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Jesus never advocated giving tithes or even churches for that matter.
> I hope someone points out that it depends on the circumstances and the people involved

But it doesn't. The keyword is "allow". If someone happens to manage with their dignity intact, that is not with the blessing of the organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Mormon#Consequences_of_leav...

If I say "I don't allow anyone to steal from me", that doesn't mean nobody ever stole from me, or couldn't possibly ever. It simply means that if it happens, I don't condone it.
Sony CDP-705ESD, Sony CDP-707ESD.

Ogle here: http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-CDP-557ESD.html
if you are into obj-c/swift, there is a list of the most useful blogs here: https://apple-developer.org/resources/online-resources.html#...
As the share of the population that is infected grows, the death rate for complications will increase dramatically. It is already extreme, and it is expected to grow exponentially into April (at least in Hubei).

Up to the limits of medical facilities, your odds will be good, but it takes a lot of resources to keep patients alive when they are experiencing complications, and those resources are inherently limited.
Sure,so long as they are not engaging in commerce strictly as a consumer.
The cleaning is part of the church's treasured psychology of self-reliance, not just a money thing. In fact the money could be argued to have emerged from that self-reliance psychology, even if it's also true that a psychology can be emphasized within an organization or individual to a relatively pornographic degree (detached from current/realistic context).

Plus they've been selling off buildings since they are such a maintenance suck.

But still, it's an amusing thought and I see no reason not to try :D
That's a fair critique, because I did not qualify the statement. Let me explain the rationale:

- The Mormon church doctrine is that people who leave have fallen away, and are apostates

- Several messages from the central authority (called General Authorities) have disseminated over the last several decades telling congregants to shun apostates (soft), not listen to them (direct), and similar

- Wealthy parents have been encouraged by the central authority to not leave inheritance to their wayward children, and to use it to keep them adherent to Mormon orthopraxis

- Parents and congregants are often encouraged to be very bold in their attempts to keep wayward congregants adherent (until the congregants admits disbelief). "Ward Council" and similar organizing local leadership sessions are intended to share gossip to identify potential wayward congregants

- quitmormon.com is a pro bono service set up by a former Mormon in Utah and is the only service I've seen that is able to get records removed from the Mormon database records. If one does not remove their records, the central authority instructs local congregations to find people to keep their database records up to date.

These mix together and result in a large variety of experiences, often where the targeted wayward congregant is stripped of dignity and, eventually, respect in the eyes of people they spend substantial time with.

These issues are organization-wide and centrally driven, and hence the organization does not allow you to leave with dignity.

EDIT: I realized I made the "wealthy parent" comment across several comments. This is not connected to my experience, as I do not come from wealth whatsoever, but is something that has been observed in the past few years. I mention solely to point out the systemic issues I see.
I made a similar version awhile back: https://qqsend.me

It uses AES encryption to encrypt the contents of the data so that any TURN relays couldn't see the contents of what was being transferred.

The key material between sender/recipient are transferred via the hash-param of the URL, which AFAIK isn't sent to the server and is hidden.
Last I read, which wasn't that long ago, they were profitable in only like five cities in the world, some of which were preparing new regulation to require that they pay their drivers more.
You're missing the role of agency (or choice) in your evaluation. Forcing someone to do something vs someone choosing to do it of their own accord is quite different.
Debt financing generally makes more sense for capex, not opex. Servicing the debt becomes an opex, basically, so it would be weird to finance opex out of it.
I'm surprised to see that you (and obviously lots of other people) were able to affect a reduction in advertising by boycotting ad-playing stations.

I wonder if it would work here... I live in Minnesota and I'm pretty limited on where I can fill up with 98 RON (called 93 Pump here in the US for some reason...). A lot of stations play video ads with sounds while you stand there.
As far as I can tell Brex literally just “lends” money to people that already have money. They lend based on cash in the bank and have the right to debit cash straight from the bank account. It hasn’t been clear to me that they’re even involved in any kind of actual issuance of debt in a meaningful sense at all.
> Look at slavery, equal rights for lgbtq and people of color, abortion etc.

What are your talking about? I know no church that possess any slaves. Also, most christians around the world aren't white...

> I mean the crusades were a thing...

Yes, a defence after centuries of aggressions from a people and religion that stole huge territories. The invader showed no pity against non-believers and this attitude persists until now with thousands of killing every year worldwide while crusades are long gone.
Are you imagining a successful company with a large book of users generating a healthy ARR? If that’s the situation, the lenders will get paid, because the business will keep running.

The more likely risk to a bond holder is that the company fails to generate a healthy business, pays most of the loan out in salary while trying, and now the lenders own the company which is a couple of two year old laptops and a few thousand per year in ARR that cannot be profitably served.
Any sources on that? The genocide of pagans in the dark ages and the persecution of Jews by Muslims among other events point me to believe the opposite.
I think having your members tithe is a big part of it. I know some wealthy mormons that have always given their 10%, at least that's what they tell me. I also know a couple of really large mormon families, like 12 kids large - they all tithe.
> All four, in particular HKU1, can cause pneumonia, and sometimes death. It is rare enough that researchers do not have good estimates of its prevalence or virulence, but two of the others have been better studied.

I wonder how many cases of influenza are confirmed via testing? How many cases could be caused by coronaviruses? I know from experience that I've been to the doctor with fever / aches / respiratory issues and been told I have the flu, only to request a test that results negative. They typically don't test for anything else.
Government does not perform "the same role" of building up social capital at a truly grassroots level, unfortunately. Not even close. And the jury is still out wrt. non-religious social organizations, though some do appear to help quite a bit along those same lines, viz. labor unions and perhaps similar "interest-focused" mass groups.
Can't find it now but I remember reading about a recently launched Seedcamp or Point Nine portfolio company that is doing this for B2C SaaS companies I think. You let them plug into your stripe metrics etc. and they then give you debt based financing (using AI/algos to determine amount and rate based on your numbers: churn, growth, recurring revenue etc.)
Usually you do a voluntary reorganization between the creditors and the business in the event of default, and a business with steady revenue is often an asset worth owning.
U.S. banking is not as bad as some make it out to be. Every bank I've delt with offers the same things you describe. Here, it is less dependent on the bank and more dependent on the biller. All my credit cards (even those from other banks) offer ebilling, and bills are visible in my online banking each month. Utilities like electric and internet, medical providers, etc., generally don't. But I can pay them all through the bank anyway, and I don't have to worry how it happens; the bank chooses ACH or they mail a bank check. Either way, I know exactly when it will clear, and exactly how much it will cost me: $0. I can also use the bank's mobile app to send money from person to person, instantly and with no fee.
> although I think it would be more exact to call them Socialists entrepreneurs but the negative political connotation might explain why their advocates have chosen the word social instead.

I think we should explore why socialism has negative political connotations. There is a reason for that.
The moneymakers in the temple were making money for themselves, profiting off of the nominally faithful. This is very different from saying the church shouldn't acquire wealth.
In my view I think you would say this also about Bill gates... who are you to define what is a reasonable amount?

I think a tax policy based on “reasonable” confiscation is not very sound or sustainable and probably worse policy than allowing churches to collect money tax free.

At the same time there are laws in the US at least about how charities must use their cash and if they’ve broken these laws it would be a very serious case for them.

Generally a “reasonable” discussion on HN would involve details of the case and further our understanding of the issue. But that really wasn’t on your mind was it... “My throwaway”?
Java is quite fast.

In general, for 99% of tasks, if it takes more than a few milliseconds there's a network involved.
The linked video is the introduction about Michelson and the machine, the implementation details, surely interesting for readers here, are staring with:

"(2/4) Synthesis: A machine that uses gears, springs and levers to add sines and cosines"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KmVDxkia_w

The links to the rest of the series are on Youtube but one has to fight the Youtube UI to see them. Also, at the time the videos were produced it was possible to click inside the video itself to go to the other videos, and I believe that feature was later removed from the Youtube. So I find it easier to find links here than on Youtube. Youtube prefers suggesting what it wants.
They ascend to become Gods which is somehow not contradicting the monotheistic aspect of Christianity.
In the US there are separate buttons to select the grade of gasoline (I always push them to see if I can just bypass all the nonsense, but alas it doesn't work that way). The screens are an add-on gatekeeper that disables the grade selection until all its questions have been answered (NO, NO, NO, NO).
Mormoms also believe Jesus lives on a planet named kolob. Cool!
You can do both at the same time like Raël (Claude Vorilhon) did.
Depends on the territory. In Hong Kong all major credit cards plus several local payment processors plus WeChat and AliPay are accepted at McDonald's, for example.

They regularly do crossovers and promotions to encourage people to use the cheaper ones.
For the record, the name of the place "Contamines-Montjoie" can mean "Contaminated-JoyMountain" in French.
This can be read as meaning that your wealth will be left behind when you die, so you are no longer rich.
Did I just run Windows 2000 on my Pixel???
Industrial machinery is usually more fungible/configurable than that. No one (except the secondary parts makers) has much use for the dies to stamp out Tiguan fenders, but lots of sheet metal fabs (inc other auto makers) can use the stamping presses. It might be 30¢ on the dollar, but that’s likely better than the office chair and laptop that a software startup will leave behind.
And I never said this applied to all churches but it does then go back to the central question of this thread: why do churches automatically receive tax exemptions? When it's not provable they're necessarily acting charitably?

The crusades are no longer a thing, but lobbying has arguable replaced it with churches able to do much the same with the vast amounts of money that some of them have earned.

Similarly missions and other forms of preying on vulnerable people is still a thing.

Conversion therapy and forced compliance to church norms are still a thing.

Just because it's not a literal war, doesn't mean it's not achieving the same things.

Besides the point of mentioning the crusades was to point out that oppression powered by the churches is nothing new. It's been a staple of competing views since time eternal, whether in churches or not, but because churches get a free pass, they can greatly amplify oppression as much as they could mitigate it. It's just that you historically and today see much more in the form of oppression than fighting oppression.

And that goes back to churches being able to amass unchecked power and financials by which they can fight anything they perceive as a threat to their model. Just like any other political entity.
Sky high valuations that limit your options/exits, potentially pushing your company down a path it shouldn't take.
I think it's just fraud protection, but data farming makes sense too... It's only required some times at some stations it seems. At the station that I frequent I don't have to enter a ZIP, but other stations owned by the same company just miles away require one.
Christianity is only monotheistic in name, for "reasons." The Trinity would just be three separate gods in any other religion. Even classifying Father, Son and Holy Spirit as "separate divine aspects of a single God" is basically what Hinduism does, and no one argues that Hinduism is monotheistic that I'm aware of. Also, the way saints and angels have traditionally been regarded in Christian practice (particularly in antiquity, prior to Protestantism) is exactly the way other religions have regarded minor and household gods, or ancestor gods.
In the US, all of the reported cases would be confirmed by testing, and the number of specimens tested is also published:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Yeah, the church isn't known for handling the "big picture" questions very well, ironically. Internally it struggles with the checklist syndrome (sports on Sunday is always on there; extrapolations to qualitatively odd outcomes of saving money like what to do when you have a hundred billion dollars in an embarrassing economy where your membership is far less well off than your legal structure--now these items don't fit a checklist as well) and even leadership has been taught by example (from the persecution era) to become emotionally withdrawn and defensive in response to criticism like your own, rather than taking a more circumspect and outwardly honorable, investigative stance. It's really unfortunate.
A university doesn't want to spend $200 million to run the drug trials for a new drug. And I suspect university researchers don't want to spend their time managing such trials either.

edit: The real problem is the lack of limits on marketing and advertising of drugs in the US. That's what's driving up the cost of drugs more than anything. Of course, without it drugs for rare conditions will never get made since there's no way to communicate their existence to patients. Ah well, nothing in life is perfect.
You can't maintain anything for free; everything has a carrying cost-- even cash in the form of depreciation.

Use it or lose it as they say.
There ought to be a super PAC / legal collective in US whose primary goal is to basically hack the system by using it against itself for the net effect of mostly eliminate the patent system with the chief aims of:

0. making it harder to get a patent (not adding arbitrary bureaucracy, but ensuring examiners maintain high and fair standards)
1. making it harder/shorten the time to keep a patent

EFF, ACLU, etc. might nibble around the edges on this issue, but there's no one going after the politicians with lobbyists, a bucket of money and a deep bench of patent attorneys funded by something like a Kickstarter/IndieGoGo and/or subscription model to the tune of a Bernie Sanders-equivalent funding level.
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According to Wikipedia SO2 comes from fossil fuels so let's cross our fingers and pray they're just bringing a power plant online or something.
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Clay Christensen was referring to one of the Ten Commandments - "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."

I don't think many religions count churches not paying taxes as sins.

Incidentally, Christensen almost certainly contributed a rather significant amount of money to this sum, and likely would have said it would be a sin not to have done so. "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings"
It's gotten more browser support lately. I appreciate it, makes building a cohesive design system easier.

Go to css-tricks.com to see how not to do it.
Mormons might be confused given Ezra Taft Benson's use of the church and his position as president and prophet to literally promote the John Birch Society. If there was any indication from god that communism was evil, mormons believe it would come from their prophet, and in this case it did, thousands of times over.
If you don't have any kind of experience, you are better off starting with WebGL.

It is more beginner friendly and it is here now.

You can either start from scratch:

https://webglfundamentals.org/

Or use one of the two most developer friendly frameworks.

https://threejs.org/

https://www.babylonjs.com/

If you have zero experience in graphics, another approach is to learn about 3D software rendering in first place.

https://www.davrous.com/2013/06/13/tutorial-series-learning-...

Leave WebGPU for when you feel comfortable with 3D programming.
I cleared my caches. The globe reappeared. What a relief.
I think that, partly, that it isn’t as much C-hostile as that C compilers mostly target other architectures, and that many C programs take too much for granted, such as the existence of huge 16-bit Numbers or efficient multiplication.

A compiler/linker combo for the 6502 should, for example, analyse the call graph of the entire program to figure out what return addresses it needs to store on the stack at all (alternative 1: store it at a forced address in main memory (will work in single-threaded code that isn’t recursive). Alternative 2: instead of RTS, jump back to the caller (will work for functions that get called from only one place. Aggressively inlining those is an alternative, but may turn short branches into long ones, with their own problems)

Similarly, a compiler/linker for the 6502 probably should try really hard to move function arguments to fixed addresses, and to reuse such memory between different functions (if foo isn’t (indirectly) recursive and doesn’t (indirectly) call bar and vice versa, their function arguments can share memory)

And yes, self-hosting such a compiler would be even more challenging, given the 64kB memory limit.
> Yes, a defence after centuries of aggressions from a people and religion that stole huge territories.

That might prove grandparent's point, actually. But it's a fact that tribalism was a big force in the ancient world, and that likely provides the best explanation. The religious group that the crusaders fought against "stole huge territories", but so did the Romans before them. Who knows how relevant the religious motivation really was to them.
It is often the case that they do. For example, the church that I attend bought adjacent property to keep as vacant open space.. but since there is no church on the land, the church pays property tax on it just like any other non tax exempt entity would. Kind of ironic since if it were farmland deemed open space it would be a different story in most places. Our tax code is not perfect but the path forward is to look at it in totality... the minute you try to solve one problem here, you’ll create a dozen there. Churches are global organizations... I’m sure it wouldn’t take much thinking, painful as it may be, for the Mormons to decide to hold their wealth outside of the US should our tax policies become unsustainable for them. Just because it’s a large number doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
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I agree with everything except the last line (and I suspect that’s where your downvotes are coming from).

The CEO/CFO should have the freedom to self-prescribe, IMO. In that regard, debt might be more like food. Some businesses have a chronic need for debt and can live quite fine with a lifetime of healthy debt usage.
That's mind-boggling considering the amount of children that go to those events. You'd think they'd have more safety regulations before someone gets their kid blinded when they just wanted to show them cool technology.
This seems like a post-hoc justification. The LDS facility services had several lifetime career workers they fired after implementing this policy, and the congregants rarely kept it as clean.
That was dope. Thanks, man. I wasn't able to make ABGT350 but This Never Happened in Oakland was pretty damn dope. I like the no-phones gimmick too. Brightest Lights is awesome. I like the original edit the most https://open.spotify.com/track/49jWS1fz7QZQa4mBIqB0mu?si=-9R...

If you haven't been, I recommend the Anjuna weekender they're going to have in 2021 at The Gorge.

Dude, Brainwasher is this track I think I've been searching for for a while. Mega thanks. That with Black Hole.
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No - equity doesn't require servicing. Plenty of businesses have collapsed despite having positive margin and operating cash flow, but outstanding debt. It's almost a feature of the "private equity looting" model that killed Toys R Us and Maplin, among others.
I remember meeting some Raelians in Japan when I was a Mormon missionary! They had neat flyers. Major flyer jealousy.
botany started in the late 18th century? tell that to ancient peruvians cultivating the potato or pretty much any ancient culture. i can’t stand so many scientific articles asserting that science began 300 years ago. it’s so short-sighted... sigh...
Can you imagine the criticism if the investment arm was losing money? The Church does amazing work providing resources during crises. I’ve personally cut trees off of people’s houses with chainsaws provided by the Church and given buckets of sanitation supplies when hurricanes swept through Florida.

There is always a tension in “what do you spend now and what do you invest for later” but I honesty feel like the Church cannot win this argument. Those who are distrustful of organized religion can win if the church is poor (“why didn’t their ‘prophet’ know better”); if they’re rich (“why don’t they give to X”); or if they do nothing (“they teach their own members to save but don’t practice that themselves—the hypocrites”).

I’m a believer so my view is not disinterested, but where is the conversation that they are conservative in their investments; won’t make money from industries they teach against; etc.

There are very few people in the ecclesiastical arm of the church who work full-time and are provided a living stipend. And many of those people were very successful before leaving their professional lives.

The current President (Russel Nelson) was a pioneer in open heart surgery. I’m pretty comfortable assuming he would have made more money in his life had he not accepted a calling to full-time ministry.

To me this article is interesting but the reaction is predictable. People will read into the confirmation of whatever biases they had to begin with.

For my part, I’d rather the church invest wisely than poorly...
But unlike bitcoin, visa doesn’t create an enormous carbon footprint every time somebody buys a pack of gum at a gas station.