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by _rpd 5y ago
Yes, there is a tangle of 5000+ Air Services Agreements which, as international treaties, supersede national laws. Almost all agreements include mutual tax exemptions on anything not unloaded at a destination, including fuel.
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by _rpd 5y ago
The actual reason for the exemption is that they cannot impose the tax on non-EU operators, giving the non-EU operators a competitive advantage.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Rationally that's what matters, but the response of the courts and regulators could make autopilot uneconomic.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> But I also don't see what's wrong with attempting to distribute (some of) the revenue in such a way to compensate for harms. It becomes a big political fight over how much of the revenue should be directed to social programs,
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by _rpd 5y ago
This is a common method of salt production ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_salt
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by _rpd 5y ago
The “brine” at the outlet pipe is just 2-3% saltier than the ocean water at the intake pipe. The impact is not zero, but it is very low if done right.
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by _rpd 5y ago
http://carbon.ycombinator.com/
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by _rpd 5y ago
perhaps ... which temporarily impaired her executive function.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> The token sale, which was completed earlier this year, was only made available to off-shore investors There does seem to be some regulatory testing going on here.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> We tend to judge the likelihood and significance of things based on how easily they come to mind Consequently: > We overestimate the likelihood of unlikely events. And we underestimate the likelihood of likely events How to stop doi
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by _rpd 5y ago
There's been an argument that schemes relying on backpropagation can't provide insight into biological neural systems, but this argument is weakened by the existence of predictive coding equivalents.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> Date: December 9, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
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by _rpd 5y ago
To be fair, there were 30 new papers published: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-result... The overview paper appears to be this one: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/wp-content/upl
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by _rpd 5y ago
Yes, it's inspired a lot of investigations and discussions, which was exactly its purpose. See also: 'solutions' to the Fermi Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
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by _rpd 5y ago
At least in mathematics, after each video, they have a fairly sophisticated set of tests that are quick to pass if you’ve understood the concept, or that adapt in difficulty to your level of understanding and attempt to fill in any gaps. I
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by _rpd 5y ago
You don’t plan your life around lottery windfalls. There’s no structural change.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Yes, these ‘tests’ are documenting how people respond to a lottery windfall. They have nothing to do with UBI.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> 200 electrodes in the participant's premotor cortex Is finding the right neurons just luck? Does the person somehow adapt to the interface?
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by _rpd 5y ago
tl;dr: it is a deliberate consequence of the NYC tax code to encourage real estate development.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> if the position involves performing, recording videos, or pitching to people I don't know about everyone else, but the last year working from home my life has been an avalanche of video calls. Not infrequently, there's a 60
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by _rpd 5y ago
Premature judgements are the root of all evil.
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by _rpd 5y ago
You should talk to this person https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27091054
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by _rpd 5y ago
> Most of that time was spent arranging agreements with brick and mortar businesses to share their inventory data with us What do you think of this idea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27090010 to crowd-source local
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by _rpd 5y ago
Just replying to encourage you. I think this is a great idea.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Referenced paper says > analysis indicate that early anthropogenic fire relaxed seasonal constraints on ignitions, influencing vegetation composition and erosion https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/19&#x2F
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by _rpd 5y ago
> Will this case succeed? Most likely not. Will it get settled? Probably a fair chance. If it is settled with a payout, then it has succeeded.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Tens of millions of students and 240,000 thousand teachers in 50 countries. Hopefully one day I can achieve such failure. https://khanacademyannualreport.org/ https://www.khanacademy.org/donate
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by _rpd 5y ago
This is already happening in a significant way. See also: why funding schools with property taxes is objectively evil. The only mitigating factor is Khan Academy and its surrounding ecosystem. A motivated learner with internet access can
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by _rpd 5y ago
Here’s the paper that the article is based on https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01026-5
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by _rpd 5y ago
Published 2019

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