legacyfruit

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   by legacyfruit 12y ago

   Just thinking out loud here, but if identical twins were much closer in, for example, appearance, couldn't this induce more similarity in other traits. That is, if being identical made twins have closer relationships, might that not r
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   by legacyfruit 12y ago

   In the epilogue one of his books (maybe "the drowned and the saved"?), Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi describes giving a talk to a group of schoolchildren. One boy asked him to describe the layout of the camp, and then described h
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   by legacyfruit 12y ago

   >He estimates that iPhone sales are adding one-quarter to one-third of a percentage point to the annualized growth rate of the gross domestic product. That's amazing. This means that iPhones account for 0.25-0.33% of all consumptio
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   by legacyfruit 12y ago

   Agreed. The primary reason economists argue for taxing capital gains, is that income can be disguised as capital gains. Startups are probably the best example of this. Even this reason, however, is probably exaggerated. Suppose for examp