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Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by OJFord »

short12 wrote: post #86
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #59

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He could show them W2's from the current employer.

But why would he? It's none of their business

I know nothing about it in the US, but in the UK it would be their business once he started and they set him up on payroll. You could still argue none of their business, 'can only harm you' in negotiating salary of course - and in a large enough org the same people would never know, but otherwise could be a short-lived deception and maybe you'd feel weird about that once colleagues.

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by slimsag »

easymuffin wrote: post #116
wyldfire wrote: post #76

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Ok sounds like I can go ahead because you will accept from every.org and you do not plan to publish an address to accept donations directly? I'll match other HNers donations of as much as $100 to a total of an additional $1000. Not sure how to substantiate every.org donations but maybe I'll take HNers at their word. EDIT: scoreboard as of 22:20 UTC: $400 out of $1000 to be matched: easymuffin, slimsag, tav, _hl_. Bec…

Thanks everyone. Donated $100 https://i.imgur.com/BasBMKg.jpg

Matched your $100 :) https://i.imgur.com/GCuXArQ.png

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by [deleted] »

inside65 wrote: post #41
AndyKelley wrote: post #10

2021 update: * The Zig Software Foundation now exists * My total income including ZSF Salary, GitHub Sponsors, Patreon is now about 4000 USD per month. Legally, my ZSF salary is 160K per year, but I have been consistently donating it back to the org since frankly we just don't have that much revenue at this point in time, and I've been prioritizing getting that money to other Zig contributors. * The $150/month to Ric…

Could you clarify (I'm just confused) how is your income 4K a month but you say to make 160K a year from ZSF. Is the significant difference all donated back?

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Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by sneak »

handoflixue wrote: post #115
probably_wrong wrote: post #56

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I like the first half of the idea (donating 10% of one's income) but I feel strongly against their definition of "effective" and "biggest problems". This typically happens when someone multiplies a tiny probability by an infinite value like "time till the heath death of the universe". In particular, their top four recommended charities are managed by "Effective altruism funds", with the 3rd best-ranked charity spendi…

I'd strongly recommend looking at GiveWell specifically: They avoid the weird "AI risk" stuff and mostly focus on Malaria prevention and other very well studied, high-value third world interventions. In particular, they also list where your money is going, so you can just pick and choose which of their causes you want to support (although I personally donate directly to them so they can decide which charity they thin…

Note also that if you spend all of your funds allocated to Lord Bezos at smile.amazon.com instead of the base 2LD, you can specify GiveWell as the beneficiary and they get a small cut of each purchase.

It's per purchase though so you have to update your bookmarks to point to smile.amazon.com. Uninstall the app to help you remember.

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by handoflixue »

zozbot234 wrote: post #93
probably_wrong wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the first half of the idea (donating 10% of one's income) but I feel strongly against their definition of "effective" and "biggest problems". This typically happens when someone multiplies a tiny probability by an infinite value like "time till the heath death of the universe". In particular, their top four recommended charities are managed by "Effective altruism funds", with the 3rd best-ranked charity spendi…

> which I strongly consider a waste of money Do you consider all research on AI ethics and bias to be a waste of money? The EA folks are doing some of the best work in that field, and have been focusing on it for quite a while. People used to consider biosecurity and pandemic preparedness a waste of money too, but hopefully we know better.

> pandemic preparedness

There's a big difference between a threat that has existed for all of human history (pandemics), and a completely novel threat model that might exist in the future (AI)

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by caturopath »

einpoklum wrote: post #100
mwint wrote: post #35

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Never really thought about it. I’d love for someone with knowledge to weigh in on this: Does it ever make sense to pay more SS tax, based on a present-value analysis? I guess it’s really three questions: 1) For each dollar to SS taxes, do I expect to get more than a dollar from SS in the future? 2) Same question as 1, but inflation-adjusted future dollars. 3) If the expected return is positive, does it beat reasonabl…

> Does it ever make sense to pay more SS tax, based on a present-value analysis? Of course it does. Social Security is social, not individual. If you're a rich man - and a person who makes 160 KUSD / annum probably is - it makes a lot of sense to contribute more to social security, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

They specified "based on a present-value analysis". They were interested in SS as a personal money-returning interest for that question.

That doesn't mean they don't think that people should pay taxes for welfare programs like social security or for other governmental functions, it just wasn't what the question was about.

Certainly if you're after the second bend (very realistic for a lot of folks) there is minimal return on contributing.

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by probably_wrong »

zozbot234 wrote: post #93
probably_wrong wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the first half of the idea (donating 10% of one's income) but I feel strongly against their definition of "effective" and "biggest problems". This typically happens when someone multiplies a tiny probability by an infinite value like "time till the heath death of the universe". In particular, their top four recommended charities are managed by "Effective altruism funds", with the 3rd best-ranked charity spendi…

> which I strongly consider a waste of money Do you consider all research on AI ethics and bias to be a waste of money? The EA folks are doing some of the best work in that field, and have been focusing on it for quite a while. People used to consider biosecurity and pandemic preparedness a waste of money too, but hopefully we know better.

No, I do think research on AI ethics is important and necessary. But I also think there's a time and a place, and "third most pressing issue for humanity" is not it.

Biased AI algorithms are a problem for the 10% of countries where AI is part of their daily decision process. For the other 90%, "I don't have enough nutrients for my brain to develop" and "I'm severely disabled due to a preventable but unprofitable illness" are much more pressing issues.

I support basic research, even in areas whose economic benefit may not be clear. But if someone asks "how can I help humanity the most?", I consider "AI research" to be a really bad answer, to the point of being almost a lie.

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by exochrono »

0des wrote: post #112
AndyKelley wrote: post #107

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How it works according to their website is that they will mail a check to the registered address of the charity. That's actually an amazing service - even charities which are not aware of Every.org still benefit from its existence. I'm honestly really impressed.

I can appreciate that you derive value from this, however, envision it from Joe Casual walking by, it has in my case discouraged me from using their service because to me this feels dishonest in a lie-of-omission way. I'm not calling them dishonest, I'm not saying anybody lied, I'm saying the marketing and recruitment strategy should encourage people to use it, not use gray patterns like the ones random voip text peo…

Thanks for this feedback, and I definitely think we could do a better job of making it clear which orgs we have a direct relationship with vs not.

That being said, Network for Good, our partner for disbursing to nonprofits whom haven't connected directly with us, also handles disbursements for a lot of Facebook Giving and other large donation platforms, so I don't think the checks coming from there are necessarily unexpected by many nonprofits - see their support article on this at https://networkforgood.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150073...

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by caturopath »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #40
mwint wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never really thought about it. I’d love for someone with knowledge to weigh in on this: Does it ever make sense to pay more SS tax, based on a present-value analysis? I guess it’s really three questions: 1) For each dollar to SS taxes, do I expect to get more than a dollar from SS in the future? 2) Same question as 1, but inflation-adjusted future dollars. 3) If the expected return is positive, does it beat reasonabl…

(not a financial professional, not advice) You need at least 40 "credits" over your working life to be eligible for social security benefits. Each calendar year you can earn up to 4 "credits", which in 2021 corresponds to $1470 in earnings that are taxed. So it definitely makes sense to earn the credits every year e.g. $6000 in 2021. SSDI looks at the last 10 years of earnings if you're older than 30, which still inc…

> the optimal money move is to continue working to full retirement age

Only your highest-earning-of-SS-income 35 years matter, so it's conceivable (and probably not too rare for many HN readers) to have had 35 max-income years before FRA.

Re: Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

turminal wrote: post #61
13415 wrote: post #26

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I've been following V for a few years now and it's pretty awesome. Development is very active.

... and developers are very clueless. And just about nothing works as advertised.

Can you elaborate or provide any references for those statements? What in [0] doesn't work as advertised?

Also, something I'ld like to know that would otherwise be really dishonest on V devs' part, is their memory management innovative? Oortmerssen, creator of Lobster language, said that in their Discord they mentioned[1] that the memory model was taken from Lobster.

[0]: https://github.com/vlang/v#key-features-of-v

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25514198

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