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The conclusion:
Bolling said the United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free
world." He was referring to the statutory rate, meaning the rate before
deductions. On that score, he’s right: The United States does have the highest
statutory rate among developed countries. However, the United States’ corporate
tax rate doesn’t appear to be the highest once deductions and other exclusions
are taken into account.
I found it an interesting article so I decided to share.For anyone curious, this uses the same idea as the "guess-and-check" approach spullara mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=953569
It changes the content of the commit (by iterating the hash in the commit message itself) until the hash of the child commit matches. A big part of the trick is that it only looks at a prefix of the hash, so the search space is much smaller than the full SHA1 hash.
I have never bought gold, other than in jewelry, I suppose, so I could be wrong about this. As I understand it, transferring gold is actually quite difficult, unless you trust the person. Don't you need to weigh it and test it for purity? Bitcoin transactions over long distance are enormously easier than a gold transaction over long distance, I would imagine, too.