The 1979 Iran fuelled energy crisis resulted in Think Big (succeeding in improving energy independence), but then a wage price freeze. Winston was around then - 45 years ago.
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And that nation is in NZ’s group…
Ummm
In the USA when I was there it wasn’t uncommon to hear about dogs that only had issues with black people.
I just plugged my car in?
Flying should be expensive as the externalities are not priced in. Fly less often. Drive an EV there if you can.
For business slower less frequent travel for longer time in-person is the ideal way to roll.
Sell the thing while it has some monetary value.
Obviously not all tourism spend is high value, or even good, and neither is flying per se.
So ideally we would have a national carrier that was incentivised to maximise benefit to NZ, and to cost in emissions, rather than just focus on its own short term profit.
NZ earns $17 billion from international tourism each year, and the bulk of people arrive on Air NZ.
If Air NZ makes a $50m loss then NZ still makes say $1-300 per person versus $1 lost in a bad year for our national carrier.
Hacker News is deeply sceptical of AI hype.
Yes. Put anything in there.
Meanwhile there is a weird incentive from some landlords to not lower rents to fit market as the lenders would see that as lower yield, and therefore lower valuation. Banks need to be smarter too.
Higher (double, triple?) rates on vacant properties, whoever the owner, feels like an obvious move, including for commercial real estate.
About half are USA (for obvious reasons), a lot of EU, SE Asia etc. No sanctioned places like Iran, Russia.
NZ's FIF tax means that people coming here, whether migrants or expats returning, are double-taxed on capital. The solution is a proper capital gains tax aligned with everyone else.
It’s like climate change. The Brexit cost was so obviously off-the-scale insane that any forecast was going to be wrong. Steer away especially from ones that seem to be ‘not much to see here’
Not just overload protection but individual switches is a minimum these days, as a nearby apartment had a fire from an overloaded plug board.
Do all of the plugs have cables that go down/sideways and not up out the top? Is that what is missing?
I know of a project where over 100,000 people were hired.
Sad to see your drawing had sold out..
Maybe get someone who understands the other side as your chief negotiator. Or at least don’t admit it.
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Yes it's regressive (for those watching people with lower incomes spend more %income, thus pay more GST as %income)
I see it as a solid part of an _almost_ well balanced tax system.
Company tax is a bit low (but has to be to compete internationally) and we need a proper capital gains tax.
The complexity costs more money than it saves. Deadweight loss. NZ gets rightly kudos for the efficiency of the GST system. Every time a party proposes a GST break on something or other they lose at the polls.
Gotta hand it to you
The best is arguably like Rio, London or Paris - where you get both lifestyle and amazing work. NZ would be more lifestyle, but as a relatively small outpost I'd imagine also getting decent experience at a country level for relatively junior roles. Being the only person here would be pretty amazing.
NZ's a great posting for US foreign service.
The one who wrote a book about conspiracy theories rather than the one who promotes them.
Epic. Triggering though .
I suspect he will rank #1….
This is an incredibly unprofessional show.
InternetNZ AGM is terrible. Starting 25m late, motions not opening for voting until the agenda item, we can't see the motions, we can't talk, we are mostly on hold and.......
.... it's a fantastic way to make us vote against the status quo.
(It's my second AGM today. This should not be hard)
Formula 1 is the same. Rugby too.
Good companies don't need to sponsor, as we already like them, but I wish they would, and for them to crowd out the bad.
Yup. BMW could have (and could still) dominated the larger EV motorbike space. They are great at building heavy bikes that are easy to handle. (Meanwhile my CE04 is a giggle to ride.)
