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People could lodge income tax withholding variations to change how much is withheld each pay. They’d need to fund it as I doubt the ATO could process an extra 40,000 a year without some more funding.
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The Liberals ended car manufacturing here and with it the classic Australian Ute.
We now import American styled pickup trucks which increase in size each year, along with actual American pickup trucks that are ridiculously oversized for our roads and parking.
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The alternative position is to tax an extra 73c a day and raise an extra 17 billion. It wouldn’t take long for the liberals and the media to start referring to the total amount per household with working young adults over 4 years. A $5000 tax on households!!!
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Is it really collusion if you both want 5% profit and buy from suppliers at the same price?
We are talking about margins of 4 - 6% here. High by global standards ( 2 - 3%) sure but any changes are unlikely to deliver much of a reduction in prices.
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The driver is that the Australia/US defence partnership is larger than any single president and 4 years isn’t a long time for a deal of this size and length.
I agree that there are higher levels of uncertainty now, however it is better to stay in and wait it out.
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What would you suggest as fixes to the tax system?
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Supply and demand mustn’t apply to international students.
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What tough decisions did Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison make?
The closest we got to tough decisions was Shorten and the electorate made it clear they weren’t interested in meaningful reform.
So now we get generic populist policies with the odd bracket creep reduction sold as a tax cut.
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It’s a Liberal party position. Being baptised doesn’t give you a free pass on being a bigot. Let people do what makes them happy, and if participating in organised religion makes them happy, so be it.
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I like seeing those who despise bigots display bigotry.
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It’s a fair system. Each children receives the same government funding. If parents want to pay extra for better outcomes so be it.
It’s not your choice what beliefs people have and want for their schooling choice. Let people do what they do. Per child, simple and fair.
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I thought all states had minimum housing requirements now. What state is this?
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Each child should be funded for x dollars per year. If parents elect to pay more for whatever reason that is up to them. Funding per child is the most equitable.
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Pipewire just works these days in my experience.
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The devs have a check box to enable it, they sometimes don’t want to.
Proton is built by valve/steam. You can use proton-ge with other game launchers.
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I run decently beefy hardware however the performance hit isn’t noticeable to me at all. Games run magnificently on Linux (unless you hit anti-cheat blockers) for the most part.
However, I’ve never seen the value in 90 vs 110 honestly. Once you get above 80 without drops it’s splitting hairs imo.
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I asked as I was genuinely interested. I’m going to assume your claims are baseless as you lack evidence.
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Can you link me an example? I haven’t seen it.
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I don’t see any slurs. It is a legitimate thing to raise.
At a certain point Beijing will attempt reunification. How violent that process is will depend on a few factors.
With Trump not interested in supporting allies and Europe tied up with Russia it would be a good time to test the waters.
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Check out protondb.com gaming on Linux is pretty legit. areweanticheatyet.com is also good.
Indie is normally perfect, you run into issues with some competitive fps online stuff.
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Looks like Fortnite doesn’t run on Linux. areweanticheatyet.com/game/fortnite
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It’s closed source (Meld) vs free and open source (OBS). I do wonder what their monetisation strategy is after their adoption phase.
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Webview2 is just closed source electron with edge integration.
I agree with your main point, it’s ridiculous how powerful our computers are vs how poorly they run modern enterprise software. I blame all of the cyber security processes snarfing up my cpu cycles and ms teams.
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This is the way.
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The very best part of modern Linux distributions (especially Mint) is that you can keep out of the terminal if you so choose.
The next best thing about modern Linux is if you ever do choose, it’s all there under the hood waiting patiently to show you cool system stats with btop and the like.
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Interest rates are a handbrake, they slow investment and spending. They didn’t cause the problems.
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Tunnels are rather fantastic. Check them out: developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-o...
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On the phone to Putin receiving his next assignment.
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Have you considered cloudflare tunnels? How does your solution differ? Offers more than http?
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Have a look at github.com/hoarder-app/...
I’ve only had it up for a few days (sans AI) and it has been helpful so far for throwing useful things into to find later via search.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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I’m convinced that a public builder guaranteed to build quality housing and not go insolve with government inspectors would sell out 3+ years of build work overnight.
If the government provided certainty, people would throw their money at it. At the moment it’s will they build garbage, fold or both
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Why are they so expensive in Brazil? I was going to recommend looking at a new M4 Mac mini, but they are 7.500 which is double or more the price anywhere else. Crazy.
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Unfortunately MS pulled the automatic database visualisation feature from Visio. I believe it was added back in as an optional plugin for 365 which unfortunately makes it unavailable in most corporate environments without a separate cyber assessment. Draw.io has a nifty manual import SQL feature.
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draw.io is free and you’d struggle to be more productive in Visio. Photopea is free and as productive as Photoshop for most workloads. Blender is free and the gold standard. Almost all FOSS pdf tools beat Acrobat.
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The reasons are: the corporation pays for the license, requires it to be used, and other staff don’t know how to use anything else.
Free or heavily discounted student plans help lock in the next generation.
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I find draw.io miles better than Visio.
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Good luck!
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And battery life of 24 hours on the new M4 MacBook pros.
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2035: CPU as a service. A monthly sub to access, premium plans to increase speed. An ad supported tier. Alerts; Please upgrade your plan to access this premium instruction set.
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The senate needs standing orders similar to the HoR to manage disorderly conduct and remove senators who are disorderly.
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Insults don’t strengthen your argument, they make it look weaker than it already is.
I’m confident that the bulk billing policy will increase bulk billing rates and I’m glad it has been proposed. A market for paid high quality practices will always exist and they are unlikely to switch to BB only.
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You don’t understand basic economics. If a market exists and practices can be sustained as bulk billing only. Some practices will feel pricing pressure unless demand for GPs exceeds supply.
Plenty of people will pick newer bulk billing free options as they become available.
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It’s an incentive to bring back bulk bill only practices that should apply market pressure for billing practices to compete.
Some won’t bother as they have an established customer base who are willing to pay, others may be incentivised to switch to bulk billing only which should increase BB rates
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Perhaps you could regale them with stories of the before times, the great times before anti-life when small pox, measles, polo, tetanus and diphtheria ruled over humans and killed as they pleased.
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It now makes sense why he would issue EO en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Executi...
prior to engaging in business with Russia. Now legal kickbacks are the “art of the deal”.
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All correct, the bigger issue with USB C rechargeable devices is they often contain a built lithium cell that isn’t user replaceable.
For emergency situations having AA or AAA devices with a fresh pack of batteries is less likely to fail for the majority of users.
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They’ll defend pine gap surely. The eastern seaboard is fair game however.
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Zsh works great on Linux. It’s my main Linux shell.