ryan_h

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   by ryan_h 6y ago

   Holding an asset does not result in a capital gain. The Tax the Billionaires bill wants to tax holding an asset that has appreciated in value. Not only that, but they use a handpicked time boundary that from the bottom of the market crash
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   by ryan_h 6y ago

   Statements by journalists like this and actions like Bernie Sander's Make Billionaires Pay Act shows that either 1) a number of people have no understanding of how asset prices work or 2) they understand the underlying economics, and w
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   by ryan_h 6y ago

   Wikipedia's Co-Founder wrote a blog about a month ago detailing biases in Wikipedia articles: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
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   by ryan_h 7y ago

   I've read all of Gibson's books, but I found Agency hard to finish. The book has two parallel story-lines, and very short chapters which makes it a very disjointed read. The characters were also very flat. For the last quarter of