On Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 18:43:42 CEST Philippe Cloutier wrote: > Le 2020-10-04 à 11:58, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : > > Currently we have a single big bucket for our money. All money that comes > > in (e.g. several thousand PayPal donations per year) goes into this > > bucket. All money that we spend is taken from this bucket. That's as > > simple as it gets. > > > > If we would allow targeted donations then we would have to sort all > > donations into multiple buckets. And all of our expenses would need to be > > taken from the correct buckets. Additionally, our contractors (e.g. our > > marketing contractors) would probably need to start tracking how much > > time they spend for a specific project (if we have a bucket for it), so > > that we can pay them from the right buckets. > > > > So, maybe it's more a change from O(1) to O(n*m) where n is the number of > > transactions and m is the number of different buckets. > > Thank you, that is much clearer (and way more sensical). I still don't > fully understand though; > > * Would this quantify the resources needed to process a *single* > transaction, or what?
No, all of them. > * What resources does this quantify? *Manpower*, or computing resources? Mainly personpower. (Please try to avoid non-inclusive, patriarchaic vocabulary.) Regards, Ingo
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