Nath

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After a threshold. You don't want to tax some poor pensioner who has lived in the same 2-bedroom cottage in Carlton for 60 years, simply because that location is now worth $2Million.

And now it's complicated. How do you find that threshold?
If it's per-person, you'll find rich people divvying up their portfolios to family members to distribute this tax benefit.
If you grandfather it in so it only affects future property purchases, you disincentivise retirees from downsizing to a smaller place, freeing up some 4-bedroom house.

Taxation policies are hard.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry Willie, you can't upload a video to YouTube and then say it was a private setting.

I doubt you'd get away with calling the lecture private even if it weren't broadcast.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

The problem is I love all three publications and would struggle to choose one name.

/c/NotBetootaShovelChaser ?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Remember that whole thing 15-20 years ago about "Occupy" and taxing the 1% etc?

This whole thing affects the top 0.3% of the population. 99.7% of us won't be affected by it. There should be very wide popular support for this.

Hell, I wish I were affected by this policy. This is an awesome problem to have!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It will be interesting to see how popular this line is. It has to mainly be for people along the line to connect to the city lines, right?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Unless you are a teenager, you'll be retiring far sooner than 50 years. Less than 20, for me (hopefully).

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every Saturday is much the same: Hockey, Shopping, Extra thing.

The kid lost hockey to the team on top of the ladder, but still scored a goal. Shopping was mostly a success, I need to go back for more stuff soon.

Not sure what Extra thing will be at this stage, but it's my wife's birthday soon, might take the kids shopping for that.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I hate getting up early for parkrun. But I've never regretted doing it.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Emergency Cheese has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I have emergency cheese in the fridge, I find I suddenly have an emergency that requires cheese.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She's gone from "oh she definitely did it" to "maybe she's innocent, I can't be say beyond reasonable doubt" after this week's testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.

I haven't been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn't provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn't have one - it was all pretty damning.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

At that point, 5% interest will give you an annual salary of $150k. You can comfortably live off that and never touch the Three Million!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would be in favour of banning them in the city.
But a complete car ban? That won't have popular support in the near future.

 

It sounds like he already has the world record, he just needs to prove it.

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It's hot (aussie.zone)
 

Summer is early this year.

 

Imagine being the engineers in the middle of this. It's one thing that your incident is so bad it makes the news, it's another entirely when it is so bad the CEO resigns.

 

So it turns out that the cause was indeed a rogue change they couldn't roll back as we had been speculating.

Weird that whatever this issue is didn't occur in their test environment before they deployed into Production. I wonder why that is.

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Bluey: The Sign (iview.abc.net.au)
 

A 28 minute Bluey episode is coming. For now, we must content ourselves with a teaser trailer.

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