Employers need some way of distinguishing between applicants (besides interviews, which are incredibly unreliable).
Employers used to use IQ tests for this. But this is now illegal, since minorities tend to score lower on IQ tests, so it was seen as discriminatory. So employers started using college degrees as an indirect measure of intelligence.
So the question is: what system are you going to use that's at least as predictive as a college degree?
There are actually TWO sets of textbooks. Texas and California are both big enough to get textbooks custom-made. Other states mostly follow what those two approved.
. The best solution is probably to get rid of corporate income tax altogether, and make up the difference with sales taxes.
I would say a better way is to make up the difference by taxing capital gains the same as regular income. After all a corporation is not a living breathing thing, it is just a formalism that combines the efforts of its many human owners. Each of those owners should have their income taxed the same way however they obtained it.
(The one good reason for lower capital gains taxes is inflation. If you hold an investment for many years, and it appreciates at the same rate as inflation, you haven't made any real profit, but the face value has increased, so you'd have to pay taxes despite not making real profit. To avoid this unfairness, there would need to be a tax deduction that you could apply for, based on the number of years you held the investment, and the official inflation rate in those years. This would be a lot fair than the current system, where you pay the same lower rate no matter how much value you lost to inflation.)
Reportedly, this happens in certain Asian countries where women are in fact underpaid for cultural reasons. Elsewhere, it does not happen because women are paid in proportion to their contributions.
Loneliness is a significant health risk which causes a person's death risk to increase.
Having kids gives you someone to care about, and someone who cares about you, and someone you see on a regular basis. That does a lot to decrease your loneliness.
This explains why the effect is stronger for men than women (men tend to have fewer social contacts), and stronger for single than married men.
Why invest in a centrifuge? Start by keeping mice on the ISS for a few generations (a few years) in zero G. If they do OK in zero G, then they'll probably do OK in anything from zero to one.
Musk hasn't gotten any Western country to bite and invest money. Maybe in a third world country with less education and a restricted media, he'll find takers.
No matter what happens to Earth, it's going to be a lot more habitable than Mars will ever be.
Over the last 500 million years, Earth's temperature has varied by less than 15 degrees C in either direction. Mars' average temperature is about 70 degrees C less than that of Earth.
One could make similar arguments regarding Earth's atmospheric pressure, oxygen level, magnetic field, and so on.
It's hard to conceive of a human or non-human catastrophe will disrupt Earth to the point that it's less habitable than Mars.
You do realize that the "choo choo trains" can transport more people than a freeway, because they hold hundreds of people per vehicle rather than the typical 1 person in a car on the freeway?
San Francisco is full of crappy little houses that sell for $1 million because there is so much demand for so little supply. The obvious thing to do in such a situation, of course, is to let people build higher. The owner of this house is selling for $1 million, but they would much prefer to build a 10-unit tower on the spot and sell each of the units for $500k. They would make an extra $4 million minus building costs, and the buyers would get the same footage for half the price. Since much of San Francisco is walking distance to a rail line, this wouldn't create unsolvable parking problems. It would be a win-win situation for everyone.
But because San Francisco (and the whole Bay Area) think that everyone should have a veto on what everyone else does with their property, rebuilding doesn't happen, demand continues to rise, and the city becomes affordable only by the rich.
No, it makes perfect sense. Becoming the (temporary?) leader of the taxi-without-regulation market has given them massive amounts of venture capital. And what better way to spend it than to hire the best and brightest (say, the entire Carnegie Mellon CS faculty) to solve the self-driving car problem, which could cement their lead for decades in the future?
How exactly is a gig economy going to provide benefits for things like starting a family.
It's not. It won't provide the benefits, and more to the point, it won't provide the economic security that's need to raise a kid and not risk getting thrown out on the street.
Unsurprisingly, fertility rates have fallen significantly below replacement in both the US and China.
And yet, there are a million political clickbait sites out there that DID portray the video as really being about killing Jews. And if $COMPANY doesn't fire him for the video, the clickbait sites will report that $COMPANY refused to fire him for his "video about killing Jews". And the reports might be fake, but $COMPANY will lose real business.
Welcome to the brave new world. Anything you say online can and will be used against you, fairly or not.
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Employers need some way of distinguishing between applicants (besides interviews, which are incredibly unreliable).
Employers used to use IQ tests for this. But this is now illegal, since minorities tend to score lower on IQ tests, so it was seen as discriminatory. So employers started using college degrees as an indirect measure of intelligence.
So the question is: what system are you going to use that's at least as predictive as a college degree?
There are actually TWO sets of textbooks. Texas and California are both big enough to get textbooks custom-made. Other states mostly follow what those two approved.
. The best solution is probably to get rid of corporate income tax altogether, and make up the difference with sales taxes.
I would say a better way is to make up the difference by taxing capital gains the same as regular income. After all a corporation is not a living breathing thing, it is just a formalism that combines the efforts of its many human owners. Each of those owners should have their income taxed the same way however they obtained it.
(The one good reason for lower capital gains taxes is inflation. If you hold an investment for many years, and it appreciates at the same rate as inflation, you haven't made any real profit, but the face value has increased, so you'd have to pay taxes despite not making real profit. To avoid this unfairness, there would need to be a tax deduction that you could apply for, based on the number of years you held the investment, and the official inflation rate in those years. This would be a lot fair than the current system, where you pay the same lower rate no matter how much value you lost to inflation.)
In general, it's a legal-philosophical question whether to read laws according to meaning of the words, or according to the author's intent.
Comes up frequently in discussions of the constitution (2nd Amendment and so on)
"When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt." - George W. Bush
Reportedly, this happens in certain Asian countries where women are in fact underpaid for cultural reasons. Elsewhere, it does not happen because women are paid in proportion to their contributions.
Loneliness is a significant health risk which causes a person's death risk to increase.
Having kids gives you someone to care about, and someone who cares about you, and someone you see on a regular basis. That does a lot to decrease your loneliness.
This explains why the effect is stronger for men than women (men tend to have fewer social contacts), and stronger for single than married men.
Why invest in a centrifuge? Start by keeping mice on the ISS for a few generations (a few years) in zero G. If they do OK in zero G, then they'll probably do OK in anything from zero to one.
See this takedown.
Musk hasn't gotten any Western country to bite and invest money. Maybe in a third world country with less education and a restricted media, he'll find takers.
Yes, it's the bar if you're deciding whether you need to colonize Mars.
No matter what happens to Earth, it's going to be a lot more habitable than Mars will ever be.
Over the last 500 million years, Earth's temperature has varied by less than 15 degrees C in either direction. Mars' average temperature is about 70 degrees C less than that of Earth.
One could make similar arguments regarding Earth's atmospheric pressure, oxygen level, magnetic field, and so on.
It's hard to conceive of a human or non-human catastrophe will disrupt Earth to the point that it's less habitable than Mars.
You do realize that the "choo choo trains" can transport more people than a freeway, because they hold hundreds of people per vehicle rather than the typical 1 person in a car on the freeway?
It'd be great if instead of highlighting a bogus answer, it provided links to accessible, peer-reviewed scholarship."
That scholarship is behind a paywall.
Cancer causes cell phones
The main difference between ARM and x86 is power usage, not price.
So... does the 2nd Amendment protect the right of private citizens to enrich uranium and build nukes?
Not to be a smartass, but do we really want our best and brightest in the NSA?
What's the alternative - investment banking? Delivering ever more manipulative advertisements at an internet company?
San Francisco is full of crappy little houses that sell for $1 million because there is so much demand for so little supply. The obvious thing to do in such a situation, of course, is to let people build higher. The owner of this house is selling for $1 million, but they would much prefer to build a 10-unit tower on the spot and sell each of the units for $500k. They would make an extra $4 million minus building costs, and the buyers would get the same footage for half the price. Since much of San Francisco is walking distance to a rail line, this wouldn't create unsolvable parking problems. It would be a win-win situation for everyone.
But because San Francisco (and the whole Bay Area) think that everyone should have a veto on what everyone else does with their property, rebuilding doesn't happen, demand continues to rise, and the city becomes affordable only by the rich.
No, it makes perfect sense. Becoming the (temporary?) leader of the taxi-without-regulation market has given them massive amounts of venture capital. And what better way to spend it than to hire the best and brightest (say, the entire Carnegie Mellon CS faculty) to solve the self-driving car problem, which could cement their lead for decades in the future?
Once you get the result you *want*, you then spend 100% of your time writing, publishing, hyping, funding, and publishing some more.
MOST scientists are in it for the science, not glory / money / everything else you accuse us of.
Even if you're in it for the science, you spend most of your time writing, publishing, hyping, funding, and publishing some more.
I think the millions of lives they've saved in the Third World count for something too...
How exactly is a gig economy going to provide benefits for things like starting a family.
It's not. It won't provide the benefits, and more to the point, it won't provide the economic security that's need to raise a kid and not risk getting thrown out on the street.
Unsurprisingly, fertility rates have fallen significantly below replacement in both the US and China.
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I have a lazy eye, you insensitive clod!
it's a lot of money just to prove you still have big balls.
What is the Trump presidency about after all, except trying to show that one has big balls (even if they don't)?
And yet, there are a million political clickbait sites out there that DID portray the video as really being about killing Jews. And if $COMPANY doesn't fire him for the video, the clickbait sites will report that $COMPANY refused to fire him for his "video about killing Jews". And the reports might be fake, but $COMPANY will lose real business.
Welcome to the brave new world. Anything you say online can and will be used against you, fairly or not.