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The US never affirmatively recognized Scientology as a legitimate religious organization. Rather, Scientology fought a prolonged, dirty war with the IRS and came out the victor when the IRS decided to settle. Because of anti-tax sentiment that daemonizes the IRS, the IRS doesn't have the stomach for prolonged battles that play out in the media. The public is too credulous when the defendant invariably plays the Samson & Goliath card. (Trump has also successfully used this technique. I once had a law professor who worked on an IRS case against Trump, and he had some interesting stories--not to mention strong opinions--regarding Trump's business practices. Actually, anyone of means caught in the IRS' cross-hairs will use this technique. But you have to be particularly bellicose, as in the Scientology and Trump cases, to flagrantly violate tax laws with the intention of taking the IRS to the mat.)

It's also worth pointing out that, unlike some other countries, the US doesn't really have a formal system for recognizing religious organizations. AFAIU, the closest thing we have is the IRS adjudicating in the first instance Federal tax exemption status. Otherwise, as a general matter, a religion is as a religion does, and it's usually up to agencies, municipalities, and ultimately courts to decide on a dispute-by-dispute basis whether an organization, group, or person is owed the benefit of some particular religious exception in law.
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My non-existent children won't cost the taxpayer anything in government services, so I guess we're even?
An 18 year old male athlete absolutely should get vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...

People have reported 1339 (778 confirmed) cases of myocarditis or pericarditis out of 363 million doses. This is not to say that the vaccine caused every case. Incidence in the general population is 10-22 per 100k. If I read that correctly as the annually.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32127272/

Then one would expect 300-750 cases to occur within the same week in a vaccinated patient naturally. Another confounding factor is covid is known to cause the same thing so its entirely possible that we are vaccinating people with covid or whom have gotten over covid and in some cases blaming the vaccine for the effect of the disease.

Let us suppose that all reported cases are ultimately confirmed and one would expect 300 cases without the vaccination and thus the vaccine caused 1000 extra cases in 363M doses.

This is a 1 in 363,000 chance of a side effect that rarely kills you.

In that same 363,000 if infected with covid will see 726 deaths 0.002 death rate and most will have some sort of lung damage even if they were perceptively asymptomatic.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200906202950.h...
Someone has made a tool that downloads and applies the patches that MS is still giving to the extended support customers and he is pirating. Although I'd like to see people's faces when I tell them that someone is Russian^W Ukrainian...
In reply, one question: "Is your population growing?"

If your population is growing and your economy isn't, somebody is having problems.
You either overestimate your family's tech literacy, or you have a household of people working in tech if you think it's as simple as reading a link for the average consumer.
Well, it does set up everything automagically for you. I can also dig around for my Docker CLI config and the right way to expose the Docker TCP socket to the host, but if you need a quick way to get working, VS Code is it.
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In the US there's actually an FCC requirement that television channels air news.

From https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting: "virtually every station has an obligation to provide news, public affairs, and other programming that specifically treats the important issues facing its community." The details are specific to the license, but almost every station is required to air at least an hour of news a day.

There's also requirements to air a certain number of hours of educational material for children (https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/childrens-educational-t...).
I don't think it is realistic to ban, honestly.

I think there is probably some precedent from gambling laws we could apply to protect minors from predatory behaviour.
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> Game theory will tell you that there is essentially no downside to (3). Worst case you will be back on the app store at 30% or will leave.

Worst case is you want to be on the app store at 30% but are not allowed back in.

> I stand by my position that end users don't actually want competing third-party app stores

I disagree. More stores bring more competition. Both in terms of platform costs and in terms of promos for customer acquisition.

The epic game store is kind of crap, but their weekly free game setup has offered some great content. I haven't given them a single dollar and I've gotten a number of titles including Control, Enter the Gungeon, Alien Isolation, etc.

I say let them fight
> Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move.

Adblocking is a reasonable defense against the constant and expanding abuse (of both people and the commons) that the ad industry brought on us.

For the record, I don't engage in ad blocking as such. I block scripts, which has the side effect of blocking much of the more abusive ads. However, reasonable ads aren't blocked at all -- it's just that there aren't many reasonable ads on the internet.
I wonder why Google did not yet make a tool to integrate your server logs into analytics. That way you can really measure everything.
If you think about REACH I heard it's not what it does (although it sounds like it does). The lobbies were there...
This is so true, and also the reason for them being less popular. The 6502 wasn't nice like the 6809. Intel ISA is a mess but was simpler in hardware than M68K.

"IBM considered the 68000 for the IBM PC but chose the Intel 8088 because the 68000 was not ready; Walden C. Rhines wrote that thus "Motorola, with its superior technology, lost the single most important design contest of the last 50 years" -- Wikipedia

Too bad we missed out on M68K IBM PCs, but in the end Macs ended up running x86 (ARM next I suppose).
Docker Engine only runs on Linux.

Docker for Mac/Windows sets up a Linux VM using macOS/Windows native virtualization via the open-source HyperKit/VPNKit abstractions maintained by Docker-the-Company and the community. That VM runs Docker Enginer (dockerd) and all interaction (docker CLI commands, shared volumes, networking, etc.) are proxied into that VM.
The first few chapters of many books about ML will go over these, like Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop.
Not having kids is totally valid. I have two and prefer it that way, can't imagine a life without them, as Jeff explains here[1]. Having a second one is no different (for me) than having only one, actually it's a tad better. So if the joy increases with # of kids around, why not have three then, why not four? And if you backtrack this idea, not having any kids is not bad at all. Just a different life.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-parenthood/
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He has written a book as well! Now if he can play an instrument and embroider he'd be my choice for the human general talent gauntlet.
It's not pointless. The point is that competition is healthy, whether it's in regard to the cost of milk or the cost of taxes. Monopolies are economically inefficient and make us poorer on net.
This needs to be taken much further, to allow alternate app stores, as well as direct installation of apps. People must be allowed control and ownership of their hardware.
It is after all, the Senate Launch System.
My experience with high school rugby was that head impacts were exceedingly rare. Lots of bruises, though. The showers after a game were loud, with kids screaming their pain away.

I stopped in college because I didn't have time (or will) for the gym, and it suddenly wasn't fun to play against people several years older than you. I imagine American football would be much worse in terms because of the external protection provided by the padding and helmets. It hurts more to hit skin to skin, so you don't do it so much, and when you do, it's carefully. But in older age, and professional settings, I imagine things are different.
> Do you know anyone who measures the temp of the surface of their cookware?

Yes, I do. I have a cheap IR thermometer with my kitchen utensils, and I use it all the time. I use it every time I roast seeds and spices, because I'm picky that way. I've also used it when I've accidentally left a pan on the burner too long. I'm careful but I screw up now and then. I accidentally heated a stainless pan to nearly 500 deg F once, but 've never gotten a nonstick pan over about 400 deg F.

> Teflon and nonstick coatings kill birds (house pets) when overheated. A nonstick pan in the oven to catch the drippings from your chicken baking at 400 or 425 can kill your parrot quickly. A nonstick wok left unattended for a few minutes during a high-heat stir fry easily reaches 400, enough to kill your cockatiel.

Stories of such low temperatures killing birds are anecdotal. The lowest temperature that has lead to bird deaths in a controlled laboratory setting is 280 deg C, which is about 580 deg F. [1]

Keep in mind that birds are easily killed by common cooking smoke and fumes, as well as natural gas. The problem with these anecdotes is that it's likely there were other fumes involved, and there's no way to know what actually kills a bird oustide a controlled lab setting.

> And as another poster has noted, those coatings always start flaking off.

As I noted in another comment, it's not hard to keep a nonstick pan indefinitely. I have a lot of ten and fifteen year old nonstick pans that are as good as the day I bought them. My daily drivers are about five years old now, good as new. I'm careful not to overheat them and I never use metal utensils in them. Following those two rules, even my kids were able to use them without damaging them.

> Why buy something that produces fumes enough to kill your house pets and also has planned obsolescence built in when you can get a cast iron pan that's indestructible and will increase your iron intake a bit?

If you overheat that cast iron pan, or if you burn food in it, it will kill birds just as easily as a nonstick pan. Also note, there is vastly more evidence of harm from excess iron consumption than there is of harm from overheated PTFE coatings.

That said, I like steel and iron pans. I regularly use enameled steel pans for toasting spices, and I cook crepes and pancakes on steel pans. I don't use cast iron for much because it's heavy as shit and its heat distribution sucks.

I've actually had good luck with seasoned bare aluminum pans. This is more common in some restaurant kitchens, but not so much in home kitchens. Aluminum seasons just as well as iron, and the heat distribution is way way better. But for some reason "cast aluminum" doesn't have quite the same old-timey panache as does cast iron.
Looking at this in another way. Of the 5 managers i know at the bank i'm working in (and i'm pretty high up since the sbject i'm working on is transversal to 90% of devs teams in the bank), all of them have real estate. Either because they are now old and invested early (in the 2000's), or because they inherited it. I'm not talking about one or two appartments, i'm talking about whole buildings in Paris and Villas on the Cote d'azur. The incentives are here, not only for the executive but also for the middle-high managment.
This probably maps on wealth and education.
The report isn't defining "childfree." It's defining "childless" as "adults with no children." It's not even remotely talking about why these adults do not have children.

This has nothing to do with Australia[0]. But by trying to say all childless adults are "childfree", you're basically ignoring infertility, which I think is inconsiderate, at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_childlessness
A close friend of mine is an event coordinator. She shoots photos and videos on her iPhone. She edits the content directly on her iPhone and uploads the content to social media. And of course, the iPhone is her primary communication and organizational tool.

She has a Mac, but it might as well be a $1,100 thin client for Google Docs, as that is the only productive thing she does on it. I have no doubt she'd get by fine with an iPad or Chromebook (although I wouldn't recommend either at this point).
Pi-Hole on my domestic private network.
The #1 question I wish I could get answered for any prospective company (as an interviewee):

"Do you have your shit together?"

Seriously. This could avoid so much heartache.
Will it ship with a vertical task bar option? Will it ship with a task bar that I can copy/paste between windows by dragging objects onto the taskbar button of the paste target?
Most sports shoes kids wear in highschool will run about the same, unless they are on sale. Nike, Adidas, etc. They will run the same or more, sometimes less. That's my reference.
Not sure if this is comforting or mind-blowing (or both), but if you expand it out, every man who has children but no son is the last in a line of thousands of men with sons, and every woman who has kids but no daughters is the last in a line of thousands of women with daughters.
This. You want "Get good sh*t done" people. IQ doesn't mean much if you don't know how to execute things and provide stakeholder value.
I really want to try Linux more & like it more. In early 2020, I wiped a 2012 Mac mini that had a nice quad core processor with 16 GB of RAM & an SSD; and then installed Linux Mint. It was great & worked well with the display (a Dell 27”) and Apple’s Magic Trackpad & bluetooth keyboard. But there was some work needed to get the trackpad behaving exactly as it did on Mac & as close as it got, I still saw frustrating results in some app’s scrolling.

I’ve previously tried different versions of Ubuntu on the same machine, and eventually wiped everything again favor of Cinnamon. Cinnamon was great. I’ve also tried Elementary — very macOS like; along with a few other I can’t remember.

But as you can probably tell, not very scientifically researched. And I’ve never felt compelled to learn a whole lot about exactly what separates the variations of Linux I’ve tried. For example, I know some are KDE based, and some are Gnome based. My criteria was simple, install OS, configure, install apps, configure, install more apps, configure … and so on.

Honestly, I’d still be using Cinnamon, but when the M1 MacBook Air came out, Apple offered $180 for an almost 9 year old Mac mini. It was like they new somehow, that they might be losing me. I’m not that locked in on App Store purchases, and always recommend trying to avoid apps that aren’t widely available on both macOS & some Linux distributions. (I still love Joplin for notes, for example.)

Where Apple has me locked in is my phone, with handoff and all the other tight integrations. So if I were building a Linux distribution, that would be a high priority: build an ecosystem. Maybe that’s an SDK that allows for data syncing from Desktop to Phone (for everything, consistently: email, password manager, bookmarks, etc). But when you do that, integrate with macOS (and Windows) too. Build a Safari Extension so I can get to my bookmarks on my Linux machine, my Mac & my iPhone (mobile Safari does Extensions), for example.

Tools to analyze hardware & software to then help determine what distribution would work best would be awesome, too. Imagine a Migration Assistant for Linux that you install on a Mac that tells you what Linux distributions are a good fit for your peripherals & installed apps … along with suggestions to resolve some known issues.

There are a lot of barriers, and I’m sure most of them have been dealt with over & over again. Why do I have to re-solve some of the issues? That friction, if reduced, would probably make more people try. I started on my Mac mini because the latest release available was old & some newer software that did run was very slow. Linux Mint & Cinnamon are really straight forward, have big communities and plenty of resources for help; and either of those made that old Mac mini feel very fast again.
Having two kids is now above the average…
> modern, fresh, clean and beautiful

Everytime I hear these words that means they've regressed in terms of UX/UI.

I prefer these adjectives: Old, tested, functional and straighforward.
Sounds like something I would have signed up for as a fresh college grad who wasn't quite ready to join corporate America.
deal. code should be written to be easily replaceable, not extendable

to me, more often than not, it means simple
Local town halls, city council meetings, and things of that nature. Which is to say: not many (and over the duration of our democracy, they have not scaled with technology in the way that propaganda has: newspapers, then talk radio, then evening TV news, then 24/7 TV news, and now the rage-o-sphere)
I don't think you'll lose this. It will be like "sign in with aplle" — you will be able to use different purchase algorithms, or apple pay.
It's weird using the argument that it's a shell game as a positive argument. "It's not a money grab, it's just a hidden fee!"
Because their constituents want it
ooh, interesting. I did not know that. That must have been annoying.
Hmm. I don’t see HyperCard or Applescript as better than anything we have now. They are indicative of a direction, but neither were scalable. Shortcuts seems better than either of them.

I see smalltalk as a great vision, but the fact is hasn’t gone further isn’t accidental.

It’s certainly not easier to build an app in Squeak, for example, than it is to use XCode and build one using SwiftUI.

I am personally of the opinion that nobody has actually done better in reality, even if they have a preferable vision.
Right?

It boggles the mind that the biggest companies on Earth are the likes of Instagram instead of a huge company called "Adapt" which takes care of all that between employee and employer as a third party.
Obviously I can't answer how long Google should block an abusive IP address since I'm not Google.

A CGNAT IP address is not reassigned to a home, it's shared among many homes. If you meant from my example the cloud server IP, that is one issue that comes up pretty often on cloud services and there's not a clean way around it.

For example I use Linode as my VPN server, I used to have all sorts of trouble with Google making me enter captchas or blocking my search just because of the abuse coming from the same IP range. I actually can't even login to some apps while on my VPN, and I've had this same IP address on my Linode for close to 10 years, so it's not an issue with my /32 specifically.

You'll see the same thing on AWS, many of those ec2 instances can't be used for sending email or for VPN services because previous users of the IP space abused their way onto block lists.
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> been through the Slackware dozens-of-floppies ritual

I see you know the old ways :).

To each their own, I still find myself most productive as a developer on a linux machine.
It's more than just one-time IAP, though. I'm generally "whatever" on what payment processor people use, but one of the things that does concern me is subscription management. To me there is a lot of value to having a central place where all my subscriptions are and where they can be canceled easily, even if I don't have the app installed anymore.

YOLOing something with Stripe doesn't give me that without a bunch of fundamentally opt-in stuff on the part of the developer, and that's pretty concerning. If the platforms can (and do) solve this, then I feel a lot better about it.
> This presumes that commercially friendly licenses help provide funding for FOSS development.

Yes, definitely, when compared against a license that bans funding your project. I'm not here to argue that the current state of funding in FOSS is great, I'm here to argue that banning funding is not going to help it.

Blender can't use an NC licensed asset in the program, because their software is a commercial product that they are making money off of. What an NC licensed commons does is it guarantees that anyone building on top of the commons can not do so in a sustainable way, regardless of whether or not they're building FOSS software.

I think what people miss when they talk about the commons is that FOSS projects are built on top of FOSS projects, and questions about funding necessarily affect not just the immediate developer that releases a project, but the ability of every single downstream CC/FOSS project that is trying to build on top of a shared commons.

Philosophically, the idea of a shared commons is that having an open collection of software/content that everyone both contributes to and that everyone builds on top of will be better for society. It is reasonable for people to disagree with that philosophy and to argue that closing down and forcing people to get permission to build anything large on top of the commons is a better model -- that is the model of proprietary software. But people should be aware what they're arguing for.

Non-Commercial licenses are an assertion that any other commons material built on top of that content must be unfunded. Future creative commons works can not include content under proprietary dual-licenses to your stuff while remaining FOSS/CC themselves. So they have choice. Either have no funding at all, or reject the Creative Commons and build proprietary stuff using assets that are licensed under Non-Free agreements. In the current world, an assertion that the Creative Commons should require Non-Commercial usage is an assertion that Creative Commons content should not be funded.
Well, until enough other people start calling the same person bizarre.
I think the author was suggesting that firms such as Electronic Arts and Activision be regulated in how they produce addictive patterns in titles like FIFA and Overwatch.
"Eating five or more fruits and vegetables a day has decreased from 42 percent to 26 percent" ... "between the period 1988-1994 and then 2001-2006."

https://www.livescience.com/5435-american-diets-worse.html
Yeah I hear you - but my question is, could someone make the same argument at any previous times? In the past there was ozone layer problems, peak oil worries, global cooling, etc. I think you could always have said "no it's gonna get really bad now" if you ignore human history of evolving its way past problems that loom at it.

In my experience, our growth has motivated a lot of these things.
At my institution the "adapt open source" vs "buy" balance is also affected by the high effort of making a purchase happen. My bet is that things will get hung up on an exclusive acquisition justification, at which point the IBM/RHEL sales team will come in with "solution" using podman, buildah, etc. I've quit DD just now to try those tools out.
Reminds me playing rugby at high school... one time I dived to catch the ball, and went head-first into an (unpadded) goal post, knocking myself out cold :( What an absolute eejit!

I played casually off an on for a few years, and that was the only head injury I ever received.
Thanks - that wasn't obvious from the Rancher Desktop site.
Are the calculations available somewhere? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_power#Available_power the output of 1 person is ~100W in ideal setup. If they expect to extract some energy from the movement of the stage during a not coordinated action of the dancers, I expect a much smaller number.

For comparison, an old lamp used ~100W, an air conditioner for a small home uses 3000W.

How much is "70 tonnes of carbon emissions per year" compared to the CO2 emissions? How much CO2 will they need to make and install the devices?