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I'm really not sure if that's the case. With some stuff (eg: car fleets) which are pretty liquid they may get a return. But on some super specialised machinery for VW which only makes VW specific parts they are going to really struggle to get any money for it.
> My seminary teacher, the sweetest woman you’ve ever met, got VERY upset and yelled at me when I said that it sounded like Communism.

Yikes. It sounds like part of her knew you were right but she was in serious denial.

By "latter days", do you mean after the LDS version of the end times? I thought that the "Latter Day" in Latter Day Saints referred to the time period of Joseph Smith. Mormons, from what I understand, encourage each other to prep for the end time and even have a semi-official guide on how to do so(it's free and pretty good, actually). It makes sense to me that they would also want to amass as much resources as possible to eventually build Zion.

> I have concerns though, when my friends family lives in a house where their youngest kid got lead exposure, and they’re barely getting by, tithing their 10%, but the Mormon church is amassing such wealth yet my friend’s family of five is on food stamps. Something feels off there.

Now I know why virtually all the men in my Mormon friend's family and social circle were either surgeons or lawyers. Better be able to get by while also tithing 10%!
You should see how some low budget Chinese factories that pump out laser-cut cards (etc) operate.

I've seen videos of workers huddled in a small room operating wholly unshielded galvonometer-type lasers (as in the sort that were popular in laser shows in the 80s.. but with lasers designed to actually cut) without any extraction, using bits of corrugated card to manually waft away fumes.
"It is easier for a rich man to enter Heaven seated comfortably on the back of a camel than it is for a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle."

- Supply Side Jesus, https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp
That’s 1.8% annually. Better rates than European banks are getting on most low-risk lending.
AH! I love the Expanse but didn't make that connection (spaceships are not part of the current common theology). Much obliged.
Stating the obvious for those who don't follow the link: "The Expanse" is a fictional movie with no basis in reality in that church's doctrine: "In The Expanse, the story of what happens to the Mormon church (and other organized religions) will be trickled out with other back-story elements to fill the 200-year gap between the show’s setting and the present- which the showrunners seem desperate to bridge with (They have flying drones and video messaging!). The brief scene between Fred Johnson and a Mormon administrator weighs heavy on the show’s plot but is slipped in between the three main storylines of the Earth-based United Nations, Detective Miller’s case on Ceres Station and the rag-tag crew currently ship-hopping around the asteroid belt." etc etc etc
Official mortality rate is 2.1%. Deaths per confirmed infections. And yes, the WHO isn't that stupid to count cases that aren't decided yet. And yes, they are smart enough to take the appr. three weeks it usually takes until death into account.

No idea where you got that 30% from. Even in Wuhan, with its medical infrastructure close to the breaking point, we are talking about 4.9%.
This is some high grade sarcasm!
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The interchange rates are governed by EU rules. They’re not up to the banks.
> But I ask myself: How difficult can it be for a billion dollar revenue company?

Am I the only one who has trouble believing that someone who was at a technical level involved in scraping and running facial recognition on 200k photos would genuinely answer "Not very?".
They are stealing from everyone. Churches do not pay taxes. This is supposed to be contingent on not engaging in politics and actually acting like a non-profit.
Seems most churches are basically real estate companies. The same is said about the Catholic Church and Scientology. Even if they lost all of their members they could keep going forever.
This depends a lot on what kind of society you live in and how good welfare / free education options you have around you. In most western countries you can go to school, get student aid, and switch careers to something satisfying even if you are starting from a 0 budget.
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The concept of tithing is absolutely taught in the Bible. If you believe Christ to be the God of the Old Testament then He absolutely taught it.

You seem to be under the impression all religious people who give tithing are merely being exploited. I can promise you are wrong there.

The mentality of "I've had no such experience with God so everyone who claims they have is a kook" is quite ignorant. Perhaps you could learn something from those who have.
> not something targeted at particularly talented specific people.

Are you sure you're not just falling into tech chauvinism here? According to LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/linklaters/people/ people who work for that firm largely went to Oxford, Cambridge, and LSE. All you're pointing out is that white shoe law firms that hire from the top-tier universities in the country pay their associates extremely well, even as they do work you consider boring and unsexy.
Still ridiculous, considering it's just updating balances in a few rows of a database.

Cryptocurrencies, except BTC and a couple of others, are doing it right. A transfer should cost a fraction of a cent.
I’ve stopped going to Makerfaire-like events because home-made laser cutters seem to be the thing now and I’m vary of visiting hackerspaces. I’ve seen too many of these things out in the open with zero protection, just waiting to blind some random onlooker. A lot of people building these have zero respect for eye safety.
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Yes, as we know nothing about the percentage of traffic which is coming from google, bing or any of the remaining 398 ressources. I can only assume the contribution is abysmal, given the almight of the one trully.
From a business perspective a religion is one of the best things you can start, it's free of taxes on most countries, it autoscales after convincing the first few people because it's now their (unpaid) job to convince even more; the demand is always there because most people have a biological innate fear of death/non-existence and just like with movies people crave a "happy ending", call it paradise, heaven or else; the best part is that the children of your believers are bound to be converted to your religion so there will be no lack of money donators on the long term, and is pretty easy to teach believers to denounce anyone that tries to convince them of leaving your religion as intolerant.
My brother designed and built his own plasma cutter. I wonder how useful people would find that?
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Sites that rely on tracking to generate targetted ads might not exist. There are still plenty of sites that don't depend on ads, or get sufficient context without tracking. E.g. a car enthusiast forum doesn't exactly need tracking to know it should show car adverts.
This seems true regarding most old-school power brokers. Isn't the UK monarchy funded by the UK government renting land?
In most European countries SEPA and its predecessors have taken this role for most people. I’m 34 and have never had a personal cheque book; there’s just no need.

It is a cultural thing to an extent though; there are EU countries where they’re still used to some extent despite the presence of a modern banking system.
I cannot fathom why churches are automatically tax exempt. Regular nonprofits have to jump through all kinds of hoops to prevent these kind of shenanigans. We are supposed to have a secular government. How is it that we single out this one class of institution for special treatment?
They may be thinking of Bio-Safety Level (BSL) 4 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The CDC has suggested nCOV-2019 be investigated/treated with BSL 2 PPE. Links to the CDC guidelines and a doc outlines what constitutes BSL 2 are below.

* https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/lab-biosafety-...

* https://www.wm.edu/offices/sponsoredprograms/_documents/ppe_...
I'd argue it's from the perspective of the Apple marketing department. At least often.
> "The Expanse" is a fictional movie with no basis in reality

neither is the Mormon church nor any other religion for that matter
file.pizza is working fine for me, I use it monthly or so and have never seen any downtime.
If the 401k limit is no less than 28% of your income, that’s a fairly low salary, although not totally unreasonable for a new grad.

My suggestion would be to focus on getting to be an excellent engineer. Ask for raises at every cycle. Put in 18-24 months at your current job. Then you should be able to get significantly higher comp at the next one.

When you get a higher salary, don’t increase your expenses.

As a new grad you’re not going to become a millionaire overnight. Building wealth is a game of patience.

But you’re already saving a lot, and that puts you ahead of the curve. Especially since you’re doing it early in your career when it will have the most time for interest to compound.

Put in 10 years of career growth without spending growth and you’ll find yourself socking away a whole lot of money. Put in 20, 30 years and you’ll find that wealth has grown.
> Every time I've started a business, there's been a lot of work that isn't so much developing "the idea" as much as finding ways to connect it economically the rest of the world. Whereas the naive view would be something like "once we invent fusion, it will be easy to sell".

This is often true of software industry startups. Not so true of many other industries. If you invent a higher temperature turbine blade, for example, figuring out the market for it is trivial. The same is undoubtedly true of fusion.

When I worked at a startup, we knew the military would basically buy our technology, if we could get it working in the first place. The company has been working at it for more than 10 years.

One of the benefits of the patent system is that it allows monetary separation between investors and distributors. ARM doesn’t need to know how to build cell phones or how to market them to consumers. It can focus on chip design and sell IP. That’s specialization at work. And it’s of enormous economic value. If you can’t protect inventions, every company is basically judged on the success of manufacturing/marketing efforts. (That happens anyway, but devaluing IP would accelerate that.)
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I’ll be damned. I just didn’t see that anywhere on the main site.

That’s also a blast from the past. Look at the number one freeware download:

https://ibb.co/gDZjjBf
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The largest news Network in the US ran this story from multiple angles including yours, and even has a panel.

If you really need someone to pander to this perspective, American society is full of people loudly discussing it. It is obviously so.

So either you are angry that your local discourse doesn't treat this topic kindly, or you were just making a rhetorical jab that wasn't meant to be taken literally.

In either case it doesn't seem very fair to do, imo.
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Of course the sentiment is here! Because it's reasonable!

Look, I got no problem with what people believe or how they pray. But 100 billion isn't needed for that so the purpose is??? Will it involve me? And the tax treatment complaint is also perfectly reasonable.

None of this is hatred for private property nor religion.
I find a lot of people invoke Christ, but have little to do with his teachings.

Amusingly, his ideas align more with beliefs held by “the young left” than by “the old right”. (Yesyes, bad terms but you know what I mean) And yet the real-world allegiances are inverted.
A historical descendant of the compromises necessary to remove the Church and other such institutions from centrality to political power
I'm not sure entering the bond market is possible. These "startup user bonds" would be unrated, beyond junk, accessible only to accredited investors, etc. The debt would probably take the form of some type of a CLO or ETN wrapper? I'm just speculating here. Anyone with better insight?
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> For the record I left several years ago, but have many family members still heavily involved. It's an organization which does not allow you to leave with your dignity intact.

I've seen people leave with and without. As to why they've not left with dignity, it's sometimes not one-sided.

Edit: For those who are making many negative guesses and assumptions about my comments. My comment had nothing to do with the OP's personal life at all (as I know nothing about their personal experience). My comment was simply to make a counter-claim to the blanket statement that the church allows no one to leave with dignity.

The OP has since shared more details about their personal experience, which was absolutely a terrible experience in every way. It's awful that they, and their family, had to go through that. If I feel so awful about it, have I ever attempted to reduce the likelihood of such things happening? Yes! I have.

I have also seen people leave the church without any great undue process or negativity—or loss of dignity (in my interpretation of what was meant by dignity).

Edit [2]: There has already been more than 1 other person comment, who has left the church, who didn't experience any of the negative things that the OP did. That doesn't mean that OP is lying, exaggerating, or anything, it's simply my point—OP's experience is not the universal experience, nor the officially designed experience. Is OP's experience more common than it should? Absolutely yes.
I'm just curious what you would consider marketing-speak then. To my eyes, your phrasing seems to veer off into the other extreme towards seeming patronising and insincere. And it is pretty clear that you want essentially the same thing as the person who said "please do X".

Maybe "please consider adding TLS because ... " is a good compromise? Still not a foot-stomping demand but you're stating why it would be better for all involved while not treating the subject as a child.

Personally I would even leave off the "because ..." because I'm a non-native speaker and happy to be taken as a little abrasive.
It's very easy to incorporate different types of businesses under tax exempt nonprofits under codes that are not 501(c)3. The problem is if you are not incorporated as a nonprofit, if someday you flip to losing money because you're giving it away, the irs will not be happy, and may move to revoke your incorporation.
Well that IS stupid - I'm a little surprised the organisers allow it.
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> So what?

It's how they got the money (typically manipulation[0][1] and free-will donations) and how they spend the money (politics, for-profit ventures) [2][3].

[0] http://johnlarsen.org/mormon-expression/ Episode 250

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/7p09zl/today_i_le... LDS Philanthropies produced a video encouraging wealthy people to leave inheritance with the LDS church to keep their kids in line.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8:_The_Mormon_Proposition

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_Book_Company
Note that the financial structure of the Catholic Church is vastly different; there's the Vatican, and hundreds (thousands?) of dioceses, then parishes (most dioceses treat their parishes as somewhat independent entities), and finally charity organizations like Catholic Charities in the USA (which are completely independent, financially).

So it would be a lot harder to have a holistic idea of the financial health of the global Catholic Church.
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A prior discussion of Clay Christianson mentioned how he wouldn't play basketball on Sunday because it was the first small step that leads to larger steps (of sinning). This is a massive amount of money.

I'm struggling to understand if this money was gathered under the tax exempt status of churches in the US. And if this isn't a bigger sin than playing basketball on Sunday, if you believe in sinning.

Remember, downvotes are just like playing basketball on Sunday...
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It's OK to like the things you like. It has nothing to do with objective explanations.
> when Jesus was not very fond of amassing money

I'm guessing you're talking about the moneychangers being thrown out of the temple?

There are examples recorded in the scriptures of tithes and offerings, and also of a people preparing/amassing the relative wealth/supplies (Noah, Joseph, etc).

There are multiple levels of preparedness taught in the LDS church. The lowest, the family, being to only have necessary debt (e.g. university or a house) and to have 3 days of storage for in case of emergencies for your own family (or individual self), or to help others. Then in some areas you have Bishop storehouses. It goes up and up.

> I get why the churches do it (of course they don't believe in Christ)

Why does the LDS church do it?
Why do you think it's more difficult for a rich person? Does giving a tithe encourage or discourage the behaviors that make it difficult to make it to "Heaven"?

Think on it.
Observing them in the abundance I do (harvest lbs per hour with a cricket bat), it seems obvious that they're a rich food source for wildlife, from ground to sky. Wildlife and ecology are uncommon concerns in Florida, unfortunately. Such can be clearly deduced from the repugnant new developments scourging the state, which are basically micro Epcot centers stripped of all aesthetics, ie fantasy villages divorced from indigenous reality. The Everglades, for example, is a keystone system, for the planet, and undoubtedly a geiser of mosquitoes. Eliminating any non invasive species, but notably the mosquito, would imo, have negative consequences despite brief anthropic jubilee. My brutal loathing aside, I'd be very reluctant to fulfill my prayer. I don't think it's a slippery slope, but it's one that through means intenional or not, we'll probably see as populations grow under current practices.
My phone is older than that, and it's working perfectly fine. It's still getting updates, too. No idea what you're talking about or where you're getting your information from, but it's clearly wrong and biased. Makes sense I suppose, when you've spent so much money to buy into the apple ecosystem you just can't help but defend it.
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Bank transfers in Europe are now typically free. Cards expose the bank to a certain (small) degree of risk Nd administrative cost, so they’d probably stop offering the service if rates were regulated to zero.
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The Mormon fertility rate is only 1.73, so the proceeds are not even being spent to encourage fecundity within their community. The 10% tithe might even be such a burden as to discourage having more children.
Yes, that is why I posted the link.
How do I send this software to my friends without spending a ridiculous amount of money? I don't have a mac, so I presumably would have to spend (at least) $1k to buy one first. That's already $1k more than I ever spent on developing for android.

And then, to actually develop software, I would have to work on this mac operating system. I don't know who came up with their keybindings and shortcuts, but it's an absolute inconsistent mess when compared to any other OS. Whenever I have to touch a mac to assist a coworker it's utterly frustrating.
> It still sounds a lot like Communism, though.

That is because it is, 100%. If your teacher freaked out over it, she is having trouble reconciling it with the American cultural meme of "Communism is pure evil.", which stems from the Cold War, not religious doctrine.

And yes, something is off if a tithing LDS family is living on food stamps. I have had family who lost jobs and had no money, and the LDS church gave them food and money to cover bills, until they could get back on their feet. Such situations tend to be handled at the local level, and there are definitely good and bad leaders in all organizations, including churches.
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Religious orgs are a time-tested model for providing sustainable and widespread social cohesion, which is a huge positive externality and also protects the most vulnerable against marginalization and oppression. The tax exemption seems obviously warranted on that basis alone, even abstracting away from any of the more visible charity work or social support that these orgs usually provide.
Given that we haven't met, dorian-graph, this starts with the assumption that what people like me went through is trivial. For decency sake I ask you to reconsider this as a default position.

In order to get my records at least flagged as no longer a Mormon, thus to keep random visits from local congregations from occurring, I had to get a lawyer involved.

In order for my children to not be repeatedly hounded by some parents at school to come back with their kids over the weekend so they could attend the local congregation, we needed legal action.

I didn't speak out or speak up vocally when I left. I just stopped going to the local congregation. Not a single person there chose to continue friendship. My wife attended a few more years, and had to constantly deal with rumors that I had an affair (I did not). When we moved and I was no longer known to the new congregation, she had to deal with the the local leadership trying to instantiate romantic relationships with widowers and unmarried gentlemen in the congregation because they assumed I was either dead or because since she still attended our marriage was on the rocks.

My story is not unique, and I can say with confidence that the social pressures on the members result in them feeling justified performing actions intended to take away dignity of former congregants ("apostates").
Renew your U.S. Passport and tick the extra box to get the land border passport card too.

It's a piece of plastic same size as a DL, a federal ID, and works for air travel. Usable for ID everywhere a state DL is as well as everywhere a federal ID is required.
Don't bother reading ANYTHING other than the claims. Just skip right to them. That's the legal part, that's what they're trying to do a land-grab on. The stuff up front (abstracts, diagrams, whatever) don't mean a thing and will only serve to distract you.
Thanks for sharing. I look forward to reading.
"We have frames"

Fantastic.
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Just checked the last Situation Report from Feb. 7th from the WHO:

31,211 confirmed cases and 637 deaths in China. Makes a rate of roughly 2.04%. And I trust the WHO to get the calculation behind that right.
Because the EU told the banks not to charge for transfers, essentially. It will be interesting to see what happens in the UK once they truly leave.
I've had that card rejected, unlike the passport card.
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Drop is our national licorice candy, and lol means fun (not just as the acronym).
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not sure of one specific number. Say you have achieved product market fit and the lifetime value of your customers (LTV) is less than three times the cost of acquisition, you probably be better of getting leverage from debt and gain marketshare. Depends on the market you operate though.