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I absolutely love this discussion on altruism. Food for thought

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism and Doing Good Better | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
How much care do you take when you make a donation to a charity? What careers make the biggest difference when it comes to helping others? William MacAskill of Oxford University and the author of Doing Good Better talks…

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I have been puzzling over these for a a little while and have created some sawdust…

I have been puzzling over these for a a little while and have created some sawdust over this problem. The solution eludes me.

I need a foolproof easy way to be able to do repeatable 30 degree  bevel cuts on a board so that the resulting shape on edge is a rhombus, all sides are the same length.

Using a board planed down to 1.25" x 5.5" x 3' for instance. I imagine having the fence on the left to facilitate safe and easy bevel cuts. My issue comes from after the first cut how to adjust the fence over the width of the board plus the kerf to arrive at the next position.

Any help is greatly appreciated. 

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So I am thoroughly impressed with the new Photos app to index and search existing…

So I am thoroughly impressed with the new Photos app to index and search existing photos by what the algorithms recognize, geolocation and people…

I experimented a little bit searching for old photos that I knew existed but have had a hard time finding just like they described at IO today, the endless scrolling through past photos, and I found a few things that it could not find.

Never fear, find the old photos once, change their information/description using the desktop/browser version of photos and then a little while later they will be included in search results.

I don't know if it learned it by how I placed some similar photos into a named album or just indexed the info I added.

#Enhancement  What this brings to mind is that the Photos app should ask every now and again to tag/add info/describe photos in your repository that it has issues assigning.

#photos
#googlephotos
#info
#tagging
#search  

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[Begin rant]

It is that time of year where I find out that the county assessor has been smoking crack!

Can you say bubble?

21.7% increase in the value of my home … Will cost me most likely an additionaly $330/yr in property taxes. Funny how that is about what an appraisal costs …

What a wonderful stimulus! 
[End rant]

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This is how I feel about Cruz

This is how I feel about Cruz

Reshared post from +Heather Bowen

Cruz was the first candidate to announce his candidacy, and he’s proven to the entire Washington establishment that he’s an absolutely credible candidate for the White House—and can win—no matter what the media says.

Ted Cruz: Hillary ‘Embodies The Culture Of Corruption In Washington’ – Tea Party News
(Breitbart) – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, hammered former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News—zeroing in on the new developments of the forthcoming Peter Schweizer “Clinton Cash” book. “The latest scandal regarding Hillary Clinton is stunning in the breadth of the allegations and …

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Doggcatcher Podcast player

It is amazing how good this podcast player is! Very active development. Great features. Just when I got used to being able to play episodes at 1.5x I started wishing for the ability to go faster! And lo and behold you can set custom speeds! Trying out 1.6x as I type this.

I wish I could also customize the notification drawer button that shows when it is in the shrunken mode. It would be very nice to be able ff and not do a next track. See images. In the maximized version I have the ability to ff, but not in the minimized version.

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Tasker foursquare checkin task

So I was trying to incorporate the new v parameter necessary for a foursquare checking using Tasker. Using https://kristianfreeman.com/automatic-checkins-with-tasker/ I was able to initially get it working but at some point it quit working. Adding the additional parameter with an ampersand was not working. Turns out that the proper format of the data/file field is this:

venueId=%par1

oauth_token=YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

v=20131202

 

Note: a good way to see the actual response you get back from foursquare is to simulate a post with:

 

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head><title>Test Post with FourSquareAPI</title>
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id=”TestForm” action=”https://api.foursquare.com/v2/checkins/add” method=”post”>
vennueId: <input type=”Text” name=”venueId”<br/>
oauth_token: <input type=”Text” name=”oauth_token”<br/>
v:<input type=”Text” name=”v”<br/><br/>
<input type=”submit” value=”post” />
</form>
</body>
</html>