I spend a fair amount of time editing Wikipedia and am wondering if the time I spend is considered a tax-deductible donation in the U.S. Furthermore:   If it is, how do I decide the amount of value for the time I spend working on Wikipedia articles? Should this vary with respect to the article and the content? For example, suppose I write a technical article which requires significant amounts of knowledge and background. I expect this to be worth more than say spending time correcting errors, misprints, adding citations, etc.
Is there a value that can be assigned to my time, i.e. an hourly rate, so that I can be given a receipt to remit to CRA come Income Tax Filing time?  I live in Canada.
We are seeing this error in a Winform application.  Can anyone help on why you would see this error, and more importantly how to fix it or avoid it from happening.   System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Error creating window handle.    at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle(CreateParams cp)    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnVisibleChanged(EventArgs e)    at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.OnVisibleChanged(EventArgs e) Updates for a private plugin? If I write a private plugin, is there any way to use the WordPress auto-update mechanism to update it?  I want to encapsulate the functionality, but it's specific to my own 5 or so blogs, so it's not a good candidate for the public plugins resource. But I love the easy-updating mechanism.  Is there a way to do this? 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Thus, the problem becomes    $$ \frac{1}{(1 + a)^2} + \frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} +\frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} \leqslant \frac{3}{16}(\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c})$$    Applying Jensen’s inequality to the function $$f(x) = \frac{x}{ (1+ x)^2}$$   ,which is concave for $0 ≤ x ≤ 2$   and increasing for $0 ≤ x ≤ 1$, we obtain   $$α \frac{a}{(1 + a)^2} + β \frac{b}{(1 + b)^2} + γ \frac{c}{(1 + c)^2} \leqslant (α + β + γ) \frac{A}{(1 + A)^2}$$   , where $A =\frac{αa + βb + γc}{α + β + γ}.$   Choosing $α = \frac{1}{a} , β =\frac{1}{b},$ and  $γ = \frac{1}{c}$   , we can apply the harmonic-arithmetic-mean inequality   $$A =\frac{3}{\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}} ≤ \frac{a + b + c }{3} = \frac{1}{3} &lt; 1$$   Finally we prove:   $$ \frac{1}{(1 + a)^2} + \frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} +\frac{1}{(1 + b)^2} \leqslant ( \frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}) \frac{A}{(1 + A)^2} \leqslant ( \frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c})\frac{A}{(1 + \frac{1}{3})^2} = \frac{3}{16}(\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}) $$   However,  (Pg 4) differs by having $a +b+c=3$ and setting $f(x) = \frac{1}{16x} - \frac{1}{(x+3)^2}$ and allowing Jensen to resolve the rest.   The questions are as follows;   How do you choose before hand which $a + b+ c =$ to choose?  Why particularly does the assumption differ between the 2 solutions? How does one know before hand the choosing of $α = \frac{1}{a} , β =\frac{1}{b},$ and  $γ = \frac{1}{c}$?  Where and how did $A =\frac{αa + βb + γc}{α + β + γ}$ come from?   Any help would be much appreciated. What happens to Jen when she jumps off the cliff? What happens to Zhang ziyi (Jen) in  when she jumps off the cliff .. she dies? becomes immortal? Just before jumping what does she want Lo to become - a master?  Why does she jump off, guilt? Random piece of plastic I have recently purchased a hybrid bike with suspension (not sure if that is relevant to this question). It came with two pieces of plastic. Any ideas what they may be for? I found 11 questions like this on gamingSE already, but none of them have proper and up-to-date answers. 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Considering our example:   Approve edits that clearly improve the post ↳ No, not *clearly* Improve Edit when you can make additional improvements to the post ↳ I most definitively can Reject and Edit to replace an ineffective edit with your own substantive changes ↳ It is ineffective in the sense that it made the post worse overall (imho) Reject edits that fail to improve the post or that make it worse ↳ Like the last option: yes Skip if you are not sure and want to go to the next suggested edit ↳ Well, yes. But that is really why I am here, asking this question   Reasoning about the remaining Choices This leaves us with three choices: Improve Edit, Reject and Edit and Reject (the last one slightly modified):  Improve Edit  + Acknowledges that some things in the edit where correct - Learning effect for author might vanish, as the improvement might get overlooked - Can't leave a custom message for edit author (except in comments, which pollutes the thread) - Doesn't trigger the system which &quot;punishes&quot; users who repeatedly have their edits rejected - Rewards the edit author with reputation for a poor edit   Reject and Edit  + Clearly shows the author that there were problems with the edit - Still can't leave a custom message explaining the problems of the original post. - One has to partially redo parts of the edit that have just been rejected, which might feel unjust to the original editor   Reject with a custom note and come back immediately to make a good Edit  + Clearly shows the author that there were problems with the edit + Possibility to leave an explanation as to what was wrong with the edit - One still has to redo parts of the edit that has just been rejected - Seems to be a weird workaround for Reject and Edit   Something else?   Each of the three options come with their distinct advantages/disadvantages making it non trivial to decide which one to pick.  Or does the answer simply depend on the quality of the edit? Like:  Improve Edit for subjectively slightly positive edits Reject and Edit (Or Reject and Edit) for subjectively slightly negative edits