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by throwaway49849 3y ago
The burden of proof is on the people claiming that level of taxation is required in the first place. If taxes need to be that high, its on high tax proponents to justify it, not on everyone else to justify why we shouldn't raise them h
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
It is free labor. You giving your income to the government is equivalent to doing free work. And of course, some level of that is required. I'm not anti-tax, I'm anti wasteful tax. And to my mind, requiring 30%-50% of everyones
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
For context, 75,518 EUR is $81,014. So if you're a software engineer making $200k, you're paying 37% on the first $81,014, or $30,000, and then 50% on the remaining $118,986, or $60,000. For a grand total of $90k on your $200k sal
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
So a Gallup poll that doesn't ask about violent crime is used as evidence that people are misguided about violent crime? How does that work?
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
Aside from it being supremely strange, it's just stupid enough that you risk overthinking each image to the point of answering it inaccurately. The person who approved these images has no business assessing personality types if they ca
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
>The prospect of onerous alimony, child support and other divorce compensation increases wives’ bargaining power when they have the option to divorce. Using the government to screw your partner over as a negotiating tactic is a sick way
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
>Friedman: One of the pieces of what I see as good news in this story is that more people, women and men, are willing and able to say, “I don’t want to have children.” For women especially, I see this as a kind of social progress in huma
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
>Men and women, on average, like different things. To a huge population, preferential differences directly and fundamentally imply bias. You see the data and say "see, X", they see the same data and say "see, Y."
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
What do other people genuinely get from this data? Besides "here are more gender and race stats to quibble over and divide you while the political class robs you blind" ?
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
Side by side of old behavior vs new behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlH6IGmAeqU
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
>Each participant looked at 16 images and were told to imagine themselves walking through those areas. How does this extrapolate to actually walking in the environment? There are so many differences between looking at a photograph and ac
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by throwaway49849 3y ago
>The government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will develop a uniform framework for assessing safety, as part of the order Biden signed in October. They probably need to develop an extremely antisocial, psycopathic, mal