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People here don't like C# for some reason, I write really complex business logic with it every day and it is not only easy to write, it is maintainable as well. My own JS code with lot less complexity is way harder to understand after a while.

It was deliberate, on one of the financial summits over the future of financial system after WWII a US changed all the word of GOLD to USD. there was a planet money episode about it.

I know people in HN hate to talk about politics, but this is a political problem.

People, please vote for medicare for all candidates, it might not affect your life now, but you don't know what the future holds for you.

Government is forcing people to pay their taxes, so Government needs to provide a free and easy way for people to pay their taxes.

so let me elaborate a bit, all the people that work on this agencies are employees, they are not politicians.

If a politician influenced by a lobbyist start to question the decision of an agency, have hearings, grill the management on the reasons they decided to waste tax payers money, etc. that is not fun for those employees.

There is no incentive for that trouble and people try to avoid it as much as possible.

I am the developer in charge of CalFile, the free filing software that everyone asks for here for state of California.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/inde...

I am pushing so hard to make it better and more useful to more people, like being able to add capital gain that is not currently supported.

these are the push backs that I am getting:

1. Last time they tried to do what all of you ask, a ready return. TurboTax and others hired bunch of lobbyist and put so much pressure on people here and killed the project. People are still afraid and don't want to do too much to grab the attention of their lobbyist!

2. Use of CalFile goes down every year and if trend continues, it would be killed in the near future.

when you have your Federal return it is much easier to pay a little more and file your state tax with it too. No body even knows CalFile exist because we don't have a marketing budget to promote it.

3. Even people here buy the argument that free software exist and people could file their taxes for free.

What bill? Printing money is not a bill

Yes, print money and pay for student loans!

Up to a $50 statement credit for online subscription services after you spend $5,000 on your card per year

In average more entitled people are expecting more from the world. this is proven by studies.

It is more like they think they are better than us, and "but really they think they are better than us".

This studies are not even about the super-rich, people with like $50k cars are showing less consideration toward people that they fell are poorer.

and what the downsize would be for the doctor? If he could cure him, the doctor gets a fortune, if the treatment didn't work, he goes disabled or worse. I don't want to be that patient!

Capitalism doesn't work for everything!

they cut it to be able to tap it, by cutting the cables they forces Germans to use the radio that easily could be listen to!

Kill bitcoin!

Government works on law not on what makes sense, if the punishment you are describing is not in the law. they can't do it! and have to process all the filings.

You have crisis in anything that people have to have, like housing, medicine, medical care, etc.

it is defiantly how probability works.

if you bet on an event with 50% chance of earning $1 or 0. your bet is worth $0.50

you need the bet to worth $0, and that is only possible by making CEOs financially liable, and that would never happen, nor is realistic, a CEO's decision could cost company billions.

so by this analogy the riskier the CEO's actions the outcome is greater for them.

if the bet pays off, they win big, if it doesn't the shareholders lose.

the bad is not possible, if a CEO make a decision with a chance of 50/50 being a good or bad decision. if it is a good decision CEO makes lots of money, if it is bad they get 0.

that is not a good thing, out of 2 monkeys throwing darts one of them will make money.

I go a level deeper, does any person working in the same company deserve 1000x more compensation than average worker?

This is a discrimination issue, and this thread is full of comments about people that have not been discriminated against. good for you, but it doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

How you would know that? You only could know after it happened. Evolution is random.

if I get that much pay cut, I would ask for at least 5%! yes, you are drawing salary but not market rate, so think about it this way, if you don't take salary, do they make you co-founder with 33% equity?

is it really debatable? how could giving China printed paper for their goods be bad for US economy?

Great, now US can print more money and get even more stuff out of china for cheap. US will be more prospect and chines would be employed. win win?

Bernie!

keeping 100% cash is not risk-free if feds keep lowering dollars we could run into inflation and hyper inflation. so keeping cash could be the riskiest thing to do in that scenario!

Why do entities who aren't American trust Microsoft, Google , Amazon or apple?

It is not easy because food industry has power over what you eat, and they are making lots of money killing the rest of society!!! You could compare that to the big tech companies if you are privacy concerned, they have lots of power over you and you need to be careful all the time.

you need name and shame if you are a civil activist not when you are government!!!!!

Thank you, now I understand why politicians are always only talking about subsidize housing!

They could get both sides votes, increase the price of houses and claim to do something for affordability without actually attacking the problem of supply and demand.

Because holding cash costs money, you need to have a big place to stash it and keep it secure. Some banks are trying to do that though, but it is not easy to do in scale of billions.