Posts by Don Christie
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Don't worry, no smugness on the search front from this quarter.
I can, however, recommend various flavours of Lucene, an open source search engine, as a reasonable cure all for searching unstructured content.
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'd still give anything to have the Herald's search functionality on certain other NZ media sites I daren't mention by name...
Damian, would that "anything" include, like, money?
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Conchord - if that flies in the US I might start watching TV again. I though comedy there had to be
set -up...gag...ad...
rinse, repeat.I love the way you can hardly hear the punch lines:
"I think what I really wanted was an Australian"...was sung over.
Go you good things.
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To say nothing of Dostoevsky...
The Idiot?
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Productivity stats are also affected by employment rates. High employment likely to reduce productivity.
Despite this, it is something worth watching, like many indicators there are trade-offs. France for example, has a 30 hour week high unemployment but wins the productivity race.
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Yes, Don, it's an Auckland thing called "humour".
Relief. I was beginning to worry :-)
Just to follow up on Keith's response to sagenz, I also heard the other day that despite the high dollar, media hype and F&P moving some production offshore New Zealand is experiencing a manufacturing upturn. Right now there are a record number of people employed in manufacturing (and probably just about every other industry sector as well). Sorry, I should find a source to link to back up that claim but as I said it was just a short item in the news.
The stuff from Morgan is interesting, but he is also hardly a disinterested party. He is slagging off an entire industry with which he is directly competing. Wise he might be but independent he is not.
Craig, according to your first sentence Cullen is saying the opposite of 'poo poo, trust me.'. He would be agreeing with your advice to get independent advice. That is also my point about Morgan, he is not independent (although he may be very good).
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Now we can lead the world in deflating wages and salaries... and upskill to manual labour in alleys to make up for it. Excellent.
For someone who reports on IT you sure miss a lot, Juha. Is it an Auckland thing?
Can you show me clearly how you have arrived at this pithy conclusion?
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Australian Financial Review
Woh. A CMS delivering entirely flash content. Now that's something to laugh about.
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Yeah, but as that bloke on NZ Dragons Den said, it would be pretty hard not to make money in this economy
Oh please. Spare me the lucky finance minister story.
As you can see for most of this period NZ's growth has exceeded Australia, USA, UK and Japan. Throw in most of the EU and you would have an even rosier picture.
The fact is, he could have screwed things up. Politicians have been known to do that. So far, he hasn't and better still, the cycles have been pretty soft (i.e. not many sudden changes in direction).
I think English and Key are very capable fellows and probably could have done the same. The point was that Cullen has been the person in the driving seat and he was described as economically ignorant. The evidence does not support that claim.
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But this is Cullens ignorant economics.
And with that comment you blow any credibility you might have in this debate. He has presided over an economy that has grown by a third in his time, seen unemployment come down to next to nothing and never been into recession. As a business owner I especially like the last bit.
The point of the policy is to address the savings and investment imbalance in New Zealand. I have yet to read any analysis that suggests it will fail to achieve this and achieve in a manner that does not totally bugger up the rest of the economy.
I personally think there are flaws with any retirement savings scheme, state or private, and it is worth understanding and debating those flaws. But to suggest that someone with his track record and training is "ignorant" is, well, ignorant.