softveda

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by softveda 5y ago
They are trying. Bit by bit. We can pre-poll in Australia from almost a month back, this is getting reduced to just 12 days. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/24/labor...
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by softveda 5y ago
3 things. 1. People always look after their back pocket. Any policy that reduce income or wealth is a vote loser 2. Rupert Murdoch owns a majority of print and TV media and has extreme bias for the conservative govt. People do not see any o
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by softveda 5y ago
It will not happen. As luck would have it next generation energy will be renewables, Solar, Lithium and Hydrogen. Australia is chock full of these. Steel will still be required and Australia will start producing coal free steel from Hydroge
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by softveda 5y ago
Voting is not compulsory. It is a myth. What is compulsory is visit the polling booth and scratch your name on the electoral roll to record your attendance. You DON'T have to actually vote.
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by softveda 5y ago
And yet MacOS doesn't allow to change the cursor color. On my Windows 10 desktop I set the cursor color to a slightly larger size and yellow color. So much easier to work with.
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by softveda 5y ago
I am of Indian heritage, I would say "Just today"
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by softveda 5y ago
I wonder how they do this outside of US. In Australia we have a regulatory body named Fair Work Commission where you can take your case if you think you were unlawfully fired.
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by softveda 5y ago
Not true at all. Australian federal election House of Representatives uses a preferential voting system where you have to number every candidate in your order of preference 1..N. Also voting (or at least attending) is compulsory.
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by softveda 5y ago
I worked in IT for an energy utility company and saw DS teams work and presentation. The DS team was given mandates like optimise the maintenance schedule for a coal fired power plant. Optimise the turning on/off hydro electricity base
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by softveda 5y ago
Same in Australia
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by softveda 5y ago
India is trying. Under new IT rules 2021 social media intermediaries have to publish the name of an actual Compliance Officer based in India and acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve within 15v days. Twitter was forced to do i
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by softveda 5y ago
This is as common as bread and butter in Australia. You provide your bank account (or credit/debit card) details to the company or even govt (gas, electricity, water, car registration, insurance, internet, mobile etc.) and a so called
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by softveda 5y ago
In Australia Wise will provide you with a reference number and hold the xfer and wait for me to transfer the money to them. Wise has a unique email called a PayId that is registered to their account. I use my banks app and transfer money to
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by softveda 5y ago
Australia is building Open Banking (and generically Consumer Data Standards) APIs on GitHub. https://github.com/ConsumerDataStandardsAustralia/standards This is a problem discussed here as well. Generally big banks ar
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by softveda 5y ago
TBH Australia is VHCOL country and the minimum wage makes it survivable but you will struggle to say buy a median priced property. The free healthcare is partially true as well. But worse is if you lose job the unemployment benefit called j
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by softveda 5y ago
It just shows what a mess US taxation is. I am in Australia and we have a single federal income tax and GST and I am glad for that.
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by softveda 5y ago
In Australia for investment properties you can subtract the interest and all cost related to property management from your ordinary salary/wages/rental income
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by softveda 5y ago
Are you SRE in a tech company or a non tech company (e.g. Bank) ? Are your targets financial or technical (e.g. RTO,MTTR, SLO etc.)
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by softveda 5y ago
They are in a regulatory blackhole, in Australia merchant fees are tightly regulated, cannot be more than actual processing cost. Many companies here charge more to pay bills by credit card or shops have minimum amount before credit cads ar
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by softveda 5y ago
How much does the specialists earn in Turkey? In Australia Surgeons, Anaesthetists and internal medicine specialists top the highest earning professionals chart. Registered Nurses and allied healthcare staff also gets paid quite high. Then
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by softveda 5y ago
Australian retirement investment account (called superannuation or super) worked similarly where you could accumulate as much money as you want in a low tax environment. In this phase all income and capital gains received from assets within
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by softveda 5y ago
I am surprised no one has mentioned Asana.
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by softveda 5y ago
Your sentence "do you know of any FANG which is happy to hire across international border and work with employees running their own company" implies a B2B relationship. That is the company pay by an invoice from your company, this
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by softveda 5y ago
Github is I believe remote and has many people working from Australia. It is owned by Microsoft.
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by softveda 5y ago
https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1370575853554266118
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by softveda 5y ago
In Australia, in the state of Victoria all meters are smart meter for few years now. They are also growing in number in other states. There has been no hacking incident. in fact it makes peoples life easier by allowing them to track energy
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by softveda 5y ago
I am not clear how Himeji works if attribute based rules are required. Like Users in country X cannot see listing in country Y unless they are platinum users.
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by softveda 5y ago
I don't know why a packaged solution (OSS or commercial) doesn't exists for this kind of Authorization. Many companies suffer in silence and cobble together some home grow stuff. The last place I worked and looked at this exact pr
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by softveda 5y ago
I am surprised such loopholes still exist in UK. In Australia if you setup a company and 80% of the company's income is only from your own personal services from a single client then your company has to pay tax on personal income tax r
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by softveda 5y ago
ACG has Australian employees. They cannot be fired for this reason.

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