>1: HOAs. Even with a decent HOA, you are still spending hundreds of dollars of month, with the HOA assessment being raised 10% every year for nothing. Of course, there are the neighbors with no life just looking for any small violation to call in.
I am the treasurer of a HOA. I am the one who proposes rate increases when necessary.
Rate increases for nothing might happen in some HOAs but my assertions is that for most HOAs, nobody is paying any attention to the finances. The major costs are:
1) Reserves. By law there is a reserve study that predicts future infrastructure spending. You must fund this intelligently or face special assessments. The reserve study might be complete bullshit. Find out. Understand the lifetime and maintenance schedules for your common areas. Don't just spend because the reserve study says to do so. Your management company might try to anyway. Stop them and hold them to account.
2) Management company fees. This is rent seeking behavior. On the West coast I have noticed that most HOA management companies are run by Mormons. They are very good and organized at rent seeking behavior. Seek out more efficient ways. Management companies should be able to be replaced by a decent web service and a lawyer and accountant on retainer and that should be something like an insurance service you can sign up for. It's massively overpriced as it is.
3) Insurance. Common area insurance is ludicrous. They charge what they can get away with. This has been the cause of most cost increases in recent years as the insurance industry colludes to raise prices together. I don't know why the feds haven't cracked down on this. If you can't afford your common areas, get the homeowners to agree to have them removed or paved over.
Every year I present graphs of the bank accounts and the present and predicted reserve spending and normal spending and show how close to going negative (I.E. needing a special assessment) we are. I ask the homeowners to make choices about spending (Do you want pretty hanging baskets? That's $3/house/month on the fees). I ask them to vote to show consent to raises. I ensure they understand the consequences. They have never turned down an increase when they understood it was needed. The board gets clear direction on the spending the homeowners have agreed to. As it happens people want to spend on pretty hanging flower baskets.
If your treasurer is not doing these things, ask them why?
Some tests make sense. Others are head-scratching. For UNIX admin jobs, I have been asked moving a database from first normal form to DK normal form, but in reality, I've yet to see any DBA go past 3NF unless it is some specialized data warehouse/data mart task.
It was 1st NF --> 2nd NF --> 3rd NF --> BC NF when I went to college. I'd never get past your interview. But then I don't want a DB job so it's all good.
1 glass of wine doesn't even use up your quiescent ADH levels. It is quickly metabolized. The third and fourth glasses are past the point that the metabolization rate is determined by the production rate of ADH and so stays around a lot longer.
Does this apply to those who turn red after drinking even a 1/2 glass of wine as well???
Asian glow? I suspect not, but I've never read a peer reviewed paper that addresses the issue, so I would be spouting bullshit if I claimed to know. I suspect not because that is caused by a lack of an enzyme to process a breakdown product and I've forgotten all the names and I'm not looking it up right now.
Not so quick. The body will convert its protein stores (i.e. muscles) to energy before dying.
If you have standard Western metabolic disorder, your body will convert its protein stores to energy even if there's lots of fat both floating around and stored in adipose tissue. Your brain will ignore the leptin your fat cells are producing, the insulin will tell your fat cells to hang onto the fat and you will be hungry regardless. This is the essence of metabolic disorder. That is what it is. It does not explain why, which if we understood fully we would solve the problem. Low carb is an effective hack to reduce insulin so your brain sees the leptin again, you stop being hungry and insulin drops so fat from fat cells gets used. But this only lasts until the fat cells are empty enough and the Leptin goes away - then you are depressed and hungry. It is why post obese people are not like people who've been lean all their lives. It is why calorie counting is bullshit - it ignores the broken feedback in the system.
The linked article quotes relative risk ratios for specific ailments without giving the baseline. This is a sure sign of an incompetent journalist and hides the actiual result.
E.G. 10% increase of dying of X Compared with: Probability of dying from X went from 0.001 to 0.0011.
1 glass of wine doesn't even use up your quiescent ADH levels. It is quickly metabolized. The third and fourth glasses are past the point that the metabolization rate is determined by the production rate of ADH and so stays around a lot longer.
It might affect your athletic performance, but a single glass of wine a day makes little measurable difference to most people, other than it's enjoyable to drink.
Nope, not crazy in the least. I've been using Chrome as my daily driver since it first came out (like, literally the first day it was released to the public), and I work online so I spend upwards of 8-10 hours per day in my browser. Had no idea these features existed, wouldn't have used them if I did, won't use them now and won't miss them in the least, though.
I found them before, but the correct option I would be looking for is "Close tabs to the left". Those are the older tabs. I've moved on, my attention is on the new thing and I want the others to go away. The "Close tabs to the right" has never been useful to me. Why not add the left option? There's plenty of space.
Like any other expensive and easily identified electronic item, laptops are routinely stolen from checked baggage by baggage handling staff. It has always been thus. Say goodbye to you Lenovo when you travel.
Jordan is one of the few beacons of hope in the Middle East - An American ally that is peaceful and provides a real example of what a mideast success story could be
Except that it is a Muslim country and therefore ruled by a destructive religion.
Most religions are destructive. Some countries seem to keep it in check. Many don't. A government with an atheist population is lucky indeed.
This sound fishy, if they are a Shenzhen based company, why are they registered in Shanghai? On the other hand, if they have money to rent an office in Lujiazui, the must have moneyz.
Most large US companies are incorporated in Delaware. Nothing fishy there at all.
Highest paid public employee in each state Nick Saban, University of Alabama football coach, Alabama - $7.09 million. Jim Harbaugh, University of Michigan football coach, Michigan - $7 million. John Calipari, University of Kentucky basketball coach, Kentucky - $6.88 million.
So universities value coaches over all other employees and football coaches over other coaches.
I wear a Columbia jacket too, but it's not great in the rain because it leaks. It was really designed for snow and excessive cold. I purchased it for a trip to Northern Finland in January.
However my wife knits me left/right socks and they're bespoke to my feet and use excellent yarn from Ireland since she's the US distributor of that yarn, which makes for nice supplier visits.
I also live in Oregon and I put up with the wrong Columbia jacket, because it's just water isn't it? Also I'm too cheap to splash out on a new coat.
Head into their shop near Pioneer square and check out the price of some stretchy lycra bikini like things. They ain't cheap.
Still, my job in security related things leads to me thinking I could have performed that subterfuge and got away with it. Maybe that's why I'm not an IT manager.
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>1: HOAs. Even with a decent HOA, you are still spending hundreds of dollars of month, with the HOA assessment being raised 10% every year for nothing. Of course, there are the neighbors with no life just looking for any small violation to call in.
I am the treasurer of a HOA. I am the one who proposes rate increases when necessary.
Rate increases for nothing might happen in some HOAs but my assertions is that for most HOAs, nobody is paying any attention to the finances.
The major costs are:
1) Reserves. By law there is a reserve study that predicts future infrastructure spending. You must fund this intelligently or face special assessments. The reserve study might be complete bullshit. Find out. Understand the lifetime and maintenance schedules for your common areas. Don't just spend because the reserve study says to do so. Your management company might try to anyway. Stop them and hold them to account.
2) Management company fees. This is rent seeking behavior. On the West coast I have noticed that most HOA management companies are run by Mormons. They are very good and organized at rent seeking behavior. Seek out more efficient ways. Management companies should be able to be replaced by a decent web service and a lawyer and accountant on retainer and that should be something like an insurance service you can sign up for. It's massively overpriced as it is.
3) Insurance. Common area insurance is ludicrous. They charge what they can get away with. This has been the cause of most cost increases in recent years as the insurance industry colludes to raise prices together. I don't know why the feds haven't cracked down on this. If you can't afford your common areas, get the homeowners to agree to have them removed or paved over.
Every year I present graphs of the bank accounts and the present and predicted reserve spending and normal spending and show how close to going negative (I.E. needing a special assessment) we are. I ask the homeowners to make choices about spending (Do you want pretty hanging baskets? That's $3/house/month on the fees). I ask them to vote to show consent to raises. I ensure they understand the consequences. They have never turned down an increase when they understood it was needed. The board gets clear direction on the spending the homeowners have agreed to. As it happens people want to spend on pretty hanging flower baskets.
If your treasurer is not doing these things, ask them why?
Some tests make sense. Others are head-scratching. For UNIX admin jobs, I have been asked moving a database from first normal form to DK normal form, but in reality, I've yet to see any DBA go past 3NF unless it is some specialized data warehouse/data mart task.
It was 1st NF --> 2nd NF --> 3rd NF --> BC NF when I went to college. I'd never get past your interview. But then I don't want a DB job so it's all good.
It gets worse. He only hires C++ developers who are MIT alumni and who know Barbara Liskov personally.
You had me at C++.
1 glass of wine doesn't even use up your quiescent ADH levels. It is quickly metabolized. The third and fourth glasses are past the point that the metabolization rate is determined by the production rate of ADH and so stays around a lot longer.
Does this apply to those who turn red after drinking even a 1/2 glass of wine as well???
Asian glow? I suspect not, but I've never read a peer reviewed paper that addresses the issue, so I would be spouting bullshit if I claimed to know. I suspect not because that is caused by a lack of an enzyme to process a breakdown product and I've forgotten all the names and I'm not looking it up right now.
Not so quick. The body will convert its protein stores (i.e. muscles) to energy before dying.
If you have standard Western metabolic disorder, your body will convert its protein stores to energy even if there's lots of fat both floating around and stored in adipose tissue. Your brain will ignore the leptin your fat cells are producing, the insulin will tell your fat cells to hang onto the fat and you will be hungry regardless. This is the essence of metabolic disorder. That is what it is. It does not explain why, which if we understood fully we would solve the problem. Low carb is an effective hack to reduce insulin so your brain sees the leptin again, you stop being hungry and insulin drops so fat from fat cells gets used. But this only lasts until the fat cells are empty enough and the Leptin goes away - then you are depressed and hungry. It is why post obese people are not like people who've been lean all their lives. It is why calorie counting is bullshit - it ignores the broken feedback in the system.
The linked article quotes relative risk ratios for specific ailments without giving the baseline. This is a sure sign of an incompetent journalist and hides the actiual result.
E.G. 10% increase of dying of X
Compared with: Probability of dying from X went from 0.001 to 0.0011.
1 glass of wine doesn't even use up your quiescent ADH levels. It is quickly metabolized. The third and fourth glasses are past the point that the metabolization rate is determined by the production rate of ADH and so stays around a lot longer.
It might affect your athletic performance, but a single glass of wine a day makes little measurable difference to most people, other than it's enjoyable to drink.
Touché
You have an alphanumeric finger?
On every smart phone I've ever used, emergency services are dial-able without unlocking the phone... Stop looking for things to complain about.
In this case, the procedure on an iPhone is reasonably likely to foil a 4 year old.
Yes. The word "Emergency" is what you tap.
If you use the fingerprint sensor, then you might never see this. Click on the home button with an unregistered finger.
fvwm is the most common desktop where I work, by a large margin.
But you all put that Kim Dot Com guy through the wringer didn't you?
an embedded controller in a vend a goat machine is having a software loop that fires off every five seconds.
Is 17,200 goats per day actually necessary?
In had to double check the article, I couldn't believe an editor would fuck up something as basic as Krebs's name.
No it's really Brian Kerbs. He's an expert on the interface between road and pavement/sidewalk.
Nope, not crazy in the least. I've been using Chrome as my daily driver since it first came out (like, literally the first day it was released to the public), and I work online so I spend upwards of 8-10 hours per day in my browser. Had no idea these features existed, wouldn't have used them if I did, won't use them now and won't miss them in the least, though.
I found them before, but the correct option I would be looking for is "Close tabs to the left". Those are the older tabs. I've moved on, my attention is on the new thing and I want the others to go away. The "Close tabs to the right" has never been useful to me. Why not add the left option? There's plenty of space.
I assume you won't be using the TSA locks then. I understand you pain.
>When I'm out riding on my bile,
What a way to go!
Theft is a bigger problem than damage.
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There are people who will be delighted at all the new stuff there is to steal.
Like any other expensive and easily identified electronic item, laptops are routinely stolen from checked baggage by baggage handling staff. It has always been thus. Say goodbye to you Lenovo when you travel.
>he decided he wanted to become a veterinarian
That's not such a great idea in the States. They send all their vets to Vietnam I hear.
Jordan is one of the few beacons of hope in the Middle East - An American ally that is peaceful and provides a real example of what a mideast success story could be
Except that it is a Muslim country and therefore ruled by a destructive religion.
Most religions are destructive. Some countries seem to keep it in check. Many don't. A government with an atheist population is lucky indeed.
This sound fishy, if they are a Shenzhen based company, why are they registered in Shanghai? On the other hand, if they have money to rent an office in Lujiazui, the must have moneyz.
Most large US companies are incorporated in Delaware. Nothing fishy there at all.
Well, you thought wrong.
I googled "Highest Paid Employee by State"
Highest paid public employee in each state
Nick Saban, University of Alabama football coach, Alabama - $7.09 million.
Jim Harbaugh, University of Michigan football coach, Michigan - $7 million.
John Calipari, University of Kentucky basketball coach, Kentucky - $6.88 million.
So universities value coaches over all other employees and football coaches over other coaches.
I wear a Columbia jacket too, but it's not great in the rain because it leaks. It was really designed for snow and excessive cold. I purchased it for a trip to Northern Finland in January.
However my wife knits me left/right socks and they're bespoke to my feet and use excellent yarn from Ireland since she's the US distributor of that yarn, which makes for nice supplier visits.
I also live in Oregon and I put up with the wrong Columbia jacket, because it's just water isn't it? Also I'm too cheap to splash out on a new coat.
Head into their shop near Pioneer square and check out the price of some stretchy lycra bikini like things. They ain't cheap.
Still, my job in security related things leads to me thinking I could have performed that subterfuge and got away with it. Maybe that's why I'm not an IT manager.