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There's an older game called Kohan you could check out. Click speed is not super important compared to positioning and company builds. Doubt there's a multiplayer scene, but I haven't played in forever.

Also check out Beyond All Reason, it's a modern Total Annihilation where you're essentially trying to automate economy and production and the game provides a lot of tools to do that.

Stormlight Archives are his latest and greatest. I'd recommend those if you were a wheel of time fan, or you could start with Mistborn. They're set in the same universe but it's not really necessary to have that background.

Corporations that have paid over $9 billion in wage theft penalties since 2000....https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdfs/...

My family healthcare coverage at my "decent paying job" at a software company in the US cost me about $13,000 out of pocket in 2018 including employee premium and medical cost before reaching deductible. I would certainly consider that to be an additional tax when comparing against the EU tax rates that include healthcare.

Plus EU taxes often cover healthcare so there's another huge chunk of change gone for US residents when comparing.

I was not warned, and was a little put off when we started receiving endless "notices" that listed the exact loan balance at closing.

NC does the same thing. And if you buy a house, expect to receive endless junk mail disguised as mortgage documentation.

Installed raspbian then stored it in the closet for 4 years unused

Now if they would bring that HUD to some of the lower trims..

Check out this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/11/30/when-use...

We did the timeout when our 2 yr old first hit new baby and it reduce the behavior short term, but we also had our 2 year old start holding the newborn (with assistance) while giving a lot of praise. That replacement of the negative behavior with the positive really helped the 2yr old's attitude towards new baby.

The purpose of a timeout for toddlers / small children is to have a negative (but not harmful) consequence they understand so they can make a choice as to whether to continue a certain behavior or not. There are very few appropriate negative consequences available that a toddler will understand.

Punishment does have its place in behavioral training but is not the first or even third method to rely on. Parents should be first prioritizing on rewarding positive behaviors.

The criminal justice system is a terrible example of punishment used effectively. Punishment in behavioral training is best used in a very tight feedback loop (immediately after action, not after 5 years of court cases) and reliably.

If you are angry for hours maybe try going to exercise or meditate(fixing this issue is actually one of the goals of meditation) or something, but that is above my pay grade.

With my kid, he sometimes does not cool down during a tantrum until he goes in his room for timeout for a few minutes, and he is always measurably calmer after timeout. The recommended timeout time is 1 minute per year of age - it's not like they're abandoned for hours.

* Timeouts rarely work.

This is entirely opposite of my experience. We do timeouts for harmful things (like hitting newborn baby brother, running into the street) or if he is having a tantrum and isn't cooling down.

We didn't try timeouts until we read https://www.amazon.com/Happiest-Toddler-Block-Cooperative-Fo..., but we do use them now and they seem to be one of the few things that have a lasting effect on my toddler's behavior.

Great material! I should have said it's not JUST a handbook.

This is a great tool, inspired I'm sure by the transparency of others like 37signals. It is not a "company handbook", it's:

1) A recruitment tool

2) Marketing

TIL there is a search on HN after more than 6 years of browsing...never noticed it

Anecdotally, those $5 Costco chickens are bigger than competitors' $6.49 rotisserie chickens

Where? Somewhere with decent jobs or do you need a remote gig?

Depends on the airline and the route. On long haul flights on Emirates, who's known for the inflight system, everybody is using it.

I haven't looked recently, but at least a couple years ago salaries in LA were terrible compared to the COL.

This can be done with practice. There are several meditative practices to overcome an obsession with transient thoughts. Check out Daoist meditation as a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daoist_meditation

There are many good guided audio meditation available these days as well.

Conceptually, yes. Most mid and large manufacturers are using gov-sponsored programs that allow deferral of duties and VAT/other taxes until final sale. Source; I work in global trade.

It's more complex than that - it almost seems more like the US is made of 50 countries with open borders. I've lived in 3 different states and each is different in terms of tax.

The US Federal Gov primary source of revenue is the federal income tax, while State Gov budgets are based on income taxes, property taxes, and sales(VAT) taxes. Some states have no income tax and some have no sales taxes, some have very high/low property taxes.

Additionally, some counties (several cities) and even cities have income taxes or additional sales/property taxes. It's very difficult to calculate what you effectively pay in taxes and where those taxes go.

What would also be nice is a comparison of rentals vs. purchasing a home including property tax considerations with our new deduction limits.

While that would be much more useful, factoring in state/federal/city taxes including brackets is going to be very high effort in comparison to what was done here.

Exactly - why do some people consider it a win when folks that are already low risk (and likely high income and most able to afford it) get to pay less?

I think the key here is "associated". Sleep deprivation has also been associated to dementia.

Maybe your org is different, but the way your question is worded you are a lead developer, not a project manager. I'm a believer in flat orgs to some extent, but as a product owner/pm myself, this communication should be coming from the dev project manager, along with revised timeline and/or mitigation plan. The only alarm should be to your project manager, and in the form of objective analysis of the number of items completed against the plan.

Wife has a Macbook Air from 2013 that recently was water damaged. I took a look at the lineup and there has been almost zero change to the Airs since apparently 2010...same crap screen, monster bezel, and tiny ssds.