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by sitharus 9y ago
I suspect the title is referencing a monty python sketch about an exploding penguin. I'd find the sketch but I'm on limited mobile data at the moment, but I'm sure YouTube has it.
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by sitharus 9y ago
I switch my family email from google apps to fastmail because I got sick of the support calls every time google changed the UI, which seemed to be monthly. Fastmail has been rock solid and lives up to its name. The spam filtering isn't
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by sitharus 10y ago
Partially yes. During the 90s when the New Zealand economy wasn't so great a lot of people left for Australia due to our mutual(ish) agreement that lets citizens of both countries live in the other (NZ gives Australias a permanent resi
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by sitharus 10y ago
30% is the highest tax bracket, in NZ on the equivalent of USD 55k pa (NZ$77600 right now) you'd pay $17835 in tax, or around 23% marginal. There is the matter of 15% GST to consider, but it's not something you often think about a
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by sitharus 10y ago
Auckland is definitely more multicultural, but in my experience as an ex-wellingtonian it's more divided. Wellington's size and geography tends to force people together, whereas Auckland keeps them apart.
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by sitharus 10y ago
Also while the food is high quality don't expect the variety you're used to. Until recently NZ had a pretty bland palette.
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by sitharus 10y ago
I normally get full speed to the US. Single connections hurt because of the latency, but the capacity is there. The main issue was the monopoly on transit, but domestic competition has helped a bit.
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by sitharus 10y ago
Remember that 30% is it for tax, other than the 15% GST built in to all purchases. There's no city or state taxes, no payroll tax, no additional costs for health insurance and no cost of compliance - as an employed individual you don&#
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by sitharus 10y ago
Refrigerated pasteurised milk keeps at least three weeks, normally only 3-4 days of that are gone by the time it's sold. If it only lasted days your refrigerator is failing and needs replacing.
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by sitharus 10y ago
The pre-built one only flies. The lego one can be a submarine, turn in to a rocket, shoot lasers, arrack your brother... much more fun! Same is true of AWS, I'm just older.
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by sitharus 10y ago
If you're using something like an F5 for your load balancer you can implement the queue there. Cheaper than provisioning hardware for occasional peaks and F5s can serve a lot of traffic.
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by sitharus 10y ago
I use two external monitors on a pre-touchback mbp and disconnect multiple times a week and never have issues, other than my Windows vm getting confused about which display is high dpi. What mac do you use? Some of them have issues.
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by sitharus 10y ago
Import tax? There should only be GST on most Apple products.
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by sitharus 10y ago
To clarify individuals don't directly pay the tax. All sales of goods and services have 15% tax added. It's collected by the companies and remitted to the government. Since all prices have the 15% added most people don't pay
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by sitharus 10y ago
Because that's not how I understood your question. I interpreted it as asking if GST is included as part of revenue then expensed. This is not the case as GST is a tax collected on behalf of the government so it is always regarded as a
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by sitharus 10y ago
Correct. Most financial reporting doesn't count GST collected as revenue. There are circumstances where this isn't true but generally it's booked as a liability.
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by sitharus 10y ago
GST was paid for all physical goods shipped, and recently it's been added to digital goods. Apple doesn't pay that though, the consumer does.
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by sitharus 10y ago
But when you look at manufacturers it seems that a 500W Kaplan turbine requires 3 metres of head and costs almost US$4,000. http://www.aurorapower.net/products/categoryid/4/list/1/leve... (Linked fr
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by sitharus 10y ago
WebObjects hasn't been updated for 8 years or so now. There's an open source fork maintained by some people who rely on it, it's improved a lot since Apple's last release.
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by sitharus 10y ago
The idea of a 'routine checkup' is an American thing as far as I can tell. I've lived in the UK and New Zealand and adults only go to the doctor when there's something wrong, or if you have known chronic conditions. You
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by sitharus 10y ago
Depends on the orbit and the fuel available anything from seconds to hours. A fully loaded Dragon will have an "instantaneous" window, but with spare fuel for corrections during launch it can be an hour or more.
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by sitharus 10y ago
The Arianespace count is just a difference of opinion. The US space industry use T-0 as the moment of departure from the launch pad, whereas the European program uses T-0 as the moment of main engine ignition. Ariane 5 has aborted after T-0
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by sitharus 10y ago
The "danger" is BSD licenses are highly permissive, you can take BSD licensed software, modify it and sell it and never return the changes to the community or release the source to customers. This means all the work of the OSS com
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by sitharus 10y ago
Yes, but a working breed is vastly different to a domestic breed. Working dogs need to be intelligent, obedient, and free from health problems.
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by sitharus 10y ago
There's not much to see, it's just a window sticker like the registration. It has the highest allowed odometer reading. For cars this is just checked against your dash odometer, for heavy vehicles (over 2.5 tonne iirc) it's c
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by sitharus 10y ago
I hope so as well. I love F# but using it in a corporate environment is hard due to its second tier status.
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by sitharus 10y ago
F# has always been a research/community project, that's why the tooling isn't up to scratch with c# and VB. This signals F# is becoming more of a core language with better tool integration, but is keeping its community driven
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by sitharus 10y ago
2 is the main reason. Transmission is the biggest loss so by having the storage close to the consumer you need less storage for a given end user consumption. Also availability of lithium cells isn't that great at the moment. It'll
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by sitharus 10y ago
The four main CPUs ran the same Primary Flight Software. There was a separate backup computer running the Backup Flight Software, which was developed by an independant team, to take over if the PFS failed. There's a bit of debate as to
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by sitharus 10y ago
That's awesome, I can totally see myself using it. One request though, temperatures in °C, Fahrenheit is pretty much meaningless to me.

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