Berend de Boer
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Nullius in verba. Love writing software. Prefer doing so with Eiffel & Elm. DevOps & AWS cloud engineering expert.
Joined August 2008
One of the most devastating take-downs of a PM in history.
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So John Key comes out, and makes some sensible criticism, and all the journos come out swinging and fact checking. That government subsidy is really paying off.
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Wow. Look at this chart. How could this have happened in NZ? This looks like absolute corruption.
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Shopping at Countdown in Auckland. Just load up your trolleys, put them in the car, and you don't need to pay. Apparently daily occurrence. It's like SF here #nzpol
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Chris Hipkins career is over. I for one am sad about that. In a cabinet devoid of talent he got too many hats to pick up the slack, and it overwhelmed him. To unleash falsehoods from the podium of truth on defenceless women is more than reprehensible
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@FleurFitzsimons The irony of posting this on a platform that fired 75% and got many more things done.
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The most disgusting thing going on in NZ right now is signs on playgrounds asking citizens to call the police on "non-compliant" children. But you can fix this with some number 8 wire ingenuity. #covid19nz #nzpol
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Auckland is bunkering down. Crazy. Instead of going for a walk, everyone sits inside and watches the news telling them a disaster is coming, and eating more chips and drinking more beer.
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While NZ experts are calling for L5 restrictions like closing supermarkets, as starving is preferable to dying from Covid-19, in Denmark they're removing all Covid-19 restrictions
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This is crazy, you still can't buy self tests in NZ. Insane. Where is the opposition on this? Don't wait on the journos opposition. Journos aren't doing anything, if you don't.
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@Kieran_McAnulty This government is proud kiwis need state handouts to keep them warm. This is so sad.
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@jamespeshaw There's nothing we could do here which would have any impact on global temperatures. Total disinformation.
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@derekbbrett @jeffshultz @WilliamShatner @paulkrugman No, Paul Krugman did not predict the housing bubble, he encourged it
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If this was a National leader, the journos would be asking: "when will he apologise." But $50 million can bury a lot of questions.
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"The NZ Covid-19 advice has gone from compulsory PCR tests and two weeks home detention to; you do not need to do anything. I have no medical expertise but both pieces of advice cannot be correct."
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@afneil you really believe Trump called upon people to inject themselves with disinfectant?.
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@NZStuff No journalist should be attacked or abused. But the article would have been more balanced if it had provided some background on why people feel this way. Is it because journalists routinely belittle the little people? Don't inform? What do these people think?.
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@tyler Actually not true. The Greeks even proved it was round. The fact wasn't questioned until an atheist in the 19th century invented the myth people believed in a flat earth. Basically nobody believed in flat earth. Top 1 historical myth.
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@MarjaLubeck @nzlabour Spending more doesn't necessarily mean delivering more, Labour's biggest misconception.
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@PouTepou Buying copies? Easy. Getting someone to accept your present? That'll be the hard part.
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Crazy: "Judge Goss directed the jury that if they concluded that Letby had deliberately harmed babies one way, they could also conclude that she had inflicted deliberate harm on others, even if jurors were not certain of her methods."
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@juliacarriew @KatzOnEarth No one should get proper legal representation, we know they're guilty, so let's get on with the hanging part.
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@radionz So how many stories have you ever done that government funding is bad for something? Zero right?.
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@rachelboyack What about only taking on commitments you can afford? If you don't believe in that, can I get a Tesla from you then?.
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@afneil It's an engineering question in end Neil. And trust me, people have thought about that. Using wind and solar allows you to use your other options only when needed. And nuclear is a terrible backup.
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@danielneljack People on minimum wage already pay no tax, they cost the taxpayer money. Can only give tax cuts to those who pay tax.
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@nickofnz if you look at deaths per capita, we're worse than a lot of countries (now in the top 50%), and close to Norway and The Netherlands. Based on their per capita rates, there is no way 12,000 lives saved is a real world number.
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@MattWalshBlog It's probably important to point out that there's glass between the sunflowers and the paint?.
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@MutchJessica @1NewsNZ And we demonstrate again that $50 million for the press buys you a lot of good press.
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@MatthewHootonNZ: it will be an expensive election for taxpayers if Bill English decides to spend $10 billion every time Jacinda has a rally.
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1. This obviously stirred up a lot of comments. I'm glad SST v2 will stick around, and we'll keep using that. I'll address some of @jayair's concerns in this thread. First, we use SST for live lambda development. Fantastic.
It's time to make it official. SST is moving away from CDK and CloudFormation. I wrote a really long post (linked below) detailing our thought process around it. Let me highlight a few things from it here.
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As they say, read this hard hitting piece in its entirety: "It seems like a switch was flipped but it wasn't. It's taken 50 years. We have a generation now who don't accept objective truth or right and wrong."
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@ASlavitt No doubt this number was adjusted for the fact Florida has a lot of old people. Wait. .
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@JPBlueNote @yoyoel Did you miss all the stories where Twitter employees sold blue badges for $15,000 a person?.
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@ProfGThurston Your personal observation sounds just as valid as the quite a few people I know who haven't had Covid, never wore a mask, didn't get a shot, and didn't care. Neither is a scientific observation, and it's sad you're making this into one.
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NewsHub clearly spelling out the reason Labour gets whacked in Auckland: the 5 month lockdown. Absolutely, Auckland still remembers. The most insane lockdown in the world. #nzelection.
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Speaker of the house has so little to do he can run errands for his entire electorate.
Omicron is coming and when it arrives it will spread quickly. If you can afford it it will pay to stock up a bit. There will be thousands of close contacts a day. If I’m not one of them I will be happy to do grocery and medicine runs for Wainuiomata people.
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@PatrickLeyland It's the government's job to keep people in their obsolete jobs. Yeah right. .
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David Parker lying and lying about who got a steel tariff exemption, doesn't the guy know we can Google? He probably trusted the @NZHerald couldn't
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@LizzieMarvelly One more mm of rain, and then they'll close. But joking aside, they made the right call. Auckland CBD and South Auckland didn't get much rain, and only up to 70km/h winds.
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@MetService That's a crazy tweet, and explains why you're, sadly, no longer a reliable forecaster.
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@AotearoaSam "sowing distrust in public institutions" is a disgrace? Hahah. Maybe you can arrest a few RNZ journos who have been critical of public institutions then.
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@JudithCollinsMP No, you made a momentous day in Parliament all about yourself instead of about what is being done to this country.
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@nic__carter @AlexNeist @HostageTape If you read the thread, he blames himself: he neglected wife and kids basically. Then turned his life around with his own invention.
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@hamishpricenz Remember John Key pictures with a noose around his neck? But Jacinda was the first PM to deliberately create a 2-class society, and laugh about it.
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@ClintVSmith Yeah "legal" because the police didn't follow the legal process, he would never have gotten a license otherwise.
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@MomoStJohn First thought this can't be true, but it seems they're not going to exclude your primary residence! Old folk in Auckland: start quivering!.
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@CranmerWrites Absolutely hate ministers throwing their staff under the bus. Very very low blow. NZ would be a very different place if we didn't have professional civil servants. Without them you can't run a country.
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@MatthewHootonNZ @nzpolice There's nothing that gets as much sympathy as protesters being beaten up by the police.
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So the Greens voted to allow Winston Peters to allow receiving undeclared foreign donations, what a bunch of hypocrites
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@EricTopol LOL, maybe delete this tweet, we don't want to live in a world where public health experts get to decide masks don't work, then work as a pore size 5,000 bigger than the virus will magically stop it. Advice is great, forcing people to do dumb things is worth a judicial review.
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@PierrePoilievre I'm not a Canadian so can't vote for you, so feel free to ignore me :-) But I can't see any Canadian interests in the Ukraine. But love your last two points. That's the stuff that really will make a difference.
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@MariaSherwood2 Yeah, let's introduce a tax on unrealised capital gains. Your house value increases? Bang, you pay more tax that year. That'll be totally popular. And incidentally also the reason why Labour wont be making any tax changes.
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@coughlthom You know that vaccination status doesn't matter for being able to spread it right?.
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Very insightful how journalists became part of the system: "But then journalists started to increasingly go to universities and climbed up the status ladder. Essentially today's journalists have become part of the system.".
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This is what NZ Labour spending has produced: “So, what I’m saying is how can we possibly have pumped in billions of extra dollars, and it not appear to have made a difference?’’ Quote from Andrew Little himself
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@NZcivildefence This is a great map, much better than trying to parse the civil defence website.
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@ClintVSmith You only know Luxon has five rental properties, because he had declared this. You didn't know Wood has Airport shares. Look, I wish we were in a NZ where having airport shares would be applauded, and rental properties wouldn't be a good investment, but that's not the issue.
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The Green Party should propose to decarbonise the East Coast: don't rebuild any roads. Just horses and walking like in the good old days.
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@coughlthom Great article, you had all the statistical background and caveats in this article I could ever wanted. Examplar of good journalism.
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@coughlthom Strawman attack, the issue is about his LinkedIn page which has no such disclaimer.
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@NewsroomNZ The responses to this article indicate how the left things: anything they disapprove of should not be published. Terrifying.
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250,000 NZ gun owners: we agree that illegally modifying weapons should be illegal. Government: we're going to take your legal guns anyway.
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@AcampbelTeacher @dbseymour You find nothing, totally nothing, from Civil Defence/Emergency Management on this: they're not asking anyone to stay home, or stop driving. This is just MoE doing disaster management their style.
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@J5k3R @coinfessions No, he invested actual cash, actual resources, into new economic systems.
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@hendysh Who cares about Covid-19 cases? In itself not important. Health is about minimising harm, and always a balance. If you see only Covid-19, you're harming NZ in many other ways.
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@KrissyMC3 @112Michelle112 Here's an actor imitating how she spoke at the hearing
Rachel Butera who voices Leia in Star Wars: Resistance has released a video of herself mocking the voice of Dr. Ford on twitter. #KavanaughHearings
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How to fix #facebookdown Click on personal page, click on friend, go to their page click on home.
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@Doctor_Dimples @DrLeanaWen @SenRonJohnson No, the problem is that you forced people to twitch because you said "This is what the science says." Based on wrong science you employed force and wanted to employ force.
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@thdxr Clearly insightful advice from a guy working in a 3 person team without managers 😃.
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@KatzOnEarth @juliacarriew They're raising money for legal representation according to the USA Today article. Should that be allowed or not?.
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New study: masks have the potential to increase your chance of getting Covid-19: ". showed that in Kansas, counties with mask mandate had significantly higher case fatality rates than counties without mask mandate"
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@NandorTanczos LOL, saw them running out of the supermarket, afterwards reaching off, employee at neighbouring store said it was a daily occurrence, and she was thinking about leaving as she felt no longer safe.
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@NewshubNZ Saddest interview from Patrick. This isn't taking on. This is being owned. Would not have expected this. Professionally a very sad day Patrick.
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@aniobrien Nah, crashing anywhere in Wellington in the vicinity of a senior servant is almost a given, there's one on every street.
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@henrycooke Disagree with your assessment: they were charged with intent. Clearly that was not proven. Holding on to a knife and slicing your own finger is just one of the dangers of bringing a knife to a fist fight.
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So after saying very unkind words about Elon Musk for the past year, NZ journalists are now very careful not to mention "Elon" and "Musk" as they can only do their work in completely flooded areas thanks to their StarLink.
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@saltyreign The question is: where does she get her 4,000 from? When I run the model, I don't get that.
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@BMHayward Under no circumstance should we make any change to NZ's falling education levels, truancy rates, etc etc. And especially poor kids should never get the chance for a better school.
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