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Melbourne is not much different in that regard (geographically massive with a relatively sparse population for a city of its population size). Sydney too.

Melbourne is also experiencing a housing crisis similar to Auckland's due to a boom in prices.

So should Melbourne also pull out all the stops to encourage new building? Interestingly, Prosper Australia has been tracking Melbourne's true vacancy rate for over a decade now, publishing their findings in their Speculative Vacancies Report[1].

Before you look at the report, a couple of questions:

1) Do you believe prices are being driven up due to a shortage of homes? (Your comment suggests you do.)

2) If prices were being driven up due to a shortage of homes, would you expect the areas that experience the highest capital gains to have the lowest vacancy rates? (I think most people would agree with this.)

Now, the most interesting finding from the Speculative Vacancies Report for me was that in fact, contrary to what most people would expect, areas with the highest capital gains correlate strongly with those areas that have highest number of empty dwellings.

My own suspicion is that the demand that is driving up prices is not demand for homes, but demand for investments. A speculative boom creates extra demand.

In 2007, the Irish thought they had an undersupply of housing. A short time later it was revealed that they actually had a massive oversupply (once investment/speculative demand was removed). The RBA in Australia is pointing to the same thing in Melbourne (Docklands has a vacancy rate of ~25%+, other sought after areas are approaching 15-20% according to the report mentioned above).

The best thing that Auckland can do to tackle house prices is to address the demand side of the supply and demand equation. There are tonnes of options for doing this but mostly this is an issue caused by easy credit and tax incentives for investing in property. That's the place to solve this problem. It would be folly to encroach on green areas or otherwise spoil our environment in a mad rush to build. If we do that... Ireland here we come!

[1] https://www.prosper.org.au/2015/12/09/speculative-vacancies-...
Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context:

[1] Seeing Spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ
[2] Humane Representation of Thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg&t=1913s
> My recommendation to younger versions of me, my wife (also an ex-physicist, now a math/physics teacher in a local high school) would be to look carefully at how the world is moving toward some things and away from others. Estimate where we will be in N years when you finish up, and try see if something you think you would like to do aligns with something people are willing to pay for. Make sure you are flexible enough to change, and you can adapt as needed.

That's great advice, but how do you translate it into practice? Should someone considering grad school do a PhD in AI or in biomedical engineering or in finance or what?
To an outsider, practically any area of advanced, pure mathematics looks contrived.

That doesn't mean it's not beautiful and interesting, particularly to those who study it.

Also, the claim that 'everybody ignores set theorists' is patently false.
Feels weird watching a Jetsons episode about to land in reality
Telstra with added speed pack gives me 115mbps down and 2mbps up. I actually get a little over 2mb though. If I go onto the NBN and the bandwidth issues aren't sorted out, you can have the fastest speeds all you want but still experience ADSL speeds during peak congestion.
When it comes to acquiring a conceptual framework for understanding the future, Alvin Toffler is your man. His books will never let you down.
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It’s just not mentioned anymore... at least in state schools. We will look back at the American empire just as fondly I’m sure.
Nice comment. In regard to your reference to reducing precision to FP16 for performance gains, you might want to read a recently published paper by Baidu Research and NVIDIA teams on mixed precision training of deep learning models (link to the paper is at the end of the following relevant post): https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/11/baidu-sheds-precisio.... Enjoy! :-)
Not to mention that the skilled migration program that the Federal Government is running (while we have some of the lowest wage growth, and some of the highest levels of underemployment and labour underutilisation in our history mind you) is absolutely massive - one of the largest in the developed world in proportion of our population. NZ is right up there with us in that too.

Nothing like huge population growth to keep the demand for housing up. Sadly the discussion has been so poisoned by the racists and xenophobes (like One Nation etc.) that we can no longer have a rational conversation about it...
I think that's inherently wrong; you need a mixture of densities, but everything low density sprawl is a nightmare. Increasing average density has benefits even for the left over areas of low density, e.g. reduced traffic, lower infrastructure costs per resident, lower average distance to amenities.
>You could turn it into a big city like Los Angeles or Vancouver but that just creates different problems

Funny, I was reading the statements about Auckland and thinking, this sounds exactly like Vancouver's problem. Parts of downtown are quite dense but the vast majority (80%) of the city is zoned SFH.

Vancouver is not a big city.
In a sense, the amazing thing is that Epic changed. In the past, incumbents didn't, and failed. Today, companies know about this dynamic, and try to adapt and undercut themselves before an upstart can. It takes some steel to let go of all that short-term profit.

Even so, it may be too little too late for Epic. It's straightforward to drop prices, but difficult to change business models, release timeframes, market position in customer's minds, codebase, customer feedback from a new usage.
Ah, was probably this:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reston-jfk-assass...
Do we need crypto_memzero()?
In a sense, the amazing thing is that Epic actually changed. In the past, incumbents didn't, and failed. Today, companies know about this dynamic, and try to adapt and undercut themselves before an upstart can. It takes some steel to let go of all that short-term profit.

Even so, it may be too little too late for Epic. It's straightforward to drop prices, but difficult to change business models, release timeframes, market position in customer's minds, codebase, customer feedback from a new usage.
Consistent low to mid density sprawl is pretty much the worst of all possible worlds. You need a mixture of densities.
Yes, but that wasn't the only option. They could have addressed the tax incentives that encourage people to speculate, but that is too politically unpalatable.
That's the kind of idea I was trying to raise in comments. Criticizing the state of education doesn't mean wishing for no education.
900 mathematicians is a ~30% increase?
Very well argued, bravo! I was about to suggest the same but had no data to support this interpretation, just anecdotal that IMHO it’s the lack of profitable investments opportunities and tonnes of cheap capital sloshing around that’s fueling these bubbles all over the world
I believe that's just selection bias. The media - especially the media most of us here are likely to read - focus on SV tech companies. Next to an article about SV startup complaining about lack of talent, you won't find an article about startup from Kraków, Poland complaining about the same, because who cares.

I.e. "loudest" isn't really the right word to describe the only group that is even allowed to speak publicly.
I mean--"programmable feature phone with smartphone level programmability" is a contradiction in terms, but there are tons of Symbian devices and tons more that run J2ME.

If you want more than that, you're looking at a smartphone. Just not one you have to install much on.
Sale prices aren't coupled to rents like you think. Landlords charge what the market will bear - how high housing prices increase rents is through making purchasing housing impossible for more people, who are then force to bid up rents.
We might be talking at cross purposes to some extend; Paris is not what I would call low rise, it's far more dense than Auckland is (and Auckland is low rise).

A continuous genuine low rise city like Auckland is a nightmare, and a hypothetical continuous high rise city (does one exist?) would be similar. Continuous mid rise like Paris, Barcelona etc is probably better than either, but having a good mix would improve things.
Oops, just saw that you referenced the same paper in a comment below. Sorry! :-)
Thanks for the fast response!

If he was looking for grandeur, why wouldn't he blare it to the press?

The anti-Cuba speech is interesting and could help establish motive.

The most damaging elements against Oswald are that he went home, changed clothes, armed himself, and shot Tippit.

If innocent, why do those things?

One final set of dangling questions: if he didn't care about getting caught, it makes sense that he brought a rifle to work in a bag then left it on the 6th floor with his fingerprints. If he did care, however, why not at least wear gloves and try to be more discreet in transporting the rifle (e.g., at night)? Ineptitude is a reasonable explanation, but there's a difference between stupidity and being unaccomplished. There only seems to be evidence he was unaccomplished. Also was the bag ever found?
Haven't they had several decades to review it?...
I would be surprised if the releases containing anything especially new, but the government most certainly maintains incriminating information on themselves. For instance we now know that the FBI discovered compromising information on MLK and tried to black mail him into suicide. [1] They also discovered his infidelity through surveillance and contacted his wife again trying to damage his character. This was all well documented and maintained for decades after it had happened. If you want death and murder, there's things like US involvement in Operation Condor [2] which was long speculated but finally fully verified by documents declassified under Clinton. And there are countless other examples.

Releases staggered by decades come with great plausible deniability. Is the FBI today responsible for what the FBI of the past did to MLK? If anything relevant was revealed, I'd expect the modern versions of the involved agencies to be the first condemn those actions. Whether that's genuine or not is practically impossible to know. But it's almost certainly sufficient to ensure they'll never face any meaningful consequences for their actions.

[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#U.S._involvem...
It's Los Angeles, isn't it?
By that logic, I hope you cook only professional-grade food, and exercise like a professional athlete.
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Well there's SailfishOs, which just got officially ported to Xperia X. I own a Jolla phone, which was the first to run this OS. It is open source, and I have to say quite hackable, even though I haven't tried to make any apps. Something that I find pretty cool is the fact that you can ssh into it if you enable developer mode, and you basically have a linux machine. The downsides are that the company is no longer making phones, and that there are not that many native apps for it. The upside is that it supports android 4.1.2 apps, so you are going to be covered for the most part.
https://i.imgur.com/bVSKmXD.png
Looks like Bret Victor's paragraph was removed from the page? It still talks about "6 principal investigators" but lists 5.
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I can imagine one way of doing this, but I am not sure it serves the purpose the original poster had in mind. There are geo display formats, such as KML. There could be a tag to display a KML document, much like you can display an SVG. Geo formats are more typically data formats rather than display formats. One of the more popular ones is GeoJSON. This is only data with no rendering information. There could be a tag to display a GeoJSON if there was also a format for styling, such as a GeoJSON style sheet.

This type of tag could be slightly more interesting than something like a plain SVG tag because multiple GeoJSONs could be displayed together, as layers, with there relative positioning given by the geo coordinates.

I think this would be a workable tag, in the sense that it does not require content other than the GEO content provided on the page. To comment on geo content, as some others have mentioned, most map data is proprietary. For example the street data required to give turn by turn directions is difficult to attain and companies charge money, one way or another for this. And, on top of this, for better directions real time traffic information is very helpful. This is definitely getting into the area of content rather than the type of services I expect from a web browser.

So without the services like geocoding and directions, I am not sure if this is what the op had in mind. I personally don't know if this use case is common enough to merit its own tag. I think javascript libraries do a pretty good job with this.
The BBC blamed, in part, "Australia's preference for underground wiring" as if it was a fashion statement.

In reality Britain simply lacks serious termites (and is in general underequipped in terms of dangerous animals, if you use Australia as a baseline).

I think this article buries the sins of the Liberal party (though the whole problem cannot be laid at their feet). I still have hope she'll be right in the end.
Either they are acting in bad faith, or are completely incompetent. Neither sounds like what we want out of the folks running elections.
regardless of the normativity of matter-of-factness in today's discourse this comment goes beyond the pale.. If this praise for Europe's maturity is representative of its maturity, then it isn't much.
It wasn't just you. The other European colonization efforts likewise destroyed the lives of millions of people. I always get a chuckle when I see Europeans deriding the American Empire. Pot calling the kettle black much?
Perhaps there are plenty of ways, but finding the remainder of the division is what's needed and in my case the test was pen and paper, with just a small space for the answer and no way to test my code.

It's all good, it wasn't the role for me, I'm more creative dev than programmer and I didn't get a good impression of the company anyway. I've moved on.
No, the reason why I asked you to look at the title and see that the title had been changed is to understand the fact that the original title "AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings" was misleading. If it was a good summarization of the news, why then, did the author change it? Because it's fundamentally flawed.

Yes, AMD did see a significant increase in earnings, but the profit was far below expectations. Additionally, AMD during their investor statement lowered their guidance for Q4 profitability by over 10%. Do you see how such a title might be misleading?
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In this context, USO means Universal Service Obligations, namely that approximately everyone can get access.

https://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Telco/Carriers-and-service-...
Kaiser still has the "everything in the same building" advantage. There are some down sides to Kaiser, but seeing my doctor, getting immunizations, having blood drawn for labs, having prescriptions filled and being out the door 45 minutes after I arrived isn't one of them. It's damn convenient.
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> However, introducing CGT would essentially mean less money in everyone's pocket.

On board with you up until this point, but this is where I disagree with you; by smashing property prices you'd actually end up with more money in (almost) everyone's pocket. By pushing prices down and implementing policies that keep them there you're having no impact on most home owners and massively benefiting all non home owners (which is all future generations), as well as stimulating the economy by pushing money away from non productive real estate speculation and into other areas.

Putting income tax and CGT on the same level seems like the sane place to start to me. A CGT should be assessed annually on paper gains at the marginal income tax rate, then any corrections should be made when a transfer of ownership is made by calculating the total profit over the number of years held. This would mean that income from capital gains would be treated the same as income from other means and seems like a fair way to start.
Japanese schools demand students prove their hair colour
The measure is designed to uphold "strict" Japanese standards regarding physical appearance
Thank you, great summary!
When the Liberals privatised the government owned monopoly telco (now called Tesltra), they didn't properly structurally seperate it in the first place. The government, like NZ, could have gotten the wholesale part of Telstra to start upgrading network infrastructure. If they had done it properly the first time, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Yes, you are correct. Earnings release statements for companies are generally released after market close. That doesn't mean trading stops. After hours trading doesn't end until 6PM EST.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

-Michael Pollan
Interesting, but holy shit, how it would break everything.

Having a day defined as a period of constant length of 24 hours is, I feel, a feature, not a bug. It allows for scheduling, for easily mapping between hours and days in your head. The system being anchored at the point more-less in the middle between sunrise and sunset is elegant, IMO, because - as you say - "the extra daylight is split evenly between morning and evening". This synchronizes the day period with our circadian rhythm (based on day/night cycle), which allows for easier dealing with other people.

Variable-length day sounds like an ongoing chaos full of manual corrections and constant recomputations. I feel it would be a step back for our civilization.
They also have a page to generate CSV reports on your purchases. I noticed the wife and I spent well over $10k in last 12 months. Up 2× or 3× since last year!
That’s not only attributable to this single item. There’s more such as exchange rate, salary levels and savings rates... that you’re stuck in an economic tarpit because you can’t speculate freely on housing (a primary necessity, btw) is a bit disingenuous
At some point, maybe ten years ago, I realized that with the internet today it's sometimes incredibly easy to see and expose national biases...

One of the tricks I came up with back then: Look up any Wikipedia article on US involvement in Latin America. Change the language from English to Spanish. Same topic. Sometimes vastly different reality.
It depends from case to case, you can't generalise.
Ask people in Hong Kong if they prefer to be part of China instead of a British colony for example.
This D&D game has been running for 35 years
Are they bought as speculation by foreign residents?If that's the case then just fix it by making it less attractive to buy for speculation. For example, a tax on property matched with a deduction on income. If you don't have any income then the property tax would be higher than any expected yearly gain in property prices.
Weren't they also responsible for colony collapse disorder?
Maybe get an old smartphone, specifically a Nokia E-series running on the S60 platform. They can run J2ME and C++ apps, as well as Python scripts that can interact with the APIs (networking, camera, accelerometer, etc). And you could install Opera Mobile, which was actually a pretty good browser. Plus a full QWERTY keyboard.
Yeah, NZ national living in Melbourne, there's not much that could tempt me back to NZ. Property prices in Melbourne are more reasonable than Auckland, and salaries are far higher. Cost of living not much lower either.
> First, the nitpicks: EAGAIN should not be handled here. EAGAIN shouldn't be retried in a loop, that will just spin the CPU for no good reason. If printf() returns EAGAIN

Manpage seems to imply that's not the only reason:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html

And I'm pretty sure that the manpage is right : with creative redirects you can make that happen for other reasons too. You can redirect stdout to a file on NFS, or to a tcp socket that may have a full buffer, lots of evil ideas come to mind.

I'll take another good look at the bufio error. Thing is, I'm also pretty sure that I'd want bufio to correctly handle EINTR and EAGAIN and it seems to me very unlikely that this golang runtime code is correct for those cases. But I'll spend some time trying to make it fail. Maybe I'll learn something.
Yes. conda install -c conda-forge virtualenv

That version is patched to fix previous incompatibilities.
> Wireless bandwidth is inherently shared between everyone, wired is dedicated.

False. NBN FTTP connections use GPON which is a shared connection (https://www.nbnco.com.au/utility/glossary-of-terms.html#g).
I'm well aware of those two popularly perceived problems, but I don't see how either justifies him being a bad PM.

I believe proposition (1), there being more evidence that supports this view and more rhetoric that supports (2).

If he were elected with a significant majority of both houses, and the party returned to a more centrist state, such that he didn't need to appease the more Right-wing faction of his party in the same way, would he not still be the perfect PM many of us thought he might be?

An aside -> his election strategy was mostly:
(1) use data to find popular buzz-words ("JOBS", "GROWTH", "INNOVATION");
(2) repeat those ad infinitum;
(3) shy away from any compelling political narrative or vision for the future of the country (e.g. "MAGA" narrative);
(4) ???;
(5) Lose House seats to Shorten and Senate seats to Pauline et al.
> Being less friendly to advertisers also insulates the service from viral hoaxes and propaganda

Not being a news platform also helps a lot.
It’s easy to look back fondly on genocides that have already happened. No one shed a tear for the long lost Neanderthals. The Estruscans were wiped out by the Romans with almost no recorded history left behind. Native Americans, First Nations, and Aborigines suffered horribly at European hands, but we never entertain the idea of moving back to the Old World.

Things are different for genocide that hasn’t happened yet. If people have left the UK and formed the United States which is far more successful currently, why not just kill all the citizens of the UK? Obviously the US is homo superious.

Would no one shed a tear?
I don't know that they're generally considered "benefits" here, but that's what they are. There is a means test (i.e. if you have enough in the way of assets then you don't get the pension) but it totally omits the family home; someone with a million dollar house vs a million in cash have the same assets, but one will get a full pension and one will get none.
Twitter is doing a better job than @Facebook on Russian ad/election interference work - but both entities weren't doing enough pre-election.
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