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That sounds nice in theory, but it seems obvious to me there is a major discrepancy between who is burdened with this responsibility, and who benefits from the result. Given many o…

> Lets see AI take the AV2 spec and Dav1d code and try to make a working high performance AV2 decoder. That sounds like one of these high-risk, high-reward things that are great fo…

dav2d author here - the 5x number is just where we currently are, it's not the theoretical limit. We're hopeful that a significant amount of the increase we observe in dav2d relati…

I try but it feels like whack-a-mole to me.

> Can't they be deducted the same way as accountants or other functions? No.

It didn't become law (no 60 votes in senate), after Schumer sat on it for 6 (!) months. And there were earlier attempts to fix this, for example at the end of 2022 using budget/rec…

If the issue is with general tax compliance of large multinationals, then congress should have done something about that. This tax rule has hit small software businesses particular…

LLCs pay 37%, not 21%. Plus state plus local. This can reach 50% in high-tax areas like CA or NY.

One of the reasons small businesses have been hit so hard with this is because for then (when incorporated as LLCs), their tax rate is 37% + state + local. I live in NYC and my LLC…

The opposite of what you're saying is "perfection is the enemy of progress", so let's move past them. I'm asking for more than "this is not the way". What is the way? How will we d…

> We'll correct the ills of the 2017 administration in time How? We have - at times - had democrats in charge since 2017 and they did nothing to resolve this either. We appear to b…

> This isn't changing if it is taxed or not. This is untrue. The rule is not about taxation, but deductions/expenses. If your expenses cover most revenue, you owe little in taxes. …

You're confusing corporate vs personal taxes. The salaries businesses pay are meant to be deductible business expenses. The business only pays taxes over the profit after these exp…

We don't talk about this enough. International R&D is not offshoring of call-centers to India. International R&D is the IP for the next generation of global communication standards…

The way this is "fixed" right now, every five years we need another round of republican government to make things great again. If only enough democrats cared to fix this.

Large companies always find a way to not pay taxes. It's the little guys that end up paying (a lot!) more, to the extend that it cripples and kills them. But transformative innovat…

That part is not so weird, you didn't pay all salaries on January 1st. But amortizing salaries in general is ridiculous.

This is a weird take. Employees are supposed to be business expenses, that's the core idea of running a business: profit = revenue - expenses, where expenses are personnel / materi…

Maybe related - I noticed that hotel room prices in New York dropped, they used to start at $350/night just a few months ago, now you can get them for $150/night.

There's also section-174, which big corporations don't care about but kills smaller businesses left and right.

> I sure hope a broader exploration precedes micro-optimizing register allocation and calling conventions. It should be obvious that both are pursued independently whenever it make…

Binary size was a concern, so excessive inlining was undesirable. And don't forget that any asm-optimized variant always has a C fallback for generic platforms lacking a hand-optim…

> If it's so heavy in assembly, the fact that ffmpeg works on my Mac seems like a miracle. Is it ported by hand? Not ported, but rather re-implemented. So: yes. A bit more detail: …

Sadly no mention of Section-174, which is a contributing factor. As a reminder, TCJA (2017) amended Section-174 (with a 5-year deferral) to require amortization over 5 (domestic) o…

It still surprises me every day that industry insiders discuss our current-era tech downturn and attribute it to a poor investment environment due to increased interest rates, yet …