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> I'm not saying foreign investment plays no part in such markets, but that its relative contribution has always been overstated.

If anything it has been understated.

1) House pricing is incredibly demand sensitive. A sustained 10% drop in demand would crash house prices.

2) Local buyers expect capital gains. It is the reason they buy.

Rental returns on Sydney property for example are roughly the same as fixed deposit rates.

Where do buyers expect these capital gains to come from? For the most part from rich foreign investors (and to a lesser degree very wealthy immigrants).

This means a large fraction of the local investment market is also driven by foreign actors.
This is letting them reduce theft. Shrinkage as its called in industry parlance is mostly caused by employees. Now you can make sure no inventory is mishandled. Walmart loses BILLIONS every year from just employee theft.
Nothing, get enough people saying it and it will become the thing.

I'd vote for sixteen hour or something similar.
So maybe this is naive, but CVS has a walk in clinic in nearly every city, and is seemingly socially conscious enough to better the health of its patrons (see getting rid of cigarettes). Would they be able to do something with an insurance company and network of clinics that would be beneficial for consumers?
Speaking of, I wouldn't mind getting some feedback on my latest README.

https://github.com/billmalarky/react-native-image-cache-hoc/...

It's pretty much the first time I've put effort into trying to make a README before since I'm now trying to make good documentation a serious development habit.

I'm still adding coveralls but I'd be interested to hear anyone's feedback.
The state government is still very conservative because it represent rural Georgia far more than the population would call for. That’s partially because of gerrymandering and partially because of the way that most state governments and the federal government was designed.

Can diverse cultural elements come together and act in concert? Probably not. Why would a former factory worker in south Ga that has seen factories shut down left and right and go overseas and be taken over by automation ever see things the same way as someone in tech in Atlanta who hasn’t been affected? I think the whole 12 years of going to school, I never went to class with a non native English speaker. If your only exposure to any other culture is what you see on TV and never work side by side with people of different cultures, it probably is easier to believe that all Mexicans are rapists, and all Muslims are sitting around at home thinking about how they can kill infidels.

Like minded people tend to cluster together and self segregate.
Also consider that better inventory data allows better just-in-time inventory refill, increasing $/ft^2 inventory turnover and therefore total $ sales per store. I suspect this is about driving analytics with higher quality, more frequent data.
what books got banned? are you talking about the one local book that got a temporary ban (a few weeks) until it got a classification?
Were previous versions rated better? I though that Xcode had always been generally downvoted by the people using it...
In my early stages of learning to program, I had numerous issues with running Linux desktop on my Nvidia chipped laptop. I remember the frustration very clearly - I hardly slept for ~3 days trying to fix my broken Ubuntu installation and I was unable to continue with my programming exercises. I couldn't afford a new laptop, much less a MacBook, and Windows didn't support bash, nor did Windows have the community support that I needed. My feeling of failure in getting my machine to run was demoralizing, so much so that I considered quitting my pursuit of an IT career.

As painful as it was, I managed to get my machine working. But it led me to never trust an Nvidia chip for my Linux desktop ever again. I wish I had documented the insane finagling I had to perform just to get my machine in a workable state. Maybe a year later, I encountered another Nvidia issue on my Ubuntu laptop, and I posted my notes on a blog: http://www.lukeswart.net/2014/05/nvidia-optimus-with-bumbleb... I wonder how many aspiring computer professionals have quit because of the barrier in getting a Linux desktop to run smoothly.

I am indebted to the community members who devote their time and expertise online to help Linux desktop users. Even if they can be a little snarky :-) If someone is learning to program and only has a hand-me-down laptop with an Nvidia gpu, then a Linux desktop may be the only reasonable option. I just hope this can be more accessible. But as the author points out, Nvidia is only making this problem worse.
WF has < 500 stores, slightly more than the number of Apple stores. People will travel further distances to buy an iPhone than perishables.

Apple stores also draw in people for repairs, etc. via their online presence (e.g. buy online, pick up in store). WF is 100% in-store.

It's astonishing WF is able to generate this level of revenue on so relatively few stores.
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Most people want to help "the people" but differ on definitions of who the people are and what is best for them.
Where is the cat videos website guy who was researching "new types of cities?"
You can swap "Nvidia" and "Wayland developers" and still end up with an equally valid argument.
A surprising number of Nvidia users seem to live in an alternate universe where Nvidia GPUs are self-evidently the only "serious" option and only an idiot would bother with anything else. In their case I think they might honestly believe that Nvidia is the 800-pound gorilla in the GPU market, to the point of everything else being on the margins. Perhaps it simply doesn't even occur to them that Nvidia could ever resemble an annoying rump faction more than a glorious leader.
Is this the same old news from Vicarious? They announced this four years ago and raised about a $100M since then...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/28/captcha_c...

I thought the world moved on.
Is there more to this than "text captchas can be broken by deep learning"?
Searching Github for your name can backfire. My name is not very common, but there are 2 people on Github that have it and I'm not one of them. I do have a huge body of stuff on StackOverflow though.
a lot of services use facebook to verify that someone is a human. there should be a service that exists only to manage peoples identities online. sign up, provide some id, an address and last four of your social. later, maybe a letter is sent to the address and returned with a verification code. then, every other service on the internet could use that service to prevent bots, spam and other things.
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Don't forget the National Party who were instrumental in kowtowing to the liberals to build what they originally coined as "Fraudband". They had a once in a lifetime opportunity to deliver a decent internet service to much of rural Australia and they threw it away because it was a Labor idea.
Helping out with another person's baby, I found that it was useful to see things like "is the baby behind on their usual food intake?" or "has the baby been asleep for a long time?" Tracking (via any means) was helpful to find such information, as you say.
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Vivid Wireless offer unlimited 4G data capped at 12 Mbps for $90 a month. Its on the Optus network so your experience will depend on what the coverage is like where you live.
Yeah, LTE capacity can definitely not meet everyone's needs. But in my part of an Australian major city, the only wired option at the moment is NBN over HFC, with a set up fee or a long contract, at a time when all the retailers are trying to undercut each other by buying insufficient capacity.

Under these conditions, LTE is the clear winner. That may change as you point out.
So share your reading material, rather than leave opaque conclusions, as you search for an exit to the reply chain.
It's not so simple as "luxury housing" vs "affordable housing". Location dominates every other factor when it comes to how much a place should rent for, including fancy amenities. Why else does a shoebox in SF cost twice as much as a modern 2-bedroom apartment in downtown Atlanta?

If developers build more luxury units then the prices of the older apartments will drop. At worst it's better than having no new housing stock at all.
I took this to mean they investigation was so thorough it uncovered and documented lots of potentially embarrassing stuff, but none of that was relevant to who shot Kennedy.

Not that they figured out who shot (or set up Oswald to shoot) Kennedy, but they're covering it up because it is embarrassing.
> I'm all for Amazon filling prescriptions, healthcare is hugely inefficient and any bargaining power Amazon can wrestle away from pharmaceutical companies probably won't negatively impact the consumer.

I doubt RX prices will decrease if Amazon enters the market. Wal-Mart, Costco, and Express Scripts buy, warehouse, and dispense millions of drugs to patient members and drugs prices have barely moved.
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> ...the hicks...

Did you mean: the sticks

Living in low rises is by no means not living around people. Nobody builds shophouses or townhouses in the boonies, to think that is to have a truly distorted view of the world.

The presence of high rises ultimately screws you in the end. Paris is cool (despite it being basically impossible to live there for real) because it's low-rise and cohesive. There is one big shiny eyesore of a plinth which has haunted the place since its construction. Sure, if there's a concentrated business community, a block approved for high rise development is going to be valuable to them, but it degrades the surrounding area.
I'm thinking more like The Expanse.
Australia has what's referred to as 'big-L' Liberals, who are the conservative side, as opposed to 'small-l' liberals as you'd commonly describe 'liberal politics', i.e. progressive.

Our centre-right party is the Liberal party, our centre-left is called Labor.
Not exactly - Amazon has traditionally entered spaces with...not exactly razor thing margins, but margins with some wiggle room. Even their grocery play was on 'higher end' groceries and not a razor thin market like Acme/Shop Rite/Kroegers.
Having switched from Telstra HFC to NBN HFC my biggest complaint is variable latency. Ping to the same servers tends to vary from 20ms to 120ms. I haven't looked into too much but probably coincides with peak hours in the evening.
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Construction jobs are already very high paying jobs in New Zealand and Australia, maybe even more than software.
HIPAA would like to have a word with you.
I think you are going way too easy on the current government. "Stuffing around" - more like active sabotage. Their policy has been consistent in the NBN all the way through, and has defied all independent technical advice. It was a political solution that never made any technical sense.
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It literally just (1) keeps printing money for investors and (2) keep some people employed. Ambitious people will take the mantle every 15-20 years and do more of 1 and 2 until they make a mistake.

The goal of a successful company is basically serving those two sets of people, Google may enter the retail market or real estate, or McDonalds will take over Cloud Computing -- they're all just trying to get a consistent return.
Personal experience with Xcode is don't update if ain't broken or you absolutely have to.
Looks like thousands of Afghan children beat you to the punch there.
There's definitely variation from company to company, but the gap isn't huge. Let's say the private research role got me $30k more than engineering. It would take at least 16 years to make up for the 5-6 I spend for a phd. Lots of variables though. I made the right choice for myself.
Some of the captchas I get lately have honestly made me think I'm probably not a human as far too often I can't make heads or tails of the letters.

At a certain point I just give up and refuse to use the worst sites that use this junk.
There's certainly an option to make the school day shorter. I seem to remember a lot of dead time in my classroom days.
The idea of the base boxes is there, sure. But the ability to configure repositories, make base box of that, install keys, make base box of that, install required told, make base box of that, ... etc. with the mechanism for transparent reuse of the latest cached box you care about is not available on vagrant. And when you're making changes and debugging, it makes all the difference. If vagrant integrated a nice way to do that, the time saving would be amazing.
I agree on the philosophy around organisational structures. In relation to housing this is also a solved problem (hint: it's not solved in the way NZ are doing). In Singapore where I am currently based they have high quality subsidised public housing that is only available to citizens and permanent residents.

Blanket banning foreigners from purchasing does 2 undesirable things. It stops people being able to lay foundations to eventually migrate and it deflects attention from the real solution (perhaps a third is that it encourage cross-border trade but I'm not sure of the reality around that). The real solution is to build denser urban areas with a suitable supply of high quality subsidised public housing. This allows the poorer inhabitants to firstly live in areas that are economically feasible and, secondly, it is well documented that higher density cities have increased economic output of a non-linear nature compared to low density cities. An added benefit is that by fitting more people into less space we reduce our environmental footprint. It should have been part of the Paris climate accord to force cities to zone for building up not out.
> "It'd be cool if you kept that data encrypted at rest and kept track of every time it's accessed. Oh, you guys have a physical form everyone fills out when they access files? Perfect." - HIPAA in practice
Have you ever worked in a store like Walmart? Robots won't be stocking shelves without major(!!!) changes to how things are displayed.
I kind of sympathise with NVIDIA in all this; they've got a very tiny and very vocal market share that behaves very very differently from their main customer base.

With Windows users NVIDIA know that they want pretty games and they want them prettier very year, and they also know that Microsoft is probably going to work with them to make that happen. They've also got game developers and hardware vendors lining up to get NVIDIA logos on their products.

Whereas in Linuxland, they've got a kernel, a billion side-projects that may or may not be widely used and they all want NVIDIA to conform the THEIR way of doing things, an angry Finnish gentleman who just shouts and swears at things he doesn't like, and a largely non-gaming and very fragmented user base that could be using any number of desktop environments/kernel versions/drivers etc. On top of all that, this menagerie only accounts for about 3.8% of the desktop market. And they're also kicking and screaming that NVIDIA isn't doing enough to support the things that they want to do.

Sure NVIDIA could be working faster to better support Linux by throwing more people and money at it, but they don't have to and until more people use Linux they don't really have much of an incentive to do so. They'll probably have better Linux support, eventually, and if that fits in with their business plan then that's fine. If you're a Linux user and NVIDIA doesn't do what you want it to do, then that's fine as well - vote with your wallet and buy from someone else.
They did have to setup the whole company, negotiate with Telsta, run the backbone's and set everything else up.

They were behind on connections its true, but that was largely due to Telstra having to remediate the ducts filled with asbestos which halted large portions of the rollout. Had they continued I expect that the ramp up would have been similar to New Zealand.
To the Aussie's credit the infrastructure and the regulations instilled on businesses there have always been Federally imposed.

Since the mid-90s the government has imposed many regulations for control that has impeded much of the free market progress for network infrastructure. Those regulations coupled with needed external transit installations have not helped. For a long period of time the government would pick and choose companies based on their ideals rather than their talent. This has hindered progress from both sides of the fence by liberal and conservative administrations.

I ran a semi successful ISP and consulting company for a decade in the US and I have always enjoyed the tiering system we setup vs other country Infrastructures. It wasn't until recently when the FCC gained control that states started to use the new regulation power to hinder progress. I am still on the fence about the whole thing because the exploitation has not been bad in my area but the horror stores I have heard in other states make me sad. Hopefully it will get back to normal.
It is infuriating that anyone finds this to not be appropriate. Nvidia is the one that sells products and doesn't bother to care enough for their Linux users to work with the community. If you want Nvidia proprietary driver to work with Sway complain to Nvidia for how they've handled their driver for Linux for years.

We need more projects to do what Sway and Kwin have done.
Oh okay. Ya that sounds about given what I've heard and what other commenters have said about SF.
I just assumed the test was that if you can decode that mess, clearly you're a bot.
Opening this in the background with the speakers on was an unexpected experience.
Hey - This is also hosted on Gryd if the other link has issues

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> While a house might be tempting in some ways in terms of convenience it would inevitably be an enormous step backwards.

This is really what I was trying to get at: if you have a lot of land to potentially develop, and a relatively clean slate, you can get the best of both worlds in terms of convenience and hominess.

I think the world's most connected sprawl would inevitably be a better place than the world's tallest city core.
> a tough business with razor thin margins.

If an industry can be described in these terms, it's likely that Amazon is a potential entrant.
Usually I'm opposed to "read these documents the way we tell you to" articles a la CNN but this was a case of judging a book by its cover on my part, with little mention of Trump. Kudos Politico.
No, side projects are not necessary. They're just a signal that you're really into this stuff. Like all signals, it can't be evaluated in isolation. It's no different than preferring candidates who come from a top University.

Some jobs are easier to do on the side than others. I'll bet the gardener has some side projects too.
I reopened it in the background just to see how this would feel
That is some heavy BS logic.
Ok that makes sense from what I've heard. Have spent a small amount of time in Chicago and generally like the place.
The population growth in Seattle each year exceeds the growth in housing supply required to house them, despite the level of new construction in Seattle. This has been the case for some time and will continue for the foreseeable future. There are not many cities that could absorb ~2% population growth year after year.

Even absent any non-resident speculators, the demand is still going to significantly exceed supply such that the prices increase given that housing is not growing at the rate of population. Foreign speculators may or may not make it worse but they aren't the primary cause of price increases; simple supply and demand is sufficient to explain it.
> D's garbage collector can be switched off, but last I checked (to be fair a few years ago) this even locked you out of parts of the stdlib. For smaller game engine projects, this is an issue. For larger ones, they often rewrite the stdlib anyway, though I'd expect growing pains while bootstrapping up to that point.

Yeah, that is a problem -- albeit one that people are currently working on fixing. Look at BetterC[1]. And I've heard rumours someone is rewriting the GC to be much more performant? And if nothing else, you can just stop the GC and manually collect your own memory, and a smart pointer implementation is probably relatively simple.

However, is the GC even a problem? You know what they say about premature optimization.

1: https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
> The robots are designed to free up store employees' time so they can use it to help customers.

This is probably the most textbook spin I've ever seen. It's as if their PR firm didn't even try.

These robots are obviously being deployed to increase margins.

Personally I would have went for the "adding more value" angle, either by suggesting to the customer that "Your favourite product is more likely to be on shelves", or positioning these robots as "helpers" to shelf-stackers.
The fact that you get that where as the majority get up-to 12 Mbps is enough to make me cry. I am still waiting for any connection and happy that at least my ADSL2+ gets 15 Mbps solid pretty much 100% of the time.

I think the only way I could ever be happy with how the NBN story finishes if if Turnbull and Abbott serve gaol time for deliberately acting against the best interests of Australia and its people.
I appreciate the time and thought you put into this. I've written elsewhere about this (some in comments on this submission), but rather than again poorly transcribe my thoughts, I'll link to the best summary I've found (also linked elsewhere in this thread):

https://qntm.org/abolish

I certainly appreciate the desire to utilize sunlight. I've spent the plurality of my life north of 45°N, and boy is it getting dark now!

Edit to add: Just discovered that the same site has a piece on continuous time zones, which is pretty much what you're proposing: https://qntm.org/continuous
> Its on the Optus network

Actually it's a completely separate network to Optus' 4G network. Optus bought them several years ago.

It's also highly throttled and utterly shite for most users. I was one.
This comparison isn't all that favorable to Walmart:

- Walmart's ecommerce growth is from a base so small they don't give revenue numbers for the segment.

- Walmart's overall growth is 1.8%, compared with Amazon's 34% growth. This is the apples-to-apples comparison.

At their current growth rates, Amazon will be bigger than Walmart in ~6 years.

Most recent Walmart earnings: http://s2.q4cdn.com/056532643/files/doc_financials/2018/Q2/Q...
What is biased is citing premises passed at an really phase in a project which deliberately planned to roll out difficult sites first. Of course there were not many premises passed, that is meaningless without context.
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Philadelphia is not in New England. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England

Also the article says Massachusetts wouldn't do it without the rest of New England also joining:

> A majority of other states in New England would have to jump on the time-zone train, too.

Edit: Must have been downvoted by west coasters who don't know what new england is ...
If it contains only small buildings, it isn't a city. Perhaps you mean village, town, or suburb?
Please see my comment in grandparent thread relating to high quality subsidised public housing for a better approach to the issue.
New Zealand is geographically quite large (about the length of France and Spain joined together, and a little bit less wide) and we have half the population of London!
> captcha-related stocks.

Are there companies relying only only selling captcha for revenues?
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