@Austen Fair enough. By extension then one should not be able to use unrealized gains as collateral. Which is what people (not necessarily founders) do to avoid taxes.
@asymmetricinfo@DKThomp Perhaps pastors in the 50s and 60s had more influence because they tapped into people's yearnings for freedom and equality? Today's pastors appear to want to take away freedom and equality, and that's driving people away.
@AnthonyMKreis When I was in grad school the joke was that to get a technical paper published your first draft would explain every equation and logical progression; what you submitted excised about 80% of would help the reader. Success!
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Why is your renewal site so poor? There's no clear way for me to change my subscription terms on renewal. And you customer service is useless. Give me step-by-step instructions to change my subscription, that don't involve talking to your customer service people.
Illegal immigrants represent 5% of the workforce. This is a very large labor supply shock. And for some industries, this would be multiples of that. Very chaotic and bad, lots of shortages, some prices skyrocketing, some businesses folding. https://t.co/gjWEFMqKkU.
@literaryeric Does this vary by type of book? My (professional/business) book listed at ~$30. My co-author and I got about $1 each, all of which went to retire the advance.