Not really, because the problem isn't investors buying homes, its a lack of supply of new homes. Big investors don't buy homes to keep them empty, they buy them to rent them out. An exception to this might be short term rentals but that is going to be significant in only a few markets and the problem there is still fundamentally a supply problem.

But even by long term renting they’re driving up home prices.

There is nothing fancy about it. The reasoning is straight forward and has the exact same impact that paying dividends has, from the perspective of the shareholder. (Well, actually in some ways maybe a better impact, as it makes complying with idiotic tax laws easier)

That is neat- any idea what they consider an eligible organization?

They're probably using something like https://benevity.com/ to do the vetting, esp. for non US charities.

1) Software licenses are generally about copyright, though sometimes contain patent licensing provisions. Right now, there is significant legal debate on if training LLMs violates copyright or is fair use.

2) Most OSS licenses require attributeion, something LLM code generation does not really do.

So IF training an LLM is restrctable by copyright, most OSS licenses practically speaking are incompatible with LLM training.

Adding some text that specifically limits LLM training would likely run afould of the open source definitions freedom from discrimination principle.

No that's not what GP is saying. GP is saying that there is software that does not have a redaction feature (perhaps because the developer didn't implement it), but users of the software worked around it by adding a black rectangle to the PDF in such software, falsely believing it to be equivalent to redaction.

Properly implementing redaction is a complicated task. The redaction can be applied to text, so the software needs to find out which text is covered by the rectangle and remove it. The redaction can be applied to images, so the software needs to edit a dizzying array of image formats supported by PDF (including some formats frequently used by PDFs but used basically nowhere else, like JBIG2). The redaction can be applied to invisible text (such as OCR text of a scanned document). The redaction can be applied to vector shapes, so some moderately complicated geometry calculations are needed to break the vector shapes and partially delete them.

It's very easy to imagine having a basic PDF editor that does not have a redaction feature because implementing the feature is hard.

For the same reason, a basic PDF editor does not have a real crop feature. Such an editor adds a cropbox and keeps all the content outside the cropbox.

Become a politician or a lobbyist? Possibly work in a charity that funds research, as a fundraiser for them?

I am curios why Apple requires such rigamorale to add such items to Apple Wallet. Google Wallet has this feature builtin.

As a potential user of an open source project, I care a fair bit what language it is implemented in. As an open source project, I preffer projects in languages and ecosystems I am familair and comfortable with. I may need to fix bugs, add features, or otherwise make contributions back to the project, and thus I am more likely to pick a solution in a language I am comfortable with than in a language I am not as comfortable with, given my other needs and priorities are met.

But SNAP doesn't have a hard cutoff. There are welfare programs that do, but SNAP doesn't.

School lunch programs have two phases, free, and reduced. Medicaid varies a bit by state, but transitions to Obamacare subsidies. Hitting the cutoff for medicaid can really hurt, though, if your employer doesn't provide healthcare benefits.

From what I understood, ACR on Vizio TVs was disabled, but is available as an opt-in "feature". I don't know what sort of person would opt-in...