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by ppereira 15y ago
Strangely enough, because of the way the EITC is tied with wages and already distorting the economics at the bottom, raising the minimum wage could result in net transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor and therefore reduce inequality.
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by ppereira 15y ago
2. Actually, with respect to progressive or negative taxation, the redistribution is quite direct. The government takes more from some and distributes it to others through benefits, the EITC, welfare, tax credits, etc. The factor most corre
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by ppereira 15y ago
There is a lot of interesting research on wealth inequality in the US and around the world. For those interested in looking at data, I suggest the following as a starting point: A historical database of top incomes in several countries: ht
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by ppereira 15y ago
Intel has included BSF and BSR (bit scan forward / reverse) since 386, which would presumably also give you the magnitude of the power of 2.
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by ppereira 15y ago
With Double Irish slices of bread and Dutch cheese in the middle, the Dutch Sandwich "leaves no tax behind to taste".
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by ppereira 16y ago
Regarding the ethical standards of earlier generations of journalists and copying, see INS v AP, 248 U.S. 215 (1918) where INS rewrote large numbers of news articles they acquired from AP through bribery and other means, without attribution
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by ppereira 16y ago
You can \usepackage{palatino} for Palatino, other postscript fonts are quite accessible.
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by ppereira 16y ago
Insurance companies often use missed payments to cancel contracts, although there are usually specific legal provisions for notification, coverage, and fees associated with late renewals. On an unrelated note, I once had an auto-renewing co
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by ppereira 16y ago
I've been tutoring Euclid to a Gr. 6 student. I gave him both the Heath and Byrne editions to work from but he has a much easier time with the Byrne, primarily because the proofs appear much shorter. The coloured pictures strip out an entir
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by ppereira 16y ago
I started by learning ed from "The Unix Programming Environment", and then vi. By tackling vim directly, you may get swamped in the details.
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by ppereira 17y ago
The investment into superstars looks like a new spin on slavery. Shall we call this equity bondage? Your bank calls, your credit card is at its limit and you just missed your mortgage payment. But don't worry, they are willing to front you
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by ppereira 17y ago
Do you know how he encrypted his email?
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by ppereira 17y ago
The IBM z9 processor, if I remember correctly, can do the comparison in hardware. When the cores consistently fail to match, the system can probably also call the IBM service technician.
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by ppereira 17y ago
True, each flash trader is competing for profit, but it seems that the typical mutual fund holder, who invests on time scales longer than 24 hours, is uniformly screwed. Considering that the typical mutual fund holder represents the vast ma