My current NZLII student is simply fantastic
For the first 6 months of the year we loaded 5000 older NZHC and NZCA decisions to NZLII - 80% of that was her. Cf all of 2023 we loaded 7000
This is what I put the donations towards - hiring students to make more cases available
@damianchristie Possibly your NAS is only connecting Wi-Fi even if it has an ethernet cable plugged in. // Connect both your computer and the NAS to a router rather than a switch.
@sarahpolo10@damianchristie You are right. New Zealand is a cork on the ocean. We must pay interest on our public debt that is set on international markets. Unless it is going to default on that debt, the national lead government will need to raise taxes to pay a higher interest rate.
@jameskjx@damianchristie Appreciate you are being flippant but there's not understood to be any correlation between reducing government spending and interest rates. Reducing government spending could be a way of having money available to pay a higher public debt interest rate.
@damianchristie International interest rates will continue to go up. So will the interest NZ pays on its public debt. To pay for a higher interest rate bill, New Zealand can either borrow more money (bad) or raise tax (less bad). The national lead government will take the less bad option.
@damianchristie Hi Damian, NZ retail banks probably get this right more often than they did. Basically they will do anything to avoid foreclosure, generally through things like having interest-only periods and refinancing, and active engagement. NB: not a fan of banks but they get this right.
@damianchristie@ArdiAlemi Love this! Serious question, what are you using here? The last time I had a close look at this kind of thing I got interested in Amazon's trainable system, Polly, FYI. Steve K.
@SunkenCostBoat @MHReddell Both the problem and the potential solutions are complex.
It's like gun control in the US when they ask: how did we get to this point in also why does it feel impossible to unwind it? It's part cultural part societal part political part other.
@MHReddell @SunkenCostBoat The US excluding the coasts is it good source of data of because they have both wholesale banking (retail banks borrow from a government bank) and plentiful supply of housing. The metric you memtion has been found to be a fairly reliable one. The lens here is affordability.
@SunkenCostBoat You're making a point of course but treating this question seriously for a moment an available proxy is house prices before the availability of wholesale banking, adjusted for inflation, as a ratio of household income at that time.
@Luke_Wihone @jade_kake Hi there. There is a terrible legacy of land confiscation in NZ in the 19th century. I was not aware of it occurring in the 20th century. Are you able to give specific examples? Genuine question. Thanks!
@TristanSnell You consent to participate in a system where if the best get significant rewards. You enjoy the same benefits. The likely difference between you and the people you mention is that you are further down the ladder.