It should be illegal, but as far as I know the law about including all taxes and fees in the listed price only applies to food.
Not sure about US, but they've added that law to airline tickets in Canada (they must include base fares + taxes + airport improvement fees + fuel surcharges). It's a small thing, but man does it make life just a little bit better.
I know they're apples and nuclear-powered oranges, but damn. The Hubble Space Telescope only cost $4.7 billion by the time it launched.
If those are 1990 dollars then Hubble actually cost around $9 billion in today's dollars. Though to be fair, I'm not sure if all of those 9.66 billion JWST dollars are in 2018 dollars.
I highly doubt Amazon "does it". Mostly likely the contract out to a company like Vertex, query the address, and receive all the tax information for the location. It would be incredibly stupid, read significantly more costly and less risk indemnification, for Amazon to build and maintain the information database in house.
The point is, it gets done. And the fact that there's a third party that has this service set up (Vertex, apparently) suggests that it would be easy enough to develop a similar product targeted at small businesses.
So robot cooks, why pay someone else a profit margin, when you can have what you want, when you want it, in your own home, from fresh raw ingredients, cooked carefully and no food shenanigans.
Because I don't want to drop $50k on a robot just so I can have burgers made for me? Also, not wanting or being able to cook burgers is not the main reason I go to a fast food joint; I go because I'm at work or on the road or whatever and don't have a kitchen with me.
AFAIK there is not one "master" chart showing sales tax rates for all these locations, and for which items. Amazon or Walmart may use such a thing internally - but small businesses do not.
If Amazon can do it it's doable. So no doubt what will happen is some enterprising individuals will replicate what the big retailers do and sell it as a plug-in service to small businesses. Maybe Square will do it?
The only problem I see with the state taxing online purchases is that small online retailers will have extra overhead to meet tax requirements for all states.
Seems like a pretty good business opportunity to sell an automated tax system to small online businesses.
Yeah, that's totally a sensical thing to do -- definitely no research assistants cut into the stash at all. Nope.
I'm sure you said it in jest, but in case not: the bio labs at my undergrad university had some ongoing experiments involving cocaine and I talked to some of the researchers about it. There was sooo much bureaucracy and procedure they had follow with the "stash". Basically every fleck of the stuff had to be accounted for at all times.
I hate how many otherwise intelligent people completely misunderstand global warming. Although people are contributing a fair amount to the rate at which we are warming up, this planets default temperature is much MUCH higher than what our species is comfortable with. Guess what? If you are reading this, you were born during an ice age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So what? From a human perspective (arguably the thing that matters most to you and me), normal is what we have now, and any deviations from that are going to cause us pain and suffering. It might be inevitable, but it's absolutely in our best interest to have it happen as slowly as possible. Cities, industries, and crops are where they are; moving them or hardening them is gonna be hella expensive and would be better done over long periods of time. Not to mention that really fast rates of change could destabilize the very fabric of our societies. That's nice that we're in an "ice age", but it means diddly squat to whether or not we should be trying to reduce our contribution to climate change.
No. Sure, they had a successful Kickstarter, but $2.4 million is peanuts in the world of smart phones. If you look at the backer numbers, they pre-sold a grand total of 3,436 phones. Woo!
As much as Slashdot's hive mind says they want all of these specific features, the reality is that most posters don't put their money where their mouth is, and those who do are actually a very tiny niche in the world of smartphone customers.
No, you missed the point (maybe deliberately, judging by that username?). The study isn't about heavy metals in plastics. It's about plastics in waterways. They just used heavy metal analysis as a dating method to show how old some of the plastics are. I.e. the plastics in the waterways have been accumulating for ages.
I was confused by the summary too, so I looked at the study. These heavy metals used to be used in plastics as stabilizers and colour pigments, but are now typically banned. The study used this fact to demonstrate that the plastics they were finding predate regulations (i.e. are old) and have therefore been building up in these lakes for decades.
While people are going on about "Climate Change" the REAL IMMEDIATE DANGER is local pollution! Where do you think your water comes from? You are worried about lower Manhattan getting flooded in 2050 while you drink your toxic water! Complete insanity.
Well, we kind of need to be working on both of those things at the same time, because the fixes for things like climate change will take decades, if not centuries. If we wait until we solve the toxic water problem before we tackle climate change, 2050 will be here already. Luckily, nations are capable of doing more than one thing at once, and many of the the solutions to one environmental problem help fix other environmental problems.
I can't even shuffle my collection of music in Spotify as a paying customer. A linux app doesn't make up for that.
On desktop you definitely can (both free and paid). Next to the play button there is a set of crossing-over arrows that toggles shuffle (and a set of circular arrows that toggles repeat). Not sure about mobile because it's been a little while since I had the paid app.
Not at all. There's a ton of good environmental news out there. It's just we never hear about it
I dunno, I recall readinglots of good news about environmental issues. But the reality is, things are getting worse faster than they're getting better. The news reflects that.
I'm not trying to make any of you feel bad about your life choices, but I worked my entire adult life getting three months' vacation every year, plus a week for Spring Break and a week over the holidays.
Guessing you're a teacher? There are definitely some perks to that life, though the downside is that you'll never get vacation at other times of year (e.g. going on a ski trip in January).
I don't think the point of the report was to point out that this is some kind of amazing revelation, but rather that statistics on income only include income. This is problematic for certain uses of that statistic, because for some things you might actually want to measure "total compensation", which would include vacation time.
Why would he kick himself? This email is clearly intended to be leaked. "We're doing great and we're going to do better!" Why wouldn't he want the press to repeat that message?
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It should be illegal, but as far as I know the law about including all taxes and fees in the listed price only applies to food.
Not sure about US, but they've added that law to airline tickets in Canada (they must include base fares + taxes + airport improvement fees + fuel surcharges). It's a small thing, but man does it make life just a little bit better.
I know they're apples and nuclear-powered oranges, but damn. The Hubble Space Telescope only cost $4.7 billion by the time it launched.
If those are 1990 dollars then Hubble actually cost around $9 billion in today's dollars. Though to be fair, I'm not sure if all of those 9.66 billion JWST dollars are in 2018 dollars.
Not quite as streamlined as if it was just in Google Maps, but this service does what you're asking: http://mapfrappe.com
I highly doubt Amazon "does it". Mostly likely the contract out to a company like Vertex, query the address, and receive all the tax information for the location. It would be incredibly stupid, read significantly more costly and less risk indemnification, for Amazon to build and maintain the information database in house.
The point is, it gets done. And the fact that there's a third party that has this service set up (Vertex, apparently) suggests that it would be easy enough to develop a similar product targeted at small businesses.
So robot cooks, why pay someone else a profit margin, when you can have what you want, when you want it, in your own home, from fresh raw ingredients, cooked carefully and no food shenanigans.
Because I don't want to drop $50k on a robot just so I can have burgers made for me? Also, not wanting or being able to cook burgers is not the main reason I go to a fast food joint; I go because I'm at work or on the road or whatever and don't have a kitchen with me.
AFAIK there is not one "master" chart showing sales tax rates for all these locations, and for which items. Amazon or Walmart may use such a thing internally - but small businesses do not.
If Amazon can do it it's doable. So no doubt what will happen is some enterprising individuals will replicate what the big retailers do and sell it as a plug-in service to small businesses. Maybe Square will do it?
The only problem I see with the state taxing online purchases is that small online retailers will have extra overhead to meet tax requirements for all states.
Seems like a pretty good business opportunity to sell an automated tax system to small online businesses.
Yeah, that's totally a sensical thing to do -- definitely no research assistants cut into the stash at all. Nope.
I'm sure you said it in jest, but in case not: the bio labs at my undergrad university had some ongoing experiments involving cocaine and I talked to some of the researchers about it. There was sooo much bureaucracy and procedure they had follow with the "stash". Basically every fleck of the stuff had to be accounted for at all times.
I don't understand how they're going to evaluate students.
Somehow we manage to do it in Canada.
I hate how many otherwise intelligent people completely misunderstand global warming. Although people are contributing a fair amount to the rate at which we are warming up, this planets default temperature is much MUCH higher than what our species is comfortable with. Guess what? If you are reading this, you were born during an ice age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So what? From a human perspective (arguably the thing that matters most to you and me), normal is what we have now, and any deviations from that are going to cause us pain and suffering. It might be inevitable, but it's absolutely in our best interest to have it happen as slowly as possible. Cities, industries, and crops are where they are; moving them or hardening them is gonna be hella expensive and would be better done over long periods of time. Not to mention that really fast rates of change could destabilize the very fabric of our societies. That's nice that we're in an "ice age", but it means diddly squat to whether or not we should be trying to reduce our contribution to climate change.
Why is gas a new power? It has been used for a long time already. Perhaps they wanted to say 'alternative' and even that us a stretch.
No, they mean "new" as in "newly constructed".
Yes, but why do they make the Leaf look like ass? How about a nice design?
The 2018 is much more normal looking and has a 240 km (150 miles for you cretins) range. But yeah, up until this point they looked like weird boots...
A new alternative soon?
No. Sure, they had a successful Kickstarter, but $2.4 million is peanuts in the world of smart phones. If you look at the backer numbers, they pre-sold a grand total of 3,436 phones. Woo!
As much as Slashdot's hive mind says they want all of these specific features, the reality is that most posters don't put their money where their mouth is, and those who do are actually a very tiny niche in the world of smartphone customers.
Headline says "partly solved"
No, you missed the point (maybe deliberately, judging by that username?). The study isn't about heavy metals in plastics. It's about plastics in waterways. They just used heavy metal analysis as a dating method to show how old some of the plastics are. I.e. the plastics in the waterways have been accumulating for ages.
I was confused by the summary too, so I looked at the study. These heavy metals used to be used in plastics as stabilizers and colour pigments, but are now typically banned. The study used this fact to demonstrate that the plastics they were finding predate regulations (i.e. are old) and have therefore been building up in these lakes for decades.
While people are going on about "Climate Change" the REAL IMMEDIATE DANGER is local pollution! Where do you think your water comes from? You are worried about lower Manhattan getting flooded in 2050 while you drink your toxic water! Complete insanity.
Well, we kind of need to be working on both of those things at the same time, because the fixes for things like climate change will take decades, if not centuries. If we wait until we solve the toxic water problem before we tackle climate change, 2050 will be here already. Luckily, nations are capable of doing more than one thing at once, and many of the the solutions to one environmental problem help fix other environmental problems.
How is this news for nerds again and who cares?
Typography is a pretty nerdy field.
I can't even shuffle my collection of music in Spotify as a paying customer. A linux app doesn't make up for that.
On desktop you definitely can (both free and paid). Next to the play button there is a set of crossing-over arrows that toggles shuffle (and a set of circular arrows that toggles repeat). Not sure about mobile because it's been a little while since I had the paid app.
Not at all. There's a ton of good environmental news out there. It's just we never hear about it
I dunno, I recall reading lots of good news about environmental issues. But the reality is, things are getting worse faster than they're getting better. The news reflects that.
Not the exception. Who wrote this fucking article.
For salaried employees. But do hourly employees get paid vacation? Or contractors?
I'm not trying to make any of you feel bad about your life choices, but I worked my entire adult life getting three months' vacation every year, plus a week for Spring Break and a week over the holidays.
Guessing you're a teacher? There are definitely some perks to that life, though the downside is that you'll never get vacation at other times of year (e.g. going on a ski trip in January).
Wow. That is terrible. Here in Europe we get 160 paid days off a year. It is the LAW!
Are you counting weekends as paid days off? I mean, I guess we could do that too by averaging our weekly income over seven days instead of five.
I don't think the point of the report was to point out that this is some kind of amazing revelation, but rather that statistics on income only include income. This is problematic for certain uses of that statistic, because for some things you might actually want to measure "total compensation", which would include vacation time.
Why would he kick himself? This email is clearly intended to be leaked. "We're doing great and we're going to do better!" Why wouldn't he want the press to repeat that message?