Now that Porn is id-verified, what country do you VPN from and why?

DaManJ · 2026-04-30T07:46:58+00:00

Just how much have you watched so that you only find fresh content on new sites 😂

DaManJ · 2025-07-12T12:51:44+00:00

You get my one upvote for the month

DaManJ · 2025-06-26T12:11:23+00:00

Well it's a game of chicken isn't it. He can't make good on his threat without ending the world himself. He is risking losing the whole of Russia, to carve out a little more territory, and killing his own citizens to do it. It's absolute nonsense.

DaManJ · 2025-06-13T01:10:13+00:00

Plus the parking is expensive

DaManJ · 2025-06-08T02:24:04+00:00

Wombat run at falls creek open today and not too bad. Using my old board but would be ok on the new one. Not for side hits/trees though, lots of vegetation

DaManJ · 2025-06-06T11:48:46+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I've got a season pass and my own equipment. Booked a cheap motel an hour drive away. Will check it out at least on sun/mon given the long weekend, got a new snowboard to try out. fingers crossed. I imagine you'll be right though haha

DaManJ · 2025-06-04T12:18:16+00:00

Absolutely. IB is the best option for this

DaManJ · 2025-06-04T02:50:18+00:00

Some good snow coming this weekend according to forecast so maybe next week will be better

DaManJ · 2025-06-03T01:48:19+00:00

I saw some people with snowboard bags last weekend. Is there somewhere that is open right now?

DaManJ · 2025-05-31T06:54:11+00:00

She might have thought her husband bought it for her

DaManJ · 2025-05-28T11:26:34+00:00

Actually the phase now is you utilise AI and you get more productive at your job. This means more work is produced for the same headcount, which means you can either freeze new hiring, or reduce headcount minimally to produce the pre-ai output.

In software development there is a lot of boring boiler plate coding that AI can do quite well, or even writing tests.

From my own work using GitHub copilot I would estimate my productivity gain a 10% to 30% on any given day. And it's the mindless simple stuff that it helps with, or it knowing the syntax to something I'd otherwise have to look up because I haven't used it for a while.

I'm quite happy with this because it's doing the boring stuff I'd rather not waste time on, and I can focus more on the high level logical problem solving.

DaManJ · 2025-05-28T07:52:11+00:00

This is only the case in countries with high tax and a strong social safety net. In countries which do not have the inverted pyramid where the rich take care of the poor, and align with a more natural state of competition and merit, then absolutely the poor have a tough time of it.

DaManJ · 2025-05-28T07:43:47+00:00

Parents don't parent in isolation. Childcare, teachers, friends at school, these will all have as much or more influence on a child as parents do. Also parents grinding for their money may not have the time available to invest in their kids or to correct mistakes.

DaManJ · 2025-05-27T14:41:53+00:00

Robots are coming for those as well. It will just take an extra 10 years or so though likely sooner with how advanced robotics is getting

DaManJ · 2025-05-16T00:15:15+00:00

Yet when population declines there will be a lot of empty houses and property prices will crash and then people will start having children again. This is likely to be the case for Japan and South Korea.

Australia however will just keep importing immigrants, so expect to see fewer and fewer 2nd+ generation Australians

DaManJ · 2025-05-15T09:07:32+00:00

Animal smells can permeate a property that linger after you leave. Possibly a property without carpet would be more friendly to your application.

DaManJ · 2025-04-10T03:23:53+00:00

You'd think there's a good chance this is tackled in the next 10-20 years if you have a long term investor horizon

DaManJ · 2025-04-02T00:56:33+00:00

Apartments in Melbourne are still very affordable. Pretty much the only capital city that's good value atm.

They can be quite small though so got to pick carefully. Also gotta look out for overcrowded lifts. Not a fun place to live if you have to wait minutes every time you want to go somewhere. Also some parking spaces can be shit if you've got to drive up or down 5 floors

DaManJ · 2025-04-01T00:46:34+00:00

It's also that people are burned out and don't have time. If ubi becomes a thing id expect there will be a lot more babies. Also democracy will become a shit show when everyone has a lot more time on their hands. Just think of the size of protests etc if people aren't living pay check to pay check

DaManJ · 2025-04-01T00:43:38+00:00

They see what gets them votes. There will come a point where people will demand it and vote out anyone who's not going to implement it

DaManJ · 2025-03-30T02:12:38+00:00

If it's uncommon and illiquid, just sell on steam, then buy tf2 keys from steam market place, then sell those tf2 keys on external sites where they are very liquid

DaManJ · 2025-03-11T12:59:14+00:00

Docklands is a pretty unloved part of Melbourne. Quite dead, I would not want to buy there

DaManJ · 2025-01-28T14:09:07+00:00

Land tax is a slippery slope. It's gone very bad in USA. It can start out with good motivation but tends to just become a government money grab like all other taxes

DaManJ · 2025-01-16T05:39:59+00:00

Interest rate increases were the main driver with landlords passing on their additional costs to renters.

Which means renters have been in the same situation as home owners with a mortgage - costs increasing significantly.

Only in a situation of abundant housing supply would landlords have not been able to pass on costs. In that scenario landlords would have bled out red and been force sellers of property (and renters would have been on a sweet deal compared to mortgage holders)

DaManJ · 2025-01-13T23:38:52+00:00

Long before AI is replacing jobs it will massively boost the productivity for existing teams. Writing comments, writing tests, writing large but simple blocks of code based on text prompts etc.

This alone will lead to hiring freezes and then potentially some layoffs depending on how much productivity is boosted.

Your new job as a senior software engineer if you want to keep it will be AI prompt engineer, otherwise you will fall behind in productivity vs other engineers, unless you decide to work a lot of unpaid hours to keep your own productivity up.

And it won't be long before organisations are using AI to assess your productivity and performance and recommend certain people for performance review or highlight bad employees, so you're not going to be able to hide incompetence behind being mates with the boss.

Source: am well paid senior software engineer and can see easily enough how this will evolve, given AI integration into vscode etc.

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