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by spangry 10y ago
Indeed. The great irony there is that their main constituents (i.e. inner-city young professionals) are the ones who are copping the worst effects of high, unending immigration (e.g. congestion, lower public transport availability, lowered
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah, it's a serious problem. If you left 20 years ago, I've got bad new for you: it's worse than you remember. Most of the economy now consists of ticket clippers and rent seekers. It's a shame we lack the structural s
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by spangry 10y ago
This is correct. Unfortunately neither of the two 'mainstream' political parties in Australia want to even say the word 'immigration'. Even though it's a perfectly legitimate concern that the electorate has. End res
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by spangry 10y ago
It is a giant house of cards. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Oh no wait, "Australia is different". Lol. [1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/524e8cb8e4b0bd80688f4... [2] https://www.macrobusiness.com.au&
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by spangry 10y ago
Literally every single one of those products listed fall under their 'Consumer Segment' (see pages 7 & 8 of financial statements in original post). The entire consumer segment accounts for 18.5 per cent of their total revenue.
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by spangry 10y ago
There's a few reasons, and most of them don't bode well for the future: - Since the early 2000s, there has been an unprecedented spike in the price of natural resources like iron ore ( http://www.macrobusiness.com.au&#x2
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by spangry 10y ago
Yes I do dispute that notion. Actually I dispute the entire idiot notion that the US is somehow subsidising the rest of the worlds' healthcare. In actual fact, pharmaceutical / medical device companies will simply charge whatever
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by spangry 10y ago
I see you're getting downvoted, but you're right. This whole thread is filled with utter lunacy. Just look at the top post. It's some middle-man explaining how his company is innovative because they've figured out how to
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by spangry 10y ago
Actually it's a pretty good example. In Australia, medicines and medical devices (i.e. 81% of J&J revenue) are regulated by the same body (the TGA) using the same approach, craftily reasoning that sick people need both. I realise
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by spangry 10y ago
All fair points; I basically agree with you. I probably went a little overboard in my reply to your comment. However, I think it would be fair to say that even though two years between re-design and construction commencement sounds like a l
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by spangry 10y ago
"Finally one of the challenges with moving to a centrally managed pricing solution like what works so well in Canada and most of Western Europe is right now R&D into pharmaceuticals is largely financed by the opportunity size avai
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by spangry 10y ago
The regulations haven't changed since the new American units began construction. Regulations were supposed to be factored in to the cost/schedule estimates. Yet the original cost/schedule estimates turned out to be badly mis
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by spangry 10y ago
The Brookings Institute ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution ) agrees with you: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/... Their study
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah, it's a crazy decision resulting from "green groups'" radiophobia after Fukushima. The government official estimated cost of shutting down all German nuclear plants is 55 billion Euros over the next decade. Although
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by spangry 10y ago
While using VPNs might protect your privacy in the short-run, it's just a continuation of the privacy-invasion arms race. And it's kinda hard to win a tit-for-tat war when your opponent has an unlimited supply of 'tat',
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by spangry 10y ago
I've always liked the idea of using the copious public video of these politicians to train voice and face recognition NNs, specifically targeting anti-privacy politicians. Maybe even sell pre-made raspberry pis with all of this stuff p
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by spangry 10y ago
The US spends 17.1% of of its GDP on healthcare. The 5 countries that are richer than the USA (GDP per capita) pay an average of 7.77%. Excluding Qatar, it's 9.03%. The top 10 richest countries (excluding the USA) spend an average of 8
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by spangry 10y ago
Unfortunately I have but only one upvote to give. This is very important if you're performing a usability / ergonomics study. Context matters a great deal. The parent poster is also quite correct about it being invasive: although
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by spangry 10y ago
Yes I understand the difference between a windturbine falling down and a nuclear meltdown. Those WHO projections, for both Chernobyl and Fukushima, include deaths from future cases of cancer. In Fukushima's case, the WHO specifically e
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by spangry 10y ago
I kinda get where you're coming from. Just to preface this, I agree that the practice of solitary confinement in prison is basically tantamount to torture and should be legally prohibited or severely restricted and regulated. That out
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by spangry 10y ago
The RationalWiki page on nuclear waste disposal is surprisingly informative (and non-snarky, by RW standards): http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste As for the list of 'nuclear accidents', given all but
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by spangry 10y ago
Uhuh. So if the US did withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, which is what the article is warning against, would you become more or less sceptical about US commitment to clean energy?
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by spangry 10y ago
So basically the Laffer curve? [0] It's definitely an intuitively appealing idea, but the point at which government revenue is maximised might occur at a much higher tax rate than you think (if the empirical work in this area is to be
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by spangry 10y ago
Is that under the assumption that payroll tax, in the long-run, is a tax on real labour income? Btw, I wish you guys the best of luck. It's surprisingly complex and difficult to explain. Just in case it's of some use, check out pa
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by spangry 10y ago
Although not entirely obvious at first glance, this is a tax on consumption. Here's a simple explanation, taken from the clunkily titled Australia's Future Tax System Review : http://i.imgur.com/ocRMR0n.png . Cons
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by spangry 10y ago
Urgh... There goes 5 minutes of my life that I'm never getting back. Seriously, don't bother reading this, as it's a whole lot of nonsense. To boil it down: - Unexpected things are happening, like Trump being elected presiden
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by spangry 10y ago
In complete agreement here, especially your description of Fielding's thesis. If you're looking to create an architecture that scales well and permits discoverability, then it makes a heck of a lot of sense to examine and formalis
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by spangry 10y ago
Good point. From Lazard's perspective it also probably makes sense not to account for some of these things (e.g. infrastructure cost, site remediation etc.) as it's unlikely these kinds of costs will be borne by a private investor
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by spangry 10y ago
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but just today I was thinking about how I miss Visual Basic 6... Such a great IDE for slapping together a crummy GUI with buttons, textboxes and labels all slightly misaligned :) I'd love to h
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by spangry 10y ago
I'm actually not from the US so hadn't heard of her until now. But I just read about her, and it sounds like she was a pretty awesome lady! And now you've got me curious about the lag... I'm guessing they could (would?)

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