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You can turn up at an AGM and ask a question if you have a single share.

$100k in super is totally doable if you are maxing out the concessional contributions. The better question is how they can max out…

Cheaper at JB's now: https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/lg-42-oled-evo-c3-4k-uhd-smart-tv-2023

Yeah, I can tell you haven't lived in SF or NY. $300k/yr is about the starting point to live in an area where you won't be shot. The scale…

I see you have an overly inflated sense of respect for government competence. The idea is that courts should be independent of the…

So look at the ones that sell more, like Teslas and you see there is an even bigger tax gulf.

Tax is actually one of the more effective ways of controlling inflation. Tax cuts have the opposite effect and make inflation worse.

I'm at ~90% RAM usage on two servers with 512GB of RAM right now.

If you work for free your work is worth exactly $0/hr. Don't give a millimeter. If you're doing 24/7 support then you need to demand at…

How many chefs do you know? Most of them will die of liver failure from drink and drugs before lung cancer gets them.

Age is currently correlating hard with spending, in that the older you are the more likely you are to be spending money. The main problem…

That, and most banks require insurance to protect their investment (your mortgage). If you are uninsured and you have a mortgage your bank…

I bet you can't find a roadworthy second hand car for 2k right now.

I'm yet to see them. I've got about a dozen mostly cheap Kingston SSDs in ZFS.

If you really want to twist the knife you can buy a single share and lodge the complaint as a question to the board at the AGM. Be sure to…

Hey guys, we found a real life Nigerian prince!

That's not what I'm seeing right now. Supply is low but demand is super high. A lot of people are already completely priced out of the…

The real problem is that APRA's rules mean that banks need to assess repayments at ~3% higher than they are lending at so 8-10% in most…

You have a more forgiving council. I have a yellow line outside my house and an overactive council (Brisbane City Council) who will give…

yeah, it does but the question was for bachelors or diploma not masters. Also, cheaper than going locally and paying HECS but YMMV.

I'm a 2017 grad. There's still a slack and discord but both are pretty big (>10k people in them). I've met a lot of people in industry…

I'm a grad of this program (2017). I did this while working full time and while I had two young kids. Some courses are a lot of work (over…

University College London does an online only computer science bachelors.

In this economy? There are plenty of people struggling to pay for electricity and food, why would fixing a car be their first priority?

You can always go to your state MP and ask them why the police don't step up to stop child abuse. Gets a pretty fast response especially if…

Stopping at 64GB, rookie numbers. Main workstation is on 128GB but other servers have over 2TB collectively.

Get Plugshare and find the free chargers near you. There are a bunch of free chargers around the place.

Anyone who thinks outsourcing is easy or a cost saving is a fool who is going to lose a lot of money. Getting good people is hard here or…

You are right, for serious crimes we wait until they are 10 to jail them for life.

You should have another look at Australian law. Children can be charged as adults in every state with varying age cutoffs.