BirdieNZ

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by BirdieNZ 16d ago
I don't think that's the conclusion of the paper you linked, although there are papers suggesting that ADHD and autism are essentially subtypes of a single overarching disorder. The more common view is that because prevalence of a
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by BirdieNZ 3mo ago
It does depreciate, usually. It's the land underneath that appreciates in value. Occasionally if you get unusual spikes in building materials and labour costs then the house itself can appreciate in value because it costs more to repla
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by BirdieNZ 3mo ago
It's basically one way to implement Georgism, and is a standout real world example of why land ownership policies are very important.
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by BirdieNZ 4mo ago
> Cloudflare is an outlier because the company doesn't actually make money at present; their past three annual statements show net losses in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Their free cashflow is high; they're choo
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by BirdieNZ 5mo ago
It's significantly more efficient to provide services to compact towns than sprawled towns, so I'm not sure this registers to me as a downside. It's pretty common for small sprawled towns to struggle to keep up with maintenan
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by BirdieNZ 6mo ago
I don't want to just copy and paste my previous comment, but this isn't how companies at this size think about declaring profits. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347993 Hence the comment you replied to
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by BirdieNZ 6mo ago
This is a pretty surface level analysis; Atlassian also has stock buybacks of billions of dollars each year. It's an intentional choice to not declare a profit and pay a dividend, and instead to reinvest in acquisitions and pay shareho
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by BirdieNZ 9mo ago
Jevon's Paradox: more software will be produced, rather than fewer software engineers being employed.
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by BirdieNZ 11mo ago
It's not uncommon in NZ/Aus to be paid weekly and pay rent weekly. I find monthly rent to be just as strange!
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by BirdieNZ 11mo ago
I found it a helpful analogy. Cooking almost any Japanese food will quickly introduce you to dashi and kombu, and I didn't know what carrageenan was.
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
Cron job with a bash script syncing media and the database to S3 Deep Archive once a day. Cheap as chips until you need to restore.
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
> Obviously, every single existing property owner wants it to stop right now. Because more housing means more supply, means less money for them. Upzoning actually increases land values, because it gives you the option to develop your lan
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
If the mini PC is second hand then using it until it dies is already a much better recycling culture than it going straight to the landfill. I much prefer that than buying these high spec brand new Beelink/Minisforum/Aoostar mini
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
Dell/HP/Lenovo all have huge amounts of ex-corporate mini PCs constantly coming onto the second hand market as they reach the end of Windows 10 licensing, or are depreciated out, or mass upgraded. Some popular models to get due to
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
I'm trialing a NAS with Immich, and then backing up the media and Immich DB dump daily to AWS S3 Deep Archive. It has Android and iOS apps, and enough of the feature set of Google Photos to keep me happy. You can also store photos&#x2F
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
Being East Asian doesn't make you blend in (visually). Japanese people look different to Korean and Chinese people.
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by BirdieNZ 1y ago
Maybe formal spoken Cantonese/Mandarin, but colloquial spoken Cantonese for example is very different from formal written Cantonese. It would sound odd to speak the way things are formally written, if that makes sense. Perhaps you coul
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
Batteries aren't unrepairable; you wouldn't open one up in the middle of the road to try fix it but at the bus depot with enough volume of battery electric vehicles, they'll have reason to hire repair technicians that can ref
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
The sale value won't stay flat unless you tax land (or use leasehold like Singapore), because typically incomes rise, and in most places the rate of building new housing has an equilibrium lower than the rate of demand, because profit
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
It's good practice to separate out your control plane and data plane, so in this kind of scenario you can use the control plane freely to manage and scale up the data plane without worrying about the data plane underresourcing affectin
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
As a non-American, Hispanic, white, and black American people in the USA are all "American, American, American", and not really a melting pot if that's the only ethnic groups you're counting.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
It's for workers' rights. Even ole' John Calvin (who probably started it in Switzerland) wanted Sunday as a day off because it protected workers rights against overwork, not because he saw it as mandated by the Bible.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
I don't know about clean, I saw hardly any (men) wash their hands after using the bathroom. Sometimes they'd wave their hands under the tap. Without turning it on. Seemed more like obsession with being tidy than hygeinic.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
> Cultures that value kids will have more. My parents did the same for us Last I checked, cultures that have access to contraception and female education have fewer kids, independent of religion or tradition or practice of valuing kids.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
Wikipedia says in 2022 there were 4.4 million software developers in the USA. H1bs are ~85,000 added per year. Say over the last 20 years, every h1b slot was filled (by software developers), they never left the USA, and remained on h1b with
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
Shadow interviewers are common; why would it be inane to expect an interviewee to ignore the shadow?
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
Coffee isn't inherently bitter, but overextracted coffee is bitter. If you ever have the chance to try a well-extracted specialty drip coffee I encourage you to try it, it's quite an eye-opening experience as to what black coffee
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
The Chinese version is way better than the Netflix version, I couldn't finish the Netflix one.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
It might depend on your government; Singapore is at least one example of a country which does state housing very well.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
Land value tax.

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