka 11y ago
I've found having a third space is useful. You have your home and your office, find a third that you can fit easily into your daily routine, and spend 1-2 hours there when you can. My train home goes past a library that's open lat
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by nevdka 11y ago
DVI uses the same digital video signal as HDMI, and passive cables or adapters make it easy to switch between them. I have an older graphics card, one with 1 HDMI port, 1 VGA port, and 1 DVI port. I've got the HDMI and DVI plugged into
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by nevdka 11y ago
Survivorship bias might be an issue here. The professors went through their education and careers without anyone teaching them how to debug, and they survived. All their colleagues went through the same process, and survived. Maybe they can
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by nevdka 11y ago
It even displays correctly in Notepad in Windows 7.
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by nevdka 11y ago
That's a secret service project: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/06/03/th...
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by nevdka 11y ago
The ultimate goal of prisons is (or should be) to reduce crime. Why not directly incentivise prisons to reduce recidivism? Pay big bonuses if the ex-inmates aren't arrested/convicted/etc in the 3-5 years after they're re
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by nevdka 11y ago
I have a combined washer/dryer. I put dirty clothes in, and get clean, dry clothes out. It was more expensive than buying two machines separately, and I loose the ability to run a washing job and drying job in parallel. For communal la
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by nevdka 11y ago
The $180k isn't NPV, unless you have a 0% discount rate. The payment schedule from the root comment was $500/month over 30 years, which comes to $6k/year. So this year you would have $14k more by accepting the $20k. For the $
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by nevdka 11y ago
As an Australian currently paying off his education, this isn't accurate. Firstly, there's no time limit. You need to pay back all of it. Secondly, it's not a 50% tax rate. It's a additional % (4-8 %) on top of your norm
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by nevdka 11y ago
Sure, a rep whose normal region is Manchester should be able to claim an extra commute to London as time worked. I was thinking more that the rep was hired as a London rep, but chooses to live in Manchester. So the rep is abusing the rules
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by nevdka 11y ago
What if you're a sales rep working out of your car (so no fixed office). Your region is London, but you live in (checks google maps...) Manchester. Your first sales appointment is always going to be 250km away. Should traveling that 25
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by nevdka 11y ago
You could just use a QR code. There's no real reason they need to be URLs.
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by nevdka 11y ago
The idea of needing a licence to run any business seems absurd to me. In Australia, you need to register for an Australian Business Number, but that's for tax purposes, and it's cheap and easy to do online. Even forming a corporat
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by nevdka 11y ago
Not all tech companies are the same. Google needs engineers with skills that most tech workers don't have. You might have a CS degree from a great school and 15 years experience with J2EE, but you're not experienced with say... re

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