Monthly Archives: May 2018

Indoor plants for people lacking green thumbs

Posted on May 22, 2018 | 2 comments

If that describes you, then you want to read this: Low Maintenance House Plants – How Often Should You Water | Apartment Therapy as well as this this.

Those two pieces are also good for people that travel alot, but want to still have indoor plants.

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Want to be a great boss or leader? Make sure you do these nine things

Posted on May 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Want to be a great boss or leader? Make sure you do these nine things

These nine activities, listed here: swissmiss | The Bosses We Remember are nine things great bosses or leaders do continually. If you had one or more great bosses, then you likely saw that person do many of them. As you become more senior, you should do them too.

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Do higher taxes cause rich people to move?

Posted on May 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Do higher taxes cause rich people to move?


No.

You will hear anecdotes of people doing so, but in reality:

While everyone seems aware of a handful of high-profile millionaires decamping to low-tax states for tax reasons, in truth few move in response to state tax rates. Young examined tax data from every millionaire in the United States over thirteen years. He found that, even over that long time horizon, only 0.3% of all millionaires, on net, moved to a lower tax state. A larger share—about 2.5 percent– move from one state to another each year, but most do not migrate for tax reasons.

That quote is from: What Republicans and Democrats Can Learn from “The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight” | Tax Policy Center.

Remember this the next time someone is arguing that higher taxes will cause the well off to move elsewhere.

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For book lovers, here are some of London’s most attractive bookshops

Posted on May 19, 2018 | Comments Off on For book lovers, here are some of London’s most attractive bookshops

Book store

John Sandoe Books Ltd is just one of the shops shown here:
London’s prettiest and most Instagrammable bookshops | London Evening Standard.

If you love books, this piece in the Standard will have you planning / dreaming of going to London and spending quality time (and money) there.

Enjoy.

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Can you finance a tiny home?

Posted on May 18, 2018 | Comments Off on Can you finance a tiny home?


According to this, yes (kinda): Tiny House Financing Tips – Mobile Home Loans | Apartment Therapy

It’s not in any way straightforward like getting a loan/mortgage for a traditional home, but it can be done.

If you are interested in getting such a home, it’s worth reading those tips.

P.S. To buy the house in the image, go here. It will set you back around $11,000.

 

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Should you read Steven Pinker’s Enlightment Now?

Posted on May 18, 2018 | Comments Off on Should you read Steven Pinker’s Enlightment Now?

I have my doubts after reading this: Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now is a huge hit. Too bad it gets the Enlightenment wrong. – Vox. 

I am a fan of the new wave of optimism being swept in by writers like Pinker. But misrepresenting the Enlightenment is a bad idea, and I am not sure why he did it. If you want to read it in the spirit of what out age needs now, then it is likely you should read it. If you want to learn about the Enlightenment, read the Vox piece and then go somewhere other than Enlightenment Now.

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On the mechanics of the Met Gala

Posted on May 17, 2018 | Comments Off on On the mechanics of the Met Gala

The Met Gala recently completed as it does every year, and it seems to draw more and more attention. Part charity event, part costume spectacle, it is a parade of fame and fortune and costume.

Yet even if you could afford the $30,000 for one ticket, you can’t necessarily get one. As this piece illustrates, there’s alot more to it than that.

Sure if you are Rhianna, you pretty much get to go the front of the line. For anyone else, reading the article in the New York Times will tell you all you need to know about this event.

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New evidence shows that our anti-poverty programs, especially Social Security, work well

Posted on May 9, 2018 | Comments Off on New evidence shows that our anti-poverty programs, especially Social Security, work well

The nation’s most important anti-poverty efforts all succeed in serving their goals—in the case of Social Security, spectacularly.
— Read on www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-antipoverty-20180507-story.html

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How to better understand Kubernetes networking

Posted on May 3, 2018 | Comments Off on How to better understand Kubernetes networking

Kubernetes networking is a non-trivial thing to understand, but if you are going to get into the use of Kubernetes, then you need to understand it. This trio of posts is a good way to do that. Highly recommended.

  1. Understanding kubernetes networking: pods – Google Cloud Platform — Community – Medium
  2. Understanding kubernetes networking: services – Google Cloud Platform — Community – Medium
  3. Understanding kubernetes networking: ingress – Google Cloud Platform — Community – Medium

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