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i like how the us military makes cost of living adjustments. you have your base pay determined my your rank which is not adjusted by where you live. in addition to that you get a housing stipend (BAH and BAS) that is adjusted by where you live. if i remember correctly the housing stipend is before tax.

google is essentially forcing a pay cut to your base salary in addition to the portion of your salary you use for housing.


imo the granny smith is the all time worse apple. always taste like a green apple (not trying to be ironic) and usually has a thick skin. just plain terrible might as well pick any apple variety before it is ripe.

if you want a good green apple buy a newtown pippin.


I like 'em crisp and tart (and cold), so Granny Smith from the refrigerator is my default.

I recall Newtown Pippins being a bit sweeter than I like, but I understand they vary. Is there a time of year, or another way to select for tartness?


I use the Granny Smith for cooking but not as an eating apple. They have a good texture and tartness for pies and apple sauce but they are not what i would want to eat raw.


the problem with golden delicious is that you need to eat them within 3 days of when they are picked. a good golden should have a thin skin, be sweet, and crisp.

i think part of the problem is that farmers pick them to early so your usually getting an green golden that has rotted a bit to turn yellow.


do you mean REIT (real estate investment trust) which have special tax treatment in the us?


not sure you are aware of this but you can contribute to a SEP IRA[0]. this has a lot of advantages over contributing to a normal ira. in my experience you can contribute more than you usually can in a 401k since most employers do not let you contribute after tax.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/SEP [0]


non-leisure city biking is hard. the hardest things for me to learn was

* if you are getting into a tight spot then own the lane. it is better for a car to see you and hit you then for it to not see you and hit you.

* always have high intensity blinking lights ... (in some places it's illegal to ride at night without lights)

more safety tips: https://bicyclesafe.com/


i'm surprised by how many people on this forum have not stopped indefinitely at a red light on a bike. most lights i've come across are not calibrated for bikes so this isn't a rare occurrence.

many states have a "dead red"[1] law for when lights are not operational. which permits the cyclist to proceed with caution after stopping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#%22Dead_Red%22_l...


interesting... can you provide a link?



this is one of the reasons i created chromedriver-proxy[0]

[0] https://github.com/ZipRecruiter/chromedriver-proxy


to be fair it is possible to do this from the command line with ffmpeg when using concat[1][2]. i did this when creating real time video from screencast in the chrome remote debugger.

[1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#concat

[2] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow


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