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Comment Re:How I stopped hating tax and learned to love it (Score 1) 384

While overall this seems reasonable there is still the question of how the government proportions the money that it gives back? Does everyone get x/population dollars back? Is it based on how much people paid in taxes for dirty energy (which I think negates all benefits)? Does it get redistributed proportionate to income? Or inversely proportionate to income? In all cases you are going to have people complaining about it being unfair (for some definition of unfair).

The other issue is that unless all countries do the same it will just drive energy consumption from places which charge these tax-like-things to places that don't charge these tax like things. From a global CO2 level perspective it doesn't matter where it comes from, its all equally bad. (Generic pollution isn't as global, but it does have a non-trivial global component.)

Taxes should be about raising revenue. They should NOT be a mechanism for societal engineering because the people writing tax laws are simply not smart enough.

The only solution that I see is to 1) identify the carbon/pollution cost of a product, 2) charge a tax/fee for that amount when the product is sold, 3) uses the revenue to clean up pollution or capture carbon. Were we to start small (i.e. the fee charged represented the cost to clean up a fraction of a percent of the environmental cost) and slowly ramp up from there, we might be able to slowly disincentive pollution instead of just off shoring it.

Comment Re:C++ on an MCU? (Score 1) 677

Many of the issues that people have with using C++ on embedded systems are bunk. Here [1] is a recent discussion about C++ on embedded systems. Specifically to your point about C++ being too bloated [2] argues that the language itself isn't really.
[1] http://app.content.ubmtechelec...

Comment Depends on what field you go into (Score 1) 656

Honestly diffirential equations probably isn't the most important skill for a Comp Sci graduate to have. Outside of specific applications you'll probably never use it again. I never have. I wouldn't discount all higher math though. Most algebra related classes (discrete algebra, linear algebra) definately have applications and if you don't understant those you'll probably suffer for it. Just suck it up and deal with it. The system isn't about teaching you useful skills. The system is about proving that you can jump though hoops.

Submission Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record->

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Submission Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Math Skills->

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Submission DynDNS further reduces free options

ender8282 writes: DynDNS is further reducing their free offering. Emails and their community support page inform users of the change:


The good news is that they are offering a discount ($10 for the first year of Dyn Pro). The bad news is that next year the price will probably jump up to the standard $25/year.







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Comment Re:I'd like to see more of this (Score 5, Funny) 139



May all your PUSHes be POPped.