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Is tax evasion distributed differently by income level? How do you control for it just being more complicated to file as income increases? My experience in the lower rungs is that middle class people pay taxes faithfully out of great fear o
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Didn’t read the study but I don’t think 50% of Swedes having a whatever the name was savings account is “representative” but I’m not a Swede. I would think that 50% is not randomly distributed. Like could that 50% be older and lower income,
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The government is controlled by the government, not voters. The government has incentives to stay the course. Every single government employee wants to keep their job, managers want to keep their teams/projects/products. The gover
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Bankruptcy. Not for the elderly person, because elderly have protected federal income. But bankruptcy for the children who are on the hook due to filial responsibility laws in most states.
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Just think about it abstractly. Variation decreases as n count increases. Large organizations will tend to be similar. As you note most large private systems end up behaving similarly to large public systems in terms of corruption, ineffici
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Does better government imply current government employees losing or having to change jobs? That’s sort of not possible at scale.
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“ Recent trends in college admissions include increased numbers of applications, increased interest by students in foreign countries in applying to American universities,[10] more students applying by an early method,[8] applications submit
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Foreign online applications.
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So 25%, which is well above the 15% effect I’ve seen, but you could just be an outlier. Also possible that such research suffers from self reporting problems, and many who claim they’ve made lifestyle changes are not reliable in those self
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>” How to prevent this? The obvious way is to just not use dataframes, at least not while doing aggregation. Rather than allocating a huge dataframe and loading our partial results into its columns bit by bit, we can just store our parti
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Oh wow, it sounds like my understanding is off considerably. I was under the impression only 15% decrease is possible with lifestyle changes! Can you provide any basic literature on how large of an effect can be achieved through lifestyle a
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High cholesterol can be genetic. The US cannot change its genetic profile, which includes a lot of big boned individuals.
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My first thought, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel The op paper needs a conclusion.
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I wonder if you asked people their feelings about 1) Wayland, and 2) systemd, whether or not sentiment would be highly correlated. My first impression of both was when I had a problem.
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I guess that’s a good way to think of Federora, forward looking. I always liked it for other reasons, but they do have just the right amount of forward focus. Ubuntu has a very different community to try and satisfy, so has to move slower.
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Human change does not require Darwinian selection. Look across cultures. That people might tolerate or be most comfortable in noisier environments could vary for non-heritable reasons. Some people like less stimulation, some more. Autism ra
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I do. The data would be computer sales to businesses. The data indicates computer use is now a regular part of many jobs, whereas very few jobs in 1970 involved working on a computer, based on computer sales data.
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“What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.”
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Leetcode so you can get big bucks working as a programmer? Teachers put in extra hours because they see a kid in their class who will suffer through life if they don’t intervene. Compare your motivations to those of teachers, and leave the
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Salary varies a lot by location. I think median salary for teacher in California is ~90k. But teacher salary is not the only cost of running a school district. Multiple buildings to manage, maybe busses, various staff, etc…
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Because we work in different ways now than we did in 1975? The work people do is also different. And, the people themselves have also changed. A person born in 1980s may be more used to 24/7 noise from tv and devices. A 30 year old wor
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In a Mazda?
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Very persuasive when stated that way! It’s a good question. Why not just allow this small added feature which you don’t have to use? That’s a great general question that can be asked in many places that software dwells. My answer and thinki
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No. I don’t have a lot of money, and am skeptical they or other shiny new tech toys can save the planet via consumerism. I’m pro-Tesla on net. Everyone in the upper middle class were buying Lexus’ and Suburbans before Tesla came along, so I
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I won’t own a car with a touchscreen. Ever. If I were given such a vehicle, I would get rid of it quickly. My last car purchase it was not easy to find a newer vehicle without that junk. I see such things as signs of low quality. I don’t wa
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Did people actually rely on the bluechecks anyway in the first place? For me it was at best a slight help if I was trying to find a celebrity that had impersonators. I would be surprised if I’m a very typical user of course. But still I had
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> How did people or groups challenging it with their guns (or even peacefully) because they thought of it as an "oppressive government" fared? Well there was an American revolution that gave us our nation in the first place. I’
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I assumed the 2007 year would be the same “1 night in January” method. But it occurs to me, reading your comment that maybe they didn’t mean 2007 was the second highest count, just that the collection only goes back to 2007. Again, terrible
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In January of 2007? The crisis hit a bit later, if you’re thinking about foreclosures. Housing prices were still up, and the housing market was tight. It may suggest that homeless is driven by real estate speculation. In other words hot eco
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Bluetooth doesn’t need to exist.

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