Since a recipe can be for multiple services, the ability to scale a recipe down would be helpful.
Readit Newsdbjacobs commented on Show HN: Cactoide – Federated RSVP Platform cactoide.org/... · Posted by u/orbanlevi
Any plans to add the ability to have waiver/release forms for an event that need to be signed?
There are plenty of laws on the books that make it even harder, you can't have mixed genders of children sleeping in the same room, limits to how many can sleep in the same room, and many more.
Less than 1% of houses are accessible and that is a problem with aging boomers, SIL bought a home near parents to support them but when the stroke and dementia hit, the parents couldn't move in because no bedroom and only a powder room on the main floor, and they couldn't make it up/down the stairs anymore, and the parents house was too small to move into.
Lots of ways to get money from the table.
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 situations do have regulations).
This is interesting.
"In addition, at the time of research, there are five states (Alabama, Maryland, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas) and two provinces (Northwest Territories and Prince Edward Island) with only 1 resort remaining. Details of state/province/territory data can be seen in Table 2."
I found it hard to believe that Texas has a ski resort. I did some searching and I can't find any evidence that this is true.
RI and Alabama both have one. Seems easy enough to check.
Mt Aggie, a synthetic ski slope is the only one in Texas I know of.
> medical schools in the UK test students holistically (i.e. big exams which test all the topics)
For reference, "holistic" is the opposite of "objective", not of "specific".
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 specific than objective. I think your confusion comes from colleges using holistic to mean they looks at things beyond beyond objective measurements like test scores and GPA
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 whether the person even sees a problem. If they don't, you can ask questions about what would things look like if there was a problem. But there is no point in giving advice until the preparation or action stages. Before that your best avenue is asking the right questions (see motivational interviewing [2]).
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transtheoretical_model [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_interviewing
dbjacobs commented on America's 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril msn.com/en-us/money/retir... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Almost every American citizen of retirement age (currently 67) will receive a monthly social security check. Even if you never paid into the system (because for example you never worked a day in your life) you would get $943 for an individual and $1,415 for a couple.
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 survivor benefit). You can qualify for both benefits even if you're divorced if you were married at least 10 years. I'm ignoring disability benefits for the moment.
For those who qualify for Social Security the minimum benefit for 2024 is $50.90/mo (10 yrs of work) and $1,066.50 for 30 years of work [1].
dbjacobs commented on America's 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril msn.com/en-us/money/retir... · Posted by u/paulpauper
> Retirement accounts are not the problem. It’s a general lack of financial education.
The 401k experiment is not failing because people don't understand how interest and capital gains work. It's failing because people are not funding their 401Ks and the ones who do, don't sufficiently or consistently fund them. I know so many people my age (mid 40s) who don't even save at all. Like zero. They are playing a dangerous game of chicken where they believe the USA ultimately won't let the elderly die en masse in the street, and they think they'll be rescued. They think I'm the sucker for saving the max every year and then saving more.
This isn't a lack of financial education, it's deliberate. People can save but they won't because they don't think they're going to meet the consequences. Or they don't save enough because they don't think they need to. I also know people who say things like "I plan to die the day after I stop working, so I might as well spend everything now."
And that doesn't even consider the large number of people living paycheck to paycheck who literally can't save. It's going to be a shit show in 20-30 years.
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 working long enough to trigger emergency access to the pension and then withdraw the money to buy a truck or other expensive item they wanted. As a result, even though the union had a pretty good pension system, many of their members were sabotaging their retirements.
I hear this all the time, but does that work anywhere? Everywhere I've heard of, so many of the credits don't transfer that it ends up being a waste of time and money. But maybe I only hear about the cases where people have something to complain about, or the states I've lived in have crappy systems.
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 system you can probably get 70% to 90% of the credits to transfer. Some state systems are more compatible than others. If you are going to a private school the percentages are typically much worse 20% to 50%. There are a few like USC which do a lot better.
1. https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel