A progressive individual tax would be far more complicated, as you would have to assign, track and audit individual use. And that doesn’t even get into secondary uses (e.g. manufacture and transport of goods).
The flat rebate makes the tax progressive. Typical people pay $0 net tax, or even come out ahead, while heavy polluters pay almost the full tax. Just raising the tax will effectively make it progressive.
Paper is paywalled, but from the SciTech article it looks like mostly it was sodium sulfate. They did also make some “ocean-degradable plastics”.
Thanks for the link and breakdown.
It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.
“Thinking speed” is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor’s bitrate the computer’s FLOPS.
Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don’t think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.
Haven’t played, but I found this (negative) review compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-Kd2BBpx8
He did play through the whole game.
Please don’t use folk’s medical condition as an insult.
First time I’ve seen someone mention Luck be a Landlord. Really fun game.
Unfortunately that pretty much depends on building more housing, which takes time and Congress.
In August, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against the company, alleging its pricing algorithm allows landlords to collectively push rents higher.
In August, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against the company, alleging its pricing algorithm allows landlords to collectively push rents higher.
Oh. Sorry about that.
Incidentally Equifax’s new slogan
It was in fact very badly written, with stuff like wage changes taking effect “immediately” (in practice 5 days after vote counts are certified).
This saying is a pet peeve of mine, because it’s so contrary to the actual meaning of “eye for an eye”, which is a prohibition against escalation. Like in this case the guy injured someone’s neck and wrist, so the maximum punishment would be injuring his neck and wrist, not killing him. That’s not to say “eye for an eye” is an ideal justice system, just that it is opposed to wanton revenge and violence.
Here’s the theme cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trp99eHyDyY
omg Toad, you can’t just ask people why they’re purple!
If there was a government-mandated monopoly on coffee and it was sold in L/s, we probably would.
Most of them are leaving. I think the ones remaining rely on bundling with other insurance or services.