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by jsankey 10y ago
I see, I did misinterpret your point somewhat. The situation is still relevant to individual would be claimants, though. Even though Egypt and Sudan don't want to claim the region I don't think they're too keen on random thir
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by jsankey 10y ago
The reason Bir Tawil is unwanted is more subtle: claiming it would discredit a claim made to the more desirable neighbouring region: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hala%27ib_Triangle
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by jsankey 10y ago
Chilies are pretty simple to grow yourself, even just by using the seeds from a dried one. A happy plant produces lots of chilies and the freeze fine for most uses. They don't like the cold, though, so depending which part of Germany
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by jsankey 10y ago
Exactly. It's analogous to the difference between big bang integration and continuous integration. The lesson there is: if something hurts, do it more often. Little steps let you know exactly what changed when something breaks.
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by jsankey 11y ago
Thanks for the reply Dean. It seems there is room to make this easier, although it can be hard to find and convince the market of that when there is something "good enough" out there. Hope you have some luck. An idea, to take or
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by jsankey 11y ago
Indeed, Freecycle have been operating in Australia for a long time. There are several other competitors too, the article doesn't make clear what Curbit's advantage/angle is. I'm all for the general idea and wish them w
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by jsankey 11y ago
The previous federal government in Australia introduced something along these lines: a carbon tax designed to be revenue-neutral. Compensation for lower income earners was worked into the income tax system (some also went directly to certai
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by jsankey 11y ago
You state things with conviction but no evidence. There is a big difference between the brain and therefore needs of a 4-5 year old and a 0-3 year old. I'm not sure why you assume you can infer anything about the needs of a toddler b
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by jsankey 11y ago
It's not quite so simple. Many non-essential things are cheap (e.g. iOS games), and many essential things are expensive (e.g. housing, transport). The line between essential and luxury is also subjective. So you have to start catego
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by jsankey 11y ago
Nice straw man. I didn't even mention luxury tax, let alone promote it.
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by jsankey 11y ago
Certainly there are ways to mitigate the effect, I was just pointing out that the universality of a sales tax isn't all positive.
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by jsankey 11y ago
I took away something completely different. The OP gives herself permission to fail not because she doesn't want to put in the effort, or has any less desire to succeed. The point is she doesn't want to be driven by fear. Fear i
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by jsankey 11y ago
I don't think the GP was claiming it was more challenging. The point is making the tax flat doesn't help solve this key problem, so all you get is a less progressive system overall.
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by jsankey 11y ago
That's the problem, too -- it applies equally to necessities and luxuries. Sales taxes are regressive because there is a certain amount of non-discretionary spending everyone has to make, regardless of income, just to live.
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by jsankey 11y ago
But they were bootstrapped and very profitable for several years before taking any funding.
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by jsankey 11y ago
It takes less time to make 7 (or 3, or 12) perfect boiled eggs in a saucepan, it's trivial to do and to clean! I note your cooker also poaches eggs, though, which is much trickier in a pan (unless you have your own chooks, or a simila
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by jsankey 11y ago
I have a daughter approaching 18mo, so not that far ahead of you. Some thoughts: * This is both more work and more fun than you can imagine :). * Don't dumb things down too much. I noticed my daughter can often understand more than I
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by jsankey 11y ago
Many of these points are spot on. Thankfully 8 seems to have turned around for now; with such a small local market most tech companies are exporters and this has been crippling for many. There has also been an improvement in culture in the
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by jsankey 11y ago
Unfortunately the investment culture in Australia is a lot more risk averse. There are exceptions, but raising money for new tech here is much harder than it should be given the relative strength of our economy. For bootstrapped companies
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by jsankey 11y ago
People making the argument that the pods are expensive are comparing them to the price of coffee per kilo. This totally misses the point by overlooking why people use pods: convenience. As you note to get a similar convenience level you n
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by jsankey 11y ago
The business model is well-worn, just adapted to coffee. People are paying for the convenience. It's clear this isn't the cheapest way to make coffee at home, unless of course you value your time!
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by jsankey 11y ago
This is really interesting to me as I've just been solving the same ingredient parsing problem in my iOS app (Zest Recipe Manager) to implement smart shopping lists. Although I was tempted to use a statistical approach I opted to star
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by jsankey 11y ago
The JetBrains suite of IDEs, all built on the same platform, support these and much more (Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, ...). With the exception of AppCode (for iOS) you can also get them all in the main release IDEA with relevant plugins.
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by jsankey 11y ago
That's what the I in IDE means: Integrated!
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by jsankey 11y ago
Your argument now amounts to "there will always be issues", which is correct but not useful. What matters is what those issues are, how important, and how severe at each point on the scale. We're now talking at such an abst
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by jsankey 11y ago
Yes it is, and if they get their way I believe it will be a disaster for both equality and long term growth here. They are aiming to move education and health to more of a user pays model (which makes no sense given the evidence worldwide)
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by jsankey 11y ago
Then how do you explain the low socio-economic mobility in the US? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_... The good news is everyone is getting richer (rising tide), the bad news is inequality i
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by jsankey 11y ago
The post you responded to pointed to a problem with capitalism, but it hardly follows that this means they'd advocate for communism. More rationally you might suppose that there is some other way to curb failures of capitalism without
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by jsankey 11y ago
False dichotomy. Communism (or whatever approximations of it we've seen) isn't the only alternative. The inherent problem in any case is concentration of power, whether it be in the state or in megacorps.
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by jsankey 12y ago
As another datapoint from someone in your target market: cinder evokes burnt for me. Glowing coals aren't typically "gently" warm, for that matter (if I'm thinking charcoal or wood fire, I'm thinking awesome for coo

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