TaxFodder
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TaxFodder
@Coldhardface
Australian lad, often sarcastic with a dark sense of humour. Gen X with open mind; into economics, politics, technology, spirituality, humanity, philosophy etc.
Australia Katılım Ağustos 2025
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@exQUIZitely Equally impressive, Crash Bandicoot on the PS1. They had to steal system memory to make the game work.
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An average picture that you save on your phone or PC has a size of around 800 kilobytes. It doesn't do anything, it's just a static image.
Now take a game like Elite which had a size of 22 kilobytes on the BBC Micro, or 82 kilobytes on the C64 - and now think about what Braben and Bell turned those 22 kilobytes (or 82 kilobytes) into.
A universe with eight galaxies, each containing 256 star systems (for a total of 2,048 planets/systems).
Each system also featured unique details: government type, economy, technology level, population, commodity prices, and even descriptive text (e.g., a planet known for "carnivorous arts graduates" or similar quirky combinations).
If you still need a bit more help to contextualize that, try this: Elite was smaller than many modern text files or desktop icons, yet it contained (and let you freely explore!) a multi-galaxy-spanning universe that felt vast and limitless.
By the way - for thos who will argue "but the universe and stars were created randomly, so that's easy" - I think you wil find that the word is procedurally (with structure), which is not random... and anything but easy.
Oh, and by the way, the game also rendered 3D wireframe ships, stations, and planets in real time on processors with 2 MHz.
Impressed yet?
This is no slight on today's game designers. They work with what they have, and that's okay. But when you think about the worlds that some programmers created with the tools they were given, it sometimes breaks my brain trying to understand how they did it.
Elite is a true masterpiece on so many levels. I played the C64 version back in the day, and even 40+ years later it still feels like one of the most incredible programming wonders ever.
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@MSVLKnight @belinduhpyne Our Pollies sold the farm out from underneath us all.
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@Coldhardface @belinduhpyne Howard did Telstra. I know. I was working there and we all lived in the fantasy that we would make a mozza like people did on the CBA sale.
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THEY FUCKING SOLD EVERYTHING!
And now all those public assets that they sold off now rake in billions for the private owners.
The housing crisis exists because of Howard.
G.jr@goldengreekjr
@AshPolitik Howard government had no debt and made Australia great
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🚨 BREAKING: The globalist mega banks are officially stepping in to save Keir Starmer. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon just issued a direct threat to the UK, warning he may pull the plug on a massive multi billion dollar London headquarters if Starmer is ousted. This is pure financial blackmail. 🧵👇
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@helensm10580919 @MickamiousG @grok Cool story Bro... Up to $10,000 can be taken out. Less than two ounces. What about the rest of it?
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@Coldhardface @MickamiousG @grok you can then offload it in asia and the govt can't get their hands on it
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Based on the latest negative gearing changes and CGT changes which impact stocks, crypto, ETFs, etc., where should young Australians now be investing their money for the most tax, for the best tax benefit possible and for to create wealth @grok ?
Be concise.
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@SpachusAus Suddenly it becomes alot more expensive to immigrate to Australia. .gov will simply raise the financial requirements for entry. Levers.
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There are a lot of factors now putting pressure on property prices:
• High inflation
• High interest rates
• Changes to negative gearing
• Changes to CGT
• Flat market conditions
• Low auction clearance rates
• Rising cost of living
• Investor uncertainty
• Tighter borrowing capacity
• Consumer confidence weakening
And some people still think property prices will only decrease slightly… when some areas have doubled in the last 5 years. 👀
The next 12–24 months will look very different to the boom we’ve experienced.
#auspol
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The NSA called this operating system “catastrophic." ☠️
It fits on an 8GB USB stick.
It's called Tails OS.
> Released in 2009 by a nonprofit team backed by the Tor Project.
> Built for one thing: leaving no trace behind.
> Runs entirely from a USB stick.
> Plug it into almost any computer and boot instantly.
> Tails loads fully into RAM.
> Never touches the computer’s hard drive.
> Shut it down and everything disappears.
> Files gone.
> Passwords gone.
> Browsing history gone.
> Like the session never happened.
> Every internet connection routes through Tor automatically.
> Your traffic bounces across 3 encrypted relays worldwide.
> No single server sees the full picture.
> In 2013, journalists working with Edward Snowden used Tails.
> Leaked NSA documents later called it a “major threat.”
> Combined with other privacy tools, they called it “catastrophic.”
> Free and fully open source.
> Fits on a tiny USB drive.
> Still one of the most powerful privacy tools ever made.
Most operating systems are designed to remember everything.
Tails OS was designed to forget you ever existed. 🕶️


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@matt_barrie @MarkDiStef Considering they went up after the Royal Banking Inquiry lol.
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@MarkDiStef whens the last time cba was down 9%?
you don't think there's any causation whatsoever?
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The ASX is down 0.2 per cent today. CBA is down 9 per cent because it delivered a dogs breakfast trading update. Cmon correlation causation exists.
Matt Barrie@matt_barrie
CBA market cap down more in 1 day than the entirely this government reckons they'll claw back from the CGT, trust and negative gearing changes in a year economically ruinous budget do they not realise the CGT tax revenue is proportional to actual gains
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@matt_barrie These CBDC's are not going to install themselves. They need a crisis and a completely demoralised public begging for them.
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@ManaImagine @NewsProspector @MickamiousG Sell and buy both silver and gold during peaks and dips. As long as dealer premiums are covered there is no tax except GST.
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@NewsProspector @MickamiousG So it's like winning the lotto, except you got to sweat in the sun and spend your days covered in dirt and sh*t to get it, lol, sounds like fun 😫
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This is the craziest budget speech I’ve ever witnessed
I didn’t think they would actually follow through on all of this
Significant additional taxes on risk capital going forward
This will have the opposite effect of their purported intention of reducing the intergenerational wealth divide
Chalmers is outright dangerous, like a madman
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The Australian Government introduces a 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers. This is The Big Short 2 and The subprime mortgage crisis rolled into one.
Anthony Albanese@AlboMP
We can’t wait to act while more Australians miss out on the chance to own their first home.
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