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There are two main tax exemptions which churches benefit from in the US. The first is that donation are tax deductible for taxpayers that itemize their deductions. The second is that any income from investments is also tax free. This is the case for any 503b non-profit organization in the US, not strictly for churches. For example, if you local youth soccer program was a 503b the interest from their bank account isn’t taxed.

If a 503B puts its money into Microsoft stock, the profits that Microsoft makes are taxed. The capital gains the 503B gets wouldn’t get taxed when the stock was sold.

The main argument in the article, not fully stated, is that the Mormon Church doesn’t do enough beneficial works to qualify as a 503b. In the US, Churches are granted 503b status without specific reviews of their societal benefit. If you want to pay someone to operate a homeless shelter or ding a bell all day to prevent the end of times, it is all the same. This is part of separation of church and state as laid out in the constitution. If there was a specific review the State could “put its thumb” on the scales and favor some churches over others in granting non-profit status.

Churches, just like the local soccer club don’t have the same distribution requirements that a donor controlled 503b would have. For example if you are a billionaire and donate $1B of your appreciated stock to your donor directed fund you need to distribute 5% per year on charitable works to keep the 503b status. The article implies that the same requirement should apply to the Mormon Church that applies to a donor directed fund. This line of reasoning is incorrect.

A donor directed fund has substantially no other affiliated activity that has to be considered. This is more like Harvard’s endowment where there is a school controls the fund. In the case of Harvard, if the fund didn’t distribute anything in a year there still would be substantial educational work and research going on. In the case of a donor directed non-profit nothing would be happening. The Mormon Church argues that it operates more like Harvard and that the whistleblower did not have access to the larger organizations finances.

All global churches right now are facing a demographic cliff as wealthy nations are increasingly secular while most religions growth is in developing countries. In most cases Churches transfer a large amount of donations from wealthy countries like the US to less wealthy ones like Nigeria. In another 50 years many of those transfers will cease to be significant unless there is a religious revival in wealthier markets or a significant deviation in the number of children religious families have relative to the overall population in these countries. It is likely that many churches will need to wind down financial activities to be more aligned with the demographics.
It kinda depends on how you define "charitable" though.

Historically, churches treat money spent on themselves as "charity." There was an interesting discussion in Christianity Today a long while back about how, on the surface, it looks like Red state residents are more charitable than folks in Blue states -- but the difference was tithing to churches, which overwhelmingly consume those funds on operating their Sunday morning social club & related programming.

If you factored out that aspect, the comparison flipped dramatically.
Rural Americans have a .30-06 (or similar rifle) and know how to use it, and they often have access to more powerful guns. The question is can you hit a moving target without hitting the kids in the yard - unlikely no matter how much you train.

.30 caliber is a little light for this job, but it will work if you aim well. Generally you would want a more powerful gun.
fyi, he self-identified as GPT-3, and did not seem to be "aware" that he was specialized in science, but in "a wide range of topics".

Edit: and I strongly suggest you create a "Delete your account" page or at least a way to contact the person responsible to do it :).
Yeah me too! I get excited about new features and to get a feel for where the software is going. At times when I feel impressed by the devs that maintain some of my favourite software I take a moment to drop them an email or tweet (now toot) to thank them and congratulate them on major releases. It only takes a small moment of my time but genuine appreciation can really brighten peoples days.
They actually can.

The only thing that prevents them from doing that is that they are a 501(c)(3). The Johnson amendment requires they not be politically active.

However, if a church decides to register as a 501(c)(4) they absolutely can endorse or condemn candidates tax free.

So why aren't they 501(c)(4)s? 501(c)(3) allows you to deduct contributions to such and organization from your taxes. 4 only gives a break to the organization, not their donors.
To compose generators I use `yield*` (or `yield from` in python) https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...* (note that last star is actually part of the link)

The main drawback with this approach is that it is easy to blow the stack, but it is not too hard to implement trampolining on top of it (by yielding the continuation to a wrapper generator)

To use the generator I send its inputs using `.next()` and obtain current state information, as shown on your library webpage.
> So folks on the front line take notions spoken decades and centuries ago and try to fit it to a modern framework, even when things are obviously wrong.

Only "centuries" ago?

Judaism has entered the chat.
> How do I kill the 30-50 feral hippos that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?

1. This[1] page suggests:

> The minimum suggested caliber for hunting hippo is a 375 and up, using solid bullets.

I assume that means .375 H&H magnum.

If you're actually going to try to kill Hippos, you're going to want to study their anatomy carefully. From what I understand, most hunters take headshots because Hippos are typically mostly submerged. But for most large game, a heart shot is seen as less risky since the brain is surprisingly small and well protected, which is an option unless your yard is deeply submurged.

2. 30-50 is almost certainly impossible in 3-5 minutes. Even with extensive practice.

Almost all rifles that shoot such high powered ammunition have an integral magazine, which means you'd have to load each bullet individually. And shooting that many targets at speed virtually guarantees that you'll miss their vitals somewhat regularly.

Also, 40-80 rounds of .375 H&H magnum would be extremely physically punishing to shoot.

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1. https://somerbysafaris.com/species/hunting-hippo-in-south-af...
If you use bitwarden/vaultwarden as password manager you can manage TOTP either on web or via browser plugin with it. In my limited testing with office365/teams a few days ago it worked.
No, more like 20-25 years ago.
Some of their early well known content was where to get coke in Brooklyn and how to sleep with a stripper. And in 2006, that was edgy ny hipster content. That was their brand from the absolute beginning. They just happened to also do some good video journalism along the way.
Oh yes you are 4 times better than everyone else but treated just the same.

Are you sure about that? Maybe some introspection needed?

Also - the issue is not that some people are exploitative - that can happen. It’s the rest of it.

The person who wrote the article is making the ‘bad faith’ argument passing on cynical stupid delusions.

This idea that most orgs promote willy nilly is ridiculously wrong. It’s a contradiction of reality.
> Do you think it is possible to accommodate all those religions in one government?

I think it's possible to establish reasonable accommodation, not full accommodation, which I think your second bullet agrees with.

The bigger issue is the rank corruption done in the name of religion or other "freedoms" that abuse communities and society at large.
Its not fixing things for me (yet) but I'm using it for brainstorming, for transforming long-form content to tweets, and prototype code generation.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/spotlight/HeartDiseaseSpotlight...

Pretty sure it means that while all groups decreased in deaths from heart attacks, the highest risk groups (white and black Americans) saw a larger decrease in deaths than the groups that had lower risk of death (Hispanic and Asian Americans). Therefore the gaps between racial groups' deaths are lower than they were at the start.
Would you rather fight 10 pig sized hippos or one hippo sized pig?
Most of the hype bots aren't labeled as bots. They are run covertly, and replaced when they get burned.
I don't understand this thinking. JPM is in long-term arrangements with CRE landlords whether employees come into the office or not. If employees come in to the office, JPM actually pays MORE, because the buildings will need the lights on and the HVAC running to keep those employees comfortable. Worst case scenario is that JPM pays exactly the same amount for CRE in both the RTO and WFH scenarios. So how does CRE drive them to bring back in employees if, as WFH advocates say, people are as productive or more at home than at the office.

I suspect that JPM is telling the truth about their internal productivity numbers being better in the RTO scenario, but I also suspect that these numbers are based on "doing things the way they were always done" and don't take into account scenarios with a JPM that is structured differently for WFH scenarios (e.g. reducing middle management and its proclivity for in-person meetings).
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Neurosurgeon doesn't give his/hers content for free, Vice does.
I would like to offer my token of appreciation through one or multiple "tips" when I encounter a FREE video I really liked, same way I do to some other content creators.
Could you provide an example prompt illustrating the general types of questions that you are asking, with which it seems to struggle?
Because when something is possible and the incentives are there, then it's either already happening, or will eventually happen.
Yep, and barely at that. Mormon history allegedly starts no earlier than 1820, though there are several versions of what they consider the "First Vision" that may have taken place over several years in 1820. Definitely by 1830 it started to take shape.
The paradox being resolved that religious people aren't highly charitable in general, but people in a social club are pressured into paying dues, and mentally ill people are easily duped into giving up their money.
I've been using it to learn programming concepts I'm unfamiliar with and I perceive a huge difference in quality of chat-gpt answers between:

- Salesforce API

- AWS

- React Native

The react native docs are good enough that I really empathize with what you're saying - wouldn't I just be faster reading the docs? However, for salesforce I feel exactly the opposite - the docs are all over the place and message boards tend to be of low quality for the subject.

For what it's worth, AWS felt somewhere in the middle depending on the service.
I'm not a fan of the "global state as a default" approach. There are definitely advantages. It is easy to reason about and to test, and is attractive from a purist point of view, but its usage can definitely add redundancy and complexity to the code with current tools.

Especially for server-centric CRUD apps with forms and lists, this is often abused. If you're reloading lists when navigating to them, and fetching form data when updating a record, then you don't really need global state. If you want to cache, perhaps a plain cache is enough.

If you need some piece of data to affect multiple components in different parts of the hierarchy, sure, make it global, but if you can get away with mostly local state the codebase will be simplified. IMO.
High estimates for the number of deaths due to the Inquisition is somewhere in the thousands. Communism in its various forms is in the tens of millions.
It's the broadest level at which two elements can affect each other.

Classic example: if you have a notification bubble near the top of the page, and a notification gets created by some component hidden deep inside the app structure, that message can't be handled in a local sub-model; it must travel all the way to the root node to update the notification bubble stack in the main model.

(Which is why nowadays I prefer to skip the nesting and just have a flat list of all messages in the app. With good spacing and naming, it's quite maintainable and just as solid.)
You should eat only grass for a year and report back how you feel about this.
$60AUD for a PDF with code examples seems more than a little pricey - that's money I'd rather throw at some open source projects.
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It's something for a trained professional to do, see...
No one going to a mommy blog looking for baby food recipes ends up signing up or online gambling somehow. This is a story about SEO/ search engine ranking but that wouldn't get clicks. Whatever you think about online gambling, the narrative presented here is really distorting the truth.
Their original content was Dos and Donts. You think that was quality? You don't know what Vice is.
Right but these are rules set up and regulated by the US government. They didn't need to structure them that way in the beginning. Many countries don't.
You don’t have to replace them. You just need to reduce the income from search based ads by enough to cause them to implode.

Hard to fund loss leaders like Android with say 20% less revenue.
Like 10 years ago Vice bought the building that housed my favorite venue in Williamsburg, Glasslands, and then proceeded to do basically nothing with it. So I'll always hold that against them/the VCs who funded them.
https://archive.is/9zkhT
no, i don't use it regularly either. my main use case is asking bing bot how to use a linux command that i don't remember off the top of my head.
US is similar in some locations (I can't speak for all as I'm sure it varies greatly).

I pay a connection fee to use the utility that some months cost more than I pay for electricity. On average half my bill is a fixed connectivity fee.

I will say though we have amazing service that rarely ever goes out & all the lines are underground.
Any configs to make it faster and lower the latency? Because it feels like a turtle compared to Sublime.
Sounds like we are in agreement, but I would include other non profits in that same abuse.
IANAL, but the German holocaust rules are about propaganda and I don't think that personal notes that were intended to not be read by anyone else can be considered propaganda.
interesting how certain industries were never "disrupted" by startups, no matter the amount of hype that was generated in the mid-2010s [1]; banking is a major example (no startup bank overthrew JPMC) but the same seems to apply to legacy media.

[1] Shane Smith (VICE founder) quote about Murdoch during an FT interview:
"I have Gen Y, I have social [media], I have online video. You have none of that. I have the future, you have the past."
https://www.ft.com/content/61c51d64-4a9c-11e2-968a-00144feab...
<< Sex is determined by biology, while gender is a social construct.

Are you saying that gender is honorific of sorts?
Disaster for the victims, but taking down the unelected undemocratic Church is a silver lining.
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I am not saying that at all. I was simply referring to Vice production on HBO. I should’ve worded it better but this is just a casual message board for me.
Please cite your source for this.
Local hooks should be fast. I do that too if they take more than 5-10 seconds and it's not mission critical software.
Are these reporting requirements not side-stepped anymore by using a company to buy shares?
I think it is a misunderstanding to conflate modern computers with "digital". You can build a mechanical, digital computer from many systems like pneumatics for example.

Interestingly the first practical electronic computers aren't actually digital, they used tech like op-amps to do computation.
> It quickly and silently updates

What about the “What’s new tab” that opens right when you want to have some work done?

Or the notifications you get at the bottom-right corner suggesting to install extensions when you just want to see inside a file.

I mean, many people don’t care that much, it’s just a little annoyance to me, as little to not spent 5 mins to find a solution.
This is great news. Credit to Microsoft for finding new ways to improve its good will with developers.

Now if Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube could stop reminding me of the app. I know there's an app. I don't use it because I'm not braindead.

Edit: Credit to the guy who created this config. It's too early to read apparently.
> Exercise is trendy again, and TV has got crap so people do less couch time than they used to

This is not true at all. Sedentary time increased to all time highs to 12hrs/day and 3/4 of population is obese.
> From what I understand, most hunters take headshots because Hippos are typically mostly submerged.

If it's active defence against a Hippo charging at you, "running into your yard" then the Hippo is not mostly submerged.

If you need to clear the swamp of those pesky Hippos before they kill again, then sure.
What I meant was following the same kind of exercise described in the article but for an thermonuclear weapon rather than a fission device - excluding the primary component.
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Many museums would like a large meteorite.

He likely has already been contacted with offers.

First two results in DDG:

https://nypost.com/2020/11/18/rare-meteorite-worth-2-million...

https://www.insider.com/coffin-maker-has-45-billion-year-old...
It amuses me when english words are pronounced differently to make them seem posher. We have a nearby town called Yate (rhymes with gate), but the posh version rhymes with latte.
501.3.C non profits aren’t allowed to endorse candidates. It’s a blanket restriction across all of them which includes most churches.

The statement is correct there but it’s not a constitutional thing it’s an IRS thing.
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> It doesn’t unless the company makes the decision to let it “win.”

If only it was that simple. There's pressure everywhere. Even governments try to push people back to the office with some mantra about e.g. saving the city.

If only it was just a choice.

At the end of the day most management never come into the office all the time. They do what they like. They have 0 implications so if they have dinner with a government official and was told it's best to ask the staff back then they do it. That's all.
Id like the reference as well (assuming Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 isn’t sufficient).

This seems reasonable to me given my own experience but makes me doubt it more without some evidence to support my tendency.

I’ve googled this in the past and the best I could find is that in the US a little more than half of alleged child abuse is perpetrated by women [0] but I think this is challenging to measure accurately. I think most abuse isn’t reported and so crime stats aren’t suitable to answer the question.

There’s some other chatter about getting this number up to 70% [1] but haven’t spent the time to review all the sources and fix an actual percentage in my mind.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/418470/number-of-perpetr...

[1] https://childprotectionresource.online/mothers-are-more-like...
That's not 100% true though, but for the most part it is. The moment Israel demonstrates that they do have the bomb; for instance by using one or exploding one for test purposes the perception of Israel would change and this in turn would cause a change in attitude towards Israel. It would also telegraph what kind of yields they have which would say a lot about their capabilities. They are clearly very much aware of this and that is the main reason for the 'refuse to confirm or deny'. Some things are more powerful when left to the imagination of the perceived enemies.
Think of it this way- a company has a CRE portfolio originally worth a hundred million dollars on their balance sheet.

If they sell it and take a massive loss, they'll take a big hit on the balance sheet. So, they want to hang on to it until times are better. But, people will criticize the company for hanging onto unused real estate if nobody shows up. So now the company wants to show people in the office.

I'm not sure that this is true, but it's the only realistic way I can see CRE holdings driving returns to the office
Imma let you finish but 30-50 feral hogs is a meme. See sibling comment.
No, Vice was originally a free magazine only on print.
Some people may criticise the "monopoly" Apply have of TSMC latest nodes, but I think it's ultimately good. TSMC need to know they have a customer for new nodes in order to invest in them, thats what Apple are in the unique position to give with their war chest of cash. This investment by Apple eventually leads its way to other customers and smaller businesses. The whole industry thrives on the wake Apple leaves behind.

As a complete other aside, I'm excited to see what comes with the M3, particularly any neural cores. I would be much more excited about all the new AI tools if they could be run locally, Apple are again in the unique position to be able to make that possible for the masses. WWDC is hopefully going to be super interesting.

What we need is a sudden and massive increase in memory on these chips to make having LLMs viable on everyday affordable devices. I do wander if that may be something Apple surprise us with.
> permanent juveniles who will never "grow up".

The removal of testes/ovaries before puberty has something to do with that.

Go to the third world and look at the dogs in the street. They have teats for nursing puppies and balls for making them, all plain as day. What dogs look like in developed countries isn't natural.
The existence of life is proof of the existence of God. That's the end of the story. The language of DNA makes the Rosetta Stone look like the scribbles of children.

No technology ever conceived by the mind of Man can hold a torch to the complexity and intricacy of the technology of life. We don't even understand it. It is not just a machine, it is a machine to build a machine. It is "code" in the most profound sense of the word. Frankly, it is language. A poet might call it poetry. (And, of course, all human poetry is its by-product.)

You referred earlier to "some increasingly gap-reduced hypotheses...", which is just another assumption you've made that is not only unwarranted but at odds with the actual "progress" being made on this front.

The more powerful our exploratory tools become, and the more deeply we understand organic chemistry, microbiology, and nanotechnology, the larger the "gaps" appear. In Darwin's day single-celled organisms were assumed to be simple -- just little blobs animated by "life-force". But now we know they are complex machines beyond anything Darwin could have imagined. We are widening the gaps as we learn more, not decreasing them.

You are assuming, as is typical, that scientific progress always reduces gaps, and so you conclude that the gaps on this front must be getting reduced. But they are not, and you're merely begging the question again.

In fact, a good title for a book on this topic would be "The God of the Gap" because if you want proof of the existence of God, then the existence of life provides it.

And not only is the proof clear, but it has been readily apparent to practically all humans since the beginning of time. Only in the last couple hundred years have some midwits arisen who think they have somehow done away with God. Invariably they turn out to merely have a college-level understanding of what science is and how it progresses.

By your reasoning, one only needs to assume there is no God in order to conclude there is no God. But reality does not bend to your assumptions, and nor does it bow to your circular conclusions.
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