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Why not a pigouvian tax on jet fuel (and other fossil fuels?)

Does a ‘shallow article’ even merit a dismissive comment? Wouldn’t it be better simply to ignore it and find another thread on which to engage?

I read this in disbelief, picturing a uniformed INS employee drawing vials of blood in some poorly sanitized strip mall. It turns out US green card applicants are required to show …

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I stumbled upon this site when researching flight control algorithms for small UAVs. It appears to be an out-of-date reference for commercial pilots seeking type ratings for the Ai…

Gross daily trading volumes are a poor gauge of how much capital investors have deployed in a particular market, seeking returns. A single international transaction may induce seve…

Am I crazy, or is this a reference to one of the cheat codes on Age of Empires?

Alzheimer’s is a neurological disease with a well-documented physiological pathology and terminal prognosis. Mental illnesses generally lack both of those things. The ethics of ass…

Wouldn't the lack of means to contact all of your users, immediately and directly, create other compliance challenges? You would be unable to notify users of a data breech until th…

Speaking only for myself, I found this article to be particularly difficult to comprehend. If there are any physicians or molecular biologists who could more plainly summarize the …

That's a rather misleading statement. Discretionary spending makes up less than a third of the federal budget. Defense spending works out to about 15% of federal spending overall. …

Most ad tech companies (Google, FB) likely devote well under 10% of their engineering might to work directly related to the advertising that forms their revenue stream. Newspapers …

“'I would say that a robot is a physically embodied artificially intelligent agent that can take actions that have effects on the physical world,' says roboticist Anca Dragan of UC…

There's another advantage for which human workers that don't get nearly enough much credit: flexibility. When Tesla tried to create the world's most automated assembly line for the…

Speaking for myself, I generally prefer to learn at my own pace studying from books than from lectures and a standardized curriculum. But the issue here is value vs. risk: Lambda p…

This is for people who would prefer to teach themselves.

$42 on Amazon is a huge ripoff. I think it's about $20 a bottle at my local Asian grocery store. I like it, but I don't have "super taster" powers either so take that for what you …

Because Google can extract value from captchas, it makes world-class captchas and bot detection AI available to every webmaster for free. I don't know what that level of service wo…

The payday lending industry operates within an intrinsically challenging ethical landscape. Their customers are generally poor, often desperate, and proportionately vulnerable. But…

The most significant regulatory change following the Colgan crash was the added requirement that all airline (Part 21) first officers possess an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certi…

Could someone please help explain the technical details of this? From what I can gather from the chrome.webRequest and chrome.declarativeNetRequest documentation, it looks like thi…

A lot of progress has been made since the 2003 passage of "PREA," the Prison Rape Elimination Act. https://www.prearesourcecenter.org/about/prison-rape-elimina... Anecdotal: When I…