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by todd8 5y ago
The top corporate tax rate had been ~35% for roughly 25 years ; in 2018 it dropped to 21% and wage growth has indeed increased since 2018. Were wages positively affected by the lower corporate tax rate? I don’t know, so many factors affect
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by todd8 5y ago
> Do you feel cost/value ... is 0 or free? No, of course not. (Why the insulting tone of your rhetorical question?) > Corporations use more services than you would think ... How many publicly traded companies have you started?
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by todd8 5y ago
Corporations pass the tax expenses on to consumers as higher prices of produced goods, lower wages to employees, and lower returns to owners that supply capital. These taxes are all paid by us but they are largely invisible and justified to
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by todd8 5y ago
I used to live in the oldest home in a subdivision; it was completely xeriscaped. Over the years as the city grew more and more people moved into this subdivision building much larger homes with traditional yards. I got a lot of grief from
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by todd8 5y ago
My dad had a friend that worked at the Johnson Space Center who gave me a private tour many years ago. He pointed out the room sized, high vacuum, spacesuit test chambers and told me of a startling incident that happened once in one of the
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by todd8 5y ago
This looks great. I can’t wait to try it.
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by todd8 5y ago
I don’t know how I missed that project. While very ambitious, I feel that it’s direction is the most practical proposal I’ve heard to modernize Emacs.
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by todd8 5y ago
I wondered about this myself, but in the second sentence of the Abstract the authors say: "This notion [that TB was introduced post-contact], however, is incompatible with archaeological evidence of pre-contact tuberculosis in the New
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by todd8 5y ago
No, TB was present in pre-Colombian North and South America. TB is a very ancient disease according to [1,3] and has been present in humans since the dawn of humankind according to [2]. There is evidence of the disease in human remains from
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by todd8 5y ago
This looks great. From a business perspective, I would be concerned that it would be hard to prevent companies like Dell from entering this space as a competitor quite rapidly.
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by todd8 5y ago
Perhaps it's only because of Knuth's books, but I've always liked the fonts in the Computer Modern series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern Note that the plain serif font in Computer Modern
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by todd8 5y ago
Thanks for making your configuration available, I want to try out Neovim because it's an exciting project and having carefully constructed configurations available as a starting point will make it easier. Your configuration doesn'
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by todd8 5y ago
Tilman M. Davies’s book, The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics is a good place to start. See [1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Book-First-Course-Programming-Statist...
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by todd8 5y ago
I do have the book, it's quite interesting, but I read about Kuru while it was still thought to be caused by an infectious virus. My recollection is a bit vague, but I believe it was in Time or Newsweek during the 1960s. It was a scary
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by todd8 5y ago
Back in 1969 I was taking a number theory class, and I remember being taught that it was the purest of pure math subjects with (essentially) no application. It was simply a subject with beautiful results and beautiful proofs—good training f
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by todd8 5y ago
Kind of like 63 year old Annie Edson Taylor’s pickle barrel that she strapped into and rode over Niagara Horseshoe Falls 120 years ago.[1] [1] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-barrel-rid...
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> The simplest counterpoint to prion cataclysm fear is that it hasn't happened yet. Well a prion disease (called Kuru) did affect the Fore people of New Guinea seriously in the 1950s and 1960s as I recall. Here is what Wikipedia say
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Looks like the EM drive is officially dead – experiments fail(youtube.com)
18 points by todd8 5y ago|7 comments
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by todd8 5y ago
The 2020 Census, not today’s post Covid population count is used for congressional apportionment. The current population of NY has nothing to do with it.
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I’ve never been a fan, but me let explain. I read the long Tipping Point article by Gladwell that originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1996 and found it rather obvious for anyone with an engineering or math degree. It seemed to be a s
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by todd8 5y ago
Like a sport, math takes practice. With lessons and enough practice most people can learn the rudiments of golf or softball. With some athletic ability, many people can become good amateur golfers, but this will likely take years of playing
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by todd8 5y ago
Although some posts suggest that the USA may experience malaria at some point in the future because of global warming; in actuality, the USA has already experienced malaria. In 1882, the range of malaria in the USA extended from the Canadia
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by todd8 5y ago
According to the Innocence Project[1], 21 people on death row have been exonerated by DNA evidence. In the last 31 years a total of 375 people have been exonerated by DNA evidence (not just the people on death row). [1] https://i
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by todd8 5y ago
The picture you link to is of a pair of Truform Runner treadmills[1]. I have no idea of how safe they are, but they are notable for not having motors which means that they wouldn’t pull a child under them on their own. Could they injure a c
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Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out(technologyreview.com)
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I saw a remarkable video [1] of a swarm being transferred to a hive. The beekeeper caught the queen and put it into a hive. Tens of thousands of bees followed the queen in minutes. It's worth seeing how an a beekeeper in a tee-shirt wa
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by todd8 6y ago
Modern store bought tomatoes have been bred for size and firmness. Firmness in particular reduces losses during mechanical harvesting and shipping. Since 1968, the date of wide-spread use of mechanical harvesters, this has resulted in varie
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by todd8 6y ago
At the T.J. Watson research center (headquarters of IBM Research which I had only a few occasions to visit), a number of my colleagues would always go for a stroll on the attractive grounds after lunch, and my favorite professor in grad sch
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by todd8 6y ago
I had a roommate in college that always looked up every word he didn't know in the dictionary. I adopted this method of improving my vocabulary and recommend it to people that wish to have a broader vocabulary. It is especially easy to
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These words appear rather frequently in academic writing on anthropology and linguistics. If you were in grad school studying in these fields it is likely that you would be using most of these words in your own writing. Computer scientists

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