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What guarantees do we have that some for-profit pharma corporation will not take the information discovered by this, patent it and profit at our expense? As it is, the public already funds most of the early research into drugs and yet almost all the resulting IP ends up owned by big-pharma.
Next scam: cryptomining app that pretends to help finding a virus cure.
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That’s their point. If you’re billed for instances, but those instances are used for charity and can be written off taxes, then why not? Tax write off donations in the form of product usually help clear out stock/keep things moving. They’re like a guaranteed sale. So it may be best to appeal to the providers of the instances.
Business expenses (for the company spinning up instances) are already written off taxes, which is what ozfive was talking about. Do you mean that the cloud provider can write off that income as charitable donation?
Why are they not appealing to the major cloud providers at this time to use any spare resources couldn't they set it up so that the cloud providers could count using resources as donation to a charity?
Cloud providers do not have much unused resource. Tricks like spot instances make sure that they are as close to 100% utilization as possible while still being able to handle a spike in demand.
The first thing on your site (after the navbar) should be an explanation of what your product is/does in as few words as possible.
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Mac Pro isn’t being sold in Apple stores. Made to order only.
Some Apple Stores in large cities are stocking the new Mac Pro. I don't know if they also carry a typical upgraded model, but that has sometimes been done in the past. The normal "stock" model is not very impressive and exists pretty much just as a baseline minimum price.
> the machines won’t be sold in the company’s retail stores
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Business expenses (for the company spinning up instances) are already written off taxes, which is what ozfive was talking about. Do you mean that the cloud provider can write off that income as charitable donation?
In the US you wouldn't be able to write that bill off as a legitimate business expense. The auditor would ask "What legitimate business purpose does this represent?" and they wouldn't have an answer.
If a business allows a nonprofit to use excess capacity, the capacity is still a business expense.
Google and AWS have huge amounts of unused computer capacity at low traffic periods. They can still expense those items even if they allow charitable use when not needed for business use.
Worst case if no unused capacity a business can call the expense a marketing expense and can ask the nonprofit to acknowledge their support of the activity. This is not uncommon.
Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
Heat.
Smartphones are decently powerful, but they typically only use the CPU in short bursts. This has allowed them to get away with being extremely skimpy on the cooling, which is good because a phone that needed a heat sink and fan would be incredibly bulky.
If you ran something with sustained CPU usage like F@H, within a minute it would be considerably warm and probably have crazy amounts of thermal throttling.
Gotta say the instructions are pretty awfully lacking. You go to the download page and you download the client and there's nothing that tells you what you're supposed to do after you download the client. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and after downloading the client I had to do: $ sudo update-rc.d FAHClient defaults $ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb $ sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient start Yeah, it only took a few…
This is a great example of something that happens when a technology/program/framework has a long history and an existing community. Most users have been there for a very long time and sometimes the instructions or documentation doesn't explain what new users may or may not know. I see this a lot in the nodejs tooling, Azure, vmware. Each version of a product slowly changes the way the product works and most documenta…