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I won't address your other points since that's not what HN is about, but the person you responded to didn't say tithing. He said amassing money. 100 billion is an absolutely massive amount of cash to keep on hand for any purpose, and I imagine a good number of people think the money would mostly be going towards charitable causes or something of the sort. Tithing doesn't necessarily entail stockpiles that can buy out entire countries.
What are these cultural reasons that make bankers not want to lend?
> this starts with the assumption that what people like me went through is trivial.

I did not read it as that, and don't believe that is what his statement conveys.
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> 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.

What indicated that I thought it was trivial? It's not my default position, nor has it ever been my position that it's trivial—I know absolutely that it's not. Speaking of assumptions?

Edit: For others, there's been substantial additions to the parent comment of this comment.
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I was told that capitalism is supposed to be opposed to ideals like theocracy, monarchy and socialism, but look at the Mormons, the Evangelicals, Saudi Arabia and China, they're better at capitalism than most capitalists.

And I'm not ranting against capitalism, I'm against this fairy tale idea that capitalism somehow magically brings freedom. Especially in America, it's become part of national pride, yet we've forgotten about boycotts and "voting with your wallet", so the system is largely directed by blind greed and powerful special interests.
Many have been asking what the Church does with the money it has. The official response can be found here
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-of-j...

In addition this is the official response of the Church in reply to an almost identical story that ran not too long ago
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presi...
No.

They are negotiating with very few entities: just 2 (Visa and MasterCard) account for most card holders. Throw in Amex, and Discover if you want and you've covered nearly 100%.

Merchants don't have a lot of negotiating power, so they are really not in a position to dictate prices. Visa and MasterCard are in a position to dictate prices.
> ... how choosing a song requires clicking stupid buttons, the delay after inserting CDs, the high pitched whine of the motor, the sound of the stepper motor as it moves the laser...

Some of the earliest CD players are superbly constructed — and have some of the best sound. I have a couple of Sony decks from the mid-1980s that are quiet, quick, and have excellent controls, complete with 20-odd direct buttons for individual songs. Playing a CD on these machines feels just as mechanically satisfying as playing a vinyl record. You have to spend some time & money finding them, but it’s not hard to pick up a top of the line 1980s player for a few hundred dollars. For me, it’s absolutely worth it.
I actually had the same thought back in high school. In my opinion there's an important difference though. Communism is forced upon you and removes freedoms. Law of consecration is voluntary--a choice you make.

Most Bishops (local leaders) will tell the family to stop paying tithes for a time or to continue to pay but then they turn around and give them food and a check for rent/mortgage until you're back on your feet. They'll work with you and frequently require that you do certain things though--like look for a job--in order to continue receiving assistance.
Let's call it repairability, not reliability.
Your suggestion that " this starts with the assumption that what people like me went through is trivial" is a non- sequitur.

You made a generalization, the response above simply suggests a more nuanced view. They did not suggest anything about your specific situation.

Edit: Specifically "It's an organization which does not allow you to leave with your dignity intact" was the generalization. When I read this I also thought "that's simply not true. I hope someone points out that it depends on the circumstances and the people involved".
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There's an important distinction to make which I'm not sure I've successfully communicated: when I'm saying there generally is no "statistically significant" difference, I'm not saying everyone performs at the same level.

There can be huge variations in performance between people. But this variation tends to be internally consistent. You don't have one or two workers that perform multiple standard deviations away from the mass.

Think of it as drawing people from a distribution with large variance. When assigning bonuses to individuals, you're looking for statistical anomalies, i.e. you want to find that one person that appears to be drawn from a completely different distribution. That is what is very rare.

Large variation in performance but without any statistical anomalies still means everyone is performing "within the systems natural boundaries." There's no reason to suspect someone comes at it from a completely different angle.

That said, of course you want to minimise the variation of your system. If nothing else because it makes it easier for you to find the true outliers.

But you don't reduce variance by giving raises to the top performers -- that will, at the very best, make them perform better, thus increasing variance further.

Better try to reduce variance by bringing the other people up, which requires much more involved management than just giving more money to the ones with the high numbers.
An arcteryx shell should last nearly your entire life with proper maintenance - if you’re doing an activity that would damage it you’re using the wrong gear.
This seems like a fantasy. Are there any examples of workers collectively changing the moral character of a company?
Do you know why the Catholic Church is the custodian of so much art? Precisely because it is understood that the artwork would never be sold. Many artists and other owners of art gave the works because they saw this custodial arrangement as the best way to ensure that the art would be around long after their deaths for people to enjoy. So yes, you can appraise the art and say it would be worth $X millions if sold in the open market, but that's entirely against the point of the Church being the custodian of the art.

Think of it like a cemetery. That cemetery has a property value, and in a metro area it could be quite high. But the custodians of the cemetery wish to maintain it in perpetuity, and the people who have chosen that cemetery as their final resting place are counting on them to do so. Even if that property could conceivably be sold for a great price, that doesn't mean the cemetery custodians are rolling in dough, because they have committed NOT to sell.

So if you look at the actual operating budget of the Vatican or any Catholic diocese, you will see that it is relatively modest. The so-called riches of the Vatican are generally things that can't be sold, borrowed against, etc.
Thank you. TIL: twilio runs a turn service:

https://www.twilio.com/stun-turn

Via https://github.com/webtorrent/instant.io/blob/master/README....

"Copy secret/index-sample.js to secret/index.js and set the Twilio API key if you want a NAT traversal service (to help peers connect when behind a firewall)."

Are there any open source variants that combines browser p2p and a "permanent" seed server?

I'd like to self-host a solution that let you upload (preferably via webtorrent) and share a file from a browser, but then let the server cache/host the file (preferably with http seeding support) - as well as give you a shareable magic link for classic torrent clients and a http url for browser download.

As far as I can tell, most solution ion are either browser p2p only, or server to browser (download only)?
Debt is a liability to be served, having returns and margins winning over growth, adding a not-so-silent participant to the mission. Welcome to the real world.
As a gay man, I can tell you that churches did not help protect me from oppression growing up. Quite the opposite. Your assertion about positive externalities seems highly suspect to me, and dependent on the institution.

Charities also often have positive externalities, but they have far more regulation than churches. Again, why the special treatment?

The social cohesion aspect of churches is gone at this point as well. That may have been true 50 years ago, but not today.
Very good comment
I'd definitely not agree with the "protects the most vulnerable against marginalization and oppression"

Perhaps if you are a member of the church, but definitely not if you don't abide by the exact, often conservative , rules of a given church.

Look at slavery, equal rights for lgbtq and people of color, abortion etc. Not only do people in power use the churches to hide their personal beliefs behind, many churches use their power to oppress others.

I mean the crusades were a thing...

I'll agree churches provide social cohesion but often at the cost of tribalism against people outside that given churches norms.
I’ve been all in on using my banks bill pay system for a number of years now for property tax / water bill / etc. Stamps & check books cost money, but scheduling someone else to cut the check, stamp and envelope it, and stick it in the mail on a certain date is free. It boggles the mind.
Because the banks charge a fee (well, some of them do).

I know that sounds stupid but it's the truth. There is no law against banks charging fees like this, banks like to make money (don't we all!), and (significantly) banks don't seem to lose customers by charging these fees.
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Saying "Could you kindly ..." is explicitly less demanding than "Please ...".
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It’s not easy to obtain a database of all the publicly available photos of yourself. The concern is that organizations with modest resources can generate a better picture of individuals’ public footprints than the individuals can.
We Brazilians use it. It’s because it is the way we talk in Portuguese.
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> Why does the LDS church do it?

To go into detail would probably be outside the scope of HN, but if this is a serious question, Richard Dawkins is a good source on how the LDS church was founded.
Fast quarantine for example is one big difference. People with symptoms that could be Corona related going to hospitals is another big difference. Tests being developed. Hospitals being on alert. But believe whatever you want.
Well, there is something to back up the debt - but not something that can be seized.
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"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion".
Is there a good service that doesn't require FB?
this isn't necessarily true, it's around the 25th percentile of students admitted to harvard. probably not gonna happen unless there's something else special about you, though.

I got into a top ten college with a 1470. it was fairly lopsided though (800 critical reading, 670 math; apparently the scores are reported differently now?), I dunno whether that helps or hurts.
The users paying each month are the assets in this article’s thesis. As long as when a company shuts down, they transition their users to a new entity (since they are valuable reoccurring revenue), the lenders will get paid.
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For larger transactions, ACH is becoming much more desireable. A bank I do business with currently offers originating next day ACH for $1 a transaction. When you add up the dollar cost of a stamp, check, and envelope, and the time expense of printing, mailing, and waiting for it to clear, ACH is highly affordable. I'm surprised taxing authorities still charge fees for getting paid faster when ACH is so cheap.
Given the drop off of the infection rate growth relative to its spread earlier it appears that the quarantine measures put in place by China are having some success.
It's a few things, drop is the word for licorice and lol is the word for fun. It's also one letter off 'droplul' which would be a swear word for asshole, literally: licorice dick.
Rates are so low on high yield bonds that investors are pouring money into private credit which is invested by alternative asset managers like Blackstone/GSO
I am curious, when did the decision to make GPS not follow leap seconds occur? had you asked me before I read your comment, I would have said that it doesn't honor leap seconds and never has.
“ and also protects the most vulnerable against marginalization and oppression“

I hear this a great deal, but would love some actual numbers to back it up. My own experience supports that this is true in a limited way for members of the church going through a discrete crisis, but pales in comparison to the good done by, for instance, WIC and SNAP.
If --w can be specified in two places for "an entirely different reason", then an unordered data structure is simply inappropriate, full stop. That's not a question of debugging, that's a question of correctness.
As an ex Mormon, I've read a lot about this. The single most useful piece for additional context that I've seen is this one by historian Kathleen Flake. https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/2019/12/23/mormonism-a...
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I’ve implemented a few scrapers for various purposes, and run bulk data analysis over the results.

It was years ago, and it was not very difficult.

I’d guess this would be an easy summer intern project for a bright undergrad.
(Meta: HN wouldn't let me write "120 kW.")

I have no idea if this marketing wank or not, but it seems plausible and investigable with some due-diligence.
Every expert is not saying that the infection rate is much higher than the official numbers, but the death rate is reliable. They’re both unreliable and we just don’t know the true numbers. China’s reaction is not comforting though.
I read it as that as well. It didn't sound like a respectful interaction.
I see this quoted a lot whenever there is discussion of wealth. However, as with all verses, the context is important as well as the follow up verses. This is not in defense of.

17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” “Which ones?” he inquired. Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’” “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?” Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:17-26 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Matthew%2019:17-...
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Yup, it was a serious question, because it's quite an accusation. Richard Dawkins is a proliferate man, anything in particular to look up? I know he's said things about the church being fake, but what has he said about why the LDS church has amassed money and resources?
CD may be 40 years old, but human ears didn't change at all in that time. If you can tell CD from other recordings, it is almost certainly because the mastering (which is not something intrinsic to the standard) was deliberately changed for CD because it could reproduce sound better, so no format-specific mastering hacks were needed to make it sound good. Face it, you don't have golden ears.

For example, if a studio today were to master something for cassette, it would dramatically turn up the high end to compensate and probably bypass some saturation or exciters because the format has its own. Similarly, any studio not tweaking their masters for the perfection of CD was probably doing the material a disservice. Heck, today, some tracks are deliberately mastered to sound good on iPhone earbuds.

(The usual article cited in these discussions is https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html, which happens to make this point briefly under "Different media, different master" and "Better masters". Edit: another fun article is https://www.soundguys.com/high-bitrate-audio-is-overkill-cd-..., with the fantastic pull quote, "There is no safe listening level to hear the difference between these files".)

CD doesn't need to be the pinnacle of digital technology, because our ears don't know any different beyond it.
What make model do you use?
This doesn't sound like it covers credit card interchange. Does it?
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If you look at the graphs here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

And know that in 3 weeks everyone either dies or has recovered.

Doesn't that mean we will see a large amount of total deaths in a couple of weeks?

Those graphs are both exponential!

Remember that cases are subjectively selected, while deaths have a fixed statistical variance!
But then that disadvantages groups which might perform the same role outside of a religious context. Thus in practice it only serves to have Government favour a specific genre of cohesion.

(Not to mention that your so-called “cohesion” also includes Scientology, Westboro Baptists and prosperity theology.)
> Furthermore, in the Bay Area Founder-VC scene, FK/PK tension simply isn’t perceived as a problem. Founders increasingly think of themselves as capital allocators who think in bets, and the angel investing scene has brought founders and VCs together as social peers. There’s no FK/PK tension between investors and founders. They all want the same thing, and they all hang out at the same parties. The tension has simply been redistributed, largely onto employees. The greatest trick VCs ever pulled was convincing founders, “you’re just like us.”

Recommend reading the whole article if you're curious about the nuance in this. It flies above the current milieu.
Question as a member. Would today be a good day to request that janitorial services be restored? Do I really need to clean the church's toilets once a year to get to heaven?
Because our field of view stinks.
To give the opposing argument some form of development, reading comprehension is the responsibility of the reader as well.

Some authors are hard to understand, but the message they are trying to convey could be worth extracting.

As a reader it is preferable for you to be able to extract value out of opaque text. The author owes you nothing. And, presumably you are reading because you think there might be something of value underneath.

If you fail to capture that value (If there is any) that's your loss, not the author's.

Certainly, it would be best if the message were communicated in such a fashion that people would not misunderstand it to begin with. But if, and when things are poorly communicated, if you misunderstand the underlying message the person taking a loss is not the author, but you.

To think otherwise would be to focus too deeply on some sort of exposure, or monetary loss on the part of the author, rather than the failure to capture a nugget of wisdom that might be of utility to your life.
Seems like a great thing to model with a modern AR app .. this and the Antikythera mechanism might be viable IAP's.
Yep. And they probably have lunch at least once a month with every patent judge too. It's not so much of a patent justice system as it is a small-town highway robbery speed trap to vampirically-monetize and cannibalize legitimate businesses.
You forgot tape in the recording chain.
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That is not pitiful.

I think you should recalibrate to the average. Most new grads have a negative net worth. You are far ahead of the curve and it’s good you are thinking about wealth building, but it’s very dismissive to say 120k net worth is pitiful.
It's important to note the historical context around this. The LDS church used to be constantly in extreme debt and close to having their religious buildings taken away due to it. Then in the early 1900s they instituted a simple financial policy that could also be an example for members.

1. Spend less than you take in.
2. Save/invest a portion of what you bring in for a rainy day.

Thus over a hundred years that builds up. I'm a Mormon and personally don't have an issue with it as I know that wealth doesn't go to church leaders (they all get the same stipend which for many is less than they made in their professional lives) and is simply fund available to the Church for times of need.
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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.

See women’s rights, gay and other sexual orientation rights, minority rights, catholic pedophilia, Mormon multiple wife and underage nonsense, Scientology, etc.

It provides a certain tribe a tax exemption, that may or may not do good deeds with it. No reason to provide any tax exemption (not that anyone should have one in the first place).
My grandparent was saying "Google, Bing, and (at lower quality) Yandex are the only viable English-language search indices right now", and my parent was asking whether Cliqz counted. I think the GP is correct and Cliqz doesn't.
In the 2019 television series, they were miners conscripted into service on the disaster. And in the show they actually did work literally naked due to the heat.
Conservative churches are a subset of all religious organizations, and most of the time they're just a mirror of overall society, or a sizeable portion of it anyway. And that portion often draws some very real benefits even from an outwardly "conservative" or "fundamentalist" church. Not everyone starts out being radically open-minded and averse to tribalism, some people have to be eased into that kind of stance and churches can help provide good role-models. The crusades were a thing, but there's a reason why few or no religious organizations go on literal "crusades" nowadays.
Pleased to see they retained support for properly displaying :60 seconds during the leap second.
That's fair. Thank you for the explanation.
Old Technic bricks are still in use, mostly to build the skeleton of larger non-Technic models.
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"Any one customer may be unknowable, but cohorts of customers can be modelled and understood decently well."

Just substitute "mortgage" in this sentence, think back on events of the last decade, and you can see what is horribly wrong with this article.

Lots of debt, all given to tech startups, which will almost all go bust with the first recession. Let's see, what does that remind me of?

Of course, if you believe that the government would step in to take the downside, then you could just get the upside in the time between now and when the downturn comes.