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1) the tax entity sets their budget (usually an increase)
2) the valuation group values all properties
3) the tax entity sets a tax rate to raise their budgeted amount. budgeted amount = tax rate * total value
Most people think if their value doubles, their tax doubles. This mostly isnt the case. If everyone's value doubles, the rate decreases so they raise the budgeted amount. Mostly property tax increases are due to ever increasing budgets not rising values.
1) If everyone's value stayed the same, and the budget increased, your tax would increase by the amount of the budget increase
2) if everyone's value doubled, but the budget stayed the same, your tax would not increase
3) if your value doubled, everyone else's stayed the same, and the budget stayed the same, your tax would double.
1) rogue state releases a self moving self modifying AI into the wild. It is trained on how to hack, monitor new vulnerability updates, scan code bases to find new vulnerabilities. It constantly replicate and hides in systems so it will be extremely difficult to clear.
2) it hacks into public infrastructure taking down traffic, power, water, air traffic control, communications, etc.
3) all the things that preppers worry about in a lights out scenario from an EMP start to apply.
4) All the people on meds/machines start to die. The just in time food pipeline immediately empties out. Water stops flowing, sewage backs up.
Its hard to say how bad it will get because cars will still work so some transportation of food, water, fuel can happen. If it happens in the winter it would be much worse than in the summer.
The software wont be sexy, but will help the non profits and the people they serve
Over time it tries to improve the ads.
Right now it is showing a 5% click through rate over a few weeks. I have no idea if that is good or not, but it saved me the hassle of having to worry about google ads for another app
If the marketing platform works, then it would drive traffic to itself.
My specialty is software requirements and my team was brought in to do the product management. The developers had read somewhere if you were using a database to do requirements then you were doing agile wrong.
They wanted me to write post it notes in triplicate, then fedex them to all their offices.
The AI first works with you to write requirements, then it produces a design, then a task list.
The helps the AI to make smaller chunks to work on, it will work on one task at a time.
I can let it run for an hour or more in this mode. Then there is lots of stuff to fix, but it is mostly correct.
Kiro also supports steering files, they are files that try to lock the AI in for common design decisions.
the price is that a lot of the context is used up with these files and kiro constantly pauses to reset the context.
1) understand what success means for their area 2) assemble a team and remove roadblocks for them to achieve 1.
One problem they are experiencing is rust and glazing on the pads from disuse.
They are heavier than the equivalent sized ICE so have more tire wear, but dont have to be that large in an absolute sense. Most are large luxury cars.
If your payroll is quickly growing You experience the problem on all payroll growth.
If your payroll is decreasing, you get a tax benefit. Your outgoing cash is less, but you are getting deductions from prior year expenses.
Touching objects for me doesnt help, though looking at pictures does. Ive tried to get her to make scrapbooks for every year we have been together with explanations and stories, but no luck so far.
She remembers what we both were wearing the day we met.
Like the author i rely on mental models (I wrote a book called visual models for software requirements), Im good at getting to the heart of things and am constantly organizing information so I can remember the principle.
I do get anxiety about not remembering people once they pass away. I might only remember a few things about them. But when I look at pictures I can often times remember all kinds of details. I think some of the information is there, it just isnt retrievable.
Im bad at networking, when I go to events lots of people know me, but I have no idea who they are. Im waiting for glasses with cameras that will identify people for me and go over their background.
Aphantasia is supposed to be rare, but I think many engineers have it. At least at my company it seems more prevalent than it is supposed to be in the general population.
In some ways it is a gift. I barely remember traumatic events, but unfortunately I dont really remember amazing events either.
Ive been waiting for years for glasses that can scan someones face, tell me who they are, and give me interesting points about them (kids' ages, wifes name, what they do etc).
It is very common for me to be around town and have people come up to me and say my name, and I dont recall ever having met them before.
On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness.
I still have about 50 or so physical books and Im starting to convert the ones I can to kindle.
On the other hand green lights lose their green.
On a day to day basis I can functionally see red and green, but sometimes when a red or a green is next to a brown I cant distinguish them.
And versions of red that regular people might have a hard time distinguishing would be impossible for me to distinguish.
Now that the M chips have virtualization and the laptops actually have ports Ill probably upgrade at some point, but I actually dont need to. One of my laptops could break completely and I would just migrate to the working one.
I keep my phones until I drop them or until they get too slow. I use samsung phones as I dont like the usability of apple phones (no T9 dialing) or the way icloud, photo storage, etc work. How do you get pictures off your phone into folders? It is annoying that the iphone cant mount as a drive.
I have a dell t3500 desktop (2012?). I have maxed out the ram, upgraded the cpu, and have large SSD drives. It is fast enough for what I do on windows which is just running blue iris these days.
I have plastic casio gshock watch with atomic time updates and solar. I think it is 10-12 years old.
I drive a 13 year old truck and my wife an 8 year old minivan. I do want an electric car but hate all the computerization of the dash. A friend imported an electric car from china and the controls are basically like a golf cart.
another friend converts classic cars into electric cars and I might be willing to convert an old truck to electric.
I definitely dont downsize, but I only upgrade when a usability issue makes me upgrade.
The links did cite cases where medical practitioners did not do their job because they were worried about the government.
Texas law specifically states that abortions in the case of risk to the mother are ok and the medical practitioners felt the language wasnt clear enough.
1) slavery was enforced by the government who had use of force to compel. There was no voluntary two party agreements.
2) countries are governmental constructs with barriers enforced by use of force. A polish programmer cant work in the US due to governmental interference.
Now that the borders are wide open expect to see programmers exploiting the work loopholes to get work visas that allow them to work at market wages.
there is no perfect information and there will always be mismatches. But in a free market those mismatches are temporary. Also the market may be valuing things other than technical prowess (e.g. english proficiency, understanding of cultural norms etc)
The methods themselves can be any methods. I agree that the methods Ive seen associated with common core are designed to help people understand how the math works. Like why when you add fractions do you not just also add the denominator. However it is a tough balance between just memorizing how to do the problem and understanding why you do it a certain way.
The big push I see is word problems in lieu of worksheets. The huge issue is word problems take a long time and kids havent done enough worksheets to become fluent in the techniques. Teachers call worksheets drill and kill and want to "teach to the whole child".
The big problem is that people in education are simply not very smart. The education researchers are also not very smart. Ive seen data that shows that stem teachers are ok, but I dont think those are the majority of education academics.
For example in trig they define quadrant I, II, III, IV and whether sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, cot are positive or negative. Im sure they briefly taught why, but for the problems it is just memorization. Most in the class dont understand the relationship between sin/cos and X and Y coords in the unit circle.
I told her it can be faster to memorize, but understand it so you can double check to make sure things are right.
There is no way a poor student can get through precalc unless they are way above the average because their parents likely cant help them at all.
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very light amounts of bleach work great. For example if you let them soak in a swimming pool (typically around 5ppm) for 10 minutes they will be stink free.
You can do the equivalent with 1tsp of bleach in a few gallons of water (really about 20ppm or a little more).
Obviously products like oxyclean can also oxidize the molecules.