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Raw rushes are still available on the original disks/cards, but the project files and any renders were stored on a single location with no backup or snapshotting.

You'd have to redo everything from scratch. Maybe your editor/director remembers what they want so its a bit faster this time round, if they are available, but its still a lot of work to rebuild the edit.

I have never returned anything to amazon. Maybe it's a US culture thing.

Sending one ship will probably fail, but if you can send one, you can send 1000, and they aren't all going to be wiped out.

Once it becomes cheap enough then religious or similar cults will do it, and the cost of doing isn't a great deal more than colonising the solar system where are are economic benefits.

That assumes reaching 5 light years in say 50 years

However once it's done a few times, then it can't be stopped. If you're going at say 1/1000th of the speed of light (50 years to travel, 450 years to settle and build the next wave is 1% the speed of light) then your successor species will have colonised the galaxy in 100 million years, and we know that hasn't happened.

And crucially ensuring that beam continues to run for billions of years. a few decades may pass for you, but not for the laser that's pushing you

Some sites won't give you a link to download, and will force you to download via javascript and/or posts through the browser.

You then let it start, then cancel, right click, copy download link, then use wget on the machine you want the file on.

(Back in the days before tcp window scaling, I tended to use axel)

That would be group 2, not group 1

"Your passive income is enough to live"

Bill Gates certainly programmed at the start. At a point early on in Microsoft history he had to stop doing that and concentrate on actual business problems.

Part of divide and conquer from the owning class

There's three types of people

1) You rely on a paycheck to live

2) Your passive income is enough to live

3) You are so wealthy you can influence the world

Someone working for a 40k a year payslip, or even a 200k a year payslip, is likely in group 1. Someone with 5 million net worth is comfortably in group 2 - even at 3% in a savings account gives them an income way above people earning from labor. Both of those groups are so divorced from those whose wealth increases 5 million a year, or 5 million a month that they're basically the same.

At some point it ceases to be about money and being able to afford the things you want, and becomes power to control others.

The house is more desirable, evidenced from more people willing to spend more money in there. You benefit from the same things which make it desirable to other people.

It's still horrendous, especially at the top end of the market. It reduced movement on the 500k house which trickles down to the 300k where it's an annoyance and then to 150k houses where it doesn't exist other than slowing the current 150k occupiers from moving to 300k, which itself is really treacled because of the move from 300k to 500k.

It's also a major obstacle in the south east, especially for first time buyers

Increasing demand to live in the town.

Rents will have increased to reflect this increase in desirability, but you just expect to make a profit from it.

It's a transaction tax. Setting aside that there's typically a 2% cost on buying and selling a house in the UK anyway due to estate agents and legal costs, and the average house attracts another 1.5% in stamp duty it's not a major obstacle for the majority of transactions, but it's still friction.

It would be far better to replace with a %age tax whether you move or not, but wealthy people in the south east don't like the idea of taxes on unearned wealth.

It's a tax on sellers, with some of the proceeds going to FTBs

Lets say two people are after the same house, both are willing to spend 500k on it.

Person A: Next time buyer, has a budget of 500k after legal/moving costs, that leaves 14200 for stamp duty, and that means you can pay 485,500 (plus 14,275 stamp = 499,775).

Person B is an FTB, they have the same 500k budget but can bid upto 490k due to lower stamp

As such person B can bid 486k, thus offering more than Person A, getting the property.

If both were Next Time Buyers the seller would get 500 less

If both were FTBs the seller would get 4500 more

If there was no stamp duty they would both be able to pay 500k, the seller would get 14k more

Housing specifically (the building) is a liability -- it deprecates, it needs maintaining, just like a car. You pay that and you get utility out of it.

The land its on tends not to be a liability, it increases in value through no work on the owners side. Rarely it will decrease in immediate value, but that's very rare.