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In line with theoretical expectations, we have identified pricing as a particularly effective policy in those sectors dominated by profit-maximizing firms
It amazing how hard these companies fight against the things are the most effective (taxes).
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Beehaw uses Open Collective Europe Foundation (OCEF) as a fiscal host.
OCEF charges an 8% Host Fee on Revenue
OCEF uses the Open Collective Platform for the various functions and services it provides (like payment processing and accounting tools)
The Open Collective Platform charges a 15% Revenue Share for Fiscal Hosts that collect donations through the platform.
Any tip given to the platform does not go to Beehaw at all.
All of the above is in addition to payment processing fees charged by Stripe.
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This is presented in a confusing way to me. But I see after reading it twice that monthly recurring contributions are $80.82 per month (I'm assuming this is after fees that OCEF charges).
You have set a rough target of increasing that monthly recurring contributions amount to about $185 so that one off contributions aren't being relied upon to meet monthly expenses.
This seems like a very reasonable ask and very attainable.
I'm copying a monthly donation link here for people that don't want to scroll back up:
https://opencollective.com/beehaw-collective/donate?interval=month
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New Jersey has a law like that for gas. Can only increase the price one time per day. But ut doesn't apply to all gass stations, just ones on the highway rest areas.
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You made a good point and I immediately thought that reporting a gross profit dollar amount as an example of how profit margins are not slim as simply inappropriate. And I would have responded myself if you hadn't. There's no single dollar figure that can inform anyone about anything useful about the profit margin of a business. A number without context is useless.
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I don’t see how that thought process is exclusive to people who are or consider themselves to be smart.
They aren't saying that this is exclusive to people who consider themselves smart. They're saying that they're more likely to fall for the trap by engaging with the assumption of not being susceptible to being tricked. Although I think the author does conflate smart people with people who think of themselves as smart inappropriately.
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How often do you repost this question. Seems like the intent is weekly but it's been 18 days.
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I hope no matter your situation that you find a way to avoid heroin or any other addiction to cope with your troubles.
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Residential home construction and renovation has always been a magnet for fraud. Take at least the the same level of precaution for solar installations.
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Imagine a system more concerned about healthcare and not itemization of billable services.
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Back when Bitcoin was released, nobody was giving a thought to computer energy use.
It didn't take long before people saw that energy was a major factor in cost of operations of the network.
It was a poor design decision
One that is fiercely defended by people who invested into the implementation. So it may not have started with it being anticipated, but not it is and people are actively choosing to perpetuate this use of energy.
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Back when Bitcoin was released, nobody was giving a thought to computer energy use.
VT for long term
Money Market Funds for short term
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Republican voters are never going to change their preference to a democratic candidate based on who the Democratic candidate is. The people who have potential to vote for Democrats aren't undecided in who they prefer, they're undecided if they even care enough to vote at all. Getting more people motivated to vote who didn't vote in the prior election is the only way to gain votes. That's true for any Democratic or Republican candidate for president. Presidential candidates need to make sure that people who voted in the last election for their party's candidate don't become disinterested in voting in the current election.
The tough on crime reputation Harris has may demotivate otherwise likely voters for a Democratic candidate.
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I hope she motivates people to vote for her.
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Let's not forget that Bernie was a wealthy, criminal businessman from Manhattan in that movie.
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Both create harmful air.
That's exactly my point.
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I'm not trying to downplay the pollutants from incomplete burning of methane (or other gas) combustion. I'm trying to highlight that it isn't the only consideration when discussion policy or making personal decisions.
Cooking with an electric heat source will produce an equal amount of pollutants from burning oils and organic matter compared to a gas heat source. But a methane or other gas heat source will produce additional (and different) pollutants. Ventilation is important in both scenarios.
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FYI - Cooking indoors on electric power sources also screws indoor air quality anytime any fats or organic matter reaches its smoke point or burns. In fact, relative to the food, the methane heat source isn't as big a factor.
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Nostr seems like it's set up to allow for unmitigated abuse.
This is an excellent introduction for those that want to try it out.
www.appropriations.senate.gov
> U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released text of the Senate’s bipartisan national security supplemental package and issued the following statement: > > “As Ukraine runs low on ammunition to fend off Putin’s brutal invasion, it is imperative we finally extend our support. We must also live up to our commitments to our allies around the globe and quickly get more aid to innocent civilians caught in conflict, including in Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis is especially dire. I never believed we should link policy demands to emergency aid for our allies, but Republicans insisted—so Democrats negotiated in good faith over many weeks and now there is a bipartisan deal on border policy legislation. Ukraine’s fate and so much more hangs in the balance—it’s time for Congress to act.” Summary and full text of the bill are provided within [the press release.](https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/murray-releases-text-of-bipartisan-national-security-supplemental)
futurecoder.io
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6470590 > This looks like a great starting point for people with little to no experience with programming to learn to program using Python. > > Everything taught by futurecoder.io can be used locally on your own computer. But futurecoder.io doesn't show you how to install Python on your machine but you can fill in that gap with the information provided @ https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download > > Other resources are provided on the [python.org Beginners Guide > ](https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide) if needed. > >
[OpenELA](https://openela.org/faq) is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers. There are many Linux Distributions that are perfectly suitable for enterprise use cases and environments. For the purpose of this charter and project, OpenELA recognizes “Enterprise Linux” (EL) as 1:1 and bug-for-bug source code compatibility which today is aligned to RHEL and CentOS. OpenELA's mission is to provide a secure, transparent, and reliable Enterprise Linux source that is globally available to all as a buildable base. OpenELA is a collaboration created and upheld by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE. Read the [recent article on the formation of OpenELA by Richard Speed at The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/03/openela_enterprise_linux_source/) [ParanoidFactoid](https://beehaw.org/u/ParanoidFactoid@beehaw.org) may be interested in this development.
I'd also like a larger character limit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1465740 > ## What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > ## Major Changes > > ### HTTP API instead of Websocket > > Until now Lemmy-UI used websocket for all API requests. This has [many disadvantages](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2841#issuecomment-1535469357), like making the code harder to maintain, and causing live updates to the site which many users dislike. Most importantly, it requires keeping a connection open between server and client at all times, which causes increased load and makes scaling difficult. That's why we decided to rip out websocket entirely, and switch to HTTP instead. This change was made much more urgent by the sudden influx of new users. [@CannotSleep420](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/CannotSleep420) and [@dessalines](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines) have been working hard for the past weeks to implement this change in lemmy-ui. > > HTTP on its own is already more lightweight than websocket. Additionally it also allows for caching of server responses which can decrease load on the database. Here is an [experimental nginx config](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/75) which enables response caching. Note that Lemmy doesn't send any cache-control headers yet, so there is a chance that private data gets cached and served to other users. Test carefully and use at your own risk. > > ### Two-Factor Authentication > > New support for two-factor authentication. Use an app like [andOTP](https://f-droid.org/es/packages/org.shadowice.flocke.andotp/) or [Authenticator Pro]( > https://f-droid.org/packages/me.jmh.authenticatorpro/) to store a secret for your account. This secret needs to be entered every time you login. It ensures that an attacker can't access your account with the password alone. > > ### Custom Emojis > > Instance admins can add different images as emojis which can be referenced by users when posting. > > ### Other changes > > #### Progressive Web App > > Lemmy's web client can now be installed on browsers that support PWAs, both on desktop and mobile. It will use an instance's icon and name for the app if they are set, making it look like a given instance is an app. > > **Note for desktop Firefox users**: the desktop version of Firefox does not have built in support for PWAs. If you would like to use a Lemmy instance as a PWA, use [use this extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/). > > #### Error Pages > > Lemmy's web client now has error pages that include resources to use if the problem persists. This should be much less jarring for users than displaying a white screen with the text "404 *error message here*". > > #### Route Changes > > Pages that took arguments in the route now take query parameters instead. For example, a link to lemmy.ml's home page with a few options used to look like this: > > ``` > https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Active/page/1 > ``` > > The new route would look like this: > > ``` > https://lemmy.ml?listingType=All > ``` > Note that you now only have to specify parameters you want instead of all of them. > > #### Searchable select redesign > The searchable selects, such as those used on the search page, have a new look and feel. No more inexplicable green selects when using the lightly themes! > > #### Share button > > Posts on the web client now have a share button on supported browsers. This can be used to share posts to other applications quickly and easily. > > #### Lemmy-UI Overall look and feel > > lemmy-ui is now upgraded to bootstrap 5, and every component is now much cleaner. > > Special thanks to [sleepless](https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917), [alectrocute](https://github.com/alectrocute), [jsit](https://github.com/jsit), and many others for their great work on improving and re-organizing lemmy-ui. > > #### Database optimizations > > Special thanks to [johanndt](https://github.com/johanndt), for suggesting improvements to Lemmy's database queries. Some of these suggestions have already been implemented, and more are on the way. > > Query speed is Lemmy's main performance bottleneck, so we really appreciate any help database experts can provide. > > #### Captchas > > Captchas are not available in this version, as they need to be reimplemented in a different way. They will be back in 0.18.1, so wait with upgrading if you rely on them. > > ## Upgrade instructions > > Follow the upgrade instructions for [ansible](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible#upgrading) or [docker](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating). > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our [support forum](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) or on the [Matrix Chat](https://matrix.to/#/!OwmdVYiZSXrXbtCNLw:matrix.org). > > ## Support development > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost three years. This is largely thanks to support from [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/). > > If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). No one likes recurring donations, but they've proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive. >
What's going on?
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/73564 > In table format with FOSS status, platform, and OS for your viewing pleasure: > > |FOSS| Name | Platform | OS | Stage | Source Code | Info | > |----|---------|-----------|------------|---------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |YES | Memmy | Lemmy |Android, iOS|Android Release (Pending Play Store Approval)| [Github](https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy) | [memmy@lemmy.ml](https://kbin.social/m/memmy@lemmy.ml) | > |YES | Morpha | Lemmy |Android, iOS| Under Development | [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/spersinger/morpha) | [morpha@vlemmy.net](https://kbin.social/m/morpha@vlemmy.net) | > |YES | Thunder | Lemmy |Android, iOS| Alpha Release | [Github](https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder) | [thunder\_app@lemmy.world](https://kbin.social/m/thunder_app@lemmy.world) | > |YES | Mlem | Lemmy | iOS | Submitted for App Store Review (July 1) | [Github](https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem) | [mlemapp@lemmy.ml](https://kbin.social/m/mlemapp@lemmy.ml) | > |YES | Jerboa | Lemmy | Android | Released | [Github](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa) | [jerboa@lemmy.ml](https://kbin.social/m/jerboa@lemmy.ml) | > |TBD | Artemis |Kbin, Lemmy|Android, iOS| Private Beta (Starts End of June) | [Unreleased](https://tech.lgbt/@hariette/110545151572492176) | [ArtemisApp@kbin.social](https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp) | > |TBD | Limbo | Lemmy | iOS | TestFlight Beta | [Unreleased](https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR) | [limbo@lemmy.world](https://kbin.social/m/limbo@lemmy.world) | > |YES | Beyond | Lemmy |Android, iOS| Under Development |[Unreleased](https://brunofinger.notion.site/brunofinger/Beyond-45cabaae7f724cd5ad2b77d902e9a97e)| [original Beehaw post](https://beehaw.org/post/647773) | > | NO | Sync | Lemmy | Android | Research | **N/A** | [syncforlemmy@lemmy.world](https://kbin.social/m/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world) | > |YES | Slide | Lemmy | Android | Under Development (More information coming) | **N/A** | [original Lemmy post](https://lemmy.world/post/379068) | > |YES |Lemmynade| Lemmy | Android | Under Development | **N/A** |[original Lemmy post](https://kbin.social/m/android@lemmy.world/t/66673/I-ve-resurrected-lemmur-a-beautiful-flutter-app-Coming-soon-to)| > > * TBA kbin app from [@developerjustin](https://mastodon.social/@developerjustin) (iOS, kbin Only, in development) - I've had a chat with the dev of this as-yet-unnamed app, but it's not ready for testing yet. > > [Important note from frasassi@kbin.social](https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764/There-are-now-10-iOS-Android-apps-in-development-for) > > Am super open to any apps, code repos, communities, or info I'm missing as well as updates.
More up to date and more detailed information at: https://beehaw.org/post/683217 cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764 > The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below: > > * Artemis (iOS, Android, kbin, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp) > * Memmy (iOS, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/memmy@lemmy.ml) > * Mlem (iOS, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/mlemapp@lemmy.ml) > * Morpha (iOS, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/morpha@vlemmy.net) > * Thunder (iOS, Android, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/thunder_app@lemmy.world) > * Beyond (iOS, Android, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/programming@beehaw.org/t/58630/I-am-working-on-a-new-lemmy-app-for-iOS) > * Limbo (iOS, Android, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/random/t/65515/Join-the-Limbo-for-Lemmy-beta-on-iOS) > * Jerboa (Android, lemmy): [link](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa) > * Slide (Android, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/android@lemmy.world/t/68111/To-anyone-that-misses-Reddit-Slide-I-may-have-a) > * Sync (Android, lemmy): [link](https://kbin.social/m/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world) > * *Unnamed* (kbin): [link](https://kbin.social/m/kbin/p/512296/Decided-I-m-going-to-go-ahead-with-my-Kbin-mobile) > > Most apps on the list are lemmy apps, meaning they don't work with kbin. Artemis is specifically designed to work with kbin, not sure if or when any of the other ones will go in that direction or become interoperable as there are some challenges with the kbin API at the moment. Having said that, a new API is in the works ([https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357)) so things should get better with time. Some of the apps are in very early stage of development so it may happen that they adjust OS availability and platform support. See info in table format with more details: https://beehaw.org/post/697419
They're planning to fill the underpass to support some temporary narrow center lanes. Then they'll build the outer lanes proper before digging out the underpass and completing the inner lanes proper.
Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a modest pace. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated. The U.S. banking system is sound and resilient. Tighter credit conditions for households and businesses are likely to weigh on economic activity, hiring, and inflation. The extent of these effects remains uncertain. The Committee remains highly attentive to inflation risks. The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. In support of these goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 5 to 5-1/4 percent. Holding the target range steady at this meeting allows the Committee to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy. In determining the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate to return inflation to 2 percent over time, the Committee will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments. In addition, the Committee will continue reducing its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities, as described in its previously announced plans. The Committee is strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2 percent objective. In assessing the appropriate stance of monetary policy, the Committee will continue to monitor the implications of incoming information for the economic outlook. The Committee would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy as appropriate if risks emerge that could impede the attainment of the Committee's goals. The Committee's assessments will take into account a wide range of information, including readings on labor market conditions, inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and financial and international developments. Voting for the monetary policy action were Jerome H. Powell, Chair; John C. Williams, Vice Chair; Michael S. Barr; Michelle W. Bowman; Lisa D. Cook; Austan D. Goolsbee; Patrick Harker; Philip N. Jefferson; Neel Kashkari; Lorie K. Logan; and Christopher J. Waller. [Implementation Note issued June 14, 2023](https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230614a1.htm)
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -President Teddy Roosevelt, from “Citizen in a Republic” April 23, 1910
**PPI for final demand declines 0.3% in May; goods fall 1.6%, services increase 0.2%** The Producer Price Index for final demand declined 0.3 percent in May. Prices for final demand goods fell 1.6 percent, and the index for final demand services increased 0.2 percent. Prices for final demand moved up 1.1 percent for the 12 months ended in May. [PDF](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf) [Charts](https://www.bls.gov/charts/producer-price-index/) www.bls.gov
[PDF](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf) https://www.bls.gov
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In my opinion any one of these books may be worth $25 or more, but if you are interested in any one of the 5 in the $1 bundle, this is an easy decision.
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