>how many paintings of Mary and ugly baby Jesus do you need?

I had a laugh at that comment. I visited London six months ago and spent an evening at the National Gallery, including the self-guided audio tour. As I wrote in an email at the time,

"I'd guess at least a third of the paintings I saw, often from Italian artists, were about Jesus being born, being circumcised, or being crucified and resurrected, along with lots of stuff about Mary, Joseph, John the Baptist (Jesus' cousin, I guess), etc"

Goverment debt is reduced by increased taxes and/or reduction in services just as much as it is by "inflation". Further, inflation doesn't affect the person who got a $7,500 individual tax reduction as much as someone who didn't.

>this also applies if you transfer the credit to the dealer at point of sale

No, it does not. See Q4 at the following link:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/topic-h-frequently-asked-questi...

My understanding is that the dealer has to have the tax liability. IANATL, YMMV.

>Which means no one is getting your tax dollars to buy vehicles

Then who is making up the difference between the tax that would have been paid, and the credit reduction?

What is the new approach?

For example, I use Quickbooks. There is a feature that allows you to create a mapping from each income and expense account in your chart of accounts to the appropriate line on the tax return (it knows about Schedule C, S-corp, partnership returns). After this one time activity, you can simply run a "tax summary" report every year which shows the appropriate numbers for each line of the tax return.

It uses AI to auto categorize and learn over time.

So instead of seeing Chase & Bank of America give me a bunch of hard coded stuff I get secondary categories.

This is what I built. UI is already different and there's lots more to add, but from the get go I'm getting more insight.

https://imgur.com/a/ylp4DXx

I bought a used one for my use at home while working on a university degree. And as another comment noted, vi would still be usable with a 300 baud (or 1200, I can't quite remember) modem. You could limit the visible "window" into your file to five lines on screen, so it didn't take so long to refresh. Alas, no longer have the ADM3a (but my kids when younger did use it as a play typewriter for a while).

>Currently the secular change in the rotation rate increases the length of day by some 2.3 milliseconds per day per century. [emphasis added]

>suppose the rotating earth is our clock and it's been 100 years [...] Then after 1000 days our earth clock loses about 2.3 seconds,

I think the math here is very wrong, or else I haven't had enough coffee yet.

>it's been about 100 years so now each day is 2.3 milliseconds longer

>after 1000 days 1000 * 2.3 milliseconds = 2.3 seconds

I don't think the example helps at all to explain the concept, but I think the math is right

So, if my maths is right that’s about 1 second extra slower every 500 days, which means a day will take 48 hours in about 43 million years

That seems very very fast on galactic time scales - we would get tidally locked (rotate at speed of orbit?) in about 150x43 million … oh about 3 billion years … yeah never mind

Edit A slightly different way of looking at it is we add a leap second every 2 or so years on average (27 in past 53 years). This seems about right with the above maths - it just amazes me

What amazes me more is they are going to stop using leap seconds https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second by 2035

No, it's 2.3ms per day slower every 100 years. After 100 years the cumulative "loss" would be 100365.25(2.3/2), or about 11 hours, but each day would be about the same length as it is today.

If rotation was 86400 seconds per day today, then in 100 years time it will be 86,400.0023 seconds.

In 1,000 years time it will be 23ms slower

In 10,000 years time 230ms slower

In 100,000 years time 2.3 seconds slower.

In 1 million years 23 seconds, a 86400s day will take 86423 seconds

In 43 million years at that speed of 2.3ms per 100 years, a day will take 86,989 seconds, or 24 hours 16 minutes.

(there are other factors effecting earth's rotation)

An interesting similar thought is to work out the length of a day during the Jurassic period

Not 2.3 seconds per day, 2.3 seconds in total over that 1000 days, not 2.3 seconds per day which would be crazy.

On average each day over the last 100 years is only about 1.2ms longer, so total extra length after 100 years is 100365.251.15. A cumulative 42 seconds has been added in 100 years.

The building which used to house Fry's Electronics in Concord, CA is now an indoor gym/adventure type enterprise.

https://pioneerpublishers.com/old-frys-building-to-see-new-l...

I used to visit that store once a week, just because.

Another resource I've found very useful (disclaimer - no affiliation on my part) is

https://fairmark.com/compensation-stock-options/

There are several books also available, including a 2014 book aimed at financial planners and tax advisors that I have on my shelf and find myself consulting several times a year, as it is still pretty relevant under today's tax law.

Does crochet involve the same type of chain stitch that is sometimes used to store long electrical extension cords in a tangle-free and easy-to-unravel fashion?

yes, the chain stitch is often used at the start of a crochet project