There are different types of nonprofits, with different levels of non-taxability. 501(c)(3) nonprofits, which are the kinds that allow tax deductible donations, legally "may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates".

Amazon's in-house game, New World, requires neither. Nor does the other Amazon published game, Lost Ark.

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Instead of messing up the unicode this time, the author decided to mess up the currency. Nicely done.

Some, if not all, models with both a long-range and "standard"-range offering use the same batteries. Paying extra for LR is a software unlock for charging the battery further. BMW here does the same with heated seats, and additionally gives you the option to pay monthly if you so choose.

I won't give my opinion here, but whether or not their practice is as morally questionable is at the very least arguable.

That is true for Euclidean TSP (or more generally TSP on a p-norm in R^d), but real-life travel distances typically do *not* have such a clean metric because trucks need to drive on roads and so on. Oftentimes it's not a metric at all, because the existence of one-way streets breaks symmetry. For arbitrary semimetrics ("metrics" that satisfy the triangle inequality but violate symmetry), the theoretically best results known only guarantee you a solution within 2-3 orders of magnitude of optimal (i.e. a ~300x approximation ratio), and the best results you can ever actually run in practice gives you a solution that can be off by some O(log log n) orders of magnitude. And that's before we account for all the extra stuff going into their "mega TSP" instance. Difficult stuff, and it's not at all clear that a quantum computer can even help here.

How dare Amazon give school supplies to teachers. The absolute gall to fill a funding hole that local politicians have absolutely no intent to fill themselves.

The Arbitration Agreement in Netflix's ToS has a specific exemption for small claims actions, but regardless I don't see what one can legally claim against them (with merit).

This dude has one scientific publication since 1998 -- at a mediocre venue -- and less than 10 total. He probably couldn't get a PhD with that track record, let alone the title of "top expert".

The original white paper does have the numbers: 125 in each the experimental and control groups, with 35 initially unemployed in the UBI-receiving group and 40 unemployed in the control group. After the experiment, 50 were employed in the UBI group and 46 in the control. What the white paper doesn't have is a claim of statistical significance. Because the result is not significant at a p=0.05 level regardless of how you want to phrase the null hypothesis. Depending on the precise statement you want to make (or, technically, falsify), p values range from 0.06 to 0.24.

This is slashSlashdot story 314159.

Hopefully everyone with access to an email account has been given the warning about giving money to people making wild claims.. but if not, tell your mother.

It doesn't cost anything to ignore toothless threats.

It's blatant trademark infringement.. why do you think Notch is adding all the RPG adventure elements to the game before calling it "Scrolls". The only people who can't see this are the same idiots who think he's a good programmer.

People keep using this word.. I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what they think it means.

You can petition your government for grievances.. you can take your grievances with Woolworths and shove 'em where the sun don't shine. Ya know, we tried to give you a word that means what you want.. "boycott", but that actually requires you to go without and that's not what you want is it? You just want to whine and throw tantrums when you don't get your way.

See the previous Slashdot story. GRAIL is an example of a program that should be rewarded while JWST is an example of program that should be cancelled. But in the bazarro world of NASA, programs that come in under budget on development get cut in operations to pay for the programs that are struggling in development. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.