The tax code encourages expansionism under Spanish law, goodwill acquired during foreign takeovers is tax-deductible.
But right now in the United States, the tax code encourages many people to take out big mortgages.
Today's code encourages staggered facades and rooflines, balconies, garages with side entries and windows that don't intrude on a neighbor's privacy.
Because interest payments are deductible and dividends are not, the tax code encourages companies to raise capital by borrowing rather than issuing dividend-paying stock.
And who is to say that the retro design the code encourages will not look schlocky and out of place in 30 years.
This code encourages construction of housing for people 62 and over with a maximum annual income limit based on federal guidelines.
In other ways the code encourages firms to buy unnecessary equipment, or perform R&D of questionable value.It also picks winning industries.
This does happen occasionally (the tax code encourages debt), but banks would not be lending money to private equity-owned companies, decade after decade, if those companies weren't generally prosperous and creditworthy.
The absurdly long and complex US tax code encourages avoidance on a grand scale and results in almost no company paying the full rate; Pfizer itself has been so adept at avoiding tax through foreign subsidiaries that it claims not to have made a dime in profit in the US since 2007.
Therefore, the learned binary code encourages semantically similar images to have small Hamming distance.
