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Global Warming, Winter Weather and the Olympics(dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute(nytimes.com)
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by spikels 13y ago
Not much better in Ohio: Federal Income Tax 28.0% ($89,350-$186,350 bracket) Self-Employment Tax 15.3% ($0-$117,000 bracket) OH State Income Tax 4.7% ($83,350-$104,250 bracket) -----------------------------------------------
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In California the highest marginal total income tax rate is 56.7%. While this is for incomes over a million dollars, if you make around $100,000, you face a marginal tax rate of 52.6%. I'm sure there are places with even higher margina
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It depends on your definition of "risk". In economics, as well as business, it is usually defined as the standard deviation of the percentage change and is usually annualized. There are a whole bunch do sensible reasons for this (
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That's just federal capital gains tax. You also need to consider state taxes. In California you pay ordinary income tax rates on capital gains of up to 13.3% for people with incomes over a million dollars. So the total tax on a capital
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If you live in California and make around $100,000 you face a marginal tax rate of 52.6% (i.e on $1,000 of additional income you would pay $526 in tax and keep $474). Making $100,000 in San Francisco you are definitely not rich. Of course y
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Idealogical Blogger says unrelated events long ago support his current agenda.
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Maduro declared all protests illegal then a few hours later called for his supporters to protest against his enemies. This guys is literally destroying a nation. I agree with you on Argentina but Brazil is probably a different story - not a
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The global warming issue is complex. If you are a skeptic about CO2 increases due to humans, warming since 1880 or the basic science of greenhouse gasses you are simply uninformed. However if you are not modestly skeptical of mult-decade fo
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Enterprise is where the people who choose the software don't use the software. Software is sold there not bought.
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But wait Zed you certainly come out "looking like an asshole" quite often. You admit it yourself[1]. It seems to have something to do with your strident polarizing style. Just saying... BTW - Love your L?THW books. Thanks [1] htt
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Assuming you have a basic education in economics and statistics I would dive into the academic research. Just keep in mind that like everyone else, academics have biases of various kinds (e.g. Thomas Piketty is pretty far left) and inequali
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Reuters fired some their editorial staff just last fall and there have been many similar layoffs in the past. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/business/media/reuters-pla...
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Ah so "What we know about income inequaliy(sic)" is "routinisation" is to blame. This is yet another sloppy, cut and paste job by Reuters of a single researcher's blog post based on his unpublished working paper. No
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We should be taking these guy's monopolies away. Competition is the key to not only good value (i.e. low price/value) but also economic fairness. Ever notice how many of the biggest fortunes were built on top of government granted
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Many SF landlords have voluntarily removing units unit from the market by simply not rerenting after they become vacant because of all the hassles of rent control. This is one of several way that rent control reduces the number of units ava
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You could sue the host. But that violates the rule that you only sue people with money. There are not many but this is one disadvantage of wealth.
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Thanks arstra! Lots of good leads there. I'm still wondering where the forecasts come from, like UNEP's "no fish in the ocean in 2050". I can't find any academic paper detailing these kinds of forecasts. The UNEP&#x
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Price controls, like rent control, have the well know effect of reducing supply. Along with extremely restrictive building policies, SF housing supply has become inflexible and is unable to keep up with demand thus prices will go up. This i
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Wow! Hiring people and paying them well is a problem? SF has severely restricted supply for decades with some of the most restrictive planning and building codes in the US. In SF anyone can force a hearing on a building permit - after plann
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Specialization is almost entirely responsible for all the gains in our standard of living since the stone age. This includes almost every technological advance. Heinlein is wrong on this and a specialist himself: a writer who requires other
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Bullshit! The private sector is the same in the places the SF middle class are moving to. It's the selfish, short sighted SF government that's causing this.
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I'm curious how you formed your opinions on the safety of nuclear power: What publications and which experts did you find authoritative? Have you reviewed any academic research on the subject? Do you understand the arguments of the pro
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But they are in Javascript! Both map and forEach were added in 2009 as part of ES5. Problem is they weren't supported in IE until IE9. http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/
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Where do you get the 5:1 ratio? Jobs in SF Bay Area on Craigslist: Node 95, Django 50 http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/?sort=rel&areaID=1&subAre... http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/?sor
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But ARM is already taken!
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Not sure which fallacy you refer to. I'm just trying to understand what is actually known about this issue and what is just anecdote like the OP. I know about the collapse of the cod catch in 1992[1] as well as declining catch of some
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If the ocean is really broken and all the fish are gone, how come the amount of fish caught has not declined dramatically? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_fish_production This story is anecdotal. Actual data would b
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Although very interesting the Special Operations Division (SOD) is probably not what was redacted: 1) It is a legalization methodology not a unit of the DEA. The other items mentioned FISA, CIPA and parallel construction can all be used to

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