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I don’t know enough about the legal structure of [1] to have an informed opinion. Contacts and contracts are always the gift to children of connected parents. I hope to give the same to my kids... ;)

I’m sure it happens as it does in any family (hello Biden!) but I’m not convinced it’s more prevalent in the Church than any other organization of people. It’s an interesting thought, but I’m not sure how prevalent it is.

I have met several general authorities in various capacities (including Bishop Waddell who was quoted in the article). They are humans and suspect to all the frailties that entails, but they have all been serious minded people who take their roles as stewards seriously. I’m sure some amount of fraud or nepotism happens, but I also have a religious view that suggests that whatever wrong is acquired in this life will be corrected in the next.

I have known people who have done things with Church money that they shouldn’t have. All of them were excommunicated for the same. The Church takes its financial stewardship seriously with required audits at all levels.

I agree with the first half of [2] but not the complaint that follows. It was only recently that more members of the Church lived outside the US. As the Church has grown out of Utah and throughout the US (and outside world) they have done a better job of calling people from more areas.

I think this is part of human behavior as well. It can be frustrating, but it’s hard for someone in Salt Lake to know I could serve in capacity X without knowing me personally. Again, it’s getting better as genera leaders travel more and get to know local leaders, but it’s always easiest to think of the person you know.

This happens in business as well: a new CEO brings “his/her team” — I’d like to see less of it (and fully expect to as the Church continues to grow globally).
Damn, thanks for pointing it out! I thus stand corrected!
I have thought about different apps for this txt-approach for iOS, and you’re right. iA Writer seems to be perfect for this.
This thread os great

Google really kill personal site like these
Is this a deep, publicity lead to attacking the tax status of the LDS in the USA, as political retribution to Sen Romney ?
Honest question. Does it freak you out to have many years of intimate and detailed notes about all aspects of your life and inner monologue to live in freetext on a stranger's computer?
I meant that it is stealing from the taxpayer.
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Did you know: Nyquist sampling theorem assumes, and only applies to, pure sine waves.

Apparently this is a novice level knowledge in DSP community at StackExchange: https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/45032/suitable-sampl...
Of course.

If you say:
- The only cases that we will confirm have a positive trst

Then if you only test 3000 today and 4000 tomorrow that would define the curve not the real spread.
Can you change the link to https://? Can't connect over http.
Do you have this guy's name? You should create a website with his name and company in the domain. That way, it's searchable by google and so when people eventually search for him, people will know what he does for a living.

While you obviously can't "win" in a legal sense, you can at least make it know to his family and friends what he does for a living. If he does unethical things in his jobs, he probably does other unethical things in his real life and people should be warned about him.
Here is a look at reports from outside the Hubei province in China

https://sinopsis.cz/en/an-analysis-of-reported-cases-of-2019...

The deaths are really mostly old people with preexisting conditions there.
The ruling is the very first and only line from the link:

> Make it so. "Dict keeps insertion order" is the ruling. Thanks!
I have the opposite impression, to me it seems that the Corona virus is seen as the end of the world online.
Seconded. This is my day to day tool to take notes, and keep track of what i do thru the diary function.
Well, that's kind of an unfair strawman. Cryptocurrencies are best used as transactional currency instruments to buy with local cash and then immediately exchange for goods/services, rather than savings currencies to hide money in, risking high-beta loses from day-to-day.

What would be superior is if every nation's national post office provided basic banking, debit card and mobile payment services for free (think similar to China's amazing system), so that no one would have to be unbanked except by choice. If people are in the "gubberment shouldn't exist" camp, then there should be a trans-national, independent, non-profit credit card system that provides credit card processing and transfer of money at about the cost of delivery: no surprises and no exploiting a basic human need to hand over as much cash as possible to short-term interested stock speculators.
It gets brushed off as "not a big deal" because...right now, we don't really have a reason to think it is one. It could become one. It merits state and international attention. It does not merit panic and there is absolutely no reason to think that "everyone" will get it or will develop pneumonic symptoms from it in a way that strains medical resources in developed countries (indeed, the biggest threat is likely if it becomes a thing in less-developed countries--but it seems to be less communicable than SARS or H1N1 right now, too). It is an important issue at the levels of government and international organizations that manage things like this. But it's silly to obsess over it and it's downright immoral to shit-stir with comparisons to bubonic civilization-wrecking plague as the OP to whom I replied decided to do.

And I'm going to be frank: the very young and very old could just as easily die of influenza and the people who care for the very young and very old are not, for the most part, even screening for flu shots. I have trouble mustering the emotional energy to care for their fear of the scary black swan when they're standing in a flock of white ones that are themselves dangerous.
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Here is one statement that the Church of Jesus Christ put out about their finances, which addresses several of the complaints/questions posited here:

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-fina...

I don’t see any incongruity with a church that teaches its members to save to likewise have a large savings fund. It’s not like they’re just hoarding money: the Church actively donates billions of dollars to world-wide humanitarian projects. For a religion that believes in the second coming of Jesus Christ and a worldwide crisis preceding that, it only makes sense for them to save so that they can continue to aid people of and not of their faith during that time.
The question I have is how you know the customers won't cancel their subscriptions when the recession hits, or because a competitor provides the same service for less, or has better service?
I learned about competing nets for the first time through that show. And then I learned what a vision the world wide web was.

Amazingly one of the characters said he knows how horrible content becomes when it is open to just anyone. Well we got angelfire and tripod today to do just that.
A few years ago, looking out of my Boston suburban office window across a rainy, street-lit 128, I caught a glimpse of a strangely familiar dark shape, out of context. Something from my past. Something I hadn’t seen in a long time, and never expected to see again... It looked for all the world like.. a large, black dog.

The mental connections of the symbolism rattled through my mind - folkloric tales of deathly omens, Conan-Doyle’s hound, Harry Potter’s uncle, Churchill’s dark companion...

Through the rain, my eyes focused and it became clear: LYCOS.

Apparently they’d leased some space in the MGH building, and enough funding to spring for a rooftop sign. They’re not there any more - moved into a small Waltham Main Street office in 2015 I believe.

But, as with this article, they keep showing up.. that black dog... reminding us of... something.

Why have they turned up, here, now? What could it mean?
SwissCows has its own indexer and I believe they don't rely on any external search source like Bing. They should push for better marketing, less nationalism & better UI like duckduckgo and they would go pretty far imo, their results are often better than DDG

edit : my bad, actually they do use Bing in addition to their own crawler
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To quote from an academic study and the commentary from a world-class economist from the article titled "Initial Coin Scams" it reads "There are now nearly 1,600 cryptocurrencies, and the number continues to rise. It is time to start recognizing their issuers' utopian rhetoric for what it is: self-serving nonsense meant to separate credulous investors from their hard-earned savings. [..] 81% of ICOs are scams created by con artists, charlatans, and swindlers looking to take your money and run." [1]

[1]: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ico-cryptocurre...

About the author David Gerard - The Book "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain" [2] is an unmatched gem in a sea of 24-hour non-sense crytpo promotion. Ironically another voice of reason is "pseudonymous" Trolly McTrollface [3]

[2]: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/

[3]: https://bitsblocks.github.io/bitcoin-maximalist
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

The last section on the last page has WHO’s recommendations for the public.
I am responding primarily to "Churches should go back to being churches. No reason a religious organization needs a 100 billion warchest."

Presumably, the person who wrote this is against religion/mormonism/christianity. If that is they case, they are an outsider and don't really have a valid say in what an organized religion should want. So it comes off as what I wrote in my comment, which is backed up by what they wrote in their next sentence, which is in essence, "organization I don't like has a lot of money, and I think they shouldn't have a lot of money."

Your criticisms about how the Mormon church spends its money is irrelevant to how much money they have (and the $100B figure in the article). Your criticisms about how they got the money are relevant though. Although I can't really judge how much of an issue manipulation is, as it is both subjective and rampant in the almost any exchange of money (sales, advertising, and arguably taxes), and as you also mentioned people freely give to the Mormon church.
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I think it's a pulsed laser, but I can't find a good sentence to quote in the website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_laser

They are "off" most of the time accumulating energy, and then they send a very high power pulse, so the average power is not so high. The on-off switch is many times per second.

In some applications it is more important the maximal power than the average power.

[About the title: It's probably a false positive in the automatic filter to prevent spam and linkbait, sometimes it's too strict. You can use the "edit" link below the title to fix it. If that fails, you can send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com so they fix it. Anyway, it would be a good idea to send the mail so they fix the automatic filter.]
I used org mode at my last job, lots of management data, deep learning research, and patent application notes. Org worked great for me.

Now except for occasional DL related consulting, I am retired and my tech world activities are centered around writing. I have four book ideas that I will get to in the next few years, and updating my older books to new editions takes time. Keeping notes and research is vital for authors:

Now I use markdown text files for local notes and for cloud based note taking I went back to using Google Keep. I was using Apple Notes until I realized that they used imap to synchronize and that was not secure enough for me. For a decade I had used Evernote, but that ended up being too much ceremony/overhead.

EDIT: Apple really needs to encrypt more types of user data in iCloud.
Less any bright eyed startup founder take this post too seriously, I’ll spell it out: venture debt is bad.

Debt issued to established companies is an essential mechanism to bridge working capital needs - like GM procuring millions of pounds of sheet metal before selling thousands of cars. This is not controversial.

Venture debt issued to startups by bankers, especially by the kind of bank who fancy themselves as a Bank for Silicon Valley, and the types of bankers who, after a few too many cocktail parties with VCs, fancy themselves venture capitalists. It’s just these pseudo-venture capitalists have the risk tolerance of...bankers.

If you pioneer a new space, particularly in consumer electronics with high working capital needs and you are initially successful you will be offered venture debt. If you take it, you will be more successful and you will have copy cats. Some of those copy cats will be FAANG companies.

When this happens the bankers will freak out and pull your working capital. Or exercise a clause that forces a premature sale. Or...or..or.

Woe to you if you were banking on that to make this years Black Friday/Christmas demand.

Alex’s post highlights a need in the space. Don’t confuse it with the services currently offered.
“ dad and brother/wife”

Is this a reference that your dad and another man were married to the same person. I’ve heard sister/wife used before but never brother/wife.

It is it your dad, your dad’s brother, and your dad’s brother’s wife?
For me at least, the main appeal of vinyl records is that they are physical artifacts, tactile and cozy/nostalgic. I enjoy the physicality, the large cover art and the little rituals. It also forces me to listen to entire albums in order, instead of just shuffling random tracks.

The sound quality is somewhere between "good enough" and "genuinely good", no match for good digital formats, but certainly good enough to get lost in the music and enjoy it. And my turntable cost around $100 second hand, nothing too fancy.

I mostly buy rock and metal from the 70s and 80s, second hand. The only new records I buy are from bands that could easily fool people into thinking they are actually from back then, like Visigoth and Smoulder, old-school heavy metal. It just feels like vinyl is the right format for it.
I made a quick plugin to vscode where F6 opens up a specific text file on my disk. This is where I capture all these things. For me the trick is that there is no formatting. It's just a rough scratch pad to make short lived lists or things I need to remember.
And the flu kills 10s of thousands annually in the US, despite our widespread vaccination system.
So the Mormon Church has created an endowment instead of corruptly spending the tithes on trifles and graft for their leaders, in preparation to help their members when needed and continue their operations in times of scarcity. I see this as a very smart thing, not nefarious. Not any more “scandalous” or hidden than the Harvard endowment.

Mormons are well aware the Church uses its tithes to invest. Much of this thread’s comments are little more than ignorant and bigoted attacks on Mormons and Christians.
> The cursor started in the right box, tabbed to the right places etc.

We must have not used the same SAP forms.
It may in time reach the level of background noise of the flu, but we're years away, decades away from that. The human body has had a few generations to build up baseline immunity to the flu, and we're at minimum a year or so away from a vaccine, likely 3 or 4 before it can reach the industrial scale and distribution infrastructure of the flu vaccine. Even that flu virus, well established, had some minor snafu a few years back and it took months to get back up to speed. In the meantime, the death rate seems more than an order of magnitude higher, and is especially lethal in the > 70 population.

So, if this becomes an insurmountable pandemic, you're right that it may eventually reach a flu-like equilibrium and treatability, but we're talking deaths in the millions until then, unless it can be brought under control before that happens.
"Go back to?"

I don't know what period you're longing for, but it sounds like an outlier. The church history I'm familiar with is one where the Pope had power at least on par with the head of any government or military near their sphere of influence. Also, crusades.

Churches amassing massive wealth is far from new. Nor do I suspect the LDS has even a small fraction of the Roman Catholic Church's wealth.
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Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully. Posting like this destroys the community no matter how right you are, so it's not ok on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm so glad somebody is finally looking into this
That’s it! Thank you!
The current outbreak is expanding exponentially, with a frequency of approximately 20% severe infections requiring advanced respiratory supportive care. Mortality is at least 3%, and probably higher given the time lag between reported infections and deaths.

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Probably not, you'd still run a small risk of death, even if you are young and healthy and getting excellent treatment in a first world hospital -- not to mention exposing your loved ones (particularly elders) to infection.

The best approach is certainly self-isolation with sufficient food, then you have zero chance of becoming infected.

I'm not at that point yet in Europe. But if I lived in Singapore or Hong Kong I might start considering it.
I don't love this analogy because a healthy person doesn't need medicine. If you can make something for $1 and sell for $2, it's very healthy for a business to take on debt in order to make more of those things. Which is why debt is a normal part of many healthy businesses.
That almost certainly means OP's brother and OP's brother's wife
If you get the court to declare the patent invalid, they lose that weapon .
I wonder how the researchers came up with the idea to study this.

Anyway, this is good news? Dogs are more similar to humans, than what birds are, right. Maybe there's a magnetic field sensing dog gene that can be copied to humans? So that at least the future generations won't lose their orientation, as fast as I do, in the streets and indoor shopping malls.
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Not sure it's the same angle, as I can't open the paywall. But the book Sperm Wars, published 1996, covers the topic quite well.
It puts forwards a mechanism where a spectrum of sexuality is genertically inhereited via selection.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_Wars
"Avoiding close contact with people suffering from acute respiratory infections.
Frequent hand-washing, especially after direct contact with ill people or their environment.
Avoiding unprotected contact with farm or wild animals.
People with symptoms of acute respiratory infection should practice cough etiquette (maintain distance, cover
coughs and sneezes with disposable tissues or clothing, and wash hands).
Within health care facilities, enhance standard infection prevention and control practices in hospitals, especially
in emergency departments."

Yes, I read this. They don't recommend to wear a mask. I'm quite surprised to see masks everywhere nonetheless.
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That has never been true in my experience. I’ve been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for most of my life and I have always struggled with tithing and offerings and nobody has ever said much to me about it.

In my now 50+ year experience, the ONLY time tithing has ever been brought up is at the end of the year when the bishop asks if I’ve been a full tithe payer. I say “No,” and he writes that down on the little paper and then we’re done. I’ve never been browbeaten or had anybody look over my financials. I’ve never been extorted or ridiculed. I’m not saying that some misguided bishop somewhere hasn’t done that to members of his congregation. I just know it isn’t church policy and isn’t something I’ve ever experienced.
Or maybe, dogs just don’t like to look straight into the sun when they poop, which rises in the east and sets in the west. Good grief. Sometimes the smartest people are also the dumbest. Would you stare right at the sun when pooping?
That is a great question. You are absolutely correct. I try to evaluate open source technology stacks that are emerging. I do feel like there is growing interest in serverless computing but most companies end up going with AWS Lambda which is not open source. I was wondering if the folks here are considering open source serverless technologies. If so, then which ones are making your short list?
I tried the todo.txt approach, but found I wanted to have secure access from any device (including devices I don't own), so went with an easy cloud option: https://five.today
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It’s not bugs. The software is working as designed. It’s badly designed features.
Publishers are growing audiences by producing less content
I dunno. One has to deal with the random crying, the questions of "Why haven't you baptized your children? I want to spend eternity with my grandbabies!", "They need primary!", etc. Then there's the endless gossip at family activities when you're absent about how you're leading your family to hell.
I currently use Google Tasks for Todos and I honestly have never been happier. To make Google Tasks work you have to be using Gmail and Google Calendar (which may be a non-starter for some people), but if you are using those already then Google Tasks is worth taking a look.

The beauty of Google Tasks is it lives alongside your email, integrates seamlessly with the calendar, and automatically synchronizes across devices. The interface is super simple and intuitive (drag/drop for prioritizing and simple completion), yet powerful enough to allow for things like setting up recurring tasks.

I especially like scheduling tasks for items I know I have coming up a week or so out. When I know I have something coming up, I just enter the date/time and a description and I'm done. (Maybe all of 10 seconds?) It's so much faster than trying to put something in a calendar and I find myself offloading all of these things I have to remember from my brain and just rely on my device.

It has been very freeing. :)
This also says that you should leave your family. Do you think of this when you hear about people who call themselves Christians but love their family?
Some of us still do the subculture thing. 99% of the music I listen to is hard rock and metal, and fittingly 99% of my clothes are black, mostly jeans and t-shirts and some cargo pants for festivals, and stompy boots.

I wouldn't say that I define myself by my taste in music, but it does influence my choices in clothes and so on.
Truly, how about instead of headlines with body counts they say what the mortality rate is compared to this year's common flu.

Honestly all these distractions cut into my Left 4 Dead play time.
Yup! And if you work in a team and need version control for your notes there’s an app called Working Copy which integrates perfectly. Then you push changes directly to a git repo which acts as your source of truth

https://www.macstories.net/ios/my-markdown-writing-and-colla...
Please, self-isolate and call 111 for advice.

Chances are you're fine and will be tested clear, but in the case you are not it would be a disaster to not receive proper treatments / come in to contact with loved ones / come in to contact with the general public.
8 track was a terrible format. Why would anyone spend any effort at all creating anything for them.