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I doubt negative gearing affects the rental rate much. Possibly in the single digit percent kind of area, but nothing like what 'a fraction' implies. Statistically, rental rates have an extremely strong correlation to vacancy rates. Although there are claims that when negative gearing was briefly abolished, rents went up, they actually went down in many markets and up in a few, but all of them were just following vacancy rates like they always have. Part of this may have been that it wasn't abolished for long enough to see the effect of the reduction in new stock encouraged by negative gearing, but it's pretty terrible at doing that (90% of NG investment is in existing property) so that probably wouldn't have been much.

The yields are low because rents have to be affordable to most of the population, whereas banks will lend ridiculous amounts of money to speculators for houses, fuelling the bubble.

All in all, NG (in concert with the capital gains tax discount) mostly encourages speculation, artificially increasing house prices, so it should be at least restricted to new-builds only.
> All network traffic is the same.

No competent network technician would mark VOIP the same as Torrent traffic.

Now, all Internet traffic may not be handled in such a manner but that's another matter.
Except that you are not a real person but a slightly improved AI that goes on the internet and start commenting.

If I don't need to have proof I can say anything.

How do you know the same is not happening with the big banks we have?

The difference in bitcoin is that trading is not limited to a single exchange. The amount of Tether is very small compared to the crypto market. (0.6bn to 250bn)
What about using cygwin instead of a Linux VM? I didn't have the time to try specifically this, bit normally you can reach really far with Cygwin. Plus, no need for root access, and the installation is natively "portable" (everything sits inside a single directory).
I didn't know that. Any good reasons for that?
I want open source and Free (as in freedom) software. And I value privacy, freedom and democracy so much it is not a problem to pay good money for such software. Luckily privacy, freedom and democracy respecting software is almost always also free as in beer, so I don't need to pay for it if I can't. But this doesn't stop me from donating to projects creating such software. In fact I have invested a lot more money in such free as in beer and freedom software than I have wasted on closed-source/proprietary/totalitarian.
Rx is neither simple nor easy, for non-trivial projects. Its an incredibly leaky abstraction and you end up having to understand the internals to do non-trivial things. Understanding when something runs in what thread (and in RxJava knowing when to use subscribe/subscribeOn/observeOn was much harder than it claimed to be), how to correctly handle errors, retry failed operations, apply backpressure without dropping data — these things essentially force you (in my experience, at least, but I’m no Rx expert, just used it for a few months) to dig into the internals to understand how they work: ie not simple.

But because of its lack of simplicity, it was also incredibly hard to use, to make it do what you want. So it was neither simple nor was it easy.

(And yes, I buy into the differences between simple and easy)
Arguments on splitting login process into checking username, then ask password?
Jack of all trades. Master of none.
>Making uncommon choices is a sign of expertise, because one has to be somewhat more knowledgeable about a domain to know of the existence of uncommon choices. This makes those choices easier to sell through flattery and/or the appeal of being an insider and getting a special deal.

That's a very insightful observation. Thanks!
I agree with most of the other comments that you'll get a wider audience with English. It isn't just for native English speakers, but everyone who uses English as their second / interchange language. (When I was last in Europe, I saw Swedes, Dutch, Icelandic & German people all speaking to each other fluently in English. It's a de-facto Weltsprache.)

But why not write in both? Write your articles first in German, and translate the articles that become popular into English.
>Science isn't whatever meets your expectations.

That's what I am telling you. I didn't say anything about my expectations. You made a claim, I told you to provide evidence.

>While the egg isn't functioning as one big working cell, it's not made of cells, it is what became of just one cell.

No it isn't. The single cell you are thinking of is the ovum. The egg yolk is the equivalent to the placenta in a mammal. It is not something that grows from the ovum. And why would I want to see random people on reddit arguing about it? Facts are facts, regardless of what people say on reddit. An egg yolk is categorically and empirically not a single cell, and not part of or made from the ovum. Do you not see the irony of trying to tell me what science is, then posting random people arguing as "evidence"? I suppose I am supposed to only read the posts repeating the same misconception you have, and ignore the ones pointing out the same facts I gave you?

>As for what healthy eggs looked like, I'm guessing you haven't spent much time on a farm

Maybe you should stick to facts instead of silly and irrelevant assumptions. I am on my farm right now. I have 20 chanteclers sleeping about 30 yards away from where I am sitting right now. I haven't bought an egg in decades. None of this has anything to do with your baseless claims. If you want people to believe your claims, you need to provide evidence, not ad-homs. Once again, your claim is purely objective. If it is true, then you can provide evidence. So do that. Show me the evidence linking membrane thickness to taste or nutrition.
As an Australian who has paid close attention to these matters for many years, I share your concern but think the assessment is overblown.

The housing boom is driven by a combination of: (a) Australia's cultural devotion to home ownership as a conventional life milestone; (b) foreign investment and immigration, and (c) high incomes due to the mining boom and prolonged overall economic strength. Of those factors, (a) and (b) are not going to end any time soon. A global recession/economic crisis would obviously affect (c), but Australia has weathered several of these in past decades. If/when it happens, it should cause a slowing and/or a correction, but not a total crash, unless the world economy crashes. On the other hand, continued global growth, particularly in China and India, will keep fuelling demand for Australia's resources, products, services and land. Why is the worst-case scenario more likely than the best?

The political situation might seem grim, but it's not nearly as bad as the US or the UK or parts of continental Europe.

The "brain drain" issue has been a concern for many years, but if anything I'm starting to see that reversing; people I know who had left for Silicon Valley or New York or London for better career opportunities are now looking to move back, because Australia seems so idyllic compared to the chaos that's reigning elsewhere. I've noticed a vast improvement in the scale and quality of entrepreneurial activity in Australia in the past few years, and I keep hearing from expats that they're noticing how much better things are getting back home, and how much they'd like to come back and be a part of it.

The NBN is an issue that people love to use to hurl abuse at the government whilst simultaneously complaining about ballooning national debt. You can't have it both ways. It was a costly and risky project from the moment it was conceived by the previous government, and since then it's just been a case of getting it done while keeping cost blowouts and delays to a minimum. As a technology professional who cares about fast broadband as much as anyone, I can tell you that the NBN services I've had at my previous home (FTTB) and my new home (FTTP) are as reliable and fast as I could hope for, and I find cellular and terrestrial internet in Australia to be at least as good, and usually better than what I've experienced on recent trips to the US.

I don't deny there's cause for concern; I've been as mindful of, and worried about the risks as anyone. But painting it as all negative, and pinning all the blame for all the problems on the current government is inaccurate, unfair and excessively pessimistic.

So yes, there are challenges; there are great challenges everywhere in the world, as there always are. But there are also great opportunities and reasons for optimism.

It pays to take a balanced view.
The Touch Bar is mandatory on the 15” model, and while there is a 13” without it, it has two USB ports instead of four, and is using a lower power class CPU. They advertised it more as a replacement to the MacBook Air in the original keynote.
> Why is the keyboard story receiving so much attention from such a variety of sources? The answer is that it is the centerpiece of a theory that argues that market winners will only by the sheerest of coincidences be the best of the available alternatives

> Because first on the scene is not necessarily the best, a logical conclusion would seem to be that market choices aren't necessarily good ones

By the way, the reason.com article also goes into an explanation of path dependence, which the grandparent mentions extensively.
That’s a vast oversimplification. Go to Egypt and you’ll find a large number of Egyptian temples adapted to Christian use.
Thanks for your effort on it. I had high hopes for Code Sponsor.

It's a shame that Github is forcing Code Sponsor to shut down.

I encourage you to wait until Github's time is over, and then to try again.
The ones that actually sell produce bring people to their "farms" as unpaid interns to do all their labor for free. People do this work for free because they are told it will give them the experience needed to start making 6 figures growing lettuce in someone else's backyard. In reality, the market for overpriced lettuce is already saturated and you can only make six figures doing that if you have an established relationship with restaurants who will buy overpriced lettuce, and you get all your labor for free.

Lots of them don't even do that, they just sell "seminars" and "coaching" and "intensive workshops" to teach people how to grow lettuce.
Learned helplessness?
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I would agree with the "simplistic view" comment, except for the fact that I live here and have seen it happening for at least the last decade. Foreign investors are literally buying up streets of houses, without regard to the price; Chinese companies are buying up as much farmland as they can; Adani is trying to mine as much coal with no regard to the environment while getting billions in Government assistance; and don't get me started on all the Chinese buying up as much baby formula as they can and sending it back home to their relatives.

There's a difference between immigrating to a country because you want to live there, and immigrating to pump it for its resources until it runs dry.
I still miss the days where Yahoo! was a FreeBSD shop. I think the conversion to Linux was a bad idea on several levels and was motivated by the wrong reasons. And I have been a heavy Linux user since 1995 (used it from 1993, but didn’t use it heavily till 1995), yet still feel that way.
I agree with everything you said, but you can also go too far in that direction of analysis. If you let the empirical gain in traction to sneak in as a factor in your analysis, you effectively have a tautology, and you lose all predictive power, similar to the misuse of the phrase “survival of the fittest,” where you conclude that variant A was “clearly” more “fit” than variant B because A survived and B didn’t.

It’s still important to recognize that a variant might “win” because of factors completely unrelated to its “fitness,” like an organization using its market power in an unrelated sector to promote its variant, or even just good old fashioned dumb luck.
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There are some analysts and economists I've read who are looking at the situation and warning that there is a lot more fraudulent lending than most would think. On an anecdotal level I've also heard more than a few people say they it was hinted by banks that they could put a bigger number in the 'income' box and borrow more money.

On that, it will be interesting what would come out if a future royal commission into the banking sector happens.

But even if not, it wouldn't matter. You can have the best capital adequacy in the world, and have only lent to people with rock solid ability to service their loans - but you have a real problem if there's a drop in prices and you have hundreds of thousands of people with negative equity on once-million dollar assets.
It helps a lot. My C and Python code have improved significantly since I've started learning Clojure.
> and you assume all qualified candidates have been exposed to this

The point is that that's an absurd thing to assume. It would almost never come up organically (and has only really come up in the context of awful interview question blogs). It's not a taught/talked about algorithm.

Rote memorization is also a poor metric for job performance.
I considered that interpretation before writing and I found it impossible to read that way. For a start, "imitations" is plural, so no, it doesn't just refer to Jupyter. And "started" certainly implies that other imitations hadn't appeared before that.

While I'm at it: he deserves an uncharitable reading, because he's having a dig at Jupyter (which may be an imitation of Mathematica notebooks) and neglecting to mention any influence of previous work on Mathematica notebooks, such as Knuth's literate programming.
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They don't need to _slow_ anyone down. They just need to be faster or better connected with the end users with lesser connection drops etc. This all the major players already do with their private networks and CDNs and servers at a global PoPs. No startup without serious muscle can compete with that .

In the same vine major players also built and own dedicated DCs , hardware and networking equipment and locate it all over the world, new players can't compete possibly with that anyway.

There has never been any level playing field, New players are nimble and more risk friendly and do not have the baggage of existing users , older players have resource advantage and may need to choose between cannibalizing current users for new areas of growth or avoiding the segment all together.
If consumers delay non critical purchases, how is that bad? More money would flow into important things in society as a result and potentially less to things that probably arent needed on society (ie Angry Birds games, or selfie sticks). Those industries might go out of business and release more resources to the important ones.

You say it isnt doing "its job"? but thats not a real reason. cigarettes arent doing its job if its stashed away and not smoked.
I compiled a list some time ago, I'm still actively updating it (if you have ideas for work that should be included please let me know):

"An incomplete list of classic papers every Software Architect should read" https://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2014/06/09/an-incomplet...
You didn't say the answer has to use O(1) space, so I'd just throw the nodes in a WeakSet, and when I reach a node that's already in the WeakSet, that's the start of the loop. Or better yet, use a WeakMap to associate nodes with their position, so that once I find the start of the loop I can immediately subtract to get the loop length, no second pass needed.
> Pissing off customers has many failure points.
Without video many people could just stick with their cellphone bandwidth and drop their cable plan entirely.

Congratulations, you have just made anti Net Neutrality argument.
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This is actually a great point about a highly targeted physical marketing opportunity.

I recently saw a small sign nailed to a tree on one of the thousands of back roads in the area that basically turn into a parking lot during rush hour.

I'm sure you would catch some flak for spamming on nature trails but normal streets are less offensive.
If quality is defined by success, the question whether superior alternatives ever lose out becomes trivial. They can't, by definition.

And now you've made it harder to discuss market failures and similar ideas, because you've eliminated some words that could intuitively be used to describe a useful distinction.
What I find most amazing about this is Australia being the 10th least population dense country in the world [https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_popul...].

It's very interesting to ponder how our proclivity of huddling together in tight cities can cause such anomalies.
From the article (and my main reason for posting):

“Reviewing and testing consensus changes is really, really hard. [...] Essentially, even one or two weak reviews in a chain of reviews can break the entire consensus system with a catastrophic bug.”
So how do we decide if qwerty or dvorak is fitter?
From an architectural perspective, it's really *nix that won. To the degree that we worry about software monocultures in that vein, it really doesn't matter much if it's only Linux or if it's Linux + AIX + various other Unixes. That Linux is open source and allows for customization and variants makes it less of a monoculture but it still embodies a specific architectural approach. (Although GPU computation is one big change that's taken place.)

The TOP500 list does tend to be oriented to highly parallel systems because of the benchmark used. However, the different architectures like vector systems have largely gone by the wayside anyway. As CMOS scaling runs its course I expect we'll see more experimentation. Whether some of that requires a new operating system model as well remains to be seen.
That's an annualized growth rate of 5.13%. How exactly is that insane? If you assume inflation is 2-3% the real rate of return is ~2.5%.

The YTD return for the S&P 500 is 18.6%. Now that's insane.
What pattern is there on using those structures? It's barebones syntax and nothing else.
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You’re probably right in general re: negative gearing on rents (I’ve edited my comment).
These services that drive massive increases in bandwidth demand are the services I’m talking about. The demand for Netflix, for example, has required investment on the part of ISPs to support. Most residential cable broadband systems weren’t designed with these kinds of constant bandwidth demands in mind. So Netflix gets to grow, while ISPs face massively increased investment, lest their networks will be overrun. Why shouldn’t Netflix have to contribute to the increased investment that they are benefitting from?
They discharge slowly during driving, unless you floor the acceleration while driving up a slope, but I'm sure there are some kind of limits in place, to prevent the user from draining an unsafe amount of power from the battery.
And Netflix is also paying for that data, albeit out of profits generated by you paying them.

Everyone pays for their connection to the notional Internet. Individual households tend to pay for all-you-can-eat of a nominal speed, which is fractionally provisioned upstream at whatever rate the ISP thinks that they won't get too many complaints about - typically 10:1. Medium and large companies either buy all-you-can-eat at less underprovisioned services, or pay for 95th percentile billing that is calculated monthly.

Really large corporations pay for interconnections to peering locations, and do a mix of paying for transit and swapping traffic with willing peers. Finally, backbone network companies buy or lease fiber, peering points and data centers and try to pay for as little transit as is economically feasible while shipping data around their networks at lower costs.

Everybody pays for what they use. The larger the scale, the lower the price per bit.

"Fast lanes" and "Zero-rate" traffic are purely subsidies and extortion. Rent-seeking.
Philippe Kruchten's The 4+1 view model of architecture is a very influential work for software architecture/design: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/450b/1e34bc072589ed83f72f6f... .
It doesn't have to be an order on high.

The engineering management team is pretty good at making sure that such orders are almost never given explicitly. If they absolutely must to be given explicitly, then they are never ever given in writing. Most of the time, though, they don't need to be.

All you need to do is to create a culture where even the smallest failure is not acceptable, where employees are regularly abused by aggressive managers; where individuals are put under immense pressure to achieve the impossible, and where questions about how those results were achieved are simply not asked.

There is an unrelenting pressure to conform; to demonstrate outstanding results; to make it look like everything is running smoothly, and to hide failings and faults, even if that means lying to your manager, lying to your customers, lying to your colleagues, lying to everyone.

I have seen project managers lie in the most brazen way to customers and to auditors. I have seen more than one test engineer who would rather fake a test passing than show that the product does not work.

The automotive industry is to a large extent a moral vacuum, and there are dozens if not hundreds of managers and engineers across the industry who should by rights be behind bars and by whose continued freedom we not only damage the moral fabric of an industry, but also endanger the health and safety of innocent people all around the world.
But that would be... inflation! High inflation would affect collective bargaining agreements, benefit increases, super increases and all sorts of measures designed to keep compensation increases in line with increased cost of living.

Central bank keeps telling us that inflation is "on target" at just 2% or 3% p/a for about the last 5 years. Meanwhile, housing inflated more like 40% (70% in Sydney!)[2] over that time, so how does that work?

OH WAIT, housing was excluded from CPI[3]. I wonder who decided that, and whose interest(heh) that might possibly be in?

[1] https://www.rba.gov.au/inflation/inflation-target.html

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/03/20/this-chart-shows...

[3] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-20/inflation-data-suffers...
The Morning Paper's Adrian Colyer is a human Machine. I religiously read his papers.
You know how people say: “on a scale of 1-10”?

I’ve used the principle of Millers law to start asking people to measure on a scale of 1-7.

Universally, people balk at the scale. But I explain to them that most people can’t tell the difference between 2 and 3 on a ten point scale. If you can’t articulate a difference, there’s no use in the measurement.

Seven is great because you get more than the simplicity of 1-5. So...
1 - the worst
2 - bad
3 - below avg
4 - average
5 - above average
6 - good
7 - the best.

And don’t even THINK about responding with “5.5”. ;)
Well, the vast majority of Australia is the Outback, which people don't really want to live in.
>How do you know the same is not happening with the big banks we have?

Whataboutism, and there is substantially less potential for everything to disappear, more transparency, and decades (centuries?) of regulation.

>The difference in bitcoin is that trading is not limited to a single exchange. The amount of Tether is very small compared to the crypto market. (0.6bn to 250bn)

Look at the tether volume vs. the BTC volume and you will get a very different story. It's misleading to talk about Bitcoin's market cap when such a huge amount of it is lost forever or not actively traded/moving the market.