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by ux-app 9y ago
I live is Australia. I used an even distribution for simplicity's sake. Obviously the wealth is skewed toward Melb/Syd.
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by ux-app 9y ago
The home you live in is usually not included when classifying high net worth individuals. A common definition at least here in Australia is: " a HNWI defined as having more than US$1 million in investable assets, excluding their primar
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by ux-app 9y ago
> I'm not sure how you are concluding this. 1 in 100 Australians are in the millionaire club. By contrast winning the Powerball Lottery has odds of 76,767,600:1 To win Powerball you need "only" to match 7 numbers from a p
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by ux-app 9y ago
> I'll show you ten people who who attempted a safe boring white collar job, tried to run a local service business, or planned to save aggressively over decade, but did not achieve $1mm net worth For the purpose of this discussion t
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by ux-app 9y ago
> It's about falsely attributing a causal relationship between the people's actions and their success. Yes of course that's the definition of survivorship bias. For the most part that doesn't apply to most rich (>$
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by ux-app 9y ago
>Not compared with the loads of stories of people who worked hard, improved themselves, and still don't earn anywhere near $1M/yr The vast majority of single digit millionaires are doctors, lawyers, construction company owners.
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by ux-app 9y ago
Most people are missing the point a bit here. Survivorship bias doesn't relate to people who worked hard, improved themselves and now earn 1-10MM/yr. There are loads of stories like that. Survivorship bias is "Zuck did X, Y a
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by ux-app 10y ago
This is madness. I recently fell off the second rung of a ladder onto concrete (shoe got caught), and even that hurt, third or fourth rung might have been a broken arm. Falling from this thing is guaranteed serious injury or even death. It
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by ux-app 10y ago
> That's market economy 101. Why are so many hackers so bad at basic economics? I'm a high school IT teacher, so I don't pretend to know much about economics :) You may be right that the market will work itself out. I don&
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by ux-app 10y ago
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Uber is a special case. I very much doubt that if Uber begins to jack up prices another multi-billion $ funded startup will come along and re apply the Uber playbook against Uber. And ev
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by ux-app 10y ago
> Let Uber burn itself to the ground! They may cause great havoc on their way down. Some jurisdictions are anticipating this and banning Uber preemptively. This is rational. Let Uber prove that it's viable on someone else's tur
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by ux-app 10y ago
No idea sorry. I put the system together to tinker with some iOS dev, but lost interest after a few months. I don't use any of the rest of the Mac ecosystem, so not sure how that functions. What's special about iMessage/iClou
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by ux-app 10y ago
Just bite the bullet and hackintosh. It's ridiculously easy. I put one together in an afternoon with parts I had lying around. It even had GPU acceleration for all those silly UI animations to run smoothly. There are lists of hardware
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by ux-app 10y ago
>more like LOGO, re-done poorly. Each tool serves it's purpose. Currently i'm teaching programming to year 8,9,10 students. We use Logo, Scratch, JS (Khan Academy) and some game dev using unity3D Each tool has it's place a
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by ux-app 10y ago
yeah I was quite surprised too. I knew the internet felt speedy when I tethered to my phone, but never bothered doing a speedtest before. I'm in Adelaide and the test was done about 10km from the CBD
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by ux-app 10y ago
Those are quite poor speeds. I'm with Optus with a 4G connection and just did a speed test on my Galaxy S7 80Mbps down!! wow I was surprised to see this. I thought my home 30Mbps cable connection was good 20Mbps up, this was an even bi
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by ux-app 10y ago
> That simply distinguishes every successful business ever (with a few lucky exceptions) from the ones that failed because their owners gave up too early. How do you know when to give up though? I've developed a great product, spent
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by ux-app 10y ago
Yes you're absolutely right, the IPad is great for creative/artistic work. My comment reflects my own bias. I'm an IT teacher so I'm teaching computing fundamentals, coding, game dev, web dev etc, and for those activitie
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by ux-app 10y ago
> using iPads and Chromebooks is teaching them lies that come from user-hostile pseudoabstractions Absolutely. Most 12 year old kids don't know about file size units. Relative file sizes, converting between units etc. There's
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by ux-app 10y ago
> there are legitimate cases where it makes sense to not expose the filesystem directly and disallow native apps. This has the benefit of better security. I always found the better security argument to be a red herring in a school enviro
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by ux-app 10y ago
> Also, where do you live/teach? "Year 7" I'm in Australia. Nationally we are transitioning to a R-6 = Primary School, 7-12 = High School model. My school is a little unorthodox. We're a private school with a 6-1
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by ux-app 10y ago
I'm a HS teacher. I was so happy when my school finally phased out iPads as the designated device for our year 7 students. It's such a rubbish device for content creation. The touchscreen is a POS for anything other than web brows
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by ux-app 10y ago
I'm actually fully in agreement with the article. I just thought I'd chime in with personal view as this idea of will power and moral judgement is extremely pervasive in society. We have, for the most part, only vague control over
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by ux-app 10y ago
That's not really what I was getting at. My point was that those that do quit <vice> deserve the roughly the same amount of praise as a tall person deserves for being tall. Why did they have the motivation to give up? Not through
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by ux-app 10y ago
I've thought about this in the past, and one thing I dislike about the way willpower is framed in everyday conversation is as a moral judgement. I.e. "he is still smoking because he has a weak will" The implied idea there i
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by ux-app 10y ago
So c'mon man, don't leave us hanging. What are your marketing strategies? I'm the dev of a really cool product, we have very little money for marketing and we're looking for ways to gain new customers. Our numbers seem
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by ux-app 10y ago
I recently bought on a partner for my business. It was definitely the best thing I could have done. He's an absolute champ and has the same hunger for success as me. Our skills are complimentary and our little business is slowly but su
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by ux-app 10y ago
it's not the measure, but surely it's a measure?
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by ux-app 10y ago
> if they're within the bounds their own website offers here In Australia "within the bounds of your own website" doesn't hold water. Australian Consumer Law trumps a site's TOS.
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by ux-app 10y ago
I think very few people choose to work at a laptop when a desktop is available.

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