dbjacobs

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by dbjacobs 8mo ago
If you are a KDE user Karousel[1] a Kwin script is an easy way to try out a scrolling style. 1. https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel
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by dbjacobs 10mo ago
Since a recipe can be for multiple services, the ability to scale a recipe down would be helpful.
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by dbjacobs 10mo ago
Any plans to add the ability to have waiver/release forms for an event that need to be signed?
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by dbjacobs 1y ago
Reference please. I'm not aware of any state or federal law that prohibits mixed gender children from sharing a room in a private residence (foster care and other institutional situations do have regulations).
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
Mt Aggie, a synthetic ski slope is the only one in Texas I know of.
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
From webster - relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts So it is more the opposite of specific than objective. I think your confusion comes from c
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
After verifying that the person isn't just venting and looking for empathy, I'll put in my plug for learning about the transtheoretical model of change [1]. Step one is determining whether the person even sees a problem. If they d
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
That's simply not true. If you did not pay into Social Security for at least 40 quarter, the only way you can get retirement Social Security is through marriage (spouse benefit or survivor benefit). You can qualify for both benefits ev
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
I have to agree. When I was working with a carpenter union, one of their big problems was that members would see their pension balance get large at which point they would stop working long enough to trigger emergency access to the pension a
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
If you transfer within the state system probably 95% to 100% of the credits will transfer depending on how careful you are in your choices. If you transfer to another state's system you can probably get 70% to 90% of the credits to tra
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
In the eighties it was completely nonstandardized and depended heavily on each person you talked with. You would typically visit with a company for the day while they passed you around from person to person. One might have you code somethin
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by dbjacobs 2y ago
> It used to be that if you sold one house and bought another for same price then there would be no appreciation taxes, but that stopped a few(?) years ago. In the US from 1964 to 1997 you could upgrade your home (i.e., buy one equal or
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by dbjacobs 3y ago
We let our 3 kids choose between homeschool and private school. As a result they tended to bounce back and forth between the systems depending on their priorities. By the time they reached 4th grade I was mostly a coach when they chose home
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by dbjacobs 3y ago
Over 40% of marriages in Hawaii are interracial and around 15% of new marriages nationwide are [1]. And this is 10 year old data. I'm sure it's more now. [1] - https://www.staradvertiser.com/2012/02/16&#x
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by dbjacobs 3y ago
Like everything else in schooling, the social gap is highly child dependent. Our kids were a mix of home-school and private schools and the kid who did the most homeschooling was the most socially adept.
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by dbjacobs 3y ago
Here in Hawaii the electric company is installing smart meters so they can charge different rates during the day evening and night. So your solar production during the day will credit you at the day rate, then your usage in the evening char
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
Don't forget the opportunity cost of that $200K of equity. If that money invested earned 5%/yr on average that is another $10K/yr bringing your $700/mo to $1,533/mo. If you sell at $450K after 30 years, that mostly
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
California's AB-5 [1] is one issue. It basically says the independent contractors that are working on your core business are employees not independent contractors. This makes California companies very hesitant to use one person shops.
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
Hawaii triples the property taxes for non owner occupied residences over $1 mil.
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
From [1] we can see that home ownership had a run-up to 2008 as interest rates dropped and credit loosened, especially for younger people. When credit tightened home ownership took a major dive. [1]: https://www.census.gov/l
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
Artificial wombs would take care of the risk to women issue. Then it just becomes a societal values question.
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
40 plus years ago my first programming gigs were for financial institutions creating projections for mortgages and savings plans for IRAs on an Apple II. They paid me an eye watering $50/hr which was an incredible rush for a high schoo
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
This is already the case. You can only depreciate the building value not the land portion. So single family homes have much lower depreciation since most of the value is typically in the land vs an apartment which is the opposite.
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by dbjacobs 4y ago
Had a 20 year career in artificial intelligence and security, then in 2003 started my own financial planning business working from home. While I continue my tech habit as a hobby, the greater home involvement and greater connection to peopl
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by dbjacobs 5y ago
Our 3 kids have gone in and out of homeschool at all different ages. We generally left the choice up to them. Our youngest decided to homeschool through high school and is studying computer science at Georgia Tech now. In the lower grades,
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by dbjacobs 6y ago
HN adjacent :-). Here are two my daughter produced last year. https://katherinejacobs.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-single https://katherinejacobs.bandcamp.com/album/youre-gonna-regre...
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by dbjacobs 6y ago
On my iPhone 12 mini the demo took 13 seconds to show me something besides a blank screen. On my desktop it was around 3 seconds and cpu usage went through the roof.
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by dbjacobs 6y ago
Long ago, before goodrx and when my family did not have any drug coverage I learned the magic incantation "Is that the best price you can find?". I was always amazed that they would then spend a few minutes on their computers and
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by dbjacobs 6y ago
Actually the bulk of generation is from oil with 25% or so from renewables [1]. So our power prices is heavily influenced by oil prices. Each island is also its own isolated electric grid, so reliability is not great and shifting renewables
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by dbjacobs 6y ago
Location based pay for "in-person" jobs makes sense. You are trying to convince a person to live and work in a specific locale and the requires different amounts of money depending on the location. But for jobs which are fully rem

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