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by settrans 5y ago
It isn't: https://mises.org/wire/these-us-states-have-higher-incomes-n...
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by settrans 5y ago
In 2012, 51 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) reported that they used at least one welfare program during the year, compared to 30 percent of native households. Welfare in this study includes Medicaid and cash,
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by settrans 5y ago
GNOME’s equivalent of Preview.app would be evince, which is strictly inferior to Preview, but for one singular feature: the hand tool. In fact, GNOME is in fact my daily driver and I keep a Windows VM tucked away in case I ever need to mani
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by settrans 5y ago
Correcting myself: California has corrected $7.4 billion _as of 2011_, after only six years of operation. Note that the tax is not indexed to inflation: already, the million-dollar threshold is worth only $715k in 2005 dollars. After anothe
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by settrans 5y ago
California already has a 1% income tax allocated just to mental health, and has collected $7.4 billion so far just from this tax[0]. How is that working? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Mental_Health_Servi.
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by settrans 5y ago
This is very exciting and, if executed well, a very promising avenue to dramatically shaping the efficiency of the federal government. One of the greatest sources of preventable waste[citation needed] in the public sector today is inefficie
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by settrans 5y ago
I happen to mostly agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, consider the practical reality that government (as currently expressed) is expensive. New Hampshire is a great example of your model working well: nearly half of its tax
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by settrans 5y ago
Payroll taxes are not flat, they are in fact regressive (unlike a flat tax, which is by definition neither progressive nor regressive). Since social security tax is capped, the more you beyond the social security tax limit, the lower your e
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by settrans 5y ago
This looks great; it nearly identical to a sheet I developed for my personal use. The biggest improvement I'd like to make to mine is to implement some approximated form of risk parity[0]. That is, instead of comparing nominal allocati
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by settrans 5y ago
That's completely fair, for a certain assignment of moral values it becomes a burning concern that dwarfs my utilitarian plea. In my defense, I had assumed I was taking a neutral position when focusing on the question "What is the
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by settrans 5y ago
> Caring about income inequality is quite different than caring about GDP. And it is precisely caring about income inequality that become a visible point of difference between the left and right, particularly since Piketty's book. R
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by settrans 5y ago
The problem with this paper is that it's just not measuring anything interesting. Seeking to prove that cutting taxes for the rich increases income inequality and doesn't impact GDP growth isn't cutting-edge research, it&#x27
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Cornel West's resignation[0] seems to lend credence to your viewpoint. [0] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015632217/cornel-west-has-an...
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by settrans 5y ago
It exists in many, many states in some form or another: New Jersey (where every dollar collected from the progressive income tax is funneled redistributionarily to municipalities), Connecticut, and Vermont to name a couple. For one eye-popp
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by settrans 5y ago
Would someone who is downvote-burying these comments care to explain their distaste? Irrespective of whether you agree with Sowell's viewpoints, they are articulate and seem germane to the conversation.
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by settrans 5y ago
What is there to do for tech work in seacoast NH? (And why would you leave?)
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by settrans 5y ago
GP is right, if he’s only looking at Luxembourg and Switzerland. Otherwise, if you look at PPP-adjusted disposable income, even after factoring in non-monetary income (e.g. welfare), Europe is significantly poorer than US states[0]. If Fran
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by settrans 5y ago
This looks awesome -- congrats to the team on the landmark milestone. I've been eagerly anticipating the release since their initial announcement. I am left to wonder how seamless this migration will be in practice. I'm a heavy us
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Addepar raises $117M Series E led by WestCap(prnewswire.com)
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An Open Letter from Economists on the Estate Tax To whom it may concern: Spend your money on riotous living – no tax; leave your money to your children – the tax collector gets paid first. That is the message sent by the estate tax. It is a
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by settrans 6y ago
Is that right? Sweden -- along with virtually all European countries other than Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg -- have much poorer middle classes than most US states. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/if-sweden-left-th
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If France became a US state, it would be the 8th poorest (2018)(mises.org)
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by settrans 8y ago
What does this mean? > The truth is that the vast majority of federal tax money today goes to [...] corporate welfare (tax breaks)" That sounds like me saying that the majority of your salary comes from me not stealing it from you.
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by settrans 8y ago
Very cool; now all we need is a proof-of-work formalization to base a cryptocurrency on. Artcoin?
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by settrans 9y ago
Moreover, Japanese has TWO parallel number systems (as does Korean). The Sinitic system, enumerated here, is used for naming numbers, counting with most counter words, and counting large quantities, whereas the native Japanese system is use
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by settrans 12y ago
set() is a great way to deduplicate small lists, but it's important to note that it requires O(n) extra space (in-place sorting can avoid this overhead, but is more complex).
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by settrans 12y ago
Here are the patches referenced in the article: https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pig1.patch.txt https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/patch-2
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by settrans 12y ago
Or perhaps Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:01:20 GMT, unix time 0x50000000? Developers using MongoDB at the time were likely to notice.
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FreeBSD 9.2-RC4 released(lists.freebsd.org)
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by settrans 13y ago
Glad you enjoyed it! See you at the next meetup.

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