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Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
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Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily, though that is the hope. This wouldn't directly close the loophole, its meant to be attempt to block it without actually closing it. A huge question I have here is how unrealized gains on nonfinancial assets would be handles. How would the government determine the fair market value of a multimillion dollar mansion, for example? More broadly, how would we justify only taxing unrealized gains on indivi…
With regards to the mansion, doesn't the (state) government already do that with property taxes?
In my experience, state property tax assessments do a decent job at trying to calculate relative values but a terrible job at defining actual property values. Meaning, they may pretty reliably value my house at 10 or 15% less than the house next door based on age or size, but the actual value they put on either house isn't even close to what it would sell for (I've always seen tax assessments come in much lower than market rate).
I don't know how that plays out with mansions though. Whether a mansion is worth $30M or $10M is often hard to predict with the pool of potential buyers being so low.
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#283In Pavel's interview with Tucker Carlson, he mentions how he (VK) met with Zuckerberg, and he told them new features they were planning. And Zuck nicked them all. Zuck is on a major PR campaign drive, I would not trust a word he says.
> And Zuck nicked them all.
I am assuming you believed him because he provided some evidence to support his claims?
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably those accounts are dead because of repeated rule breaking, not because their specific post in this thread broke the rules. And there might be more dead comments here on average because politics+tech draws a lot of a certain type of commenter(the type of commenter that might get banned)
"Presumably" ?? which ones? How do you know?
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Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#285If you want to see what's been "moderated" away from you on Hacker News: Click your username at the upper right: Turn on "showdead": showdead: yes. (defaults to "no") There are a number of dead posts in this thread. I'd post some here (some of which don't appear to violate any HN guidelines, I'll note), but probably those same moderators would kill this one, too.
Of the four dead comments I see, two are content-free trolling and one is a completely unrelated discussion about Jim Jordan. The fourth is a bit more borderline, but I think a reasonable person could conclude that the commenter is more interested in getting people riled up than having a discussion.
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unrealized gains taxes is an extractive and totalitarian tax. Someone is always risking 100% loss until they realize those gains. It's an affront to entrepreneurial risk-taking and it's capricious. It would be just as ridiculous to allow someone to write-off unrealized losses.
Well when you have over 100m in assets in your pile of gold in the dragon lair, its time to be extractive.
How do you know you have over 100m in assets? One never really knows the worth of something until it's sold. (i.e. try selling a used car. there's what you think it's worth and what you get...)
And once the asset is sold, that's a taxable event.
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#287If you want to see what's been "moderated" away from you on Hacker News: Click your username at the upper right: Turn on "showdead": showdead: yes. (defaults to "no") There are a number of dead posts in this thread. I'd post some here (some of which don't appear to violate any HN guidelines, I'll note), but probably those same moderators would kill this one, too.
I always use showdead. There's not a lot of dead comments, but I often (maybe 1 every 4) have to vouch for them.
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#288If you want to see what's been "moderated" away from you on Hacker News: Click your username at the upper right: Turn on "showdead": showdead: yes. (defaults to "no") There are a number of dead posts in this thread. I'd post some here (some of which don't appear to violate any HN guidelines, I'll note), but probably those same moderators would kill this one, too.
HN allows everyone with sufficient karma to vouch for dead comments (or flag comments), I suspect most of the comment-level moderation you see is crowdsourced to fellow commenters; a still-dead comment means most of those who see choose to keep it dead. HN is awesome because of the rules and moderation (including bans); any unmoderated forum devolves into a cesspit; and it only takes a surprisingly few bad apples to…
That's the gospel, for sure.
However, look at the dead comments here and, for each, tell us why it would turn HN into a "cesspit."
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#289If you want to see what's been "moderated" away from you on Hacker News: Click your username at the upper right: Turn on "showdead": showdead: yes. (defaults to "no") There are a number of dead posts in this thread. I'd post some here (some of which don't appear to violate any HN guidelines, I'll note), but probably those same moderators would kill this one, too.
Presumably those accounts are dead because of repeated rule breaking, not because their specific post in this thread broke the rules. And there might be more dead comments here on average because politics+tech draws a lot of a certain type of commenter(the type of commenter that might get banned)
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Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> My understanding of fascism is that it is a political system that is founded on a story of lost national glory that can only be restored by a purification of the land by a strong leader Fascism strikes me as a historical term more than a political one. Its most-commonly agreed upon definition is something like political economic systems that resemble those of Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany. (Both governments em…
That might be the old definition of fascism; but like many words, it has been completely redefined in today's political climate.
The new definition, it seems, is anyone to disagrees with your political viewpoint and makes an effort to push back. Under this definition, it is politically convenient to call your opponent one and be technically right; regardless of where on the political spectrum you find yourself.