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32" 4k display at fraction scaling of 1.5 (150%) is fine for my day-to-day work (Excel, VS Code, Word, Web browsing, Teams etc.). It delivers sharp enough text at an effective resolution of 2560x1440 px. There are many 32" 4k displays that are affordable and good enough for office workers. I work in a brightly lit room, so I find that monitor brightness (over 350 nits) is the most important monitor feature for me, over text sharpness, color accuracy, or refresh rate.

If Nanoclaw generates some revenue, you should trademark the name and also buy nanoclaw.com. Move the site to the .com domain and then do the steps above. All things being equal, ".com" TLD should get you higher page rank than your existing ".dev". Google is ranking ".net" fake page higher than ".dev". If your page wasn't on .dev TDL it might be second already.

Non-square pixels come from the legacy of anthropomorphic film projection. This was developed from the need to capture wide aspect ratio images on standard 33mm film.

This allows the captured aspect ratio on film to be fixed for various aspect ratios images that are displayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format

You cannot directly hire a housecleaner in the US without that person becoming your "household employee". You will need to withhold Federal Social Security tax and Medicare tax. In some states you will need to withhold state income tax and pay unemployment insurance.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc756

What zoom (if any) do you typically run at? For instance, a 200% zoom would give you an effective resolution of 4K, but with much sharper and smoother text and rendered graphics.

How much effort to create a weather app for ios or andriod that works like this? Maybe so something for the nest home max or echo show? I love the idea, but what is the easiest way to get this onto the most number of devices?

I agree: if you a part of a two-parent household, who lives in a home with off-street parking where you can add a charger, the best of both worlds is one EV (Tesla) and one plug-in hybrid (e.g. Prius Prime or Rav 4 Prime). Then you only go to a gas station on longer trips.

What percent of the US population falls into this demographic? And what percent of this demo already has one EV?

https://archive.is/ErB9Q

If you click on the words "always be free", you will be taken to the GitHub project, from there click on the release in the right column, and then download it for your platform. The store links are for the "donation" purchase process.

I remember Disney Dollars as a kid that were pegged to US 1:1 and could be used at any Disney-owned property. They were basically gift cards with no expiration date. They ended up not being cost efficient, so Disney discontinued them in 2016.

So, if the Libra ends up costing more to run than in earns (hardware, software, labor, and the cost of pegging it to a basket of currencies), then they won’t continue funding it. Since it’s not going to be a speculative currency like bitcoin, how will they pay or it? Will they take a transaction fee?

I also keep on reading that it will help the unbanked in the developing world facilitate payments. I guess it can be risky and hard to carry a lot of cash around for large purchases in parts of the world. But for this to work do you need better identity management? Or if you hold the cell phone, you hold the wallet? If it’s target is micro payments, then there are already many expanding options.

So that leave cross-border transfers, which is a huge thread to the US’s economic dominance. It is much harder to embark Iran if you don’t control the currency they sell their own for.

You can do some of these tricks with Excel 2016 or later and SharePoint Enterprise or Office 365 -- which many corporations already have.

You can embed an auto-updating Excel file in a SharePoint webpage using a "webpart" that renders as HTML. (Microsoft is getting away from web-rendering Excel with Silverlight,and allowing more functionality without the need for a browser plug-in.)

The trick is to setup the Excel data connection using the "Get External Data" -> "From Other Sources" -> "OData Data Feed" and not use the "Data Connections / Microsoft Query" method. Note: Microsoft Query connections won't update server side, the Excel file needs to be opened, data connections refreshed, and re-saved.

It does require a bit of Excel expertise to setup, but there is no need to create a Java application to get it to run.

I wonder why Boeing didn’t they design new, longer landing gear instead of moving the engines forward?

Then the engines could have remained in the same position. I am sure most airports could handle a taller airplane.

I think we should switch to a six-day week (just drop Wednesday). Two day weekend, four day week:

http://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/60-Week_Calendar

I remember when reading "Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts, Napoleon wasn't a big fan of the base-10 metric system, but he figured it would be the best way to break with the hundreds of different measuring systems in place in France at the time, and enforce an empire-wide standard.

I much prefer base-12 or base-16 systems, especially when measuring and hanging drywall!

On the other hand, the British waited way to long (until 1971) to decimal-ize their currency. Before that the pound was made up of 240 pence.

Worth watching, contains and interesting an segment about Andy Grove's and Robert Noyce's relationship with each other at Intel. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

Financial Times does not have an iOS app - just a mobile website. They have been very clever in building the site so that it is very app-like, for instance they use local storage to store the days download stories.

But, was initially confusing because I couldn't find their app in the app store, where I was expecting it.

No, there is insurance for that. Motor vehicles are inherently dangerous machines, and we all take the risk of injuring someone every time we drive. Insurance distributes the risk of driving across all drivers. You should only be punished for injuring someone with a car if you were negligent.

It would be interesting to cross-reference the records from Freddie and Fannie with the HMDA data, which has additional fields about each mortgage application: https://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/hmdaflat.htm Would the HMDA "loan amount" field match the "ORIGINAL UNPAID PRINCIPAL BALANCE" field in the Fannie data? Since HMDA data is geo-located to the Census tract, it could then be linked to Census and other public data sets.

For context, the US national 2010 median pay for "Software Developers" was $90,530 per year according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which I believe is data provided by employer surveys.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/S...

Here is data for San Jose:

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl1627.txt

Computer software engineers, applications, Level 12 $58.23 median pay per hour ( $121,118 per year)