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We Need a New Green Revolution – The New York Times
January 6, 2016For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions – NYTimes.com
January 5, 2016For Wealthiest…Tax System…Saves Them Billions http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/economy/for-the-wealthiest-private-tax-system-saves-them-billions.html Since ’12 #tax for 1%ers flat at 24% v for top .1% down >3% to 18%
QT:{{"From Mr. Obama’s inauguration through the end of 2012, federal income
tax rates on individuals did not change (excluding payroll taxes). But
the highest-earning one-thousandth of Americans went from paying an
average of 20.9 percent to 17.6 percent. By contrast, the top 1
percent, excluding the very wealthy, went from paying just under 24
percent on average to just over that level.
“We do have two different tax systems, one for normal wage-earners and
another for those who can afford sophisticated tax advice,” said
Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of San Diego who
studies the intersection of tax policy and inequality. “At the very
top of the income distribution, the effective rate of tax goes down,
contrary to the principles of a progressive income tax system.”
"}}
The Blind Watchmaker – Simplest selector is a hole
January 4, 2016QT:{{”
The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness. The world is full of such systems. The simplest example I can think of is a hole. Only objects smaller than the hole can pass through it. This means that if you start with a random collection of objects above the hole, and some force shakes and jostles them about at random, after a while the objects above and below the hole will come to be nonrandomly sorted. The space below the hole will tend to contain objects smaller than the hole, and the space above will tend to contain objects larger than the hole. Mankind has, of course, long exploited this simple principle for generating non-randomness, in the useful device known as the sieve. “}}
Declassified: U.S. Military’s Secret Cold War Space Project Revealed – Scientific American
January 4, 2016A Field Guide to Psychedelics – The New Yorker
January 3, 2016A Field Guide to #Psychedelics
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-planners much quasi-medical info on simple erowid.org site, run by a NoCal couple
Dimensional Fund Advisors
January 3, 2016index investing
Google Docs now lets you type with your voice
January 3, 2016The Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2016 – WSJ
January 3, 2016Animal echolocation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 2, 2016Mind Mapping Software: Mind Maps | MindMeister
December 31, 2015perhaps useful for workflow viz
https://www.mindmeister.com/
