Quickbits
Foundational Principles
1. To level the playing field as much as possible. To strive towards providing a society where everyone has as much of an equal shot of improving their life as possible. (For example, those who have dieseases that require them to pay monthly medications. As much as possible, society should cover the costs of that so […]
Read MoreTax Rate Based On Residency Duration
I generally don’t think we’re creative enough with regard to tax rates. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of residents or businesses being taxed based on how long they have been inhabitants of a location. For instance, I move to the highly-popular destination of Bend, Oregon, which has been attracting people like crazy for the […]
Read MoreInteresting Companies Doing Good
This is my ongoing, always-updating list of companies that are doing good. https://flashforest.ca https://boweryfarming.com AppHarvest Home https://salientenergy.ca/ https://culdesac.com/ https://braverobot.co/ Companies not necessarily doing good (perhaps some are the opposite?), but interesting: https://www.engineeredarts.co.uk/
Read MoreMatching the iFrame to the Height of the Content – Cross Domain
I found lots of solutions that didn’t work, and many more that didn’t apply to the situation that most are looking to solve — where you have an iFrame containing content from a different URL that you don’t have control over. The solution that I stumbled upon requires both PHP and javascript. Basically the idea […]
Read MoreDisplaying Future Posts
To display future posts, just include the ‘post_status’ as part of the query: $args = array( ‘post_status’ => array(‘publish’,’future’), ‘post_type’ => ‘blog’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 21, ‘paged’ => $paged );
Read MoreA Few Notes on Vimdiff
Honestly, the vimdiff window looks like a mess, even editing there is hard. But you can make your changes in the bottom window (I think using a backspace didn’t work but you can hit the delete button). Saving the vimdiff changes you made, enter: “:wqa” (I guess there is actually a command prompt at the bottom […]
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