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by slyall 4y ago
Ratio is usually calculated on household income. So it assumes closer to two incomes per household. Where I live (Auckland, New Zealand) the average household income is just over $NZ 140k, while the average house price is around $NZ 1.4m.[1
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by slyall 4y ago
Exactly. Not many asset classes that have not gone up a huge amount in the last 10 years. They all have room to fall. Also, buy real-estate requires significant amounts of money, much more than the average person has lying around (or can bo
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by slyall 4y ago
In 1998 during a Cricket test match between India and New Zealand several New Zealand players got ill. NZ ended up playing two people from the media commentary team as substitutes. One was a recently-retired NZ player but the other was play
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by slyall 5y ago
There is a scene from the James Bond movie Goldeneye where this is show (although probably not realistically) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln5TaRt5LU
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by slyall 5y ago
I start with REAIS and YOUTH. But I don't think it is a good idea for the average person to have too many set words. Unless you have great knowledge of the dictionary of legal words you might need extra clues to word order etc. ie I re
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by slyall 5y ago
The Journal "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" might be a good source. It has been published for over 40 years. https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an
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by slyall 5y ago
Not strictly accurate. Plenty of countries where the Telco monopoly didn't get broken up (NZ and Australia specifically) and those monopolies were in no hurry to spend billions rolling out home fibre.
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Online subscriptions to The Economist cost twice as much in NZ as the US. Why?(thespinoff.co.nz)
15 points by slyall 5y ago|10 comments
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by slyall 5y ago
500m is around 6 minutes walk for a normal person (5km/hour or 3 mph). Perhaps 10 if you are a slow walker due to age etc. Any delay with parking or traffic means that driving won't save you much. I just walked about 1km and back
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by slyall 5y ago
https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/ My personal Blog is just a simple wordpress site. I do an quick review of audiobooks each month plus the odd other article. https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2020/08/sidewa
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by slyall 5y ago
I put the very late 1990s as hen the Internet took off. It went from being a weird techie thing to something a good proportion of the population was using. The main graph on the top of this page shows Internet Users as proportion of populat
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by slyall 5y ago
No. Just the "What's Happening" section on the website or all the tabs (For you, trending, etc) under the search section of the app. The stuff inserted into my timeline is the usual.
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by slyall 5y ago
I changed my Explore location to Japan. I don't read Japanese so it is easy to ignore.
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by slyall 5y ago
So your main problem here is that cities (and larger cities) are more efficient than less dense places. Less energy use, easier to get around etc. Sure it takes an hour to get to the other side of town but you have millions of people reacha
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by slyall 5y ago
Just this week I had a Google Eng I know say: "I have no idea if 32M queries/second is actually a big number. For a bunch of backend systems it wouldn't be"
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by slyall 5y ago
I could change a few words in your main paragraph and match them to any time in the last 40 years. You seem to be hanging on for magic better times but at the same time not expecting things to get better. This doesn't seem to be a good
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by slyall 5y ago
I wish I'd learnt a few long term skills that are/were a pain to learn 10 years later. By long term I mean things that will almost certainly be useful 20 years later. Programming - I'm from a sysadmin background so got by on
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by slyall 5y ago
Henry David Thoreau served one day in Jail. Manning was arrested and sentenced to 30 years. Snowden leaked his material and managed to avoid Jail. He certain would still be in there (or dead) if the American government had caught him. The U
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by slyall 5y ago
It's interesting to compare this to newspapers which bundled many things together and then got in trouble when people could access them separately.
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by slyall 5y ago
TIL. On one hand I'm excited at the new content but a bit weird they way they stealth shutdown the podcast and started the twitter spaces thing up without saying anything or updating their homepage. Even their twitter feed only mention
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The Uber Eats glitch that allowed ordering free food for a weekend in India(twitter.com)
23 points by slyall 5y ago|3 comments
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by slyall 5y ago
I've seen complaints about church group leaving religious tracts disguised instead of tips. Here is one story. http://www.cynical-c.com/2016/01/22/restaurant-managers-resp...
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by slyall 5y ago
Need some proofreading: "We only offer montly biling at this time"
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by slyall 5y ago
Running your own email server. Receiving email is easier since mail routing and spam filtering has matured. But sending email is now hard with authenticating yourself everywhere and making sure you are not blocked by the big providers. I&#x
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by slyall 5y ago
In New Zealand 20 years ago they were a generally loved brand with the majority of the market. Since the Mondelez sale they closed the local factory and started making everything in Australia. Besides the general drop in quality (palm oil e
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by slyall 5y ago
Happens with other companies too. My partner currently has their twitter account locked for "evading a ban". The thing is it is their main account, under their own name, used regularly to post non-controversial stuff (and their ot
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by slyall 5y ago
Google is failing me but I've seen advice on having a book for your home. It lists the as-built, photos of the walls showing the wiring and pipes etc and then updates over the years. I think "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart B
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by slyall 5y ago
I was looking into the idea of building a clockwork computer. Probably a 16-bit RISC based on a simple teaching instruction set (just over dozen instructions). Maybe a 4-bit prototype to work out how to actually implement everything. Realis
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by slyall 5y ago
You might be think of a different North Africa based game. Afrika Korps perhaps: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2259/afrika-korps
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by slyall 5y ago
I often change titles on submissions. Making them shorter for instance. I also do change some to provide more context that the original source didn't. An article has only 15 minutes in /new to attract enough votes. Sticking with a

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