Under current US tax law the original value of an asset is rebased upon death. Thus, you can borrow against an asset, such as stocks, and then your heirs can repay the loan immediately after your death and pay zero capital gains.
This only costs you the interest of the loan and exposes you to the risk of declining value in the assets securing the loan. Appreciation of the assets or dividends may fully offset the interest or more.
Additionally if you a founder, for example, you retain the influence/control of your company that you derive from the stock ownership, while still be able to enjoy their cash value.
It appears that rotenone (a powerful piscicide) is actually banned [0]. Same document also indicated that copper sulfate use is limited to specific situations/crops. Though, of course, conventional crops also have restriction on the use of pesticides, presumably they are less restricted.
The letter only mentions Greenwald to appropriately credit his reporting along with hers for the founding basis of The Intercept. Otherwise the mention of his departure from The Intercept is notably absent.
Much of the cow diet is actually corn and soy, especially for US beef production cattle. There are emissions from the fertilizer inputs to corn and soy as well as emissions from the transportation of corn and soy from field to cow.
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Here in NZ most of our cattle are grass fed with very little feed transportation. Some farmers do use feed pads but when they do they are being fooled by the big dairy companies putting pressure on the farmers to get the milk solid production up. The tends to mean the farms revenue goes up but the costs go way up so they increase work and decrease profit. So not many of them keep up the practice. I'm guessing our climate allows us to farm differently, as we have few droughts and warm winters.
Highly depends on the specifics of a particular farm’s operations. Not a great generalization to make about dairy without supporting facts (that have got to be out there, so cite them).
I was in the Quad Cities (Iowa/Illinois interface) in the spring and there was a bank robbery pretty much every other week. Turned out to be the same guy each time, but as an East-coaster who's not too familiar with the Midwest there was a couple of months I was convinced that bank-robbing simply never died out in the heartland.
The issue is that a vaccine would be given to billions of people, whereas the virus is only infecting hundreds of thousands per day. Because vaccines are given to healthy people that may never be exposed to the disease the bar for safety is different.
The letter was signed by the The NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee. The members of that committee are listed on their code of conduct site. Seems pretty transparent to me.
They caused a lot of grief to a particular person. It is only appropriate to sign their apology with their own names rather than a "committee", don't you think?
That was the committee at the time of writing. If anyone refers to this in, say, a year, they will have no idea who was responsible. As an analogy, transaction histories, if done in a DB, are not normalized because you wouldn't want the price and total sale of a past transaction to change when you later change the price of the items that were in that transaction. Sometimes, it's actually good to duplicate code/data/effort, especially if it helps to make something clear.
Sounds like The Code of Conduct Enforcement Team themselves need a code of conduct to operate against.
I recommend immediately establishing a Code of Conduct Enforcement Team Code of Conduct. And since any CoC is meaningless when not enforced, there needs to be a Code of Conduct Enforcement Team Code of Conduct Enforcement Team.
This only costs you the interest of the loan and exposes you to the risk of declining value in the assets securing the loan. Appreciation of the assets or dividends may fully offset the interest or more.
Additionally if you a founder, for example, you retain the influence/control of your company that you derive from the stock ownership, while still be able to enjoy their cash value.