tax law is tax law, it's that simple. if the hedge fund did what the whistleblower alleges, then bye-bye tax exempt status.
also since when is a rainy day / reserve fund unique to a particular religion? it's been common sense financial practice for longer than your particular religion has been in existence.
Mormons have a “history of calamity” so to speak where they found themselves having to move or hit by various disasters. This is very recently in religious terms, last 200 years or so. So this is reflected in much more focus on having a financial cushion as well as other disaster preparedness things like a few months of food saved up at home.
Think of it as the religious version of your great grandmother who lived through that depression always saving odd things and being extra thrifty. Some scars run very deep and have long term behavioral changes.
That's a hagiographic way of viewing Mormon (specifically, Brighamite) history, given they brought the vast majority of their calamities upon themselves (especially in the early days). Be it from a womanizing, ephebophilic founder who speculated with the financial fortunes of early members in Ohio, to disregarding pluralism on the frontier in their establishment of hegemony, to declaring himself a God after being a priest and a king with the second anointing, to the establishment of a theocracy in Utah and partial theocracy in Illinois, to the usurping of civil law for ecclesiastical law up into the 1900s, to the exercise of polygamy, to the persecution and targeting of established religions, to ongoing racist and sexist cultural philosophies and doctrines, to the hoarding of wealth, to paying tens of thousands of dollars for rugs, to the economic favoring of corporate leaders (e.g multiple homes for their leaders) and family (ever wonder who puts in the curtain dividers) there have been many, shall we say, missteps.
Fortunately for Mormons who remain in the Brighamite branch, there are several counterfactual examples of where their religion can go, not the least of which is the branch housed in the Community of Christ, which has followed a much more ecumenical path and openly confronted the history that was hidden for a long time.
Absolutely not true on the efficacy assertion. I've been run over while out training on my bike, went through a windshield head first. Without a helmet on my brain matter would have been in the lap of the driver.
I've got hundreds of thousands of miles in my legs and I won't get on a bike without a helmet on even going around the block.
On the infrastructure yes, agree. I'd be happy with simple stuff like ubiquitous bikes lanes and 10 foot wide shoulders...
I'm very glad to hear you're still with us and the helmet helped you.
Manufacturers however do warn that they aren't designed to mitigate dangers it vehicular collisions, and studies show that vehicle drivers are kinder to cyclists without helmets. Sources here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/07/10/bicycle-...
Also interesting is this:
> At launch, all MLS and Leagues Cup matches will include announcers calling the action in English and Spanish, and all matches involving Canadian teams will be available in French.
So, are they keeping the door open for additional languages in the future? Is this subscription available world-wide?
Let's be honest here: Premier league matches aren't exactly cheap to watch. If this is cost-effective and available in a lot of languages, it's an opportunity to watch some matches that are at least at a certain minimum professional level.
you can do this today with Jupyter Notebooks. Can you provide a value prop vis-a-vis Jupyter Notebooks? (aside of course from the raging dumpster fire of lack of curation in JN re vulns...)
Yes! I could probably do this with Jupyter Notebooks, but Livedocs is built for, say, a growth or sales role who want to track a simple metric from Twitter or Stripe, and might not have the time to learn Jupyter and it’s nuances.
Notebook styled tools were the inspiration for Livedocs, for sure.
In this day and age, it's arguably irresponsible to publish any tooling that does not organically integrate a requirement to use Sigstore for all packages allowed to be uploaded.
The very first things you should be talking about on your service is provenance mechanisms and security.
I don't believe I saw anything related to thos topics on your site. Did I miss it?
IMO just signing packages is a weak form of trust. Even without potentially using Sigstore, does WAPM now let you lock based both on the versions of dependencies, as well as the hash of their contents? I didn't see any mention of lock files with hashes anywhere.
In fairness, Sigstore is a pretty new technology. Existing package managers haven't integrated it yet, though are working towards it. For example, I've been working with colleagues on proposing a design for RubyGems[0]. And as far as I know we're about as far ahead as anyone has gotten.
There's an informal group of software repo folks meeting with some assistance from the OpenSSF. WAPM folks, please feel free to hit me up at my work email (in profile).
Sure, but "existing package managers haven't integrated it yet" because of a burden of legacy and wanting to ensure a smooth transition for the ecosystem; not because it's hard to integrate. It should be extremely simple for a greenfield package-ecosystem, that isn't replacing any other mechanism with Sigstore, to adopt it.
From what I've seen in a few minutes looking at Sigstore, it seems they require packages to be stored in a OCI-compliant store... which it differs on how package managers are storing packages. So it might be not as trivial.
It's an understandable confusion. The key components are Fulcio, a certificate authority, and Rekor, a transparency log. Fulcio generates short-lived public certificates for (approximately) each signature. Rekor stores the certificate and signature.
In the case of cosign, this is done for container images and the signature is then made available via the OCI registry API. But it needn't be; for RubyGems we envisage storing log extracts side-by-side with .gem files. We anticipate other package systems will do similarly. One of our discussions has been whether we can converge on a shared format for those extracts.
I think you'd be a little surprised. I have a friend in Chicago who's bike commuted year round now for decades.
That's anecdotal for sure but once you are acclimatized to winter I think the gating criteria is more around a secure place to park your bike during the day.
I have another work buddy in Minneapolis who sends me pictures of the temp guage on his Fat-Bike of like -20F training rides in Jan and Feb... yikes!!!!
The Athletic folks had a tent up at the Lutsen MTB race a few weekends back. It is actually really good, no difference in taste quality from the "leaded" stuff. This has definitely come a long way.
Also, the first test did not reveal any kind of flaw in design or construction of the stage. It aborted early because of hydraulic pressure fluctuations that were within spec -- but exceeded extremely conservative limits in place for that test to protect the stage. The main thing that differed in the second test was a software tweak to relax those limits.
I personally think continuing the program is throwing good money after bad, given the availability of alternatives and the limited missions left for SLS (I'm not sure they're planning to use it for anything other than Orion at this point) -- but test failures are expected in rocketry (SpaceX has plenty in public), and it makes no sense at all to beat NASA up for this one.
The difference is that as bad as the F-35 is, cancelling it would have huge repercussions. On the other hand, the SLS could be cancelled tomorrow and nobody outside of NASA and the contractors would even notice.
Comparatively the F-35 is a lot better anyway. Its nowhere near as bad as people like to scream about it, it was just built for a world that doesn't really exist anymore and didn't meet the ambitious targets set for it originally. New F-16s are just as expensive (flyaway, presumably cheaper to maintain, but an F-16 is going to be a sitting duck against a stealth fighter with a modern sensor package as time goes on)
also since when is a rainy day / reserve fund unique to a particular religion? it's been common sense financial practice for longer than your particular religion has been in existence.