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I have seen 2 recent posts hit the front page of Hacker News about open source project funding. On the one hand people say “Hey! You decided to release it for free! You can’t now say you want money for it!” The flip side of this is that these maintainers are welcome to walk away from the various projects they maintain, which could have dire consequences for the masses of websites…
I had already uploaded a large file to Google Drive and because Tony Abbott and Rupert Murdoch fucked up the internet for all Australians I didn’t want to have to do it again because it took a really long time. In order to directly download the file from Drive onto a server, I did the following: Found the file in Drive, right-clicked and chose “Share” Got the “shareable URL” such that anyone with…
I’ve been banging on about economics recently to anyone who will listen, but recently a couple of people told me they thought it was interesting but didn’t really see why it was relevant. Here is a quick way too see why this is relevant to everything you believe in our stand for, regardless of where your opinions are on the political or ideological spectrum. Search Google for “cost to the…
A day doesn’t go by without hearing someone referring to a cost “to the tax payer”. We really need to focus on dispelling this myth because it pits one section of society against another. Let’s be very clear: your tax dollars don’t pay for anything. You’re taxes are levied to create a demand for currency and regulate the base money supply. Here’s a thought experiment based on modern money theory:…
Everyone FREAKS OUT when they hear that the government owes money and pays interest on it, especially to foreign nations. The concern is based solely on misinformation. The first thing to know is that all currency issued by the government is debt. All government spending and welfare or other transfer payments is debt. We don’t normally refer to currency as debt, though, because the…
As usual, Bill Shorten’s response to the base broadening and increase of the GST in Australia to 15% is both disappointing and myopic. The Greens haven’t done much better. Both parties are merely reacting with typical politically point scoring rhetoric rather than engaging in genuine debate. Instead of simply refusing to accept an increase in GST and coming back with the same old…
Here’s a really simple description of how the economy works and why you should stop listening to anyone the second they say the government should return to surplus. The economy is a bath tub. The tap is on and the plug is out, so if you turn off the tap it will eventually empty. The goal is for the bathtub to be exactly full. Every day the bathtub increases in size a bit. If you’re not putting…
Today while reading about doctors who don’t want to release kids into detention[1] I noticed our Dear Immigration Leader’s comment: “… the Defence and Border Force staff on our vessels who were pulling dead kids out of the water don’t want the boats to restart.” Well here’s a thought, dipshit: instead of illegally imprisoning innocent people without trial in state sponsored rape camps, why…
In addition to the excellent distinction between “tech startups” and “tech enabled startups” made by Ryan Hoover[1] I think that there is a more important distinction that this b2b versus b2c startups. But even these I think are misnomers. I will define a b2b startup as one which makes an existing behaviour that someone performs for financial gain, easier. A b2c startup is usually one which either…
The claim that removing negative gearing will increase rents defies not only history as shown in the recent ABC fact check[1], but also logic. If lanldords could spontaneously increase rents by simply deciding to charge more, THEY FUCKING WOULD . Do you think landlords are keeping rents artificially low out of compassion for renters? Fuck no. They’re charging every penny they can, and…
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Crisp autumnal mornings at #hardysbay make me feel sorry for all those folks who only come to the #centralcoast during summer holidays
Yet another fine example of the journalistic inegrity of our good friends over at Limited News in the daily smellegraph today
Oh #centralcoast how can I stay mad at you? #wildweather #cleanup #bringonautumn
Whoa when the fuck did VIDEO AND AUDIO ads start playing at FUCKING TRAIN STATIONS?! This is criminal.
Ever since she was a tiny baby (like 6 weeks old) Frankie has had an insatiable appetite for books. I have a video of her at 6 weeks flipping out over the colour kittens. The trend has continued unabated. I remember flying on a plane to Adelaide when she was about 3.5 yrs and reading through all 160 odd pages of Richard Scarry’s “what do peope do all day” and finishing just as we started the…
Whenever I hear a financially wealthy person say something like “the more money you get, you realise that it’s not all that important” there are inevitably reactions from people who are not financially wealthy saying something like “it’s all well and good for you to say that now you have money, but I have to eat and pay rent and money is hugely important to me”.…
I just got a coffee at gloria jeans and they pour the milk in with the cup sitting on this scale. When they first put the cup on the scale they have an acceptable weight range that indicates if the coffee has been over extracted or not, and when they poor the milk in they have acceptable weight ranges for each size, that differ depending on the type of coffee (for example a cappucino is less dense…
3 bananas and half a litre of milk. Takes 2 minutes and cures all afternoon grumps if I show up to pick the girls up from pre-school packing these bad boys
“I know! We could call the sequel ‘too fast, too furious’, but spell it with the numeral 2”. “Urr but what do we do for the third one? Three fast, three furious doesn’t work…” “hahaha yeah right. As if they’re ever going to let us make more than two of these pieces of shit.”