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by gbacon 9y ago
The ancient Athenians would reject our form of democracy because they regarded popular elections as a tool of oligarchy. They also executed officials for abuse of power.
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by gbacon 9y ago
The cited figure is for individual ( e.g. , Form 1040) income taxes. Payroll taxes are in separate categories.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Smaller parties and independent candidates will still be left out because the Big Two control access to the ballot.
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by gbacon 9y ago
In an opinion piece for The Daily Caller and on his site, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., said “making the tax collector also the tax preparer creates an inherent conflict of interest while forcing citizens to relinquish control of their taxes
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by gbacon 9y ago
Democrats and Republicans already control ballot access laws, a clear conflict of interest. Let us wave our magic wands and — poof! — campaign expenditures are now tax-funded. Nothing meaningful changes. The Republicrats still control who
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by gbacon 9y ago
Compensation is a vector. Government employees are much more difficult to terminate than their counterparts in the private sector. That is, government employees are compensated in part in strong job security.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Where do Newton’s study and formulations of optics and celestial motion place him in your taxonomy? I suspect Keynes’s desire to discredit Newton was motivated more by the former’s irrational, perhaps as the first postmodernist, impulse to
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Clear the Runway: The Fight Over 'Uber for Planes' Is Coming to Congress(reason.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
No.
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Google to hold groundbreaking for long-awaited north Alabama data center(al.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
North Alabama represent!
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by gbacon 9y ago
Complete a private pilot certificate with an instrument rating for good measure and fly general aviation?
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How to make Git ignore files that begin and end with #(shitpost.plover.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
After gentle correction[0] by Edward Kmett and others, Martin fires back[1] with an unseemly > Hey! Ya know how to drive a functional justice warrior crazy? Put him in a round room and tell him there’s a monad in the corner. > [Mal
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by gbacon 9y ago
Having layers (first the airlines and then Unclaimed Baggage) makes it not just twice as unlikely but thousands of times less likely that belongings will be stolen in the way you describe. Managers of a family-owned business in operation
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by gbacon 9y ago
Remember all the tricks and shortcuts you were taught when learning calculus? Yeah, forget those.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Aw shucks, you’ve uncovered my conspiracy to return to the Middle Ages. Next time I’ll have to use a double-secret decoder ring!
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by gbacon 9y ago
I’m sympathetic to the person in the story. Firing over such a slight, possibly inadvertent, infraction seems excessive, and that makes me suspect we don’t know the whole story. As much racket as people have made in this thread about at-wil
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by gbacon 9y ago
Indeed, it’s a two-way street, and that’s a good thing! As someone who got tired of the bureaucracy and lame policies, I took my labor and started my own company. It turns out that there is a noticeable minority of entrepreneurs, freelancer
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by gbacon 9y ago
For you to be so dismissive of the breadth and depth of documentation needed to withstand a potential lawsuit, I suspect your experience is limited to the employee side of the relationship.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Different people are attracted to different potential outcomes. Compensation is a vector, after all. It’s the usual question of risk versus reward. Some will find the perceived safety of generous government protection and benefits desirable
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by gbacon 9y ago
Employees are sellers of labor, so proponents of less regulation could ask the same question of you regarding an employee whose business model is doing as little as possible or even damaging the employer but expecting compensation to contin
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by gbacon 9y ago
At higher cost, less is demanded, and we tend to be loss averse. Driving up the perceived risk and thus the cost of firing bad employees unavoidably reduces the supply of jobs. No good or service is perfectly inelastic — certainly not emplo
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by gbacon 9y ago
The economist must consider both the seen and the unseen. Yes, people have jobs in Denmark 🇩🇰, but there are employment positions and opportunities that do not exist because firing regulations price them out of the market.
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by gbacon 9y ago
FTA: Never mind that Erdős doubted God’s very existence. “You don’t have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book,” Erdős explained to other mathematicians.
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The curious –en suffix in English(blog.plover.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Judging by the links from Workplace.SE that show up in the Hot Network Questions list, the place seems to be full of handwringers. How are the posts you mentioned actively harmful?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Where they congregate online and fire off downvotes like pew-pew!
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by gbacon 9y ago
Sounds like another case of geeks versus wonks. In Tucker’s “A Political Theory of Geeks and Wonks,” he delineates the latter with Political wonks are fascinated by process. They love the game. They get as much satisfaction from observing
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by gbacon 9y ago
The point of the ER example is it runs counter to one of ACA’s important justification claims, viz. requiring all manner of preventive care coverage — even from low-premium, high-deductible plans — would reduce ER usage by giving the form

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