Oh interesting. In 2022, the company I worked for folded because a primary investor spontaneously pulled out. We were nearly 100% R&D and the sudden change in relationship was surprising.
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
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Re: The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
#662The title of this article implies that it is a major or even the only cause for mass tech layoffs, which I strongly doubt.
For example, rising interest rates I'm sure also independently contributed. I would be interested to if anyone has gotten a sense of exactly how much this has contributed.
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> almost no lying and cheating here Are you living in an alternate world?
If you’ve never lived outside the US you have zero idea how bad it gets. It literally is an alternate world. The amount of daily activities in the US that just work 99.999999% of the time that would have a corruption aspect in some other countries is mind boggling. The closest analogy I can come up with is imagine if every money transaction involved cash tipping the parties involved. And that’s just the beginning.
Like tipping the licensing agent every time you had to renew your driver’s license or get plates. Or tipping the judge for a favorable judgement.
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> a source control system that hides the source files from the contributor's view of the repository. How would that work? > You'd need a custom license where everyone in the world could use the results except for the contributor That one is incompatible with copyright laws in many countries outside USA.
> That one is incompatible with copyright laws in many countries outside USA. How so? You can't sign away your interest in a copywrighted work?
The USA hasn’t managed to completely impose their idea of intellectual property on everyone yet. Some countries you can’t sign away authorship even if you can commercial rights.
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Just last year, Congress snapped to attention and wrote and quickly passed a bill to ban the eminent national security threat of a video-sharing app. That bill doesn't do anything else. Just a reminder that Congress, even now, can rapidly act on a laser focus when it is sufficiently motivated.
Perhaps not the best example to choose given that the president managed to fully ignore that law. Tik-Tok remains unbanned to this day despite there being no sale.
The President is ignoring a lot of laws of various vintages. That's not generally under the purview of Congress.
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Just last year, Congress snapped to attention and wrote and quickly passed a bill to ban the eminent national security threat of a video-sharing app. That bill doesn't do anything else. Just a reminder that Congress, even now, can rapidly act on a laser focus when it is sufficiently motivated.
Because almost no voters would be against the bill and it harms almost none of the supporters of representatives
If you think no voters would be against the bill, I would suggest your model of our media landscape could use a refresher.
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Repealing SB174 has bipartisan support. The house already passed its repeal but it died in Senate because a separate took (that also repealed it) took its place but that separate bill stalled out. 174 is so small it can't go through both chambers on its own so it needs to get attached a larger bill like OBBA. It's unfortunate because it appears both sides want this repealed to allow immediate amortization of domestic…
> 174 is so small it can't go through both chambers on its own so it needs to get attached a larger bill like OBBA. There's a minimum size for laws?
Anything that's not a budget reconciliation bill can just get filibustered in the senate by the minority party. That's why they're attaching everything to the OBBBA.
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This civic control correlation can simply have more to do with the most-white-supremacist Democrats switching to the GOP en masse and also simultaneously leaving multiethnic cities and school districts en masse after the 1960s. That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with. Your implication that policy dysfunction has ensued on that account rather than…
> That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with. So by your logic New York is a better governed state than Florida? Net internal migration would seem to disagree.
Is it your opinion that the only factor relevant for those deciding what state to move to is quality of government?
I'm surprised that things like the job market wouldn't come into play, for example.
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This is one of the worst things MAGA has done. Tech startups are the source of so much of our wealth, and this makes it very challenging to ever build one. I can’t believe this still exists, and no one has changed it. We truly are governed by morons
It is being roled back partly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028106
Until is is rolled back, it isn't rolled back.
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Most presidents care about legacy, at least to me it seems like trump holds that as a higher priority than most.
>me it seems like trump holds that as a higher priority than most Why?
He seems to care immensely about being viewed as the "winner" and the "best" at everything.
I also have to assume that anyone interested in slapping their name in big gold letters on as many buildings as possible is interested in the perception of legacy.