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A long time ago the Western world had a voluntary wealth tax of sorts, the tithe. That's 10% of your income and/or property to your church. Admittedly taxes were then much lower, but whatever else you may think of them, churches poured vast energy and resources into social services.

Now that it's an elected government instead of an opaque non-profit providing social services, they've become unpopular with the wealthy. I suppose the government can't assure you a place in God's Kingdom :-)

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

Edit: certain of these are based on land, not income; see the article.

> Note: this page was written in early 2003.

> people prefer Discord to IRC ... prefer Slack to SMTP or Jabber

"Centralization wins" is the wrong conclusion from this dataset. Discord & Slack have seen far more investment in UX & backend than IRC & Jabber. Because chat is addictive, relatively easy to implement, and easy for users to access via website or app, there's huge incentive roll your own chat service, and then incentive to differentiate from innumerable competitors. Many users are on half a dozen chat sites.

Email is going strong, even tho it's seen rather little UX investment. Decentralization is one feature keeping it afloat in a world of uncountable chat alternatives.

I gather you're asking about the possibility of a "local" Quasar event -- formation of a large accretion disk around SgrA*.

Not the near future, no. Gravitational radiation is probably the only factor eroding its orbit, and it's a very small factor indeed.

You might see a merger between Andromeda & the Milky Way first!

The unstated thesis of the article seems to be that Mozilla lacks a killer app.

So what are possible killer apps, given their history building user-facing internet infrastructure?

(I love FF and never touch Chrome except for testing, but <10% market share is not killer.)

The point of a carve-out would be to avoid any billing.

Law students do not "talk with the client" in the US. They're not licensed, so are barred from giving legal advice.

This. You have to call a bully's possible bluff when you can do so on a shoestring.

They may seem to have unlimited resources, but a legal dept doesn't actually have a bottomless budget, and it has to demonstrate ROI to the CFO's office.

Many attorneys you might consult won't realize this, because they can't conceive of a scenario where you don't need maximal legal representation. When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like... :-)

No Go 2.0 release is planned. Go2 is a marketing label (I guess?) meant to imply that the Go 1.x language and stdlib are still evolving.

The term is a mistake, as it creates the impression that a backwards-incompatible product is in the works.

This (recent but buried) comment suggests replacing FileInfo in the ReadDirFS interface with a DirEntry type, for reasons of performance and future extensibility:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/hv976o/qa_iofs_draf...

It was prompted by this proposal for os.Readdirentries():

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40352

It seems to me that FileInfo isn't a suitable interface for either a general filesystem construct, or a performant implementation.

See the Reddit for an alternative to FileInfo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/hv976o/qa_iofs_draf...

There is a proposal to replace os.Readdir() here:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40352

The latest FireFox also logs warnings in the console if a site cookie lacks SameSite, or has SameSite=None without Secure.

It seems the site omitted one...

#21: More people will visit your site with tiny/mobile screens than large/desktop ones.

>> ... a long scroll of 20 ... blocks and titles none of which mean anything on their own

> frankly, it has a terrible UX

I don't follow these critiques. The content and navigation of the site is quite clear to me. The trackpad/wheel scrolling stutters very slightly in FireFox on Windows.

EDIT: And hey, it's in Dark Mode!

This seems like a failure of the Canadian counterpart of the US FDA. Drug trials are generally extensive enough to surface side effects, and severe side effects lead to cancellation of trials or at least label warnings.

Well I'd guess stress is inherent to most competition, because of the win/lose outcome.

I'm sure that's not always a net negative, but I can say it hurt my dancing during the few times I've tried it competitively.

    it == dancing && it != sport
    dancing.entails(entire_body)
    sport.entails(entire_body)

Clearer now?

I've been a dancer for 30 years, of many forms.

The best way I can describe dancing to non-practitioners is that it's like playing a silent, wearable musical instrument that demands attention from your entire body.

It is not like playing a sport, except perhaps if you do it competitively :-)

Vet accepts the third, and may (I forget) accept the first if err is redeclared or simply assigned.

You certainly can throw errors away in Go -- in various ways. It's one of the notable flaws in a largely cohesive, sensible language. (Which I use daily.)

    success, err := fail()
    do(success)

    success, _ := fail()

    fail()

It was reported in the NYTimes, FWIW.

How old is the biosphere? 3.8B years? So it has 38M left?

Or 635M years, from the Ediacaran, so 6M left?

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

This is a good point.

The right way to do this is to support arithmetic operators for types that implement a specific interface.

Intending to overcompensate is an effective method to actually treat them the way you should treat everyone.

Re "borderline racism", I think xenophobia is the term you're looking for.

When are you scheduled for an appearance on the Event Horizon podcast?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw

Thank you for making me laugh, sincerely :-)

Source?

There is a glimmer of hope!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal