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> For churches, that exemption is automatic. And that was the point. Other organizations have to be based around some particular beneficial purpose such as charity or education in order to qualify, and that classification can be challeng
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The fact that "religious … purposes" are sufficient in and of themselves to claim tax-exempt status is part of the bias in favor of religious organizations. Yes, secular organizations can also be tax-exempt—but they have to earn i
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> Presumably your stance here is that the fetus does not have the ability to apply defensive or retributive force, and therefore has no right to it. No, that "therefore" does not follow. One does not lose a right just because o
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Regulation favors incumbents, and SpaceX and Tesla are the incumbents when it comes to private spaceflight and electric vehicles. Companies call for regulation on their own industries in order to influence the shapes of those regulations to
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> Thus there is no necessarily libertarian take on abortion. This does not follow. There are various ways to approach a libertarian position on the morality of abortion per se which don't devolve into "striking a balance"
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If that was the intent then it isn't working very well. If anything, legal equality between religious organizations and similar secular organizations, whether for-profit or non-profit, would entail decreasing the influence of the for
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> as the laws of thermodynamics simply do not permit for endless consumption of scarce physical resources 1) Ever-increasing consumption is not a prerequisite for capitalism, but rather a beneficial consequence of the increasingly effici
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> Google would know that you clicked on the link, and the URL you visited but that doesn't necessarily mean they know what the content on the page you requested was. SE is only supposed to be used for public pages ("Cache-Contr
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> The source page does not have any access to referral data. The source page determines the target of the link and can add whatever tracking data they want to it. You can see from the link target that it's going back to the same sit
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> I've now lost the ability to do first-party tracking of visits to "myBlog.com/some-post/" since EvilSearchEngine users never hit my server See, this is one of the good things about the SE proposal. The source
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> The browser must briefly flash the source's domain being loaded before the redirect comes in. I really think you overestimate how likely users are to notice a redirect URL appearing in the address bar for a fraction of a second. R
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It makes no difference for privacy in that you already told Google which page you were going to by following the link. Naturally the address shown in the URL bar matters to the user or we wouldn't be discussing this at all. With Sign
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> I gave up information on what site I was visiting, but if I enter any information on the page, won't that still go to Google? So far as I can tell the user agent uses the original (non-Google) URL for the purpose of same-origin te
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It makes no difference for privacy in that you already told Google which page you were going to by following the link. If they implemented AMP as a more traditional redirect instead of a cache then they would get the same information and
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That was Mozilla's objection to the Signed Exchange standard: you lose some privacy because the cache server can see the page data in the clear, even if they can't modify it. But IMHO resisting Signed Exchange doesn't help he
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The original version where the content was served from Google's cache without any cryptographic verification but displayed as if it came from the original site was… misguided at best. It meant that you were trusting Google's serve
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> I shouldn't need to download an app to a smartphone for something that I exclusively intend to use on a desktop. I see where you're coming from here and mostly agree. However, I will say that as someone who already had the Ca
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> Aren't brokerages required to file forms for every customer they serve? They are, but there are corner cases where they might not have all the necessary information. For example, if you trade the same stocks or mutual funds throug
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> The idea that houses are appreciating assets doesn't come from some fundamental law or ideology. It comes from recognizing reality. Houses are not appreciating assets, in general. They are durable goods but tend to degrade if not
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>> The Free Software Foundation [...] asserts that an executable that uses a dynamically linked library is indeed a derived work. Which if you think about it is really a very problematic assertion, for a couple of reasons. First, it
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> People who consume small amounts of a utility still pay more because of people who consume a lot. No, they really don't. People consuming small amounts and large amounts both pay more due to higher aggregate demand. If it weren&
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No, not as long as they charged everyone equally for the same service during the congested times without regard for how the bits were being used. The point of net neutrality is that ISPs should ignore the content, source, and destination of
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> fair use is part of what keeps copyright enforcement from violating the first amendment Fair use is the compromise the court set between the 1st Amendment and copyright; a few narrow carve-outs along the lines of "free speech zone
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> I wonder though if people defending net neutrality would look at this and think "off-peak pricing is wrong, everyone should pay the same..." Probably not, as it has nothing to do with where the electricity is coming from or h
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What you are describing is merely competition. Everyone pays the same marginal amount per kWh for a given amount of electricity—ignoring minor details like connection charges and time-of-day pricing. Yes, having more aggregate demand will t
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Sure, to really count as "gaslighting" there has to be a deliberate attempt to make someone doubt their own sanity. I think we can rule out malicious intent in this case. However, when you save a link to something and then later c
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I was able to manually construct a commit with a .git subdirectory using `git mktree` and `git commit-tree`, but Git still refused to create the .git subdirectory in the index or working copy: [testrepo]$ git checkout --orphan test-bran
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If you have the IPFS Companion[0] browser extension installed (or use Brave, which includes it natively) then the dweb.link URL will be translated automatically into an ipfs:// URL and resolved locally. Blocking the CID at the pub
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> modern currency symbols are already fast-tracked anyway For national currencies, perhaps. New national currencies aren't introduced all that often, and there is a lot of pressure to support them quickly as their use is often manda
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> all free market models work only in so far as all actors have equal access to information. You need to investigate some better models. The useful ones don't assume equal access to information. Uniform access to information doesn&#

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