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Apple defines those metrics separately. For the purgeable space given in the Get Info dialog and Disk Utility, it writes that “purgeable space” is “space that macOS can free up when needed by removing files from your computer (you can’t manually remove the files that are designated purgeable, but macOS removes them as space is required)”.
What Is Purgeable Disk Space?
eclecticlight.co
“Twitter gamifies communication,” the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen has argued; it’s custom-built to do things like score apologies, to drag users into a rating system that has nothing to do with morality. An unforgiving god rules Twitter, where the modern economy of apology runs something like this: If you express what I believe to be a toxic or ignorant opinion, you must apologize according to my rules for apology. If you do, I may forgive you. If you don’t, I will punish you, and damn you unto eternity.
The Case Against the Twitter Apology | The New Yorker
Jill Lepore
The result is that you get a tax deduction worth $2 million, the charity gets $130,000, and the lawyers get the rest of the value of the yacht. This shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t work, but it’s funny to think about. A good pressure point in the tax code is the charitable deduction for non-cash assets: If you have some unique non-traded asset (art, yacht, etc.), you can donate it to charity and deduct the market value of the asset, and if there is no market value then you and the charity have some leeway to make it up. You want the value to be high (so you get a bigger deduction), and the charity doesn’t care (it isn’t paying the made-up price), so there are incentives to make up a big number. The IRS knows this and tries to crack down by requiring appraisals, etc., but if you can generate what looks like a market transaction at the made-up price, I guess that helps. But if you generate what looks like a fake transaction, it doesn’t.
The SEC Cracks Down on Crypto
bloomberg.com
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