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I think the reason people keep quoting this is because his maturity has caused him to quit talking about it--not quit doing it. His entire success and livelihood is the product of selling peoples personal information, often in ways that they don't understand.
This is not a charity in the tax sense (a 501(c) organization), it's a limited liability company. So if there are tax benefits, I don't think they come from a government policy to increase charitable spending.
It's not too hard if you are willing to use fixed length buffers and safe calls like: strlcpy, strlcat, and snprintf.

Also not terribly hard to write a small arbitrary length string library as part of the project.
https://www.iqt.org/

The rabbit hole goes a long way down from there.

And to answer your question... yes, the government just sits around waiting to leech off of people. Its what they do. Otherwise it would be called a business, not a government.
He was not an idiot, he was smart and manipulative. That's rather the opposite of an idiot. Assuming that he stopped being manipulative now that he's rich would be rather the stupid thing to consider. He's rich now because behaving this way has worked well for him.
I think the conclusion from 12 Angry Men is "holy shit, what if Henry Fonda weren't there".
Whether or not it's a good value is in the eye of the beholder. But it is a luxury item.
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I'm surprised this isn't a more popular opinion.

Whatever ethical questions may lie in forming a "charity" with an unknown level of veracity, there are also ethical questions in giving the money to an organization that will, without a doubt, surveil, imprison, torture, and murder.
It's more than saying or doing something stupid. It is peek into a fundamental character trait of that person.
Wow. How many emails, pictures, addresses, SNS does he have now? And this is what made him so wealthy? Collecting personal information? Incredible.
I agree. A juror who believes in following the rules for the sake of following the rules is terrifying. The goal of our legal system is (or should be) justice rather than mere law enforcement, and it's never appropriate to ignore the fact that every component of the system is fallible.
Brutal dictatorship over, time for the Capitalist vultures to move in to claim the beaten down country's treasures, people already have nothing let's privatize what's owed to people who don't need it. You know because it's right.

In other news Mark Zuckerberg fails to pay around 1/2 of his 45 billion dollar wealth to the taxes and instead has privatized it through a potentially "faux" charity.

Trust me he needs that 20 or so billion dollars more than the Cubans.
Poe's law at work.
> a 100% chance it's squandered on bureaucracy and inefficient solutions to problems other tax dollars went to creating.

After all, there's absolutely no chance that you are able to choose people to do thankless tasks upon which your life depends (disposing of sewage, supplying potable water, maintaining roads, ...).
If they were going to use a different hash function then they would more likely uses the built-in CRC32 instruction, which computes CRC-32C. That would certainly be faster.
Just as another data point, our project is 16k lines (including tests) and I just timed it at 2.7 minutes to run "lein cljsbuild once" with no difference when setting those jvm-opts. This is on a quad core 2.8ghz i7 MBP.
I've wondered if the charity Claire Underwood works at in House of Cards was intended to be a commentary on this sort of thing.
Claire takes a huge salary from donations by corporations, then Frank spends it. They seem to be intimately involved with San-Corp at every turn but there are lots of questions raised that never get answered. For example it's never explained why so much of the staff was rapidly cut, or why they pivoted to international work. I think they were even present in the whole Russo ordeal where the environmental initiative is replaced by natural gas after that bill fails. At the same time it is never directly implied that the CWI was an outright money laundering scheme.
Given all of the hostility that's constantly directed at him and Facebook, I don't blame him one bit for running everything through a PR firm. Navigating irrational mobs is part of what PR firms do.
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My knee jerk was to assume that this was a reinvention of cgexec.

You had me at "limiting already running process to cpu 30%".

My poor laptop has never loved a feature so much as this.

ありがとう, Matsumoto-san.
you may be surprised how easy it is to write a http server that replies with html in C... its all just text going over sockets after all.

i did it myself a lot a long time ago by teaching myself, but you are right that using some full featured server and some high level language targetting web development has much more convenience, especially if you care about rich features and security.
Maybe you're not as decent as you think you are.
Hrm, good point, didn't really think of it that way.
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Can someone recommend an exercise app?

I need something simple that will tell suggest random exercises and serve as a timer, e.g. `say "do 20 push ups"; say "now do 30 sit-ups";` etc.
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http://home.ronsor.gq:12321/pub/ohshitwhoputthishere.txt

seems that cgi-bin is also writable, can't make the file executable though

http://home.ronsor.gq:12321/cgi-bin/ohshit.txt
I understand, I just don't think the comic was referring to that.
No the loopholes is that if the LLC donates the appreciated shares to charity it will get a deduction of the fair market value. However if a tax-exempt entity (Charity) then sells the stock it does not pay capital gains.
There's a better article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-mark...
> NO dependencies

not even sockets? because /that/ would be impressive.
Eh, the United States spends a lot of that tax money on the military. I don't have a problem with wealthy people making their own call on the guns vs. butter question.
Somehow from what I know of Mark Zuckerberg, he's not exactly looking to sit on all those billions. The motives the article is imputing to him are wrong.
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> This makes cryptography an inherently political tool.

It always was.

Many developers like to stay out of politics. Concentrating on difficult technical problems is hard enough; adding in politics is therefor adding in unnecessary complexity. As the wonderful Tom Lehrer put it in his song "Wernher Von Braun"[1],

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.

"once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

The problem with this is similar to the problem of abstaining from the vote: it's absolutely not a neutral position. Choosing to abstain from politics in general, like those that choose to abstain from the vote, is de facto a vote for the status quo and majority rule.

Not only is cryptography an inherently political tool, almost all software is political.

Software does not exist in a vacuum; the entire point of most software is that it has an impact on business, society, and the world. With the discovery of the General Purpose Computer, this impact can be very large.

It's easy to see why cryptography disrupts existing power structures. It should be similarly easy to see how software already overturned the traditional power structures in places like the stock market, manufacturing, and retail.

So please, consider what impact your software might have when you are writing it, or if someone already has a goal in mind. Maybe, in some cases, it's better to walk away. It;'s a hard question, but the answer is not to say "I'm staying out of politics". To quote Quinn Norton and Eleanor Saitta from their talk[2] at 30c3, there is "no neutral ground in a burning world".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro#t=16

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWg2qEEa9CE
> That is one truly crazy argument.

> You seem to be suggesting there should be no taxes.

I can't stand that our culture is so quick to pin anarchic notions to mental illness.

It's not 'crazy,' it's a totally legitimate worldview, backed by some awesome and smart people throughout history.
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Ah. Guess that makes sense. I'm lucky enough to be able to use ClojureScript so I guess I've fallen behind on modern JS.
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I'm reading these comments somewhat in disbelief. Put the torches down people. You know it took me the better part of 40 years to realize that if one is the greatest guy in the world 95% of the time and a complete asshole 5% of the time guess what that makes you? A complete asshole. Especially ally to the people that only see you during that 5%.

Well the same holds true for the police. These travesty could and probably is only perpetrated by a tiny percentage of officers yet Now with the release of this story(has anyone -confirmed it's legitimacy?) at least those commenting have already confirmed judged and condemned the bulk of every police department in the nation as shoot to kill monstrous overlords. I'm sorry but that's just not the case.
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You don't think the American people get at least 5% back in value from every tax dollar collected?

Total revenue for the federal government was about $3 trillion in 2014. You don't think that the American people got at least $150 billion in value out of that?
Thank you for saying this. It's so easy to criticise, judge and unfairly extrapolate based on what other people seem to have said or done according to a small, out of context quote, picture, video, etc. It's incredibly unfair and hypocritical to do so.

We all need to just admit, as you've done, that we all say and do things all the time which would paint us in a very bad light if taken in the wrong context. As an obvious example, there are things that everyone says to friends that they'd never dream of saying to their boss, or parents, or their kids' teacher, or other friends for that matter.

Judging Mark Zuckerberg based on this quote is exactly like that. He's not addressing an audience, he's not giving a considered summary of his world view or philosophy. Rather he's almost certainly joking with a friend, simply saying something abrasive just to give an impression of being confident or alpha etc, the way people sometimes do when they're joking- especially young, relatively unconfident people. We've all done that at some point.

I'm 100% certain if his mother had walked into the room immediately after he'd said this and said 'Mark! Is that what you really think, that all your classmates are.. what did you call them.. dumb fucks?' he would have apologised profusely and corrected himself, clarifying that he was simply joking and said a silly thing in the heat of the moment. Like all teenagers do. Like all humans do.
Is there any legal precedent for this? It seems like one could make a reasonable legal argument for either interpreting a repo as a single distribution or as a bunch of separate ones.
The stats in the article seem to be out by orders of magnitude.

374M Uniques in August viewed 17.9 Billion Pages according to
https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/#

but main graph in the article suggests ~20M Pageviews in 2015 - which seems to rather downplay the utility and influence of Wikipedia.
> He puts himself on quite a pedestal, comparing himself to Fonda like he's the righteous movie star

From TFA:

> I’m no Henry Fonda.

Jesus, did you even read the thing?
They do not avoid capital gains taxes by doing this.

Also, more broadly, when you see a "sweeping end run around the taxation system", it may be instructive to consider why everyone else doesn't just do the same. Legal tax avoidance techniques are not secrets.
Yes they had invested money and they could not make any money out of antibiotics for the reasons I listed. This is why they shut them down.

There is some evidence that some of these divisions weren’t very good at finding new drugs, but even when they were found they weren’t brought through to market because there was no profit.
Yup. That URL worked during the broadcast, but doesn't seem to be able to replay it. I haven't been able to find a replayable copy.
Despite the other negative comments, I actually find this a vicarious account of the judicial system - a poignant reminder that behind any democratic system lies humans.
> I don't have a problem with wealthy people making their own call on the guns vs. butter question.

You can donate to military organizations that fund warfare directly?
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Exactly. If there was money to made selling antibiotics they would have keep investing in this area. They have started again recently, but there is an awful long lead time to develop new drugs - even longer when you have laid off all the people skilled in this area.
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> Jurors are supposed to be humans, first and foremost. That's why juries are made up of your peers and not a bunch of legal professionals.

Juries do not exist to selectively exercise "humanity" by ignoring the rules. They exist because any more narrowly-drawn pool of decision-makers could more easily be accused of bias and partiality.
Exactly. Would you trust Mark Zuckerberg with spending 15bn for the supposed betterment of society, or would you trust the US government?

Given that the US government wastes so much via corrupt deals, inefficiencies, insane surveillance, and absurd military spending- I would favor Zuckerberg directing the fund.
yep, tipping could work in some places. I doubt these companies need 20% of the fee to fund the infrastructure and make a decent profit too, so there will probably be some downward pressure on that cut as competition intensifies.

of course autonomous taxis will change the business model somewhat but we are still some way from that - not just the tech but the legislation.
http://home.ronsor.gq:12321/cgi-bin/irc.html

<script type="text/javascript">alert('you guys better watch out for dat XSS and XSRF bidness');</script>

Oh god, this shit is sooooo not secure.
He must have hired a bargain-basement PR firm, too. The best PR firms put out stuff that doesn't seem like it came from a PR firm.
Do you believe Google is or isn't a US company which would keep the most interesting stuff to itself/NSA/US-TLA's?

Having Google audit the OpenSSL code is not really a problem... but believing them to do things for the benefit of anyone else isn't really feasible. They've shown themselves to be both good and bad actors on multiple occasions, so trying to pick which one this is... guesswork. :(
"A lot" is relative.

Wikipedia says the military is 17% of expenditures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...

This may or may not constitute a lot, depending on who you are.
Ooh, better than nothing. Sounds enticing.
Not a charity, it's an LLC investment vehicle.
Zuckerberg is not accountable at the ballot box the same way politicians are.

If it is tax avoidance then, as a commenter above pointed out, he's robbing the treasury of billions of dollars that should be spent by government.

Some of us don't have the luxury of avoiding taxes and some of us deem it highly unethical when people do.
Pablo Escobar donated a ton of money to the community. Should people have just praised him for that, and said that his reasons don't matter, and so what if he was donating largely to ingratiate himself into the community in order to protect himself from authorities? We can't simply ignore a person's motives.
This is going up like crazy -- 100 sales in a few minutes. Why?
Respectfully, maybe it should be a (friendly) competition. Competition motivates people. It's commonly accepted as one of the central drivers of capitalist markets. Perhaps if competition were injected in open source projects in some form it'd help the open source community compete with the proprietary community.
Great, let's get that data too as long as we are at it. Anyone know how to get it?
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Or put another way, the people who create something worth $300B out of nothing get to decide what happens to their share of the $300B. And as a bonus, these are people with demonstrated success in their ventures, and they are given free reign to pursue their vision fully. Whereas the public sector is a mess of a dysfunctional congress, infighting, posturing, pork, global warming deniers, and discourse targeted to short attention spans and the 24 hour news cycle.

There is something very troubling about the idea that the more successful/valuable your creation becomes, the less entitled you are to invest the fruit of your success into your next idea.
> Compare NASA to SpaceX.

I guess you haven't been paying attention to SpaceX.

With the exception of commodity things like their microchips, they've built all of their tech from scratch. They can deliver payloads somewhere between 33% and 66% cheaper than anyone else. Their safety record is really, really good. They're doing things with their launch vehicles that noone else is.

SpaceX is the best goddamn thing to happen to spaceflight since the Cold War Space Race.
And a decent, rational, moral, courageous person whom realizes legality is rarely the same as justice.

Too many people find it expedient to just shirk their responsibilities and send innocent people to prison, to death because "it's too much work" or "don't want conflict."
Entropy always increases in a closed system. Entropy of a part of a system (i.e. an open subsystem, e.g. the Earth) is a well defined quantity (it is even a thermodynamical potential, hence completely independent of the history of the system, only dependent on the current state) and can be decreasing (and even the most basic thermodynamics textbook has plenty of examples).

And yes, the entropy of Earth is decreased by cleanup efforts. Only when including the Sun you get a system in which the total entropy increases. But this would be quite useless thing to do, given that the Sun is an infinite source of energy for practical purposes.
You're mixing the meanings of tax avoidance and tax evasion.

Zukerberg is not breaking the law, he's legally structuring his finances to avoid capital gains. The fact that these gaping loopholes in the tax code is combination of incompetence and corruption.
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Also the ability to relicense an Apache License 2.0 work is relatively unimportant (compared to, say, the ability to relicense something under a more restrictive license like the GPL).
its still not as easy as in languages with modern libraries.

a = "foo" + "bar"; is very useful so is b = a.split( "," ); or a = b.trim(); etc. C strings are rarely so convenient.

its more obvious with the more high level things you want. to do something like b = a.split( "," ); on a string that is not know until runtime you need dynamic allocations and you could use strtok to fill that memory with the results, but its an error-prone ballache by comparison.
You can't rob the treasury of USD ... The US government creates USD when it spends.
The anti-Uber alliance actually isn't that big a dealyet
Yeah, but you need to be connected online first for that. eg go through the whole "Steam starts, updates itself, etc". :)
Length is irrelevant. What matters is context - specifically a vague and nebulous dividing line between public service vs for-profit - and distinctiveness.

People have been sued for using very short but recognisable samples. In extreme cases some artists have negotiated a slice of the publishing just for contributing a sample.

(One of my favourite extreme examples is the Prodigy's Firestarter from 1997, where an entire team of writers and producers negotiated a co-writing credit solely for the use of a very short sample of a woman yelling "Hey!")
> Although we may have needed government to stifle private violence in the past, I don't think we do any longer.

We moved from private jackbooted-thugs-for-hire to public police protection because thugs-for-hire are unaccountable. Sadly, over the past hundred years or so we've forgotten this lesson, lost our vigilance, and have permitted many of our public servants to make themselves largely unaccountable for their actions.

Power and leadership structures naturally emerge in sufficiently large groups of people. This is unavoidable, even in sufficiently large anarchist organizations.

As the Dothan, AL incident has most recently demonstrated, evil people come to power from time to time. All healthy organizations must be able to detect evil people and remove them from power.

In your future where government is no longer permitted to apply force, where is the accountability? Who detects and ejects evil? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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If we're going to talk about relative military spending...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
Agreed^million. Terrifying in a Stanford Prison meets Milgram way. I think all jurors should be put through Milgram-like experiments as condition for service, to determine if they're cowed by authority or possess their own moral compasses.
Yes it is. Using inbred mice allows you to use fewer mice as the variability due to the genetic background is reduced. The more variability in your system the more individuals you need to see a statistically valid difference due to treatment. The more you have to test the more the cost.

None of this would matter if we were developing cures for diseases of C57BL/6 mice [1], but we are actually interested in developing cures for humans who are not inbred (well in most places). We need our animals models to match as closely as possible to humans and using inbred mice is not a good match.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C57BL/6