Mm-hmm.

And basically, every few years, the sea temperature, the, the, the, the heat in the water, you know, in the Eastern Pacific, kind of by Peru and Central America, just south of the United States and Mexico, will heat up.

And that process, which is about every two to seven years, um, lead-- has a ripple effect that goes off across the entire globe, leading to lots and lots of different changes to our weather that have become fairly predictable as scientists have, uh, tested it and, and measured it through the years.

You know, one thing it does is it leads to a weaker hurricane season, typically, though you still can have dangerous hurricanes-

Mm-hmm

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in an El Niño year.

It leads to more rainfall in Southern California, and at, at the, at maybe the most global level, it, it tends to lead to higher temperatures all across the planet and in a few particular places as well.

So,

you know, I was the sort of guy that like, you know, save it on domain and real estate and check it every month when it updates to see, you know, what I've gained over the course of the month.

So, you know, as soon as we were in the financial position to do so, then my next goal was to go to get an investment property.

And, you know, obviously there was a bit of, reluctance there based on the first experience as a landlord, but figured that it's something that I wanted to do, so talk the missus around.

and um and yeah so and obviously at the time you know the kind of whole buyers agents thing was kind of well from my perspective was kind of new um so you know started doing a lot of research reading a lot of books um and uh and actually i think the reason that i looked you up in the first place is because i remembered when you're at 17 that you were doing brokering so i was actually looking out to get some advice on brokering and see if you're interested in helping us out in that respect um and then obviously once i did search you out i'll search you up then then found out you're doing the boss agent thing.

So so yeah, so I was a bit hesitant about the whole about the boss agent thing to start with, right? Yeah, because because, you know, as you know, like and as we is established now, there are a lot of dishonest actors out there in terms of the boss agent space with like, you know, and I've had people that I know that have had experiences where they bought multiple apartments in the same complex in one town.

I was like, that sounds a bit weird for all the stuff that I'd read.

So for anyone sitting on the fence, what would you say to someone like, you know, obviously the media put lots of negative headlines, said a lot of advertising, but the people sitting on the fence that are, potentially just holding out because of this noise around the budget, what would you encourage people to consider or do?

Hmm

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it was, uh, the trend was much more dramatic than we had expected.

You know, if you just take a look at something like the number of new open source repositories, that number peaked at 2,000 new repositories or more than that in the year 2016, and it has just been in a consistent and really quite dramatic decline since then, each year stepping down to fewer and fewer, with a kind of a, a low point reached in 2024, I think, of around only 400.

So we've seen, just in less than a decade, an 80% drop in the number of open source repositories published by news organizations, which is a, you know, as, as a longtime data journalist, I, I said, "Wow, that sounds like a nut graph to me."

What were their motivations for open sourcing in the first place, and did those motivations go away? What changed about their workplaces, um, that might have led to a decline in the sort of zeal to open source everything?

Right.

And in addition to economics, we really heard two other major themes kinda come up in different ways from different perspectives as we went through it.