tacticalturtle

The purpose as I’ve understood it is that it’s to enact fairness between a business that makes steady profits every year - and a business that alternates between losses and profits year to year.

They first enacted this in 1919. And then repealed it in 1933. Then when they restored in 1939, they clarified:

> The bill, together with the committee amendments, permits taxpayers to carry over net operating business losses for a period of 2 years. Prior to the Revenue Act of 1932, such 2-year carry-over was allowed. No net loss has ever been allowed for a greater period than 2 years. In the Revenue Act of 1932, the 2-year net loss carry-over was reduced to 1 year and in the National Industrial Recovery Act the net loss carry-over was entirely eliminated. As a result of the elimination of this carry-over, a business with alternating profit and loss is required to pay higher taxes over a period of years than a business with stable profits, although the average income of the two firms is equal. New enterprises and the capital-goods indus- tries are especially subject to wide fluctuations in earnings. It is, therefore, believed that the allowance of a net operating business loss carry-over will greatly aid business and stimulate new enter- prises." (Emphasis supplied.) H. R. Rep. No. 855, 76th Cong., 1st Sess.

From the footnote in page 6 of:

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

There. I’ve now done more work to validate my claim than the New York Times expert ever did.

I don’t know what they were saying in 1919 - but when a provision and its legitimate justification has existed for 80+ years, I think the NYT expert is being a bit ridiculous to suggest that a principle is being abused.

I suspect the commenter didn’t actual read the article, but is inferring from past articles.

Some of the NYT’s past articles on accounting practices have been… strange to say the least.

This one from the last year on SpaceX was one of my favorites, with one of the experts claiming without evidence that carrying forward operating losses was only ever intended for companies struggling in difficult times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/technology/spacex-musk-go...

But yeah, this article seems to be pointing out something that may be legitimately wrong, and Meta has disclosed that as a risk.

I was surprised by how much I liked the Muse avatar and its customization options. It’s very good at coming up with something decent looking based on your prompts, and animating it.

The services without the custom avatar now feel like they’re missing something.

As a kid I used to love the video game “Megaman Battle Network”, which depicts a world where everyone walks around with an PDA device carrying a fully customized AI buddy that navigates the internet for them. It was the first time I felt like we were getting close to that.

But even with the nostalgia, I don’t think I can ever connect up a Meta owned agent service to all of my accounts and information.

> go through structured clinical training with patients within each medical specialty, supervised by an attending physician

No, residency is within a specific specialty only.

It’s more like the clinical rotations that occur in year 3 and 4 of medical school in the U.S.

Joe Rogan also famously had Alex Jones and Bob Lazar, multiple times as a guest… I wouldn’t turn around and claim that makes them mainstream.

Who were the mainstream voices saying this?

My layman definition is it’s the people writing in major newspapers, the people getting paid by CNN to sit in a half circle on their news analysis shows, etc.

Is Peter Zeihan “mainstream”?

The only time I remember anyone speculating that Russia was in trouble was the short lived Wagner Rebellion - because nothing like it had happened before. But that lasted … two days?

I replaced some parts on my M1 MacBook Air.

For 90% of the parts it’s honestly pretty easy to work with. You just need a few screwdrivers. And I sourced all my parts from eBay.

The documentation is excellent:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/100586

The only thing that’s egregious is the batteries. They tape the batteries to the case, and to remove them you have to do this complex twirling motion with tweezers to pull the tape out from under the battery. If the tape snaps during this then the documentation basically says get a new case.

Which itself is a dupe of the original reporting on this by 404 media:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742

It’s been stunning how often this story is reposted from various news sources across Reddit and Hacker News.

Each time it’s some different outlet - but when you dig in, the piece is just verbal framing around the original story written by 404 media:

https://archive.is/9MQrK

What’s even more stunning is that the original article doesn’t provide evidence that “rare” books are being destroyed. That doesn’t even appear in the original article title.

Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you:

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr...

They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers didn’t choose physical media.

It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...

At this point it’s a pretty small portion.

Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...

> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment).

This is actually just the first step - to propose an amendment.

To ratify it requires 3/4 of the state legislatures (or state “conventions”) to vote in favor.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution

Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs

Because a demographic crisis is a real problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_South_Korea

Because there are 3 solutions to this problem:

1. Improve Technology so that a smaller working age cohort can support a larger elderly cohort

2. Increase the birth rate, which no developed country has managed to sustain

3. Increase migration

1 and 2 are theoretical - no has proved that this can work.

It’s perfectly fine for the Swedes to decide that 3) is not for them.

We’re on a discussion board - Why wouldn’t I be able to comment on a country’s policies?

Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...

You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi.

Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.

My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it.

When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and approved it.

I figure that’s the script, or maybe he had a chronic issue of running over his own phone.

In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend

Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format?

> Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other consoles, such as PlayStation 3, 4, 5, and the Xbox One/Series consoles, technically work, but the content on physical media for these consoles is encrypted.

Breaking encryption is definitely “illegal” - but backing up a binary format is not. I can backup my GBA cartridges ROMs for personal archival use if I have a device that can read them.

I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1549#...

The upstream also had this issue, which appeared to be closed without a PR:

https://github.com/bitwarden/server/issues/3650

Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists.

Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like national professional sports leagues. I’d hate for ownership of a consumer device to become codified as a requirement for participation in activities like this.

In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.

I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though.

The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out of luck - because you can clearly reasonably accommodate them without causing “undue financial hardship” by giving them tickets at will-call.

> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship.

According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it.

See: the US using special forces to kidnap Maduro

Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation.

In a source posted by another commenter, their wages are accountable for 5% of the difference.

I also don’t think it’s accurate to say regulations are what’s prohibiting an increase in nurses. They don’t have a government imposed mechanism like residency funding that creates a bottleneck like the one in medical training.

We have a nurse shortage because we have an aging population increasing demand, it’s a tough job, and people are leaving the profession.

I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs:

> However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique data on physician income — shows that physicians’ personal earnings account for only 8.6 percent of national health-care spending

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/just-how-much-do-physicians-...

You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers.

There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that the grand jury is easily mislead - but in my anecdotal experience of serving on a grand jury - this isn’t really true. We definitely said no to overreaches.

And you can also see this happening in high profile cases with the Trump administration:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwic...

Ignoring that, it’s not clear to me why removing jury trials would reduce the likelihood of a prosecutor throwing a larger number of charges at a defendant. Prosecutors want to demonstrate a record of convictions. That career pressure is still going to exist without jury trials - they’re going to throw anything they can and see what sticks.

*Fun Fact - Sol Wachtler, the judge who coined this, was later convicted of multiple felonies, including blackmailing an ex-lover and threatening to kidnap her daughter. A bit more substantial than a ham sandwich.

The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”:

> In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil infractions, function as “quasi-criminal” proceedings because they can result in monetary penalties, a formal finding of guilt, and consequences tied to a driver’s record.

Which seems to just relabel any fine from the government as a criminal matter?

IMO when you register the vehicle for the right to drive on public roads, you are entering into an agreement that you will be responsible for following the rules of the road, and for lending the car to people who also do so.

Similarly, if I register a firearm legally, and then lend it out to anyone who asks, regardless of whether they follow the law, I don’t think it would be crazy to hold me financially responsible if a shooting happens with my gun.

Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...

There’s no secret sauce here - their guess as to how the case is going is as good as any outside observer, and based on the questions made by the justices.

> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that.

But they don’t?

Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all pay, including the IP holders, do the funding.

Additionally retail theft, at least in my jurisdiction of Massachusetts is prosecuted by the state - my income taxes fund that, not property taxes.