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@paco simplifying:
(a - d) * r = t
a is your income
d is the cash/FMV of your donations
r is your tax rate
There is no a, d where 0 < d < a for which t = 0.
Not sure how it is that substantial portions of my Zotero library disappeared, but I'm not thrilled about it, and I'm not looking forward to importing from backup and then manually deduping 1000+ items.
Total items as of 2024-06-12: 1496
Total items as of 2025-07-05: 1424
@TodePond I just came across your subsequent PDF rants by way of <https://www.todepond.com/code/>.
cc @allenwb
A publishing setup that doesn't let you keep existing references online isn't doing its job.
Suppose your family ran a corner shop and you needed someone to ring up items at the register, take payment, etc. Or maybe it's a pizza parlor and you need someone to work with you to make the pizzas. Would you hire someone to do these things and keep employing them if they showed up and refused to take payments at the register or make pizza?
It's way too common for complaints about unresolvable references to get brushed off because e.g. the page has been "edited".
nit: it hasn't—it's been replaced with a *different* page that, granted, may be substantially similar to an earlier one, but is nonetheless distinct—and therefore should have its own distinct identity (read: URL).
Or the tech stack (CMS/blogging setup) has changed.
Or someone decided to reorganize the folder structure in some uncool attempt to tidy up…
This is a problem that has been, well, *a problem* since before recent politically motivated changes.
The Web is almost 35 years old. It's time to stop behaving like volatility should be the norm. It certainly doesn't *need* to be this way, despite whatever strange notions people get into their heads (and how they tend to adopt a totally unrelated posture about a subject) when computers are suddenly involved.
