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> Planes don't have to pay any fuel taxes in Germany and other things

> For fuel and electric, trains still have to pay full taxes. So not suprising that planes a cheaper with better tax conditions.

Aviation is heavily taxed in Europe and Rail is heavily subsidized. One fact taken out of context shouldn't be used to paint a picture that is the opposite of this basic reality.

The problem with taxing aviation fuel is that EU directives make it hard for a country to tax fuel on cross border flights[1] (you can tax domestic flights, but almost all flights in the EU are cross border).

Therefore what European nations do instead is apply exit charges to flights as a special aviation tax. They still collect the money, but as a departure tax, not as a tax on aviation fuel. Those exit charges were just increased in 2019. It's just a lot easier to add a departure tax than go through all the bilateral tax-agreements with other EU nations to impose a tax on aviation fuel for all flights out of Germany, so this is really an issue of minimizing paperwork rather than not taxing aviation. And Aviation exit charges are higher in Germany than in any other EU nation - each passenger pays an average of 33 euros per flight leaving Germany[5], from 13 euros for short-haul to 60 euros for long-haul. (Britain has higher exit charges, and because it's not in the EU, it is able to tax aviation fuel pumped in its own borders).

And of course there are already taxes on carbon in the EU, so not sure why there should be a special singling out of one particular use, just because it gets some people riled up. Those taxes have to be paid by aviation fuel producers, so they still go into the cost.

Deutsche Ban, on the other hand, is heavily subsidized -- they are getting a special covid subsidy 6 Billion euros[3] atop regular subsidies over 11 billion[4] and an extra 50 billion euro subsidy for long term capex[2].

[1] https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-inject-extra-50-billion-int...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-bahn-bailout/ger...

[4] https://economics21.org/html/europes-flawed-addiction-to-rai...

[5] https://www.fccaviation.com/regulation/germany/aviation-tax
I've never used Rubinius in production but over 10 years ago, when I was still relatively new to Ruby, I used to read Rubinius source code to understand how some Ruby methods worked under the hood.

Even though Rubinius has never reached the popularity it aimed for, I'm forever grateful for the effort that's been put into creating it.
A logical analogy.
Much of today's internet culture is directly on indirectly influenced by SA to some degree. Beyond this, however, SA remains a unique community, perhaps even more so today. It is quite large compared to specialist boards, but it is insular, exclusive and high trust: It is not monetized and overrun by fakes compared the reddits, chans or imgurs of today.

So sure, Lowtax has had significant positive influence on many people.

This is why people on SA are so outspoken and disappointed. Lowtax is an "eminent figure" of the internet. He has had a personal impact on many people throughout their formative years, inasmuch as he impacted internet culture as such.

Lowtax had a place of high status and influence that betrayed how deeply flawed he was as a person. People literally grew up with him as a central player in internet culture. When he (and SA) went and mocked some "crazy person" or fought against a perceived evil, then this was part of valiant, stupid, maybe wrong but nonetheless memorable childhoods and teenage years for many people.

When Richard posted that he was seriously ill, the outpouring of support was far and wide.
When we then learned that not only was all this fake, but Richard was privately a person hardly deserving of the immense respect he had, people got unreasonably angry.

Today, I think people are mourning. On the one hand, the real person who died, on the other hand, many people are mourning the loss of a childhood hero - a hero who metaphorically (and now literally) died, because he was never a hero to begin with.
Starting micro-controller Ada drivers in the Alire ecosystem
Ironic, Paul Graham alluded to schools being like prison, in which they devolve into a popularity contest. But I'm not sure if he considered this angle.
I kind of agree, but once you need any JavaScript, you basically need it to pull in the entire modern JS tool chain, so adding server side rendering doesn’t replace complexity, it adds to it.

Having a system that would allow you to build server side rendered HTML that could seamlessly integrate client JavaScript seems like it would be a huge advantage. Not sure if there is anything like that though.
I've changed the URL above to that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8Sdn7rAZk. Hope that helps!
Heathrow have plans for a air taxi service by 202

"Vertical and Heathrow Airport partner on air taxi services" https://www.airport-technology.com/news/vertical-heathrow-ai...
Surely out of the mentioned 3500 staff the vast majority of them are not Deans or VPs.
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It's stupid and doesn't really represent anything of substance
Well, yes. But actually, no. Unless someone can completely change the way train companies operate across Europe. Getting somewhere on time? You have a 50:50 chance when traveling with DeutscheBahn and the likes.
Vehicles are tested for pedestrian crashworthiness. Modern cars are even tested on their ability to detect pedestrians and avoid hitting them.

https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...
I remember adding "trumpet winsock" to Win 3.x back in the day. Says '94 for that, and summer of '93 for NT 3.1 debut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Winsock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1
I don't think 2h is exactly accurate - you have to get to the airport ahead of departure time to allow for security check/etc. Then there's transfer to/from airport on both sides, whereas train stations are usually in convenient spots to continue the journey (office/home/whatever). Nonetheless, the base argument holds true - flying is cheaper and quicker...
Haha thanks. Love some friendly competition :). In all seriousness, though we're focusing elsewhere, the OSS angle is cool.

If you're interested in self-hosted though, just reach out at hello@hightouch.io.

That said, IMO one of the coolest parts of our tech is our "hybrid architecture". Out of the box, no data is stored in Hightouch - it's all in your cloud (warehouse, s3 bucket). This is how fintech (Plaid, Blend, Betterment, + some banks now!) and healthcare brands like Headway use us. We've also done a ton of compliance work and have certificates for SOC2 Type II and whanot.
I’d actually prefer to ride on the sidewalk. But then pedestrians complain about aggressive bikes passing them closely at 15 MPH.
I think you might be operating with a romanticized definition of what a genius is.

In fact a common definition of (higher) intelligence is the ability to see patterns (abstractions, properties, laws) in an otherwise random looking world.

Think of Darwin looking at birds, animals, vegetation, and being able to come up with something like the Laws of Natural Selection. Even today 99.999% of people would not see those patterns.

Think of Kepler looking at random movement of stars and planets on the sky and being able to come up with the Laws of Planetary Motion. Same thing, today 99.999% of people would not see those patterns.

On a much lower scale, the character in this text displayed a similar ability to see in otherwise random looking objects new properties, arrangements, and applications.

I think you are judging here based on the small scale of his achievement (rolling table, who cares, $50 at Home Depot could make better, right?) but you are failing to consider for the absolute-zero (or close to it) in resources that the guy had at his disposal.

For example an achievement like this:
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/06/...
, in my opinion, has to be amplified in our eyes to compensate for the difference in resources availability in a typical bio-tech-lab in say US, and what was available here.
Do you have experience with denoflare? I really would like to try it, but I can't even get the basic `hello-worker` sample working, see https://github.com/skymethod/denoflare/issues/2
It comes with age.
The answer here is no, it doesn’t.
First I used a Turtlebeach Audiotron. Then TB bricked it by shutting down their web site, which the Audiotron would query on startup. The Audiotron would look for shared folders with music in them on my LAN.

I replaced it with a Grace Digital IRTP800. Used that for many years, until GD bricked it a few months ago by shutting down their web site.

So I replace that with a Galaxy Audio RM-IRD. Unfortunately, and I'm pretty mad about it, it has some small number of songs it can "shuffle play". I have more songs than that, so it will only play them starting from the beginning, meaning I only ever hear the first 100 songs or so. GA support does not respond to my queries.

So now I'm just using Windows Media Player with my computer's 5 cent DAC until I can find another streaming box. I have a Roku box which does streaming, but apparently none of the engineers at Roku use that feature because while it technically works, it is useless because all the files must be in one folder. Who organizes their music like that?

I'm actually baffled why today, 2021, I cannot find a decent streaming audio player.
Because Apple's UI and "we will tell you what you want" attitude has always made my skin crawl. What kind of moron thinks detaching the menu for apps from the window for apps is a good UI design?

And, because most of the software I need for my job still does not run on Linux.
Counter example where companies didn't stay silent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
Battery issues are so common. I ordered an electric unicycle last spring that came with dud batteries, now I have to pay $150 in shipping to get it fixed.
Not really, they were giving multiple examples to point out that plant-based food can and do cause inflammation.
> Also, for example TGV requires you to be at the check in 20 minutes before.

Where?

For TGV Inoui (the main brand) you have to be in the train 2 minutes before (written on any ticket, also here: https://www.sncf.com/fr/offres-voyageurs/voyager-en-train/tg...), and that's all. People flow through the gate up to the last minute. It has been like this for at least a decade.

For TGV Ouigo (low-cost brand), it seems to be 30 minutes according to https://www.ouigo.com/faq?question=ai-je-pense-a-tous-avant-...

I never understood this constraint with Ouigo though; it's obviously possible to skip it as shown by Inoui trains... and both are operated by the same company from the same train stations.
Webaverse is building the best manifested version of the metaverse, one which is fun, interoperable and supports user generated content.. The team has been building this over 10 years in Big Tech and various open source projects..we are a funded startup

At the core is our 100% open source custom webxr game engine..

we are looking for 3D gamedevs (threejs, webgl),technical artists (glsl shaders) and Fullstack web developers..

we are also looking for 3D artists (environment, character and animations)

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Webaverse/app is the most important repo

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I suspect you are talking at cross purposes. You are suggesting no-code first on a micro timescale. For prototyping. That seems like a solid suggestion and use of resources.

But from the GP, I read a statement on the macro scale. No-code can't codify turn-key pluggable building blocks until the problem spaces of those blocks have been thoroughly explored by code solutions, and a small number of "winning" configurations identified.

Sure, those blocks can be plugged together to prototype "novel" line of business "problems", but I think there's a disconnect in the kind of problem spaces you are talking about.

The "solved" problems that the no-code widgets represent still need to be solved by code first. And expectations continue to move.
The alternative to capitalists picking who gets funded doesn't have to be central planning. You could have a consumer driven model where citizens get to allocate money to new research and development, similar to the democracy dollar idea that Andrew Yang was pushing. This would allow money to trickle up to the best companies instead of "trickling down" and getting captured by the rich.

If each American got to distribute 5 thousand a year to businesses, researchers or infrastructure the world would be a much better place. I'm sure none of them would allocate it to advertisers or tools that spy on them.
It is relatively easy, from my vantage point, to see dividing lines between "doing something bad for your own health," "doing something bad for your health and those in your physical and emotional circles," and "doing something bad for the health of an entire city, country, or region." It can be the case for each of these to be wrong, in different ways, without confounding or deflating the other cases.
I guess you could say I don't care.
I think they way you described was a bit harsh. That said this is a serious challenge for industry that have large footprints and health risks to the community. In the electric markets there are lots of power plants that were originally far from communities but then housing spread and fell into the catchment areas.

Going forward wouldn't it make sense to zone an entire area to not be allowed to build for residential purposes (essentially a buffer around the industrial zones)?

It feels like its a grey area of responsibility etc. For industrial processes that are known to be highly toxic it would fall on the industrials but as we find out more information around toxicity and impacts (which it feels like more is coming to light all the time) it will require some deft navigating.
Yeah. I talked about this in another reply but I’ve had mostly web development experience over the past few years and UI work is familiar. I didn’t love the idea of having the entire tech stack being unfamiliar. (I’m already new to Rust and ffmpeg/video stuff)
What's the formula for KE? What's the dominant term in that equation? What's the exponent on that term?

Anyone telling you that energy absorbing structures are of significant value except at a very narrow range of speeds and impact type is peddling falsehood.

The bulk of the improvement since the 90s (well into the era of crumple zones, remember they are a prerequisite for airbags) has been from better airbags, side curtain airbags, pre-tensioners and better modeling software that allows those things as well as seats and seatbelts to be engineered to levels that were unheard of even a decade ago. Whether you hit hard objects in a crash has a lot less to do with luck these days. Stronger cabins are a plus (especially for non-frontal crashes) too.
> Svelte doesn't support JSX/TSX though =(

It actually supports the next best thing: HTML!

Now in all seriousness, JSX does have its benefits like being able to write a small function that returns a piece of JSX. But in my experience, using Svelte is a huge productivity booster than I don't mind losing JSX's benefits.
i think consumer-driven consumption choices are worthless, or nearly-worthless.

paper straws, electric cars, etc. etc. etc. -- all worthless or nearly worthless, and probably worse in many ways.

there are a few reasons for that. one is -- i don't know what the economic principle is called -- but probably something like, like 'equilibrium' -- if you don't buy that car, i will.

also, the Jevons Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

and a few other things.

there is, for instance, a drop in meat consumption around the world, and it seems to be caused largely by people prefering to have fewer heart attacks. that's good for a bunch of reasons, including that it happens to be good for the global warming cause.

but has global warming decreased? or even stopped accelerating? i don't think so.

most Americans probably think that the world we live in is largely one brought about by consumer choice -- as in, the options made available to us were driven by 'the market', which may or may not include consumer choice/sentiment.

educated folks know that is not true.

so, the fact that people don't want to pay taxes, or die, or experience extreme weather due to global warming -- it doesn't matter -- it's irrelevant -- what the state/government and earth require, we will abide.

so, either most of the remaining oil/gas reserves stay underground, or most of us will die. probably not 'us' who read HN, just 'us' poor people who live in India, Africa, Saudi Arabia/Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan, anywhere near the equator, etc.

there could still be a miracle - and that's what we're working for right now - maybe we'll build a million nuclear reactors and they won't blow up and kill us all, or maybe we'll block out the sun for a few years and that will only kill a couple billion people, etc. - but the whole thing about people not wanting to 'sacrifice' for global warming - irrelevant - they and we are already sacrificing, and it's going to get a lot worse from here on out.

there could be some other miracle outbreak of democracy around the world, maybe the US decides to stop pursuing global hegemony at all costs, but a much more likely outcome is the US will gain in relative power to most of the rest of the world, so we'll continue marching off the cliff -- b/c no amount of money or power for those in charge will ever be enough.
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No, this is misinformation.

That ruling just states that it is not a copyright breach to decompile a program to correct errors.

It does not grant a carte blanche against other laws. DRM circumvention laws are separate offenses and are not overridden.
Pillars don't have to obscure visibility. Yes, we have curtain airbags now, but you've got airbags inside the pillars of your Fit. The difference between the pillars on your 09 Fit and the Mazda 3 are mostly design decisions. The Fit interior is just an insanely good design.

The angle and positioning of the pillar in relation to the driver are huge factors.
I built this to avoid this exact problem: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick.

No desire to be acquired (open to investment but that's it), just build a business around accompanying features/services.

Goal is fast, simple, and friendly regardless of your skillset. No lock-in as the entire thing is a thin abstraction over Node.js/Express.js and components are built using plain HTML, CSS, and JS (no special languages or syntax). Also adding in a lot of helper stuff so you're not stuck cobbling together random packages for common stuff (i18n, form validation, etc).

Feel free to email me if you or your team have questions: ryan.glover@cheatcode.co.
Love me some good old synchronous code! :D
I just hit the one where an album folder ends in a period. Rsync copies every time because the period is dropped by the filesystem silently. :-/
A lot of these types of tools rely on the QR codes error correction feature which is intentionally reduced. How much does this one affect the readability of the codes?

If you use qr codes on tracking boxes or items that get scuffed I would strongly recommend against such vanity codes.
Sometimes true, and sometimes not. The Incas and the Aztec were rich.
Because of redwoodjs, I've gone off Svelte a bit
But the JEDI contract has been scrapped...?
Would be nice if it would mention which proprietary software is necessary.
At this point I’d almost consider getting drafted for WW3 an improvement over applying to SWE positions with this absolutely broken hiring system.
I'm tired of having to learn yet another templating language without a very compelling reason.

Why do I have to learn, what is essentially, a new programming language for each of these frameworks (Angular, Svelte, Vue, React... Do I really need to learn yet another language construct for stuff like `loops`, `if/else`, event handlers...etc.

Why must all of these frameworks re-invent the wheel?

At least with React it is most close to the languages we already have learned, JavaScript, and HTML.

From what I can tell Svelte looks similar handlebars templating with it's own unique syntax variations... I can't count how many different versions of the same thing I've had to relearn again, and again.
Can't follow you, what do you mean/where did I cross into personal attacks? I highly appreciate Rich but the elephant in the room had to be addressed, especially on HN.

I wonder that I am the only one that questions his move and that you also approach me instead of welcoming a healthy debate. Whatever, I guess you just do your job.

Btw, when does HN get proper pagination and a darkmode?

Do I get shadowbanned now for asking too many questions?
The new RubySpec is an independent resurrection years after the original project was abandoned, I think.
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The message is literally about "replacing planes with trains".
It's not about improving the infrastructure enough to go toe to toe against planes.
Yes, except scale makes all the difference.

If you burn a tire, you're polluting and releasing toxic fumes around. But one burnt tire doesn't affect the neighborhood.

Industry is not negligible. At larger scale toxic waste hurts a lot more people, of course it does! The campfire whataboutism is a bit silly in comparison.
Oh. Wow. Well, I'm glad I could give you something to ponder on, and thank you for the credit, although not necessary.

On another note, this interaction just made it to my Top 3 Internet Things of The Year :)
You still have to think about compatibility across versions - that does not go away in a monorepo, and you should use protocols that enforce compatible changes. The monorepo just tells you that all tests pass across your entire codebase given a change you made to some other part.
This can be said for nearly every architectural rendering. They aren’t used by architects to build/design, they are used by sales to sell.
If someone buys the adjacent property after you've made it unsafe without breaking any laws, who pays?
I'm impressed by the (allegedly) tactile and clear keyboard

https://frame.work/blog/the-keyboard

but I'd be delighted to see a happy-hacking style layout, where the arrow
keys are consigned to the fn layer (which should be configurable; the whole
keyboard could be configurable by qmk). It would also be nice to see an option
where the trackpad is replaced by a foldable joystick. Maybe this way
one could get rid of the split (arrow) key and the short f keys and the
short escape. Think of the vi users.
Weeks to months, hopefully by the end of the year? We’ll see! A lot depends on what other challenges come up, heh.
Sounds plausible. It can't be a fun job making a crappy spin- off of Chrome. And knowing that no one cares less about what you do and the whole purpose of your project is so that MS can say "we do that too". Edge exists to promote MS, not to serve customers, so it's not surprising if the Edge team don't care about UX or even the reputation of Windows itself.
For charts Python with pyplot is very quick and easy.

But for arbitrary graphics I have no idea. I usually end up just launching Visual Studio, create new WinForms application and placing PictureBox component with empty bitmap or draw directly in OnPaint method of the Form.
I understand your viewpoint. I disagree that dust from mining on the moon would be cool and that the dust would be mostly invisible. Once mining begins, if the processing is successful and their objectives are met, the operations will most likely scale up and that is when the ability to spot these changes from earth will become easier.

Thanks for contributing to this discussion.