Taxing vehicle volume without regard to other factors unfairly penalizes families and carpoolers.
Volume / Passenger Capacity
With a lower limit and some way of subsidising a portion back for verifiable, occupational need.
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This gives me hope that somewhere out there in wild there may be a few Tasmanian tigers still alive and well-hidden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine#Unconfirmed_sighting...
The devils were introduced to the mainland (a National Park in NSW) intentionally in 2020.
bobby_bob commented on Bitcoin miners are buying power plants nysfocus.com/2021/04/13/n... · Posted by u/throwaway888abc
I keep reading that coal is uncompetitive even to operate because of renewables.
So what’s the deal here? Is it the need for consistent base load electricity that caused them to choose coal?
It's now using natural gas:
> ...drawing power from the plant’s 106-megawatt generator now fueled by natural gas.
bobby_bob commented on Suez canal blocked by a massive ship twitter.com/jsrailton/sta... · Posted by u/tilolebo
Tengential but I am always curious what software these huge logistics company use to manage their business. From my outsider's perspective, it seems like a best-in-class-software enabled company would have a massive advantage over the rest.
Interested to hear if anyone has insights about this
There were some interesting profiles following the NotPetya attack on Maersk in 2017 where Maersk claimed to have 1,200 - 1,500 applications, 49,000 laptops, 6,200 servers.
Maersk are entering into block-chain "distributed ledger technology" with IBM and similar modern solutions. But one article put $300 of every $2,000 of shipping costs for administration and paperwork[0].
I think you're right, there is a massive advantage to be had, and companies are chasing that advantage. But from my (tangential logistics) background, even the biggest shipping companies have the usual range of legacy systems, heavy administration overhead, plenty of paperwork, excel-based-tools and huge integration headaches.
0 - https://www.supplychaindigital.com/technology-4/maersk-and-i...
Huge demand for collagen powder as a beverage additive lately though. Could definitely be a real opportunity.
For example, Nestlé purchased "Vital Proteins" last year and are making their collagen products to their Nestlé Health Science portfolio.
https://www.fooddive.com/news/nestle-to-acquire-majority-sta...
bobby_bob commented on A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWG... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
Did they trademark the name? If not they've got themselves to blame.
Looks like they applied on 30 Jan this year.[1] Currently: "Awaiting Examination". it appears that Amazon released the copy in November last year.[2]
Did you mean tons instead of kg?
400,000kg is 1/40 of the weight of the main towers of the Golden Gate Bridge (the steel parts). [0]
[0] - https://www.goldengate.org/bridge/history-research/statistic...
If you're looking a 20 x 20 x 20 meters of gold (i.e. 8000 cubic meters, not a 20m3 cube) then that's more like 154,000 metric tons.
Which Wolfram Alpha helpfully confirms is approximately equal to the mass of all gold ever mined. There is some contention about this value, the World Gold Council posit 197,576 metric tons (and up to 3000 additional tonnes per year) [1], USGS suggest a cube with 28 meter sides, or 244,000 metric tons [2].
400,000 kg probably comes from 20 cubic meters of gold (386,000 kg).
[1] - https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/gold-mining/how-...
[2] - https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-gold-has-been-found-world
I haven't heard anything to suggest that the short sellers are forced to buy back the stock either. This is a stock has clearly caught public's attention, Once the hype cycle is over, why wouldn't it regress to the mean? Who's going to believe that the stock stays at this level over the long term?
Fun to talk about though. This is a very entertaining story.
Also fun, Australian company "GME Resources", trade on the ASX as GME, got to 40% up from its Monday opening price.
I wonder if this is a clever-ish social media algorithm trading, shrewd fund managers or really just desperately mistaken retail traders.
"In an emergency" has always been allowed reason to leave home during the Victorian lockdowns.
1 - https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/how-we-live