Recent content by Johnatan56

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    Say goodbye to Eskom as you know it

    Replacing coal with natural gas that's imported is just stupid. And I'll believe the unbundling when I see it, it's been quite a few years since announced with no progress. In the end it will probably be government taking on the debt / loan agreement subsidy or something like that, before it...
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    South Africans can say goodbye to Eskom for R2,915 per month

    Nowadays use a normal geyser and do solar panels, generally more efficient and the panels can be used for other stuff in the house. There are also heat pump geysers, but they're a bit more expensive, their break even is maybe a bit too far down the line to be worth it based on costs last year...
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    How do you type on your phone and what is fastest tap or swipe typing?

    This is based on handy, from their discussion board: https://github.com/notune/android_transcribe_app basically a nice android wrapper for it.
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    How do you type on your phone and what is fastest tap or swipe typing?

    Single finger swiping is often faster and easier while moving, while two finger tapping is definitely faster than swiping for me. It also depends on prediction, size of letters, etc. on your keyboard.
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    Salaries in job posts

    The first sentence there, that's like 99% of roles, especially on online platforms like this. The rest of your statement is one where your recruiter is looking at candidates in the field, and is tailoring, but they will still have an idea of minimum salary band, and you're not posting this...
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    Apple iPhone 18 series thread

    Specs compare iPhone Duo vs fold 8 https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?&idPhone2=14673&idPhone1=13804#diff- Fold 8 is like 2cm x 6cm larger physically, Fold weighs 201g vs 254g, and the Fold has a larger battery. iPhone Duo weighs similar to the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and costs about 20% more...
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    Three taxes punish South Africans for saving and investing

    You didn't pay that tax, whoever earned it did.
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    Three taxes punish South Africans for saving and investing

    So has everything, and again, it hasn't been taxed yet when you inherit. It should be very high before it triggers though, like R20m+ in south Africa.
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    SARS Refund Status: Ready to be paid???

    It's been there a few years, usually means it was checked and approved to be paid out, it gets picked up by the system as a batch to pay out, so within the next 3 days usually from status change.
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    Three taxes punish South Africans for saving and investing

    Inheritance tax arguments are always weird to me, you didn't work for it, it hasn't been taxed before it got to you, it's a first time tax like income. If you argue against inheritance tax, then technically anyone paying anyone doesn't work as it's gone through an income tax before.
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    R410 billion and 19 years later: Eskom’s megaprojects to end load-shedding remain unfinished

    I would like to see that analysis if anyone has a link, as that "limited" is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting. 90% of harmful emissions is a lot, plus EU as trading partner, this is quite important once they do taxes based on emissions for imports.
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    Three taxes punish South Africans for saving and investing

    "punish" is dumb, if you use it as savings/investment, it's capital gains tax and is way lower than income tax, your article states it. And dividends tax is lower than income tax for most, avoiding it, so it's more of a "reward" than a punishment. Of course fixing the headline sorts out the...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    Because there is a minimum cost to provide, I would guess that the cheapest package on most providers is probably already break-even. For restaurants and stuff, pensioner's usually visit during off-peak as they aren't working, so it brings in business during times that are slow, and for parks...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    But that but directly contradicts taking advantage of the inertia of people not going through the effort of changing it so you can charge more?
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    Not really client data, it's me setting up data generation based on real data and then putting it through a lot of tests to make sure it matches client data close enough while not being real data, it's just that much due to system being based on data extraction, so lots of variants etc. (data...
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