Recent content by Saieden

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    Daily fuel price data shows significant recoveries for diesel and petrol in July 2026

    Because that only influences 70% of the pump price. The rest is tax.
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    Eskom will need to provide a much more detailed breakdown of its employee remuneration going forward

    That sounds about factually correct to me.
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    South Africans still ditching DStv

    "We'll do anything.. ANYTHING!! Just please.. Don't make us sell a good service.."
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    SARB set to open the national payments system to entities without banking licences this year

    Worth noting that Pepkor's banking services will probably be launching with more "branches" than all of them combined.
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    Pay-TV broadcasters face a growing threat of piracy globally, including in South Africa

    Or maybe your streamed content is poopoo and too expensive, and people are torrenting older and better content no longer otherwise available.
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    Western Digital SSDs rebranded to Sandisk Optimus

    Drives can be built to be better at certain tasks. CCTV loves high sequential write, modern games like sequential read, most databases and OSs like random read. Even Greens have their place, in situations where you want absolute minimum power draw, and possibly cost, and don't care for speed at all.
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    Retailers in SA continue to see rising demand for larger screens, thanks to sustained price reductions

    ".. rising demand for larger displays among their customers, thanks in part to a sustained reduction in the prices of bigger models." By this logic, they should be paying us to get new DRAM.
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    Netflix buying Warner Bros. Discovery

    Broadcast TV, outside of live events, is basically dead. There's simply no good reason to have to watch content on someone else's schedule in 2025.
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    Christopher Axelson explains National Treasury's gambling revenue tax proposal

    They would be a getting a slice of the House's winnings. The average gambler is completely unaffected. If their favourite site goes out of business because of this, they just go to another one and the marketshare gets consolidated.
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    DStv Premium lets six people watch on different screens until January

    Does it come with 6 TVs and enough bandwidth to run them so you can channel hop between ads more efficiently?
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    End of the runway for Mango Airlines

    Where's my R700M bailout? I'm not even bad at my job.
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    Nersa recommends retail electricity tariff adjustments be approved

    Honestly, it does kinda make sense. The more households using solar with the grid as a fallback, the more variable and unpredictable the grid load becomes, with higher peaks. The grid cannot store power, it has to be constantly adjusting to the demand at any given time, which is ultimately a...
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    Go and Kotlin the highest-paying languages for experienced software developers

    It's not knowing these languages "pay more", it's that every well payed dev worth their salt is using one or more of them in some capacity. The really good ones virtually don't care what language the job requires, you just learn it. MBB fundamentally misunderstand the difference between job...
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    Shein dodges British Parliamentary questions about forced labour

    I work for a major clothing retailer group, and I can tell you their prices have nothing to do how many items per hour they produce. It's because a) they have an incredibly fast concept-to-market turnaround time, and b) they're able to produce in small quantities, see how it sells, and adapt...
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    PlayStation 5 Pro sales go live in South Africa

    Yeah, if you spend 20k on brand new build, it's probably gonna about the same raw performance as a PS5 Pro, maybe a bit worse. What they don't tell you is how much cheaper games are on PC (Sony doesn't have seasonal sales btw), and how much better it would be to upgrade your GPU for the price of...
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