I know agents have been getting in trouble for underquoting but I can’t see it going for anywhere near that.
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I know agents have been getting in trouble for underquoting but I can’t see it going for anywhere near that.
I don't really have a good place to put this plea into the ether, but
Hi, hobbyist developer! Your cute "secure messenger" device you're working on and submitting to @hackadayofficial.bsky.social to puff your CV?
You and everyone else are doing the same folly as everyone rolling their own crypto.
Can we call an argument like that a Reverse Sheridan?
I’d argue that “Pleasure and Pain” is a better song than their big hit.
Handy reminder of just how xenophobic Australia really is: the government punishes Australians with a $9,500 if they want to beg the government to let them live with their spouse.
This visa takes 2 years to process, too, absolutely destroying the couple’s lives while they wait.
Cool. A quick reminder of the tune and lyrics just in case youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s?...
I'm sure most of you are all too familiar with enshittification, but for the normies in your life, here's a 4 minute explanation from the Norwegian consumer protection bureau (in English) youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...
I wonder if anyone has sketched out in a bit more detail a Moon program that just used multiple Falcon Heavys. I mean, Musk is <insert word of choice here> but the Falcon Heavy at least is a relatively cost effective, reliable launch system.
For what it’s worth in the even longer term (to net substantial results) it seems evident that we need a national effort to improve construction productivity. It makes no sense that we are worse at it now than a couple of decades ago.
Greg, you follow this stuff - do we have any good retrospective analysis of the long-run economic effects of the introduction of the GST? My understanding is that they’re…not very large. Is that correct?
Suspect they drew up the zones by looking at the booth by booth election results.
yes, the likely result of this may well be to make everything more inconvenient for everybody, and especially for people who depend upon digital services. The vision of an internet entirely ruined and uninhabitable by humanity comes depressingly closer.
Finally got around to…paying for content I enjoy. Consider doing likewise if you’re a Volts listener and have the means!
Sure, but has anyone described this in more detail - eg something in one of the older studies, a submission to an inquiry, a blog post or podcast even? I'm genuinely curious.
I'm curious- what's the cheap(er) version? Sydney-Newcastle is nightmarish terrain to build any kind of transport link.
Not particularly spectacular, but copilot is still confidently giving wrong answers to simple factual questions (specifically, did Oscar Piastri race Formula Ford cars at any point in his career).
Yeah. I haven’t lived there for many years, but nothing from that story surprised me one bit.
The most Australian thing to do would be to pay for a royal residence in PNG.
Tell him that he can stiff utilities if he puts solar panels on the buildings on his golf courses.
Really depends, I guess. Much of the world’s population lives in places where solar’s seasonality is much less of a problem than it is in temperate and cold climates.
How the Spirit of Tasmania became the greatest infrastructure disaster in the state’s history. A tragicomedy:
In the software world, if current AI is making dev teams much more productive, you'd think we'd see a big acceleration in feature delivery in software that we see and use. Where's the evidence that is happening?
I hate to go “it’s the media with an agenda” but it’s the media with an agenda. Obviously Murdoch media hate Labor, but Nine hates Victorian Labor almost as much and they broke the (entirely legitimate) story on Setka so they have no incentive to provide a reality check on the actual impact.
Of all the things wrong with Supercars, Crompton’s commentary seemed pretty low on the list.
The TL;DR - bigger construction firms are more productive than smaller ones, but the tax system encourages trades to operate as very small businesses.
If you care about cost blowouts in construction projects, there’s a far more significant issue than what the CFMEU did or didn’t do in Victoria. productivity growth in construction has been abysmal for decades, and in Australia tax policy is in part to blame www.abs.gov.au/system/files...
In British car YouTuber land, Japan stopped making fun cars in 1999 and Hyundai never did.
Good work by The Guardian here investigating the claim that CFMEU corruption cost Victorian taxpayers $15 billion. TL;DR it’s likely exaggerated - global factors likely explain much of the construction cost overruns happening in the immediate post-COVID era. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Honestly not sure why you’d need the AWD in Australia if you didn’t want the acceleration. The handling is pretty neutral. Unless you’re planning of going to the snow regularly…
Polestar 2 drives very nicely, but the packaging isn’t great. But you can see that in the showroom.
Other sedan/liftback options to try : Hyundai Ioniq 6 and MG IM5.