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In the US, you can look up every single non-profit's finances.

The 990 form has almost everything you would want, though, not line-item level of detail.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organiz...

100% this.

SO much of what is considered "non-profit dysfunction" is a direct result of funders restricting donation utilization.

Only X% for opex, y% for capex, z% for comms, where x+y+z == around 5% of funds donated.

Can't run an organization like that well.

Same.

It is not "all or nothing".

it's defense in depth, and if masks, which are literally dirt cheap and only a minor inconvenience are even somewhat effective, that adds to the overall mitigation efforts and should be mandated.

It's not hard folks.

"Turning off SMTP relay only prevents other people from getting spam. I'm not going to do that, even though it's a one line configuration change and doesn't really impact my use case. Moreover, the default should be open SMTP relay"

Why is north "up"?

The same goons that peddled the pseudoscience that tobacco was safe are the ones that tried to convince the world that climate change wasn't real.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tobacco-and-oil-i...

First off, simply because you don't like the people that support a position doesn't mean that position is incorrect.

And overpopulation? Um... because draconian population control tactics and policies are evil? China's one child policy was unconscionable.

German energy is costly not due to production costs, but instead due to taxes on energy utilization in general to subsidize a more rapid transition to environmentally sound energy. Other countries, i.e. France, have chosen to lower costs substantially. (France is unwise, IMHO. Lower costs increases utilization which offsets carbon gains, see rebound effects [0]. Germany is doing the right thing) [1]

Nuclear: Has always been on the table. Environmentalists are not a unified block. The Gates foundation is substantially funding nuclear.

Most of what you think of as "environmental support" is actually funding from petroleum based business. The whole personal recycling movement? paid for by the petroleum industry. [2]

Finally, the petroleum industry hired the exact same goons that the tobacco industry did to peddle pseudoscientific nonsense. [3]

There are coherent, comprehensive, effective plans for fighting climate change. You are just unlikely to hear about in the news because they are deeply wonky. There are paths out, they are neither easy (there will be losers) nor simple (it's a complex system).

However, most of what we hear are the voices of very, very, very rich and powerful oil industries trying to muddy the waters. And lets be clear: they will be the losers, if the rest of us have any hope of not either having to bear terrible austerity or the horrors of climate change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tobacco-and-oil-i...

How is this not actionable?

I'd get in touch with my state AG's office as well as the FBI.

It's effectively a screen for skills that are very, very difficult to validate with credentials.

Yes, it also is effectively a screen for people with the spare resources to invest in a career without getting paid for it.

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Fusion, always, always 5 years away for the past 20 years.

This is irresponsible at best, dangerous at worst.

This should be deleted, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Color me deeply skeptical.

Theil and Zuck have chosen algorithmic fascism.

They'd rather be kings in hell than mere billionaires in a democracy.

The goal of Ruby v3 is to be 3 times faster than v2.

https://blog.heroku.com/ruby-3-by-3/

Unclear if that goal has been achieved.

Yup. The internet is supposed to be "dumb" in the middle and "smart" at the edges. These app stores are centralized points of failure.

There are plenty of non-advertising app discovery channels with substantially higher signal/noise ratio.

I am not concerned in the least, in fact, it will like drive quality up.

Interestingly enough, this works even for defectors. They still have to participate in a turn-based game against a competitor.

There is a whole field of study around efficient "cake cutting" algorithms, many of which contemplate and account for defectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting

Well, interestingly enough, the factors are both what you would normally consider a "vulnerable" population, but also, folks with a high metabolic rate (athletes) as well.

https://ksi.uconn.edu/emergency-conditions/heat-illnesses/ex...

Low hydration is also a factor, and when you consider than millions of USA-ians may not be able to afford their water bill, well...

https://www.consumerreports.org/personal-finance/millions-of...

Unfortunately, given Duverger's law [0], first past the post electoral systems eventually resolve into two party systems.

Essentially, in a first past the post system, voting for any other candidate other than the one both most likely to win AND whose politics most closely aligns with your own is effectively a vote for the major party candidate who least aligns with your politics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

edit for link.

There's an upper limit to human survivability given heat and humidity levels: Wet Bulb temperature of 35C.

Humans can't sweat fast enough to maintain homeostasis.

https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index

Hasn't happened yet for sufficient periods in any substantially populated impoverished area, but when it does, well, the horror will be incalculable.

"Late Stage Capitalism" really starts to make sense when you realize that profit is literally the measure of inefficiency in a market.

edit: A perfectly efficient market has no profit margin. As a market increases in efficiency, the profit margin of all participants approaches zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition

"I cut, you choose" is really the only politically viable alternative to the current state of affairs.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/how-the-i-cut-yo...

Let's apply the same logic to the 2nd amendment!

Only flint-lock muzzle loaders allowed.

They know it's destructive and harms people and they do it anyway: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...

Barry Schnitt, former spokesperson for facebook:

Unfortunately, I do not think it is a coincidence that the choices Facebook makes are the ones that allow the most content — the fuel for the Facebook engine — to remain in the system. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices align with the ones that require the least amount of resources, and the choices that outsource important aspects to third parties. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices appease those in power who have made misinformation, blatant racism, and inciting violence part of their platform. Facebook says, and may even believe, that it is on the side of free speech. In fact, it has put itself on the side of profit and cowardice.

https://onezero.medium.com/dear-facebook-employees-7d01761e5...

Facebook thinks of itself as a state and fundamentally misunderstands it's relationship to the traditional "big L" liberal democracies.

The first amendment[0] specifically defines congress, the law making body, as the arbiter of free speech. This is because without the force of government behind it, the concept of censorship is effectively meaningless.

In a constitutional sense, it is impossible for any actor other than the government to violate a persons first amendment rights.

Facebook, as a corporation, is not capable of violating first amendment rights. Even FCC section 230 [1] explicitly enables facebook to moderate as it sees fit. Facebook could decide that any post that contains the word "avocado" would be deleted on the spot. Or they could decide that only political posts that support Vermin Supreme [2] are allowed.

This would be completely legal.

The same way you are allowed to delete spam and comments by Nazis on your personal blog. You are also not liable if someone posts a libelous comment on your blog, just like facebook isn't liable.

Similarly, if you decide that you are a-ok with rabid neo-nazis commenting on your personal blog, well, then, sure, that's legal, but it also says a hell of a lot about you and your personal beliefs. There's a word for people that sympathize with nazis...

You could run the smallest blog or the largest, world spanning social network and delete Nazi content legally in the US.

So, when Mark Zuckerberg says he is defending free speech, he is using misdirection. He is fully aware that the legal, constitutional term "free speech" doesn't apply to Facebook.

He wants you to avoid thinking that the people that run Facebook are morally responsible for the legal, fcc section 230 moderation that they choose to engage in, the same way you would be morally responsible for actively allowing Nazis to comment on your blog.

It's so simple, a six panel stick figure comic can explain it. [3]

Zuck just doesn't want to show Trump the door. Why? Because he makes a lot of money from sowing division and hate. [4]

As Barry Schnitt, former spokes person for facebook put it [5]:

"Unfortunately, I do not think it is a coincidence that the choices Facebook makes are the ones that allow the most content — the fuel for the Facebook engine — to remain in the system. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices align with the ones that require the least amount of resources, and the choices that outsource important aspects to third parties. I do not think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s choices appease those in power who have made misinformation, blatant racism, and inciting violence part of their platform. Facebook says, and may even believe, that it is on the side of free speech. In fact, it has put itself on the side of profit and cowardice."

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

[1] https://www.theverge.com/21273768/section-230-explained-inte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme

[3] https://xkcd.com/1357/

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...

[5] https://onezero.medium.com/dear-facebook-employees-7d01761e5...

That, making civil forfeiture funds go to the general coffer, and forcing police departments to pay settlements out of their own budget.

They socialize the costs and privatize the profits of their misbehavior.

FYI, 1/3 of all people killed by strangers in the US are killed by the police. [0]

Police take more money from people through asset forfeiture than criminals do with theft. [1]

[0]https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

Here's the police lying to the NY Post: https://twitter.com/keithcalder/status/1268204578421407750

Police: $2.4 million in Rolexes stolen. Rolex: No watches were stolen. Only broken windows.

Also, division and hate are good for the bottom line:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...

The apple doesn't fall far from the Thiel tree.

A distinction without a difference.