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It's a pure resourcing issue. How many resources are allocated to improving linux desktop experience on laptops? A tiny fraction compared to Microsoft and Apple. Linux paid developers are usually focused on the server side. If next to nothing is invested in making it better then it doesn't get better.

Automation? You don't necessarily need infinite population growth, Japan and other nations with low immigration and population growth may be able to make things better than it seems. Look at corporate tax bases and number of employees in major companies. You could totally run a high income economy with fewer people and better outcomes.

Population growth is not a requirement for economic growth, it is just one of the laziest ways to move the dial up.

Probably also worth noting that there are [stories of it happening before](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah).

Nah, those are charity superyachts. They help poor people by showing them how good it is to be rich.

Consider it from a bureaucratic efficiency perspective instead then, if the rules are too broad and there are too many exemptions then the cost of gathering taxes increases. The government should aim for a simpler system that is more efficient (so that it can pass on the cost saving in having an efficient tax system on as reduced taxation if you are a neoliberal believer).

It isn't economically beneficial for people to spend vast sums on creative accountancy in order to minimise their taxation. Tax minimisation encourages investment in areas that do not promote growth or bring new products to market. Yes, there is a personal or individual corporate reward for avoiding tax but there are significant economic downsides too. Tax havens allow corruption, terrorism and organised crime to flourish giving them a way to siphon funds around which is a massive societal detriment.

Power curves are one reason lead isn't more used (they spike a fair bit). The other one to look at is how the tech itself scales, almost all batteries all catch fire easily due to the chemical processes. That becomes a bigger problem the more you pack them in and there has been more research in getting Lithium cells to not catch fire than lead acid lately.

Only if you are not good at process. If you have solid practices, documentation and system design skills you can make yourself removable, then you can go on leave whenever and things will be fine.

A good way to measure this is look at how long it takes to do handover when someone leaves a project. If it is more than half an hour of showing someone where the repo is and a brief explanation then you have a problem that can be fixed with better processes. Ideally, someone should be able to pick up a project or a product very quickly as all the information they need should be in a simple, easily navigable format that they can consume and understand. I realise that is an ideal case but if you are senior enough to lead you can be senior enough to never make yourself a dependency and that callback never comes because it is never required. Ensuring management above you understands your value is another problem (anyone who can code themselves out of a job is worth keeping around and giving harder jobs to and good managers will understand that).

A 360 on a children's swing can definitely be done. I've done it as a child and as an adult. It usually needs to have a much longer rope/chain on it to get the momentum up.

Location: Brisbane, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but would prefer not to. E3 eligible. Technologies: Keras, Tensorflow, Python, R, Ruby on Rails, C, JS, React, Scala, OCaml, Postgres, most of the AWS common toolchain from a devops view. Résumé/CV: https://chriscurran.work Email: chris at scut.tl

I've been in the individual contributor game for a long time. Solid development experience (front end, back end, apps and data pipelines), devops and SRE experience and a very strong interest in machine learning with some experience in commercial ML development.

I am keen to try my hand at almost anything.

Also important to consider that your taxes are already paying for streets as well so whether it is in a taxpayer funded house or a taxpayer funded street is irrelevant.

It could be that further up the network they are dropping HTTPS packets, or that they plan to in future. It isn't unheard of to simply deny encrypted protocols at the ISP level for a period of time and I could see China doing this in some areas while simultaneously forcing common sites and apps to have functional unencrypted versions to minimise commercial disruption.

All ISPs, as a rule, oversell. They oversell at a ratio of usage in part due to how networks are structured (8-10 times bottleneck bandwidth is seen as "good" service, source: I am in the industry). There are bottlenecks in almost every network. The problem is when they oversell at an unacceptable limit for regular usage. Bottlenecks can be mitigated but that costs money and like almost every rent seeking business there is no incentive to spend any money or invest until there is risk of a losing enough users to be unprofitable.

The economics of ISPs suck which means ISPs will suck pretty much as a rule.

I'm a grad of the OMSCS program. The "netsec" subject covered all of the "things that would help" and some in detail with practical projects.

Why not just a pattern of umms and arrs that it already seems to add into output. Easier to detect for it and harder for a human to recognise.

Especially when Dutch East India and South Seas were actual states in almost every way except name. Once you have an army, provide services and collect taxes you are a state.

Politics is how people organise and group. There are always ploys for control and expansion. Politics is practically biology, there is a pecking order and it is inescapable. What determines in and out group varies but it is always there if there are three or more people present.

You are about 5 years too late. Skin trading is already actual gambling, there are many sites that allow you to buy skins then gamble with them and cash out money. This isn't a hypothetical, it is a business model and I would be amazed if publishers were not aware of it.

Steam's market is also regularly used for actual money laundering through trades and inflated buy orders.

You would be surprised. I've issued chargebacks before after offering every chance for an issue to be resolved with major firms (over the phone) and within 10 minutes of making a chargeback I got a call from the head office offering all sorts of things to remedy the issue. It doesn't take many chargebacks for a provider to can even very large accounts.

Which has no bearing on what she is saying at all.

My editor, in his mid 60s, uses cromulent quite regularly.

Learning that any sufficiently advanced system is usually inconsistent and breakable is one of life's most important lessons. Rules are contradictory, both in meaning and application. There is no master theorem and they are not consistently or evenly applied. The world is not fair and just.

It is one of my main conflicts with homeschooling, the point of conventional schooling is that everyone must fit a mould and conforming to a structure. The lesson of that point is finding a way to deal with that conformity, you need to know the rules of hierarchical groups in order to break them or succeed inside or outside of them.

Redmi 4A. There are some very interesting low end phones coming out of China.

More to that I think some advertisers benefit from a known gullible community. It would be quite easy (and unethical) for someone to make money out of targeted ads piggybacking on this sort of network.

Australia's policy does not prevent people buying residential houses through trusts or corporations. Ultra-wealthy and money laundering buyers can walk around the law and often do. The only buyers stopped are those closer to median buyers (which for Sydney and Melbourne is around the 1 million dollar mark).

Overall the policy is largely ineffective at even slowing price increases.

Thailand and Australia are not comparable markets, sure foreign buyers want access to both markets but Thailand is a corrupt military junta and Australia has a mostly functional court system (but increasing levels of corruption at the top end).

No, but you can claim interest and repair costs as a means of lowering your income and other taxes. Taken to an extreme there are some people who pay net zero tax on millions in net income (they don't mind the loss as there is no tax and the long term plan is to make a capital gain on sale).

The original idea was that people would lower the rent to make renting more affordable. This rarely ever happens in practice because tweaks to the law mean that you can claim interest and expenses without actually renting the property (set the rental at an unaffordable price point and leave the house vacant).

Do those same people get sad when they see arable land being used for food production or large cities from space? They probably need a reality check on their understanding of humanity. We have always been modifying the environment to suit our needs, every species does this.

Watertight is a hard engineering problem to solve. If it isn't a vacuum or loaded with some other gas then you will get water coming in because of temperature cycles causing the device to act like a pump, which in a phone are a problem because you will have temperature fluctuations caused by charging, usage and environment.

But it really is. You get a resource (human in this case) that usually comes with education and healthcare paid for in the X years before they came. Usually immigrant X has a higher level of education than the general population due to restrictions. Not to mention that said person has money (usually also a requirement), which adds to the economy in the same way that tourism does. How is that not adding growth to an economy?

Conversely, a mass exodus of educated citizens emigrating from a country negatively impacts growth.

Like interview processes and office design being copied for tech companies, universities clone from the top end schools too. Almost every university starts trying to manage their donations because top schools are making over 10% gains. Building a <facility X> or an <advanced institute of Y> because some other school has one. Even the schools that aren't broke are hemorrhaging funds on construction and real estate investment for buildings that aren't for teaching, research or any other task traditionally associated with being a university...

Migration is a significant part of many countries growth. If Australia and New Zealand, for example, did not have such massive migration they would be effectively in serious depression. In both countries migration has added more than 1% to GDP growth for the last 30 years. Merely in recession is kind of surprising as for many other countries with such stagnant or declining population growth (low birthrates and barely any immigration) they would be in a much worse situation.