Oregon’s Maximum Annual Rent Increase 2020
“What you need to know: The allowable rent increase percentage for the 2020 calendar year is 9.9%. See our office’s Rent Stabilization page for more, including a downloadable spreadsheet with all the data.”
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Fruits and Vegetables Are Trying to Kill You
“Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect. You probably try to exercise regularly and eat right.”
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Scandinavian Defense
“The Center Counter Defense is one of the oldest recorded openings, first recorded as being played between Francesc de Castellví and Narcís Vinyoles in Valencia in 1475 in what may be the first recorded game of modern chess, and being mentioned by Lucena in 1497.”
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Sicilian Defense
“The Sicilian Defense is the most popular defense against white’s opening 1.e4 and is used extensively at top level play. It is a very aggressive defense and immediately stakes claim at the center, denying white the double pawns on e4 and d4. Many chess champions actually prefer to start with 1.d4 because of how well the Sicilian Defense plays against 1.e4.”
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Banter Blitz with World Champion Magnus Carlsen (6)
“World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen plays blitz chess against chess24 users while talking about his moves: https://ift.tt/2UKjZ7R Premium to challenge Magnus during his show!https://bit.ly/2XUjTMe► Watch live and on-demand shows: https://bit.ly/2J389Um► Follow top tournaments”
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County Wage Growth (Map of the Week)
“While the macro outlook is more uncertain today, one item our office has tried to highlight is that current economic conditions are pretty good. The share of prime working-age Americans and Oregonians is relatively high and wages are rising.”
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About Nika
“At Mozilla I often end up building my changes in a patch stack, and used git rebase -i1 to make changes to commits in response to review comments etc. Unfortunately, with a repository as large as mozilla-central2, git rebase -i has some downsides:”
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What Every Developer Should Learn Early On
“As a developer, you’ll hear a lot of crazy, unbelievable theories about what “lines of code” signify. Believe none of them. Lines of code is a ridiculous metric to base decisions on. In very rare cases it tells you something, in all the other cases, it tells you nothing.”
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Friday Beer Thoughts: Local Demand
“Many of the business discussions surrounding beer tend to focus on the number of breweries opening or closing. We use that as a barometer for the health of the sector, including our previous look at industry dynamism. Counting breweries is pretty easy, however it also provides an incomplete picture.”
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50 Strategies to gain the upper hand over your opponent — MyChessBlog.Com – #1 Chess Blog On The Internet
“Here we are discussing some basic strategies that can give you advantage, however microscopic it may be.”
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Fun Friday: Marginal Propensity to Consume
“One question our office gets quite frequently about the kicker is what sort of economic impact does it have. After all we are returning hundreds of millions, if not a billion, dollars to taxpayers who likely did not budget the kicker into their household finances.”
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What People Actually Say Before They Die
“Insights into the little-studied realm of last words. Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed.”
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What Replaces Timber?
“Between the mill closure in Coos Bay, downsizing in Forest Grove, and the lively cap and trade discussions, there has been a renewed interest and focus on the timber industry in Oregon.”
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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
“Have you heard about algebraic effects? My first attempts to figure out what they are or why I should care about them were unsuccessful. I found a few pdfs but they only confused me more. (There’s something about academic pdfs that makes me sleepy.)”
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More on Migration to Oregon
“Last week we updated the basics of migration to Oregon. The post generated quite a few comments and questions. As such I wanted to post an update with a little more information.”
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Generalise, don’t specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us
“The 10,000-hour rule says intense, dedicated practice makes perfect – at that one thing. But what if breadth actually serves us better than depth? By Let’s start with a couple of stories from the world of sports.”
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
“Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more.”
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How to add Git’s branch name to the commit message?
“Use the prepare-commit-msg or commit-msg githook. There are examples already in your PROJECT/.git/hooks/ directory.”
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