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Not necessarily. In 2004, Germany introduced a 25 cent deposit on single-use plastic bottles [1] for types of beverages where single-use bottles were much more common than reusable bottles. The intention was like you describe: to encourage consumers and manufacturers to prefer reusable bottles. However, the opposite happened.

In the first few months after the law came into power, each retailer would only take back bottles purchased at their own stores, leading to a public outcry. Retailers eventually came together to form a single deposit system for single-use bottles. Bottles purchased from any of the participating retailers could now be returned to any other participating retailer.

That's something that's pretty much impossible for reusable bottles: When you return a reusable bottle, the store that takes it back must have a supply chain to ship the bottle back to the corresponding beverage factory. Single-use bottles, on the other hand, are just destroyed and recycled, so the supply chain is much easier.

In the end, the deposit system for single-use bottles functioned so well (both for customers and retailers) that manufacturers switched from reusable to single-use bottles. For example, Coca-Cola used to produce only reusable bottles (and single-use aluminum cans). Now they sell a large amount of single-use bottles. A lot of retailers (e.g. the almighty discount chains) sell only single-use bottles because they don't want to bother with collecting reusable bottles.

[1] For comparison: Deposits on reusable bottles are either 8 cents (glass, e.g. beer) or 15 cents (plastic, e.g. juices; sometimes glass, e.g. brand sodas).
True. The FEIE does cut that down a bit, but anything over the FEIE limits would still be subject to tax in the US, though not in the host country, as you mentioned. I was simply making the point that having a bona fide tax residence in a country with a lower tax rate than the US does not necessarily mean that taxes will simply be those of the host country with lower tax rates (e.g. Dubai, Singapore, etc.).
Sort of. It looks like if some critical code is interrupted, by a CPU move, then the process would get some code restarted. The idea being since, in some cases, CPU moves can be rare you aren't paying for the expense of locks to guard against this and just let the OS tell the process, hey I moved you will you were doing something critical, let me restart that for you. This isn't a full solution for all process locks but for a number of locking scenarios restarting the code is all that is needed.
What other measure would you use to determine if education was being thoroughly and adequately transferred and learned? Space is limited in classes - a class with half of the students failing to grasp the material is of less benefit to society than a class where most of the students are grasping the material.
A lot of highly profitable property isn't tangible.
Yeah, and if the CEO was sleeping at his desk it'd be reasonable to either reprimand him or expect him to spend 30 seconds rescinding that policy because “the rules are for you but not me” has a terrible effect on morale.
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I think the variety of values within the UK is just as great as within the EU as a whole. You can never convince everyone and you don't have to.

But I also think that not speaking a common language does indeed make campaigning for any particular issue more difficult.

It's a trade-off. Not having a say in Europe doesn't necessarily mean you don't have to comply, which will become painfully obvious in the near future.
> As far as I know, relinquishing citizenship is the only way to avoid that.

I was told that you can't relinquish US citizenship to avoid taxes. If that is your actual reason, you must find a suitable lie instead.
Mass-market self-driven car commuting is more than 10-15 years out.
> We often don't need those nice properties in single use products, yet we use it anyway because we don't pay due respect to the long term consequences.

Those properties are also used in place of other materials. Gears in devices that were once metal are now plastic which works OK for w while but it's not even close to the durability of metal.

The result is the device with plastic gears fails and a new one is made to replace it, maybe two or three times in a decade. Meanwhile a device with metal gears may last decades.

How many vacuum cleaners, washers, dryers, microwave ovens from the 1970s and 1980s are still in use versus the same devices from the 1990s/2000s?

Modular devices that can be updated to suit whims of fashion. And technology which use durable metal parts would make more sense and cut down on plastic waste plus the sheer volume of old failed devices.
I think there is a threshold of $100,000 or 200 separate transactions in the South Dakota law that was being challenged [1].

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf
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I read "Javascript the Good Parts" right before I started writing a lot of js and it helped me immensely to set the stage on how to use javascript effectively. I was wondering if HN new of similar books/articles for other programming languages.
The mental overhead of tracking compliance requirements (and finding service providers to meet them) dwarfs the monetary cost.
One of the unintended consequences of that is more waste import to Poland, which increased taxes on it to limit it which prompted owners of the dumps to set them on fire

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8p7wnr/major_danger...
I recommend tracfone. They are Mexican, so the corruption gets exported.

Also, as light users, the bill went from $40/month/phone to $10/month/phone; starve the beast and whatnot.

As a bonus, they are a big enough evil monopoly to shove the lowly US telcos around, so you can choose between the Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile network.
That's the idea but in practice there are still gaps.
That's surprising to me. By not recycling glass you pay the fuel costs to move that glass to a landfill and you pay the fuel costs to move sand to your glass production facility.

Is the final cost lower just because landfills and sand are everywhere, but recycling facilities are farther away?
This would reduce costs of tax collection for all parties.

What is the most convenient format for this layered geographic data? Are the tax district boundary polygons already otherwise available as open data?
What do localities call these? Sales tax tables, sales tax database, machine-readable flat files in an open format with a common schema?

How much tax revenue should it cost to provide such a service on a national level?

States, Counties, Cities, 'Tax Zones'(?) could be required to host tax.state.us.gov or similar with something like Project Open Data JSONLD /data.json that could be aggregated and shared by a server with a URL registry, a task queue service, and a CDN service.

While the Bitcoin tax payments bill passed the Senate and House in Arizona, it was vetoed in May 2018. Seminole County in Florida now allows tax payment with crytocurrencies such as Bitcoin:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-seminole-county-florida-to...

> According to a press release, the county will begin accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) to pay for services, including property taxes, driver license and ID card fees, as well as tags and titles. The Seminole County Tax Collector will reportedly employ blockchain payments company BitPay, which will allow the county to receive settlement the next business day directly to its bank account in US dollars.

This could also help reduce the costs of tax collection and possibly increase the likelihood of compliance with the forthcoming tax bills!
P != quickly solvable by a classical computer.

P means solvable in polynomial time relative to the size of the problem, which could still take longer than the universe has existed
The raw materials for making new glass also need to be transported. Why is transporting raw materials better for the environment than transporting existing glass?
When I went to college you would need a GPA of 3.0 to keep scholarships. This was also the norm for nearly every scholarship.
Yeah but you can't actually see and hear the people getting paid shit to chop up veggies, so it feels less exploitative

Also-- There's more than one company doing that?? Or just one with several locations
> Imagine if the Sumerians had made plastic. We'd still have their plastic temple tat, ox yokes, obsolete plough parts etc littering up the Iraq desert.

That would actually be great for archaeologists. /s
The ENTER and LEAVE instructions only supported dynamic linking (pointer to caller's stack frame) not static linking (pointer to the enclosing function's stack frame).
Wrong. If you live in a state without income tax, buy a product from a company in the same state, and then ship the product to your friend in Texas, you have to pay Texas sales even though you have never been to Texas.
>Some ages just have shitty design sense.

Heh. There are certainly design patterns in architecture and elsewhere that make you scratch your head and ask: "What were they thinking?"

Brutalism has also been hurt by the fact that the concrete tends to stain and otherwise become less attractive over time. I always hated the new addition to the Boston Public Library. But I have to admit after its renovation (which also opened up the space and made it generally "airier"), it's still nothing like the original wing but it actually doesn't look half bad.
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People do flock to modern constructions, of course. Getty Center, Bauhaus museum in Berlin, Guggenheim museum, Gropius House, Sydney opera house, Oslo opera house — too many to mention! Not all modern architecture is worth admiring, but I for one consider many "brutalist bunkers" to be very beautiful, more so than the Pantheon.

There's lots of old architecture that was, once, "original and conceptual" (in the derogatory sense that I think you meant). It's just that these styles are so established that we don't recognize them as innovations anymore, and they're therefore not "weird modernisms".
Now that the Supreme Court has basically mandated this service for businesses to be compliant, what do you think the odds are that the price goes up?
This is also a fairly accurate isitokaytotalkonthephone.com.
> Glass isn't biodegradable either, but for some reason that's OK.

Regular glass in the environment is eventually pulverized into dust, it doesn't react with much of anything, and if the little bits that persist longest in the environment are ingested by an animal, it's handled biologically like any other nontoxic stone or grit. Pretty much the worst you can say about its environmental effect is that the broken bits can be pretty sharp when they're new and it's rather heavy, making disposal and recycling expensive in some respects.

Plastic is quite different.
Thats's interesting but I'm referring to a cold sore not the genital or other types.

As annoying as it is I can live with it I was just worried it was the type that raised the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
They probably find ways to buy the jacket without paying VAT.
While none of them are as popular as Nintendo's main series, Sony does have rather a lot of notable exclusive IP. LittleBigPlanet, Bloodborne, Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, The Last of Us, Gravity Rush, PaRappa the Rapper, etc.

Halo is popular, but Sony has a much larger portfolio of exclusive IP than Microsoft does right now.
It's for this reason Illinois residents don't buy a car in Wisconsin or another neighboring state with a more advantageous tax structure; you'll get nailed post-haste.

But if you're driving up to buy a few cases of New Glarus beer, chances are you're vastly unlikely (at or nearing 0%) that you'd be held to account for that purchase for Illinois tax purposes.
https://youtu.be/vjuQRCG_sUw
What if I don't live next to a station?
Blame the state! A complicated, unwieldy tax code is their/our fault. They created an untenable system that got in the way of you entering into a mutually beneficial contract with another individual(s). It is 100% their fault.
Taxing the usage of plastic will reduce it's use because it kills the market and reduces.

Just like GDPR killing off companies that could only exist where reasonable regulations didn't exist, the same would apply of plastic.

If taxing plastic in US/EU creates alternative packaging/disposable options that are cheaper or more effective (doubtful but possible) then the developing world can leapfrom from plastics to non-plastic.

Also you're ignoring all the waste that's not ocean-dumped. The billions of tons in landfills.
All these recycling options included with various municipal waste management districts are going to have to change. Lots of hard decisions ahead.
I think you meant to say "This website is optimized for IE 5.0 and 640x480 please upgrade your browser". Chrome still lacks something essential that IE had back in the day: API and bug for bug stability. Moving targets just aren't as atractive.
To really grasp how insanely complex the brain is, I recommend videos about "connectomics" by Jeff Lichtman from Harvard. Real eye opener.
You're trading one telecom for another, all of which will be doing this. In the end you'll be wasting your time moving from one carrier to the next, while they sleep just fine at night.
It looks hard to clean and does not look like it uses a lot of common off-the-shelf industrial parts. I'd want a very impressive service contract to go along with it.
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To me, it didn't sound derogatory to China at all—just a country shifting its priorities, saying "Y'all got to deal with your own garbage now."
> As to your aquarium example, some years back a "skeptic" once very publicly tried to replicate a similar experiment - one that was claimed to have been done many times and which clearly showed the greenhouse effect of CO2. Only it didn't replicate as described, as I recall, implying that the example itself may very well be bogus.

Assuming it's true, it merely means that a pedagogical science-class-level experiment to demonstrate the effect of global warming doesn't quite work as well as expected. It has very little bearing on the actual effect CO2 has on atmosphere and how much we know about it.

There used to be also a popular middle school physics experiment, where children are asked to roll small stuff (say, a metal marble) down a slope, measure its velocity, and verify the conservation of energy, by computing mgh = 1/2 mv^2.

Only that it does not work---it should not work, because if you roll a metal ball then a big portion of the kinetic energy is in the form of its rotational motion! So, just computing its transitional velocity will never work.

So, now what? Does this show that the Newtonian physics is flawed? Of course not. It just shows that this particular experiment is poorly thought out.

> This includes water vapor, perhaps the most powerful and important of all the greenhouse gases on Earth. Yet for some reason this is almost completely ignored by the anti-CO2 crowd.

That's because water vapor is in equilibrium with 70% of the Earth's surface, so any "addition" or "subtraction" we can do to the water vapor is immaterial. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/04/water-...

It's not ignored: it's been thoroughly investigated and understood. It's just that you haven't heard about it.
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I don't really understand. You don't get a laptop tray while driving a car, and you're able to listen to podcasts on a train.
Same here. Personally, I kind of prefer the text only version. :)
I live in a house and each bin is emptied bi-weekly by a regular garbage truck. The two front-most compartments are actually not fixed to the bin, so the bin is lifted up, the front-most part is lifted and emptied (in a vertically split compartment), then the rest in another. (I used to watch this with the kids a lot...)

Apartments often have a similar setup but with one large bin per category in the basement. There is also another system where you are supplied with color coded garbage bags for each type of waste that you then throw in the same bin.
"That's how it's always been done" is kind of lacking as an argument.
Exactly this. As China bans to buy European "recyclable waste", then it is imported into countries with legal loopholes e.g. to Poland [1], Serbia, Italy[2] and so on and somehow landfills start to burn accidentally. Even if the law changes [3], there will be other places where a penality for such criminal act is lower than cost of recycling or proper storage.

100% plastic recycling is a dream.

Don't want to even start story about toxic fluids recycling... accidentaly leaking into rivers.

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8p7wnr/major_danger...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy)

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-waste/poland-vows-...
When writing multi-threaded programs, data structures, etc. you have to make sure problems can't possibly happen - anything else and it's broken.
That seems like a better approach to me. With email, you're at best exposing a disk-filling service to the internet and most likely looking at exploits running on servers with a fair amount of interesting data. There's also a fun race condition between the time a file is scanned and when someone opens it, which isn't as solved a problem as it should be.

With requesting that people send you a URL, you're in control of when and where it's accessed and things like Safe Browsing are visible to the recipient.
It’s distressing how much life is starting to resemble a Harry Harrison novel. All were missing are porcuswine served at these establishments and well hit the high notes.
They look like spaghetti western sets!
I recently left the Bay Area to live in a major city in another state, and now that it's a little easier to see the tech forest through the trees, I see that for now, very few people want a lot of these types services outside of usual tech centric hubs.

It's like in the Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano: there are certain services where people enjoy the human touch; I think food service is one of those.
Their marketing is failing, how come I didn't hear of it...

I want something like that, I bought the old Xiaomi headset (basically a Google Cardboard) and I can't run Netflix on it (which was what I wanted them for :( )

The Standalone Xiaomi one does seem to run Netflix though :)
Providing people with different options isn't bad.

If you want a more expensive burger, then buy the more expensive one. Of you want the cheaper one then buy that.

It's not "laudable". It is responding to the market and providing a different product.
Any time I hear something sensational about quantum computing, I check Scott Aaronson's blog for the real story. Here's his blog post on this topic: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3827.
- GNU/LINUX

- No heavy desktop environments

- Getting rid of using mouse, try to be fully compliant of using just keyboard.

- Use a tiling window manager {i3, awesome, bspwm, etc}. YMMV on which wm fits your needs best.

- Use vim-vixen on firefox or qutebrowser for vim bindings

- EMACS + EVIL Mode or Vim

- There are a bunch of Terminal Emulators.. I use terminator, but you could get away with something minimal like RXVT, URXVT, or ST.
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In fact, we have an oracle that separates P from NP and another through which P=NP. This is why tackling P vs NP via oracles is an abandoned strategy.
I would be interested to see some blind taste test data to determine if a majority of people can distinguish a burger made with beef that was ground 1 day before cooking vs. 1 minute before cooking.
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Valacyclovir treats a broad range of viruses: "shingles, cold sores, and genital herpes. It can also treat chickenpox..."
There can definitely be a strong connection between procrastination and anxiety. The following link, which I've posted before, rang so true for me:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-practice/201303/6...
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I just used it to consult with a young woman who cancelled her open heart surgery today, which gives her two years to live. The result was low expectancy, and the advice is indeed helpful.
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That's... that's not how logic works. That's not how any of this works. There are multiple variables which contribute to the success of startups.
Saw a nice video on the dispute of apes' mastery of sign language over at NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/25/5385804...
It basically is. The most reasonable approach to plastic waste is controlled incineration for power. That means at least the oil we dig up performs some yeoman duty as a container or padding before being turned into work and greenhouse gas.

A bit of recycling on the margins, perhaps. Biggest thing would be to stop making plastic products that fall apart into biotoxic pieces.
What a boon for SaaS payment providers, and what a loss for both smaller and larger shops doing things in-house.

We are seeing in action the consolidation and corporatization of the internet, as regulators and laws catch up from the wild west days. This is how every industry goes, but start saying goodbye to startups as they've been for the last 15 years. Already its a better deal for most workers to just work at a bigco (and has been for a while).

Of course, this doesn't address whether internet sites should have to deal with state taxes (they probably should), but gosh everything is getting a heck of a lot more complicated.
FWIW, I can tell you that taxjar is pretty light on the "I've collected taxes, now what?" side. Avalara might be a BigCo but they have their stuff together, and it works at scale for transactions (especially when dealing with refunds or discounts that need to reflect Sales Tax differentially.... oy)
Yes, but you can't restart from inside the critical section, you have to like reinitialize it.
But, they can be maintained. Changing the rubber gaskets every 100 years doesn't sound so bad. And glass will withstand water+wind forever, unlike stone. And it's easier to replace. And our steal&glass buildings might withstand earthquakes better.

In the end, I think what matters most is "maintainability": if the interest/ value of the buildings exceeds the costs to maintain it, they can live basically forever - humans will make sure of it. Otherwise, they all degrade eventually.
The #1 ingredient in glass isn't sand, it's previously manufactured glass. You can pretend it's sand, but it's not.

The economics of all this is very geographically dependent.

In many parts of the country, the transport cost isn't a big deal because there are glass manufacturers who use cullet nearby. It's not clearly superior to transport glass to a landfill instead of a place that can recycle it.

Glass recycling isn't economical enough to reuse brown bottles in Montana? Understandable - so it's not collected.

Saying that glass recycling is economically and ecologically unsustainable everywhere is a bold statement.
Yup just like the oil companies are not at fault. If no was buying it, would they still be pumping it up?
I think there's a lot of things to juggle around when trying to figure it out. Here's one situation, though:

What's more dense in material: a 10" by 4' by 4' pallet of old jugs, or a 10" by 4' by 4' pallet of sand?

I'm saying the latter - we're essentially shipping air as the majority of the material. So, more trucks need to ship the same amount of material.

That's just one example.
I hadn't even considered encryption, which like you said will be a large issue. It seems to me that that data is effectively gone unless we have some magic in the future that can defeat forward secrecy and post-quantum crypto algorithms.