For some things such as maximum performance and/or minimal size, compilers still suck. Try compiling FFmpeg with assembly disabled and compare to assembly enabled. It's almost useless with assembly disabled. There's also things that compilers still can't really do, such as optimizing for different CPU's. Just like those containers don't really work for certain application such as shipping heavy equipment, compilers have their limitations.
Just have to borrow more ($80billion in 2018 towards the highway trust fund), just think of the productivity gains from not having to pay another tax. Businesses would be more profitable, pay their workers more and those workers could actually afford to pay income tax. Could also do things like expand the tire excise tax to consumer vehicles. Tire wear seems a good proxy for road use.
Like my grandpa used to say: If you have two hours to chop down a tree*, spend the first hour sharpening your ax.
Why? Your falling axe should always be sharp and if a tree takes 2 hours to fall, this'll mean spending 3 hours at the job. Perhaps your grandfather didn't know enough to use the right tool for the job and used a splitting axe?
Educate yourself. We're not really sure about an event that happened 250 million years ago with a few possible causes including impact events, volcanoes, methane hydrates etc. Likely a combination, especially as it seems to have possibly happened in a few pulses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"if you disagree with my orthodoxy it's heresy!" who's the zealot?
Do you make the same argument about the flat Earth? Perhaps the germ theory of disease, something that some were very skeptical about? Usually those who had to change if the germ theory was true. Surprising resistance to washing at the time, even with studies showing higher survival rates when surgeons washed before operating.
Much of which was burned. It was due to shortages of wood to burn that coal became popular as a source of heat, both for heating and industrial use. Interestingly, here in BC, the largest emitter of CO2 last year was the forests, largely due to fire as well as destructive logging practices which includes slash burning and the mountain pine beetle. Fires alone released estimated 190 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2017 and likely a similar amount in 2018, compared to 63 million tonnes by the usual subjects (industry, people etc).
There were times it did cross the line into slave labour. Paying a dollar a day and charging $7.25 room and board a week with debtors prison being a real thing. Even charging $6 a week is pretty close to slavery when those fees were hidden when the worker signed up.
Organlegging was illegally harvesting organs, as in kidnapping and killing someone rather then doing it as a legal execution. In a world with organ transplants perfected, there was a high demand for organs, including illegally gotten organs. Note that the people democratically voted in all the execution laws in that universe. How many people would pay for an illegally gotten organ today if it would prolong their life? I'd bet a sizeable minority. Same with voting in the death penalty for various crimes if it meant more organs.
In our universe, in the 19th century, supplying cadavers for dissection was a big enough business that at least one gang did similar, rather then grave robbing, killed people. The leader of that gangs skeleton is hanging up in some university after the owner was executed and used for dissection.
Wiki has an interesting read on deregulating the Taxi industry. Generally seems to result in higher prices, lower wages for drivers, lower profits for companies and in the more extreme free markets, lots of deaths from the cartels that arose to defend their routes. Did seem to work OK in New Zealand though. There's a reason those regulations (dating back to the 17th century) arose. The real problem is corruption in the form of corrupt regulations. This seems quite pronounced in America where the free market includes the freedom to buy politicians.
There's a grey fuzzy area between avoidance and evasion which takes a court case to decide. Due to the uncertainty, they reach a settlement. If it is clear cut avoidance, the company would go to court, and likewise for the government. I'd guess the settlement depends on likelihood of one side winning. Probably depends on amount as well. If the government claimed I owed another $100, I'd just pay it rather then arguing.
doesn't it make sense to start with the person contributing most to the supposed problem?
Yes person, why are you fixated on group? The average Chinese person emits 7.54 MT of CO2 (as of 2014) vs the average American's 16.49 per year. Numbers from https://data.worldbank.org/ind... and seem to be in agreement with other sites.
So they do. Along with the AC's reference to the Centavo. Still seems like a waste of resources, even nickles and dimes are only useful for change. When I was a kid, there was candy that cost 2 for a penny and a nickel or dime went quite a ways. Now a pack of matches probably costs more then a dime, if you can find one.
It's actually becoming common for home fueling around here. All the gas stations are pretty well gone due to the high price of land and it's a lot more convenient and about the same price as driving half a dozen miles plus out of the way to fuel up. For the tankers delivering the fuel, doing it in the middle of the night/early morning works best as there is little traffic.
It's basically a solved problem, all that is really needed is more chargers.
And the supporting infrastructure such as power lines, often in the middle of nowhere. Lots of stretches for hours with almost no population, sometimes after hours of driving, there's a small community using diesel for power.
I guess it'll be great for crappy gas station restaurants business. Personally I like taking a break out of town in some piece of nature to unwind. In and out of the gas station independent of actually taking a break.
There's also the argument that benevolent dictator is one the best forms of government, which has some truth to it but always falls apart over or after succession.
Also, a pollution tax doesn't increase total taxation since you can put a pollution tax instead of another tax (say income tax or sale tax). It is very stupid to tax income to 30-50% when you could be taxing pollution instead.
It's how it was done here in BC. When the carbon tax was introduced, income tax was cut to make the carbon tax revenue neutral. Problems at first is that it hits the poor more (there are rebates to help) as the rich can easier cut back on their carbon emissions, buying a Telsa or such, better afford latest things like Fridges and heating systems and other ways to cut back on CO2 emissions whereas poor are more likely to own old cars, fridges etc and can't afford to update insulation etc. Government went more right and started excepting various industries. Government got replaced by left+green and decided to use the money from the carbon tax for things like transit rather then being revenue neutral. Also kept the exceptions due to jobs (Greens mad about that but stick to supporting Socialists as the lesser evil)
Actually what we should be doing is considering which people emit the most, compare the average American to the average Chinese. Or perhaps you're right and we should go by country with no thought to size or population and we should all emit the same as the Vatican.
It did used to get cold here. I can remember close to 0F in the west end of Vancouver, and the icicles. Lots of snow with school being closed for weeks when I was in Burnaby (mile or so outside of Vancouver) and in the interior, minus 30-40 common. Looking at the records for this week, they're all close to -20C, not as cold as back east but with the high humidity, sure seemed cold. OTOH, all the record highs are about 15C. This is in the Fraser Valley, perhaps 40 miles east of Vancouver.
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For some things such as maximum performance and/or minimal size, compilers still suck. Try compiling FFmpeg with assembly disabled and compare to assembly enabled. It's almost useless with assembly disabled.
There's also things that compilers still can't really do, such as optimizing for different CPU's.
Just like those containers don't really work for certain application such as shipping heavy equipment, compilers have their limitations.
No, they're other taxes would be decreased to make it revenue neutral. If they could raise prices, they already would.
Just have to borrow more ($80billion in 2018 towards the highway trust fund), just think of the productivity gains from not having to pay another tax. Businesses would be more profitable, pay their workers more and those workers could actually afford to pay income tax.
Could also do things like expand the tire excise tax to consumer vehicles. Tire wear seems a good proxy for road use.
Like my grandpa used to say: If you have two hours to chop down a tree*, spend the first hour sharpening your ax.
Why? Your falling axe should always be sharp and if a tree takes 2 hours to fall, this'll mean spending 3 hours at the job.
Perhaps your grandfather didn't know enough to use the right tool for the job and used a splitting axe?
Educate yourself. We're not really sure about an event that happened 250 million years ago with a few possible causes including impact events, volcanoes, methane hydrates etc. Likely a combination, especially as it seems to have possibly happened in a few pulses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
only idiot zealots still deny AGW
"if you disagree with my orthodoxy it's heresy!"
who's the zealot?
Do you make the same argument about the flat Earth?
Perhaps the germ theory of disease, something that some were very skeptical about? Usually those who had to change if the germ theory was true. Surprising resistance to washing at the time, even with studies showing higher survival rates when surgeons washed before operating.
Much of which was burned. It was due to shortages of wood to burn that coal became popular as a source of heat, both for heating and industrial use.
Interestingly, here in BC, the largest emitter of CO2 last year was the forests, largely due to fire as well as destructive logging practices which includes slash burning and the mountain pine beetle.
Fires alone released estimated 190 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2017 and likely a similar amount in 2018, compared to 63 million tonnes by the usual subjects (industry, people etc).
https://www.nationalobserver.c...
There were times it did cross the line into slave labour. Paying a dollar a day and charging $7.25 room and board a week with debtors prison being a real thing. Even charging $6 a week is pretty close to slavery when those fees were hidden when the worker signed up.
Slave labour, with very shitty conditions for the labourers.
Organlegging was illegally harvesting organs, as in kidnapping and killing someone rather then doing it as a legal execution.
In a world with organ transplants perfected, there was a high demand for organs, including illegally gotten organs. Note that the people democratically voted in all the execution laws in that universe.
How many people would pay for an illegally gotten organ today if it would prolong their life? I'd bet a sizeable minority. Same with voting in the death penalty for various crimes if it meant more organs.
In our universe, in the 19th century, supplying cadavers for dissection was a big enough business that at least one gang did similar, rather then grave robbing, killed people. The leader of that gangs skeleton is hanging up in some university after the owner was executed and used for dissection.
Wiki has an interesting read on deregulating the Taxi industry. Generally seems to result in higher prices, lower wages for drivers, lower profits for companies and in the more extreme free markets, lots of deaths from the cartels that arose to defend their routes. Did seem to work OK in New Zealand though.
There's a reason those regulations (dating back to the 17th century) arose. The real problem is corruption in the form of corrupt regulations. This seems quite pronounced in America where the free market includes the freedom to buy politicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There's a grey fuzzy area between avoidance and evasion which takes a court case to decide. Due to the uncertainty, they reach a settlement. If it is clear cut avoidance, the company would go to court, and likewise for the government. I'd guess the settlement depends on likelihood of one side winning.
Probably depends on amount as well. If the government claimed I owed another $100, I'd just pay it rather then arguing.
doesn't it make sense to start with the person contributing most to the supposed problem?
Yes person, why are you fixated on group? The average Chinese person emits 7.54 MT of CO2 (as of 2014) vs the average American's 16.49 per year.
Numbers from https://data.worldbank.org/ind... and seem to be in agreement with other sites.
Seems not to be circulated judging by the mint numbers. 18 million since '95.
So they do. Along with the AC's reference to the Centavo.
Still seems like a waste of resources, even nickles and dimes are only useful for change. When I was a kid, there was candy that cost 2 for a penny and a nickel or dime went quite a ways. Now a pack of matches probably costs more then a dime, if you can find one.
You must live in a highly populated part of the world. Lots of places where you might not see a power line in hundreds of miles here.
It's actually becoming common for home fueling around here. All the gas stations are pretty well gone due to the high price of land and it's a lot more convenient and about the same price as driving half a dozen miles plus out of the way to fuel up. For the tankers delivering the fuel, doing it in the middle of the night/early morning works best as there is little traffic.
It's basically a solved problem, all that is really needed is more chargers.
And the supporting infrastructure such as power lines, often in the middle of nowhere. Lots of stretches for hours with almost no population, sometimes after hours of driving, there's a small community using diesel for power.
I guess it'll be great for crappy gas station restaurants business. Personally I like taking a break out of town in some piece of nature to unwind. In and out of the gas station independent of actually taking a break.
Does it matter when it comes to State courts considering other State courts precedent what the Federal government has done in unrelated cases?
Good point, along with benevolent varies on view point.
There's also the argument that benevolent dictator is one the best forms of government, which has some truth to it but always falls apart over or after succession.
Also, a pollution tax doesn't increase total taxation since you can put a pollution tax instead of another tax (say income tax or sale tax).
It is very stupid to tax income to 30-50% when you could be taxing pollution instead.
It's how it was done here in BC. When the carbon tax was introduced, income tax was cut to make the carbon tax revenue neutral.
Problems at first is that it hits the poor more (there are rebates to help) as the rich can easier cut back on their carbon emissions, buying a Telsa or such, better afford latest things like Fridges and heating systems and other ways to cut back on CO2 emissions whereas poor are more likely to own old cars, fridges etc and can't afford to update insulation etc.
Government went more right and started excepting various industries. Government got replaced by left+green and decided to use the money from the carbon tax for things like transit rather then being revenue neutral. Also kept the exceptions due to jobs (Greens mad about that but stick to supporting Socialists as the lesser evil)
Actually what we should be doing is considering which people emit the most, compare the average American to the average Chinese. Or perhaps you're right and we should go by country with no thought to size or population and we should all emit the same as the Vatican.
It did used to get cold here. I can remember close to 0F in the west end of Vancouver, and the icicles. Lots of snow with school being closed for weeks when I was in Burnaby (mile or so outside of Vancouver) and in the interior, minus 30-40 common. Looking at the records for this week, they're all close to -20C, not as cold as back east but with the high humidity, sure seemed cold. OTOH, all the record highs are about 15C. This is in the Fraser Valley, perhaps 40 miles east of Vancouver.