Isn’t the whole point of woodframe construction to use wood?
Well, no. Not as such. The point was to not use brick. Wood was just very useful, cheap, and could be made uniform. Very similar to brick if near a brick factory. Cheaper if not near cheap but heavy bricks.
At spending 4% per year, and assuming US Dollar, $10,000,000 would provide $400,000 per year to spend. Depending on inflation, may be a lot.
Good on you for saving.
I used to feel that way too. Then things improved.
Why lonely if has friends?
Am I to join some else's military company? Then may as well join the big one.
I know the hierarchy of needs, and the other words. I am having issues understanding the total enough to gauge its correctness.
It seems well intentioned, but wrong.
That is great. If the mail gets lost, it has a chance of finding itself.
Won't help the carrier though.
Fix this joke below.
Great. Then we can fight of which religion group and subgroup.
Sorry, I missed that in your original post. I think memtest86+ is slightly better, but I may not bother switching.
If you are no longer getting failures, it is possible one of the sticks was loose or had corrosion. The swapping may have "fixed" it.
I would test all sticks together once. If they pass, you are good.
Are you running a ram test or waiting for failure?
A boot disk with memtest86+ is great for putting RAM through its paces.
Moved forward large purchases that cannot be delayed 5 years.
I am not changing my investments. My predictions on market impacts tend to be wrong. The stock market and the economy are not the same thing (market can be up during recession).
I am working to get healthier and update vaccinations. I don't know what is coming but being able to run, climb, and lift are versatile.
Huh. I thought that has a "respect yourself" vibe, not a "house is burning, but life is great" vibe.
There are a number of ineffective charities. I wouldn't donate without vetting.
Edit: Okay so the scam could roughly be like this. Legitimate company funnels donations to a charity run by CEO's spouse. Charity funnels 90% of funds to "overhead", 10% goes to specially selected recipients.
Don't know "Trap", but this video was great!
Payday loans.
The smart part is realizing the havoc payday loans inflict on one's finances.
Don't give up before he starts. Pre-submitting will lose it all.
Do get light and transfer cash out.
Don't do that. If you are at the end, then fight smart.
Pretty sure you are measuring using the wrong indicators.
There is little reason to talk shit of Putin as he is so hated, just as no reason to discuss water being wet.
Don't start "whataboutism". Those other people suck too. No reason to rank them.
You don't have Trick or Treating?
Dang, it really is great for building relationships.
How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers?
I don't understand the Nintendo Switch. How many do I need for a family of gamers?
They are a personal device like a gameboy. There is a TV version for party games. The games may or may not be shareable, even with the physical games. Assume the ideal usage is during screen time on a weekend.
I have been avoiding buying one as I don't understand them. Thinking of getting them soon.
I assume one OLED for the family and then a portable per person, then one copy of each game per device.
How is this affordable?
The Mighty Ducks
"The Mighty Ducks" did a good job featuring Minnesota. "D2" did a shit job. Even called Minneapolis a "po dunk town". I think the writers had nit watched the first movies.
What are you supposed to do at a food truck festival?
The lines are long. The food is expensive. Everyone in the group wants to eat something different. The food taste is a gamble. There are few places to eat.
Does everyone stick together and wait in all of the lines? Split up and meet at some location? Eat on the way to the festival and just hang out?
What would a 3 hour work day be like?
It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day.
What if we just cut out the rest?
Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.
Explore the geographic distribution and demographics of America's major religious groups.
In the USA, 3.1% claim Atheist, 4% Agnostic, and a total of 22.8% "Unaffiliated".
In Minnesota, 3% claim to be Atheist, 4% Agnostic, with a total of 20% Unaffiliated.
Posted as I often feel there are few Atheists in the USA. Turns out Atheists are under noticed.
What is "Toastify is awesome”?
I keep getting a red banner saying “Toastify is awesome” when updating. What does it mean, and what should I do differently?
Question: How to Calculate Just Pay for Work
How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks?
How to calculate between people doing the same task producing physical items seems easy. Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.
It also seems looking at the difference between having the role, and not. However some skills are mandatory, just less involved.
Feel free to simplify, but different tasks is a must.
Anything I buy must be physical
I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it.
I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me.
I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice.
Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.
Req.Incoming Email NOT my Focus? Client/Server
Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)
Are there any email clients or servers that allow new email to land somewhere other than the inbox? Or allow my view to start elsewhere?
I declare email bankruptcy daily....
Send whiskey.
Edit: I was unclear.
I have filtering, but those all happen after the mail is in the Inbox. I get a quarter second of crazy emails and previews and things moving, then they are gone. (Outlook sucks.)
I don't even want to see that shit. Not at all.
Take a rails-and-trails tour of abandoned railways around the Twin Cities metro, as our author explains their history and current uses.
Annuities as UBI conceptual model
Today, I was playing with an immediate annuity calculator. For about $106K (USA Dollar), one can get a 10 year Immediate annuity that pays about $1K per month.
For $1 million, 9 people could be covered for 10 years. For $1 billion, 9,400.
Every American could be covered for the next 10 years for ~$35 trillion. Rolled out over 10 years, it could be $3.5 trillion per year.
I am better able to reason about annuities, than government spending, so this started to put the costs in perspective for me. The costs also stop being as "squishy".
UBI would be life changing for many. Those with lots of income already would be paying about 30% back to the IRS.
There are lots of optimizations. For 60% more, the term could be doubled to 20 years, cutting the annual rollout cost by 20%. I bet costs could be improved when purchasing $1 trillion of anything. Annuity rates are also not great right now, so there a likely better structures.
Thoughts?
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
> Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
How to protect Intellectual Property from new employer
Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first.
A possible new job wants to own any intellectual property I create and wants me to declare anything I want to keep as my own. This seems normal in my industry as they will be paying me to do some thinking.
Issue is that I have a number of ideas I have been developing. I am going to float some of them as products in my own time, though this may be years from now. Most of these are outside the current market for the company as far as I know.
How is this typically handled? I presume I don't need to have copyrights or trademarks prior and can just list tentative titles.
I am also a little unclear on the spread between "intellectual property" and "an idea I am playing with".
Thoughts? Concepts to investigate?
Edit: I did Internet search this, but I have not found working keywords.
I'LL TELL you this, but you'll have to promise that it will go no further. Not long after we moved here we had the people next door round for dinner and - I swear this is true - they drove.
Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier.
> The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
Thank you to @urlyman@mastodon.social for pointing this out.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142310/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-why-would-you-walk-1079183.html
Child care business owners urged lawmakers to reject a bill that would expand the state’s recent ban on noncompete agreements. The bill would ban provisions in contracts between businesses and customers that restrict workers’ employment choices. For child care centers, that would mean dropping contr...
Mayor Jacob Frey quips that choosing remote work over office makes you a 'loser' (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
> "I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly shows, is when people have the ability to come downtown to an office and don't, when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket diddling on their laptop ... if they do that for a few months, you become a loser! It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"
Be careful who gets to hold a gun to your head.
The great Jeff Vogel discusses the Unity event.
Xcel Energy customers in Minnesota will likely soon have good reason to hold off on running dishwashers or charging vehicles until bedtime. The state’s largest utility is asking regulators to approve a major change to how residential customers have paid for their electricity for decades. In December...
Xcel Energy customers in Minnesota will likely soon have good reason to hold off on running dishwashers or charging vehicles until bedtime. The state’s largest utility is asking regulators to approve a major change to how residential customers have paid for their electricity for decades. In December...
