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If you are a KDE user Karousel[1] a Kwin script is an easy way to try out a scrolling style. 1. https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

Since a recipe can be for multiple services, the ability to scale a recipe down would be helpful.

Any plans to add the ability to have waiver/release forms for an event that need to be signed?

Reference please. I'm not aware of any state or federal law that prohibits mixed gender children from sharing a room in a private residence (foster care and other institutional sit…

Mt Aggie, a synthetic ski slope is the only one in Texas I know of.

From webster - relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts So it is more the opposite of …

After verifying that the person isn't just venting and looking for empathy, I'll put in my plug for learning about the transtheoretical model of change [1]. Step one is determining…

That's simply not true. If you did not pay into Social Security for at least 40 quarter, the only way you can get retirement Social Security is through marriage (spouse benefit or …

I have to agree. When I was working with a carpenter union, one of their big problems was that members would see their pension balance get large at which point they would stop work…

If you transfer within the state system probably 95% to 100% of the credits will transfer depending on how careful you are in your choices. If you transfer to another state's syste…

In the eighties it was completely nonstandardized and depended heavily on each person you talked with. You would typically visit with a company for the day while they passed you ar…

> It used to be that if you sold one house and bought another for same price then there would be no appreciation taxes, but that stopped a few(?) years ago. In the US from 1964 to …

We let our 3 kids choose between homeschool and private school. As a result they tended to bounce back and forth between the systems depending on their priorities. By the time they…

Over 40% of marriages in Hawaii are interracial and around 15% of new marriages nationwide are [1]. And this is 10 year old data. I'm sure it's more now. [1] - https://www.staradve…

Like everything else in schooling, the social gap is highly child dependent. Our kids were a mix of home-school and private schools and the kid who did the most homeschooling was t…

Here in Hawaii the electric company is installing smart meters so they can charge different rates during the day evening and night. So your solar production during the day will cre…

Don't forget the opportunity cost of that $200K of equity. If that money invested earned 5%/yr on average that is another $10K/yr bringing your $700/mo to $1,533/mo. If you sell at…

California's AB-5 [1] is one issue. It basically says the independent contractors that are working on your core business are employees not independent contractors. This makes Calif…

Hawaii triples the property taxes for non owner occupied residences over $1 mil.

From [1] we can see that home ownership had a run-up to 2008 as interest rates dropped and credit loosened, especially for younger people. When credit tightened home ownership took…

Artificial wombs would take care of the risk to women issue. Then it just becomes a societal values question.

40 plus years ago my first programming gigs were for financial institutions creating projections for mortgages and savings plans for IRAs on an Apple II. They paid me an eye wateri…

This is already the case. You can only depreciate the building value not the land portion. So single family homes have much lower depreciation since most of the value is typically …

Had a 20 year career in artificial intelligence and security, then in 2003 started my own financial planning business working from home. While I continue my tech habit as a hobby, …

Our 3 kids have gone in and out of homeschool at all different ages. We generally left the choice up to them. Our youngest decided to homeschool through high school and is studying…