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Under English common law, religious organisations are charities by definition. A charitable trust is a trust which serves a "charitable purpose", and the "advancement of religion" has long been recognised as a charitable purpose, going back to at least 1601 [1]. (Originally all charities were trusts, and so charity law formed part of trust law; later, people began using other legal structures for charities, and the rules which defined a charity in trust law were extended to apply in those other cases too.)

Most jurisdictions which inherited English common law, have maintained the classification of "advancement of religion" as a charitable end. To give just one example, look at how the IRS defines "charity" in the US [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_trusts_in_English_l...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-purpose...
I really dislike the documentation of re-frame.
The concepts are quite simple, but the docs explain them in a really confusing and buzzword heavy way.
> Isn't the world shifting in its warfare strategies ? We fought with different tools at different times. But the modern warfare seems to be moving towards misinformation, destruction of information etc ?

Well, I meant more like basic industrial and scientific knowledge, e.g., that petroleum can be used as a fuel, or that the universe is quite large and the Earth revolves around the Sun. Even if 99% of the world's civilizations were erased and you had a zombie/nuclear/etc. hellscape, I don't see people losing this basic sort of knowledge. It's simply too pervasive. The idea of humanity returning to a caveman-level of knowledge seems unlikely to me.

> It is a very fine balance indeed, hope humanity treads it with reason :)

Agreed!
80,000 died of the flu in the US in 2018. Yes, I know Covid will be worse, but 80,000 died and nobody seemed to notice.

Was that a crisis? Based on numbers alone, I’d say yes. But it sure didn’t seem like it.
Super cool looking, and a great idea.

> Get and self-host

This seems like it kind of defeats the purpose though. Is this section just to prove that it can be done?

edit: This was not meant to be rude. I was just asking if there is another reason. The reason I listed is more than enough, I was just wanting to learn more.
They still test it a lot actually in Germany. Especially on trucks. Using heating oil instead of the diesel is a big cost advantage...
They should just register as charities. No more special cases.
But non-profits have to pay property tax, right?

I don't think religious institutions have to pay property taxes.

Ok, I looked it up: “states subsidize religions to the tune of about $26.2 billion per year by not requiring religious institutions to pay property taxes for property worth about $600 billion. This subsidy is of particular interest because property taxes pay for services such as firefighting and police, which religious institutions use the same as corporations and private citizens.”
Yup, human nature completely changed over the past 100 years.
Thanks for the pointers there. You are right, that list is even worse. I'm just finding Medium particularly annoying if I search for anything related to machine learning or data science. It is just full of post after post of people regurgitating other basic content. Or maybe that's an indictment on the state of these fields.
What do you mean by isolated browser? What is use case?
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My library is only 50k raw files, and Lightroom is not exaxtly fast either. Browsing the library, scrolling, etc. is sluggish. On a powerful workstation, 24 threads, 128gb ram, etc
One person's bug is another person's feature.
My whole life was destroyed by religion.

I suffered conversion therapy and could never get on hormone blockers young; because of the nonsense faith results in from people with authority over administering a medical treatment. As an adult I'm now trying every year to afford surgeries I cannot afford while my peers save for homes. Also parents disowned me and I have ptsd from the physical & mental abuse.

Nice to see religion coming to an end before my shorter life from it. Of course it will out last me but I'm hopeful; as the younger generation is aware of the countless injustice while malevolent people attempt to disguise religion as what the "community" needs.

The facade known as religion should rot to nothingness with all the people that forced it upon others.

edit: Yah religious patrons don't like it when victims of religion speak out. Similar you all don't ever remedy the victims of what you support exist in this cruel world because of people like you.
For the way the article is worded, it sounds like a lot of noise is being made about some select reinterpretations of a law by bureaucrats. I would be shocked if the situation hadn’t changed.
Most execs it's less-critical to almost unnecessary but CTO is probably one I'd say it's a must in some cases. You'll be managing projects, the budget's of those projects, and should also have a perspective on which projects are good for the company to invest in. As such, knowing/understanding the ROI of those projects is a good idea. Also, for allocation of your team's resources/labor you should be able reprioritize confidently if you know how the project is valued. Again, generally this is something a CTO can partner with Finance team on. I don't have a source and I may be minimizing the complexity but I feel like there's probably a few articles/youtube/Khan Academy resources where you could learn what was needed in an evening. You shouldn't be the one building the financial models unless you just find that fun :)

Also fairly specific to CTO, learn the area of accounting around capital expenditures. Whether something is an expense or cap ex is very important for CTOs especially since labor can be capex. Every company will have their own accounting rules / interpretation of GAAP that you will have to get familiar with too.

I'd say your company valuation how it's modeled and pitched to investors, etc. is not as important. Very few people see that info outside of Finance and CEO with the BOD.
Oh. I see what's going on, and I was wrong about this.

US7949129B2 expired because he didn't pay the patent fees. US8321675B2 claims priority to a patent from 2001. Claiming priority is a way to broaden an existing patent by saying “it's this, but improved”; however, this also means inheriting the expiry date of the patent claiming priority to. So yeah, that one's expiring next year already. Holy cow, thanks for making me check.

Another, related patent that he notes in the FAQ[1] is 8,107,620, which won't expire until 2029 unless IBM forgets to pay patent fees. Hard to tell if it really applies to OCB3 though.

[1] https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/ocb-faq.htm#patent:p...
Has it? Private pilots are reporting no operational impact. Not sure if larger airplanes are somehow more impacted? https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/hx22o5/garmin_servi...
They don’t have to be charities. It should be enough if they are nonprofit (which most churches are I hope).
> where people connect with the spiritual world

In the USA, this is quickly becoming an obsolete understanding of religion. Regular church attendance is down from 70% to just over 50% in the last 20 years, according to Gallup.

People are leaving the churches. The real question is what will replace them. If people need community, build community centers. There are other solutions that do not rely on continuing to provide tax exemptions to organizations that more and more people are fleeing.
Yes, you perfectly explained what I was trying to say. With enough distance and financial safety, it is easy to be rational and reject such an offer. But I can understand how people might become irrational and accept such an offer, despite it being objectively not too good.
No one has made a claim that religion is the only motivation for good. In USA not just churches but also hindu temples and buddhist temples get tax exemptions (like any other non profits).

As a Hindu and as a victim of Church sanctioned violence in Portuguese colonies I am no fan of Church, and yet I do not think it makes any sense to tax a charitable organization just because it is religious in nature.
Formalized clubs do get some tax benefits. Most people are only familiar with 501(c)(3)s but there are many kinds of 501(c)s; specific tax benefits and allowed behavior to maintain them vary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization
This will definitely be brought up, so why not from me: this is not open source by Open Source Definition standards.[1] You're free to sell your builds as commercial, but if I can't compile the source code myself and use it at my workplace (assuming I'm not a journalist or any other type of listed free-to-use professional) then you're discriminating against fields of endeavor.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd
Some commenters are pointing out that all nonprofits are tax-exempt in the United States. This is true, but religious organizations enjoy an extra benefit. Secular non-profits have to apply for 501(c)3 status and then file an annual return. Churches and the like are presumed to be 501(c)3 organizations and have no filing or disclosure requirements, and the IRS is loath to investigate them.
Or, if we're lucky, the common cold. Harmless virus strains are usually more successful than ones that prompt their hosts to isolate themselves.
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It seems to me that pseudo-science requires a pseudo-scientist. I don't know anything more about Carlson than your link suggests, but scientist doesn't seem to be in the list.

Graham Hancock certainly makes no pretense of being a scientist. He is a mythographer, forthright about seeking evidence for a factual basis of received myth. Unusually among writers in his genre, in print he is very careful to distinguish established fact from speculation.

But I am still trying to understand your implication about the O-18 data. The graph encompassing the YD period showing a period of sharply lower temperature is commonplace. Are you saying that should be interpreted, instead, as a sharp increase in terrestrial water retention at YD onset, followed by a sharp reduction at the end, rather than a change in temperature? What do you interpret as might cause such retention?

Or does it, instead, refer to a change in the rate of release of terrestrial water to the ocean, pausing for millennia, then resuming at the end?

Thank you for your patience. This is not my field.
Before this incident I was thinking about getting a Garmin, but now I think I’ll just wait for Apple Watch 6, which will probably be better in every way except battery life.
Much needed. USA should follow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mormon-church-...
I'd like rustlings to work on repl.it

I'd also like an app that I can take a picture of a recipe on paper and then scale all the ingredients by some multiple (half, triple, etc) (obviously also converting ounces/tablespoons/cups/etc).
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Indeed. 99% of Google engineers secretly wish they had the courage and capability to quit and build a company. But what's the next best thing .. go to a forum for entrepreneurs building companies and downplay the community you couldn't get into :) Carry on !
Microsoft did made an earlier attempt to a games API for Windows 3.x, but only a few games bought into it, WinG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinG

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3199/a_whirlwind_tour...

I guess I was one of the few people that bothered to use it.
Not trying to take merit away from VSCode, but emacs and tramp mode also do that. And not just with remote machines over ssh, docker containers work as well. Also docker containers over an ssh connection (or whatever crazy combination you may need).

You get latency-free editing because the file is edited locally and sent to the server on save. Simple implementation but highly effective.
That would be good. I'd love to travel more without feeling guilty about the env impact
Your art looks quite cool! The bicycle paintings reflect somehow the amount of freedom I feel driving it.
> 1/3% of those who didn’t die seem to have debilitating persistent problems

Source? All I've seen so far has been anecdotal evidence.
This is such an important point.

It's going to go against the grain at hackernews, but taxing churches in the US is a terrible idea. If you wanted to further the divide between the "liberal city"/"conservative rural" American cultures, this would be a great way to do it.

If you grew up in a rural area of the flyover states you would know that churches form the backbone of these rural communities. For example, the church in my hometown organizes youth gaming nights (yes, D&D style), widow support groups, and hosts food drives along with so many more things. They're so poor that every year they have a board meeting and the board divides up the operating expenses that are unpaid and they pay them out of pocket. The board members are 'well-to-do' community members with job titles like firemen and teacher. If they were not tax-exempt, they would have to shutter.

This is not to condone or justify the negative impacts that some churches have on this country, and religion often serves as a cloak for a lot of bad cultural habits like racism. I understand why people want to combat abuses of the non-profit status of the church, but taxing them is not the way to accomplish this.
I am an atheist but I don't see how this is tech related or why it should be in HN.
How bad would it be if whatever fissile material is needed for this (presumably much larger than previously) power plant were exploded above Florida in a rapid unscheduled disassembly?
There's also https://tapiriik.com for syncing.
Perhaps they should worship the government?
Agreed, it also irritates me that people equate Linux with UNIX for example, or developers with Linux workflows for that matter.
Teacher burn-out is mostly ignored because fixing it would require undoing some very deliberate changes, like keeping bad kids in school and even in normal classrooms. We'd have to empower teachers to expel kids who refuse to be students.
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Face recognition would only matter if the adversary was targeting someone specific. There are simpler use cases than that: who was present at a protest for example. Activists could find themselves in a situation where it makes more sense not to get tested in order to avoid correlating their identity to their movements.
I think what matters more is the line of my argumentation. If I was a long-standing aviation industry veteran I would probably not be the source of great innovation and thus be blind for radical disruptions. Automotive and space disruptors had little to no prior knowledge but asked the right questions and had the right arguments...
My line or argumentation does not require much aviation expertise: a heavily regulated market with many uncertainties that put the chance of your investment succeeding at a low percentage, require ALL the investment be made before you can test it on the market is a big red flag; even more when the industry is known for very high costs in the innovation space and you are “disrupting” it; add to that that the return on investments have historically been horrible -e.g., google Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft and a dozen other big players that went bust or were very close to it...
> The idea of humanity returning to a caveman-level of knowledge seems unlikely to me.

Agreed! :)

Also, do you have or maintain a list of great books which you came across ? I see your profile, and you mention "Philosopher, writer and entrepreneur traveling the world."

I would love to see your bookshelf :)
> But non-profits have to pay property tax, right?

No, non-profits do not have to pay property tax.

So by that measure states also subsidize non-profits. And your math does not take into account the amount of services religions provide residents.

If you went by the internet religions do nothing except take money, but if you visit the real world, religions are the backbone of social services in the US.
> I never did get the hang of Mercurial

What is it specific that you dont get ? I actually thought hg is conceptually simpler.

And hg to me has always felt BSD like, Git was Linux like. Unfortunately everything with BSD failed to gain any popularity. Including BSD license in itself.
( Yes I know Netflix are using it in their Edge Appliance )
Well I guess there you can at least shoot the waste into space easier
Sounds fair but why can't these things just be a not for profit? Don't know about the US law, but often in my country there are for-profit non-profit.
>[1]The name "Ozymandias" is a rendering in Greek of a part of Ramesses II's throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re. The poems paraphrase the inscription on the base of the statue, given by Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica as:

>>King of Kings am I, Osymandyas. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Hubris

Have we checked the quote? There seems to be just the upper half in the museum but the other half should be lying somewhere.
I acknowledge this is anecdotal but in the Bay Area CA I drive by many churches (of different faiths) occupying large areas of land on prime hilltop real estate. I’m astonished by this.
So that was your proclamation. Now let's hear your arguments...
This is all pretax income since it's deductible, so you should be multiplying it by your (1 - marginal tax rate) to get the real equivalent price. Assuming he probably makes more than $180k AUS ($127k USD), his rate is probably at %45, so the 'real' price for this is $5720.

Also the prices your looking up are pretty inflated. I did a very lazy amazon search for the CRG90 for example and I got ~$1500 right off the bat: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B07L9HCJ2V/ref=sr_1_...
If you check the law that's exactly what already happens.

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/are-there-advantages-to-being-...

"There are no direct legal benefits associated with being identified as an FBO."
I think what you are stating should be a top comment and shows what the certification and paperwork overhead do in terms of “purchasing costs”.
I doubt these planes are less safe (but I admittedly don’t have the numbers ready) - but they are a fraction of “certified planes”
The fuel would be encased in a protective enclosure designed to survive launch failure.
Plus I don't understand why curiosity is the value of the community. Is it? There are so many kinds of values, and even a nuance between learning and mere curiosity. Recently black American experiences have been a conversation here on HN — if this conflicts with curiosity, then which is more valuable?

Or are we talking about the values prescribed by the proprietors of HN?
Also, plausible deniability is a first tier consideration.
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I don't think it's that bizarre. I find it quite subversive when a church group does 'community events' when there are other organisations which those church members could join to achieve the same result, without flying the banner of $ideology.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souperism for a more blatant historical take.
I tried vscode on win10 core i5 1st gen. Could barely reach 2 keys per second. I was honestly shocked.
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> Sounds fair but why can't these things just be a not for profit?

They are. There is no difference tax-wise for a non-profit and church.
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It is more complex than that. The Church of England started out as the English branch of the Roman Catholic Church. In that form, it was scarcely a private body – it was the state religion, intimately entwined with the state, with the power to levy taxes, and it ran its own court system with jurisdiction over issues which today would be viewed as essentially secular in character (validity of marriages; inheritance of personal property; crimes committed by clergy), and the state would recognise and enforce that court system's decisions. The property of such a state religion is hardly "private property", it is arguably "public property".

For centuries, the King and Pope had intermittently fought over control of it (a situation not unique to England, but repeated across mediaeval Europe). Henry VIII did not see himself as carrying out a state takeover of the Church, but simply as settling that traditional conflict between Pope and King decisively in his own favour.
Agree the content is very divisive but ah well I guess censoring is also not sustainable.
I think it says something about human interfaces. When I run old linux 2.4 distros, even if everything is crude (GUIs redraw without double buffering, no compositor nothing).. no font AA .. yet it feels 'better'. And it's not nostalgia only.
I would love a competitor with significant benefits. Git has plenty of warts.

As it stands, it's just a lot easier to use Git everywhere though, just so developers don't have to learn a new tool.

https://pijul.org/ is the only somewhat somewhat interesting alternative I know about, but it's implementation is in alpha territory, and development seems dead.
But in the country of 330000000 this is relatively minor. Yes, this happened quickly, but other, and more importantly, preventable deceases are killing way more people over time. Yet we don’t test for flu, don’t close McDonald’ses or allow driving only with special permit once a week. Basically current hysteria is disproportionate.
Dart is one of my favourite languages right now. I know it gets a lot of criticism for not reinventing the wheel and being heavily OOP based, but it's simple enough, standard library works well, IDEs work great. Also it actually has some unique features which I now miss from other OOP languages, such as named constructors - new Angle.fromRadians(...), new Angle.fromDegrees(...) - feels much cleaner and more self-documenting than the static factory method other languages have you use.

Optional typing I never really cared about, because even in languages with var I find myself writing the types whenever possible.
Given the extreme wealth in the bay area, I am astonished you find it astonishing. Billionaires and multi millionaires would have funded these churches. Most churches and other religious organisations run on a tight budget and deter important costs like building maintenance because of lack of funds.

I have seen crumbling Catholic churches, and I have seen the Vatican Meusum. Two extremes of wealth.
Windows caches the logons of the last few users as a hash on the local PC, malware can use those hashes to authenticate against network resources as that user. If one of those users was a domain admin, on most networks they can access just about anything
Are people fleeing churches or have they never been?
People could just throw the letters away, end up in landfill, and start from there
Don't you only tax profits? If a church isn't making any, then there'd be nothing to tax?
Opinions on the cheering side are likely diverse; but a good argument for it is wanting a consistent tax code where people are treated consistently without reference to what they are thinking. I am not at all sympathetic to the idea that we allow good works to go tax-free only when religious people do them. That isn't fair. No exemptions for churches is fair, although they should have gotten more notice if this article is representing the situation comprehensively.

People doing charitable work probably shouldn't be paying taxes. People doing community work probably shouldn't be paying taxes. I'm even nervous about taxes on business since things like supermarkets are primarily involved with is getting food to people cheaply - discouraging that seems foolish. The basis of that taxation status shouldn't be linked to religious affiliation.
Do churches not use US infrastructure and services? We are implicitly taxed on behalf of churches.