As an immigrant (of 27 years) I can tell you that the USA is not Jurassic Park enough (Is that a good metaphor?). The monsters keep me on the edge. It is my job to watch for the traps. I am being lied left and right, in many ways, including companies your kind empower. Everyone wants my money. I fell and got back on my feet. I am ordinary and I am thankful. I am a parent to my own children - as for me, a big daddy is the worst that can happen to me.
I found it educational with regard to how the virus works and its impact on the body.
It is bubble wrapped in various ideological phrases and thoughts in a chain letter format. But that's how much of news is packaged today so I just wade into the swamp and try to come out clean.
It would seem that the clarification in parent agrees:
> On desktop applications that I have worked on (I know this does not apply to all), if we did run out of memory, the better option is to just crash rather than try to recover. But of course some applications cannot do this, especially when dealing with third-party programs, such as databases (as you state). In those cases, the best you can do is empirically test how much is required and gracefully handle those cases when you do OOM (if possible). That's part of your problem, it's not an external thing. If you can control things, try to.
Here's a good old business idea. Create a gift registry where donors upload their donations to be validated / accepted by the charity org. The registry could be open source or for-profit.
This would only work for high value items, or 'semi-fungible' goods with an easy to determine resale value (e.g. books, media, smartphones). For the latter it probably wouldn't work either. You already have things like Eco-ATM and the BookScouter app that let you quickly and easily liquidate an old phone or a stack of books, etc. It's more work than donating (you have to sort through the books, generate an invoice, etc.) but you get some cash. If donating were the same process, many people would probably opt for the cash.
I've known people who made six figures driving around to thrift stores, buying up any books worth >$10 and shipping them straight to an Amazon warehouse. I do believe I've also heard of some Goodwills scanning book donations and sorting out the valuable ones themselves for resale elsewhere.
Someone mentioned "stuff arbitrage" below and I think this is really the value goodwill, et. al provides. Sorting and classifying donations provides a lot of overhead that doesn't scale well for things like clothing. In the past when I was broke and unemployed I used to go to Goodwill and buy a bunch of low-middle end designer clothes (Levis, Ralph Lauren, cashmere sweaters, etc.) for $3-5 a pop, and sell them on ebay for $20-50. The margins aren't bad, but it's a labor intensive endeavor. Between finding the right items, inspecting for defects, cleaning, measuring, photographing, creating an ebay listing, shipping and handling, etc. I made maybe minimum wage. Called it quits after ebay raised their fees for the umpteenth time.
If I'm understanding your idea correctly it would make donating more complicated, meaning less donations. Additionally, if you have things at a thrift store priced at "market value" you eliminate a.) the social benefit of making low cost used items available to the community (think a homeless guy buying a suit for a job interview for $5) b.) the fun of finding that hidden gem, which is the real reason most people shop there to begin with.
For things like art, high-end furniture, musical instruments, it might make sense though.
Could not Apple place the touchbar between touchpad and keyboard and leave the function keys alone? That might please both camps and rid of controversy.
