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The news peg for this particular story (i.e. why the Catholic Church and not all denominations) is ostensibly the Church's ongoing legal battle and settlements re: clergy sexual abuse, but also the fact that the church's lobbying arm successfully argued an exception for religious organizations to not be disqualified under the rule's dictate "that only businesses with fewer than 500 employees, including at all subsidiaries, are eligible.":

> The Catholic News Service reported that the bishops’ conference and several major Catholic nonprofit agencies worked throughout the week of March 30 to ensure that the “unique nature of the entities would not make them ineligible for the program” because of how SBA defines a “small” business. Those conversations came just days after President Trump signed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program.

> In addition, federal records show the Los Angeles archdiocese, whose leader heads the bishops’ conference, paid $20,000 to lobby the U.S. Senate and House on “eligibility for non-profits” under the CARES Act. The records also show that Catholic Charities USA, a social service arm of the church with member agencies in dioceses across the country, paid another $30,000 to lobby on the act and other issues.

Also, the Catholic Church is just fundamentally a more hierarchical and unified institution compared to other denominations. Sure, other denominations have dioceses and bishops, but not as rigidly structured as Catholicism, e.g. cardinals who work directly with the Pope.
This is some contorted logic. "We will not privilege religion, so we will give a privileged tax exempt status to religion".

Ha, nice, the Satanic Temple is also tax exempt [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple
I'm not surprised they made an exception to allow the church to gain funds despite having more than 500 employees but did not require companies with more than 500 employees to provide sick leave for corona. Classic corruption. Send the funds to our rich rapist (proven not alleged in this case) friends while Americans are starving and getting evicted in the streets while sick because they have no sick days or financial support. Many people are still waiting for their first unemployment check from March but not to worry, the church won't go out of business and little kids will continue to be raped by priests. We have our priorities straight in America. Clearly raping kids is more important than feeding, sheltering, or providing sick leave for ordinary Americans. Message received loud and clear.
In favour of the vast number of low-paid workers who could really use decent employment benefits.

If the trade-off is that the IT guy billing six-figure sums ends up with a bit less cash in his pocket, because he's required to contribute more to the system that takes care of everyone, well... I won't be losing any sleep over that.
Also currently there is a bit of an incentive to make it user friendly.

If it becomes "consulting-ware" like Linux there would be an incentive to make it user-unfriendly and complicate it with high costumizability, bad UI and bad defaults.
There's a factor of 1000 there.
So make them app_db side user config data, not local browser database config data.
This is a good point. Most people when comparing the popularity Linux vs Windows Server or Apache vs. IIS ignore the fact that Windows Servers costs a bunch. A proper comparison would be if both were free or cost the same. I wonder how the server wars would have turned out if that were the case.
So in order to fight intolerance you're being intolerant. Got it. Fight fire with fire.
It's a long running MLM selling "eternal salvation" and spending a tiny percentage of it's revenues on charity for PR cover.
Thats very impressive. I joined in September 27, 2011 and have only 1,830 bookmarks.
I wonder if they're doing this for the Surface Duo launch.
The assertion in that article is that all BLM activists and the whole movement are black separatist and racists because a "media commentator" taunted Tucker Carlson? That article also does not mention that she lost her job as a result of that interview (cancellation works both ways).

While there may be black separatists who support BLM, BLM is not a black separatist movement. Ultimately any black separatists will be frustrated by BLM's goals of an inclusive and just society.

Also, National Review is about as unbiased as Daily Kos, and has other ideological goals when discrediting BLM.
Fascinating myth that we all keep telling each other and ourselves that we fully own all our desires and behaviors. Western secular life continues to betray itself as a species of Christianity. European antiquity had no notion of this kind of counter-social autonomy (and no, that's not what Stoicism is about, much as people are mining it for the same gold they were trying to get out of Buddhism and Taosim in the 80s/90s). Then you read through Levi-Straussian anthropology and realize its probably the case most, if not all, cultures on Earth don't sport this peculiarity. So many moral/ethical concepts in the West, and American culture in particular as it seemingly double-downs on most sof it, are just straight up blind alleys.
Where are you getting 50% from? Everything I can find suggests tax rates in Brazil are below those of most OECD countries, and well below the OECD average for example, and the full tax wedge (which includes employer contributions) average for OECD for every category they report on is below 50% [1].

[1] OECD numbers are available from OECD's Taxing Wages 2020 report: https://www.oecd.org/tax/taxing-wages-20725124.htm
I am a criminal defense attorney. The picture painted by the article is pretty accurate. I would say the police were probably over-hyped by the night they had, so their behavior might have been elevated more than usual.

Consider that this white British journalist stands nothing to lose by taking his case to trial, if he must. In fact, it will be a badge of honor if convicted, considering his line of work. Most people can’t take that risk. I only wish people didn’t have an understanding of American “justice” through their TV.
That is a very detailed list but I think it’s awkwardly missing “normal men”.

Cancels occurring to a normal, well paid, stable person into jobless of even into suicide aren’t negligible events. In fact isn’t it happening to university professors right now?

Identities without mob support is a universal weakness no matter your social protectedness/minority statuses.
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> But, I don't see any US president standing for it before the election, or at least attempting to sell it to his electorate/funders, unless pretty much a hot war is happening.

I don't think it would be a hard to sell the American public on some kind of rationing if Beijing suddenly embargoes the US in a way that necessitated it. Given the economic dependencies that you cite, I think a US-initiated decoupling would likely proceed slowly enough to not cause critical disruption, just higher prices.
Fast enough to evaluate a few million future positions in a few seconds? Like I say in another comment, even professional players cannot "look ahead" more than a few ply, so whatever it is they're doing "in their heads", the tree search they're reporting is not how they win games.

To clarify, you can come up with an explanation of anything that you do, or observe yourself or another person do. For example, you might explain how you hit a ball with racket in tennis or with a bat in baseball, etc, but that doesn't mean that the process you are describing is the process that your mind (let alone your brain) actually follows.

If nothing else because such a description will necessarily fudge important steps. For example, if I describe myself walking as "I put one foot in front of the other" - have I explained enough about walking that it can now be reproduced mechanically? Experience teaches that -no.
The school budget is 24 billion. So $30 million is a drop in the bucket. My point was not really about the money. It was about the inability of the Department of Education to fire teachers who are deemed a threat to children. I can only imagine how hard it is to fire someone for simply being bad at their job.
No. The point of Windows Server at its peak (around 2000) was that it was an easy to manage server OS.

I don't want to manage any servers. No boxes, no kubernetes, no anything. I have have some code, I pay my cloud provider for an execution environment and that's it.
I do for several large projects.
But, I do not run IIS. Use Apache instead.
I have webservers running windows server, and databases servers on centos.

Main reasons familiarity started as a windows application developer, the gui in my case window explorer feels easier for the tasks that I need do.

I have setup webservers on linux as well, Just I work faster in windows can fix things easier then having to google with linux when things go wrong. I prefer the windows file permissions
Hi there! Connections Museum volunteer here. We're on good terms with our landlords (CenturyLink). While we are 100% volunteer run, we also are part of an independent non-profit, the Telecommunications History Group.

We've been keeping busy during quarantine, working on all kinds of restoration projects, and look forward to being able to give tours when that's safe again. For now you'll have to get by with our youtube channel.

And our power draw is more in the neighborhood of 200A than 1000A :) With respect to moving, the greater challenges are that everything is hard-wired together (not connectorized) and we'd need a space with 13+ foot ceilings that allows high floor loading.
3 and 4 are all but guaranteed to occur. There is no way Uber is going to let drivers only work 10 hours a week for them if they have to pay them full benefits for it.

2 also seems likely although your phrasing is a bit hyperbolic. There is no doubt this will make the taxi market less efficient resulting in higher prices and fewer rides. I doubt it will result in mass layoffs though. Probably more like 10% of current Uber drivers will have to change careers.

Overall, this is a net harm for drivers.
Falsely calling people you don't like evil to cause them harm or for you own economic gain should result in jail time and compensation for the victim.

As of now, we're so afraid of stopping people from coming forward that we've allowed those with evil intentions to weaponize our empathy.
Actually, JPEG 2000 seems pretty badass. I believe Apple is the only major vendor that supports JPEG 2000 out of the box.

From "JPEG 2000: The Better Alternative to JPEG That Never Made it Big": https://petapixel.com/2015/09/12/jpeg-2000-the-better-altern...

JPEG 2000 is a much better image solution than the original JPEG file format. Using a sophisticated encoding method, JPEG 2000 files can compress files with less loss of, what we might consider, visual performance. In addition, the file format is less likely to be affected by ‘bit errors’ and other file system errors due to its more efficient coding structure.

Those who choose to save their files in the JPEG 2000 standard can also choose between utilizing compression or saving the file as lossless to retain original detail. A higher dynamic range is also supported by the format with no limit of an image’s bit depth. Together, these abilities created a much better alternative than the original JPEG solution.
They aren't given tax relief. They aren't paying the thief like the rest of us.
This does not resonate with me- you have masses of people who now have tons of free time on their hands, and in general the trend is towards shorter formats of entertainment- especially for the demographic they are targeting.

You are really telling me that people are too busy watching 2 hour documentaries or reading books to load up Quibi for a quick hit? I don't buy this at all. We don't still have lunch breaks?

I know this is kind of the "insider narrative" on this (I actually bought my house from someone fairly high up that relocated to the west coast to work there) but this really rings hollow. After reading some of Katzenburg's comments in an article a few months ago where he said "I blame everything that has gone wrong on Coronavirus. Everything." This is not a successful approach to thinking about why your product isn't getting the market fit you thought it would. Then throw in some highly annoyed comments when it was retorted that Tik Tok is thriving with "its comparing apples to submarines." With thinking like that I don't think they stand a chance really.

Personally I can not imagine a better time to launch a video platform than the onset of a pandemic where people are stuck inside with little else to do aside from consume content.
I don't think there is a way around "displaying that purpose on the trusted 2FA device." if you want to protect against a compromised computer.

Domain binding protects you from fishing, but still relies on the user's computer, including the browser, being secure. So it doesn't help here.
The opposite is also true though. A lot of "UBI" studies show positive results and are touted as proof of it's potential success. Yet they almost always only test for a short period of time with a very small group of people. So as it stands there's no reason not to discount UBI. It's not only a fringe theory discounted by the vast majority experts and academia[0], but it also never has had any supporting evidence. It's okay to discount a fringe theory especially when it's never been tried but the only way to actually try it is to fully implement it nationwide and just not care about the potential disastrous effects it could have.

[0] People love to dismiss economics as a field and disregard it's consensus, and that's their choice, but it's weird to then believe the few economists who promote UBI are right without any proof.
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What are the "heinous" things she said? I think she is the recepient of heinous things, not the originator of them. She is just bringing to light some issues which someone not in her position (rich, difficult to fire or cancel) can't even talk about. (Another less famous author got fired just for tweeting IStandWithJKRowling. )

If you think it is heinous that a group oppressed since millennia (women) feels uncomfortable if any man who self ids as a women is allowed access to women's private spaces, I don't know what to tell you.

Also, this all ignores other stuff argued by trans activists like the cotton ceiling (a lesbian is a transphobe if she doesn't feel attracted to trans women)
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It might cause me to upgrade current windows servers instead of migrating them to Linux. But I doubt I'd start new projects with it.

If mssqlserver also became open source then that might change my mind.
Me as well I use the builds on apachelounge.com Just have make you tweak the config files.
Thats like saying tires are a decent replacement for Uber.
Ironically, kernel security.
By that logic non-profits also should not have qualified to receive relief funds since the 501c3s don't pay taxes either but do serve a social good.
Selling one-off servers without any engagement with the customer isn't their business model. Has nothing to do with the year on the calendar.
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That was a feature designed to fit more options on smaller screens. I personally like it and find it helpful.
I played it on my Windows MR headset. They can be found for cheap and their experience is better than the Oculus Quest (higher refresh rate, no artifacting) and about the same as the Oculus Rift S.
It's definitely more subtle than that, for sure. Rembrandt is a great example. He created life-like illusions through a mastery of the medium – the way light reflects and refracts through different pigments, the role of varnishing, the thickness of paint, etc. Standing in front of one is an entirely different experience than looking at a photo reproduction. Doesn't compare.

But broadly speaking, photography emerged at a time where the aim of most painters was still to create a window into a world. It's no accident that Impressionism emerged at the same time as the avant guard reaction to that. Which then led to abstract expressionism, etc – the idea that a painting is an object in and of itself. That the surface of the painting (the texture, the geometry of the composition) is what's interesting; rather than it being a vehicle for depicting some image.
> 'Clearly we should value debate. Clearly we "should" persuade people we disagree with. The question is whether we should be forced to.'

So you agree with the criticisms I made of cancel culture?

> 'If I'm an employer, should I be forced to hire people who I personally find unpersuadably vile?'

I don't think this is a helpful example, for two reasons. First, it is generally accepted that employers should have more latitude in the grounds on which they hire, than the grounds on which they fire. This reflects the fact that we are generally more concerned with actions of commission (e.g. killing someone) than omission (e.g. failing to give someone life-saving drugs). If we ask instead, 'Should you fire someone because they believe transgender women shouldn't be admitted into female sports', or 'Should you fire someone because they believe in the aggressive extradition of illegal immigrants', or 'Should you fire someone because they watch Fox news', it's much less clear-cut.

Secondly, and more to the point, what is at issue is rarely cancel culture among employers, but the way in which cancel culture pressures employers to fire people.

> 'If I run a forum (like HN, or Reddit), I can't ban people even if they're "debating" in a way that is disruptive and driving off users? That too, is the "anti-cancel" position as far as I can see. How do you square this? Be specific. Tell me the rule you want to enforce so that no one gets "cancelled" but we aren't swamped by garbage in online forums.'

I haven't thought about it, but my initial answer: I think the rules on large community websites like Reddit and HN should be to sanction abuse, hate speech (understood roughly along the lines of current British law), and various activities which undermine the aim of the website - e.g. persistent trolling, systematic lying, spamming adverts.

> 'It absolutely does. Because if you can't cite me[1] someone who got "cancelled" who isn't "vile and awful", then doesn't it mean the whole "problem" doesn't exist?'

You seem to think that the only evidence of cancel culture is the complete destruction of the lives of individuals. But those only the most extreme of cases. I just gave you a less extreme but far more representative case: the Guardian journalist that I read being harassed this morning (her name is Helen Pidd). Every time I go on Twitter I see a constant stream of tribalism, abuse and retributivism - these are not rare occurrences, they are omnipresent.

Take a more prominent case: J.K. Rowling's post on transgenderism. I disagree with 90% of what she wrote in that post. But I think her arguments should be engaged with, people should try and persuade her and those like her, that we should not abuse and deplatform her, and I don't think she is evil or malignant because of what she wrote.
They're very enterprise focused, so you might not be the target customer? (I don't want to presume, however)

For a lot of powerful but heavyweight enterprise products, giving people access to pricing isn't worth it because it can cause some buyers to opt out of the process earlier than they would if their hands were held. Especially if the integration process will require some element of digital/IT transformation and hence internal political wrangling. There's tech for smooth onboarding in 2020, but not necessarily tech for helping you to do stakeholder alignment in a sales context.

The engineer in me finds this painful and wants to scream inside, but empirically this does work..
I think there is a quasi-unique problem with Libreoffice. People love Word and Excel, in ways they don't Windows and other pieces of software that compete with FOSS.

Those two programs are so well polished, user-friendly and powerful, and are what so many people are trained on, that it can be rough transition to LibreOffice.
It actually drives me mad when services turn on 2FA when I absolutely don't want them to. I had a Google account with 2FA disabled, because I planned to go abroad where it would be impossible or very costly to receive SMS. And you guess what? When I tried to log in there, Google demanded that I send in code!

I was able to circumvent it only by VPNing to my office and logging in from there.
> The REPL is still something that I haven't quite mastered, but what I enjoy doing right now is working in files and using a REPL connection to evaluate expressions within the file.

For me that is the optimal way of doing things.

I want to restructure stuff, make multiple versions of functions, move them in and out of comment blocks or just leave code there for REPL use.

When I first saw someone writing Clojure like this on a video I was thinking: "This is the way I want to write code." I think this is the best of both worlds.
fwiw 100M is a placeholder amount for how much the company plans to raise via a stock sale; usually no bearing to the actual value/market cap of the company or how much the company raises
> Nightly to seconds is definitely great

Why? Can a business mobilise in anything less than days? If a report is minutes out of data, is that any loss? Given that some largish proportion of reports are never used, perhaps better management is key.

not disagreeing but efficiency is not just a matter of quickness.
> allow the market to float with as little regulation as possible

That sounds like a recipe for a race to the bottom that ends in Dickensian sweatshops.
This sounds like the current Frankfurt School is still THE Frankfurt School; the heady and often quite complicated critiques in leftist thought (Marcuse, Adorno, etc). I had no idea that was still a thing. There's so much to learn but sadly only one life to live
I've been using Linux for a long time, Windows servers have only been a small part of my experience. At one point I decided I was going to invest more in the open source side of things, I learned Linux / Python / Bash / Go / Nginx and Apache, etc. I can use .NET and Windows server but I prefer not to. I guess at this point what I'm saying is, it's too different from what I've invested my skills in. I'm going to guess that others probably feel the same way. Linux has huge mindshare in this space and making Windows server free is not going to convince people to switch.
So do you have an example of someone being accused by one anonymous twitter user of sexual assault and subsequently had their career and life ruined?
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Ah, I see what you mean yeah... if you're already familiar with low-level audio, you might find it more useful to look at `wasgen`, which is the library underneath wafxr. It's harder to use but much more general. You basically give it an array of objects describing the sounds you want, like:

{ type: 'n0', /* white noise */
gain: { a:0.1, s:0.5, d:0.5, r:0.1 }, /* asdr envelope */
},

And it makes all the nodes and applies the envelopes and cleans up afterwards, etc. Wafxr is basically a friendly UI for it, but for what you're doing I guess you'd prefer to be scripting the sounds directly.

Audiokit looks very cool, I don't have any apple devices but I'll keep an eye on it!