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I've seen previous discussions about this on HN but there seemed to be disagreement about whether this change required developer salaries to be treated as R+D or only allowed it.

If this is really the way it works, defining some salaries as necessarily not being deductible from revenues, then it makes no sense for multiple reasons.

First the developers are still paying income tax on their salaries so that money is getting doubly taxed in the year the revenues are received.

Second the government generally seeks to encourage employment. This would have the exact opposite effect because any employee you hire who's doing software development would cost you (1 + 4/5) times their salary in the near term.

I wonder how much of the downturn in tech employment this year is being caused by this.

I have a hard time understanding why this so bad and the article does nothing to explain it. As I understand it companies only pay taxes on their profits, which generally speaking is what's left after expenses, including salaries, are subtracted. If that's the case then why would higher taxes on profits force a company out of business or to layoff staff. If anything layoffs would tend to have the short term effect of increasing profits, which would only further increase taxes.

I can understand how a sudden unexpected change to the tax code could catch people off guard and cause short term problems but overall I don't see why this particular change should be so devastating once any transient effects have been absorbed.

The article warns against doing this if your /boot filesystem is encrypted.

That may all be true, like I said I'm no expert in this domain, but none of that is obvious from just looking at the app. I think you'll need to find some way to convey the advantages that your app has to the kinds of people who would be interested in those features.

You must have put a great deal of work into this to create such a high-quality UI and handle all of those proprietary file formats. What was your goal when you started working on this ? I doubt you planned to just host it somewhere and hope the right people would find it.

I'll worry about that when I see it write correct code to render a circle in OpenGL.

I'm not a big user of this kind of application but I played around with it a little. The UI appears to be very well implemented but at first glance it looks like you more or less ported gimp to the web. I'm not sure there would be a huge market for that sort of thing given that anyone can use gimp for free.

> I think the base of the problem is that the heat pumps he has installed are simply inappropriate for his climate.

The question is whether there is such a thing as a heat pump that's appropriate for use in the Northeastern US. It seems unlikely to me that someone with this person's level of engagement would have stupidly chosen to install the wrong kind of heat pump or chosen an installer incapable of recommending the best options.

I live in New York State and the government is nearing the point of banning gas installations in new construction here. I have yet to see any real cost benefit analysis for such a policy in a state with such cold winters.

It's good to see a politician actually doing their own analysis rather than just following every fad. It's a characteristic that is sorely lacking from the US political class.

Well a year ago I ordered the exact same item and it was delivered by UPS directly to my door with no issues whatsoever. One of the big issues is unpredictability. Who want's to buy online if actually getting your purchase delivered competently is a complete crap shoot ?

> Like fedex, ups and dhl ?

Yes, but how many online retailers allow the buyer to choose from multiple delivery options ? Amazon certainly doesn't (except maybe for a very few large and very expensive items).

The USPS appears to be misrepresenting its ability to deliver large and/or heavy packages. It does so in writing on its various websites where the weights and sizes of packages it accepts are published. The fact that others have experienced this suggests that it is not a one-off issue but that there is likely an element of knowledge and intentionality on the part of the USPS administration. What then is missing from the definition of fraud ?

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> Is there a guarantee in writing that they will deliver it to your door?

I'm not sure, but I believe that is the general understanding most people have of the nature of the service being offered. If the USPS and/or Amazon were clear that by deliver they mean send a package to somewhere within a few miles of where you live then consumers would be able to take that into account when deciding which vendors to frequent (and many who are able would probably opt for their local Home Depot over Amazon). Moreover it would open the marketplace for competitors to offer higher quality delivery services on fair and clear terms.

That's great but it's unfortunate that all of that effort seems only to have improved things at one post office. Given the number of upvotes my comment has gotten this must be a fairly widespread problem.

For me as a disabled person it's the difference between being able to get my package or not and then maybe getting refunded or not. For the majority of people it may be more of an inconvenience but they are still losing time and effort on something that they actually paid to have done.

I'm no lawyer but I think that when you advertise that you are going to do something and then try to foist that responsibility off on the consumer incurring costs for them and savings for you are committing fraud as it is defined by law.

Yep, it's basically fraud against the consumer being perpetrated by an agency of the US government. Not that that excuses Amazon. If anyone should know which carriers to use to reliably ship packages it should be them.

The USPS claims to deliver large heavy packages but doesn't. I just found a note in my mailbox saying "too heavy to lift, pick it up at the loading dock". Not helpful when you're disabled and don't drive. The box is supposed to only be 40 lbs but it is large.

It's not necessarily an easy problem to solve because as technologies like ChatGPT get deployed they will be able to effectively handle more and more customer issues. So I think it's going to be a more and more rapidly changing landscape. I do think that, at least for payed services, there will need to always be a human fallback that you can get through to if the system can't resolve your issue to your satisfaction, even when 90 to 99% of requests can be handled automatically.

For companies that don't provide that I guess for now the solution is to not do business with them.

Yeah, but with the difference in price you'd have to need to replace your SSD monthly for DRAM to come out cheaper and I highly doubt you'd be writing data that fast.

> However, there reasonable reasons for wanting a DRAM-Drive.

What would those be ?

$1 per GB is $1000 per TB. I just bought a 1TB SSD for about $70. With such a large price difference you'd be better off buying a new SSD every year or more often, if you're worried about it wearing out.

What would be the advantage of having a SATA drive with DRAM instead of an SSD ?

The only potential advantage I see would be read and write speed, but aren't SSD's already fast enough to saturate the SATA bus ? Isn't that why NVME offers better performance than SATA ?

What is clear is that for equivalent capacity DRAM is much more expensive than an SSD.

My guess is that if no one is making a product like what you are asking about it's because it offers no real advantage over the much cheaper solution of adding another SSD.

What API are they using for interfacing with the GPU (ie. OpenGL, Vulkan, other ) ?

I suspect a lot of time is likely to be spent on the CPU side updating vertex and other data and pushing it to the GPU so it would be useful to have some more detail on how they are handling that.

> From my perpective, the best way to learn or improve a new language is to practice it in a country where it's the official language.

That's true but you have to achieve a certain level of proficiency before you start looking for a job that requires you to speak another language. I don't know where you are located but it's likely you can find many ways to practice and improve your English. There must be online communities for people pursuing that goal, since I know there are for other languages.

This post suggests that your English communications skills could use some work. That might have something to do with your difficulties.

EDIT to add some hopefully helpful information:

> I may have 2 years of experience in the Cloud

That statement makes no sense. Either you have 2 years of experience or you don't.

I think if you make that statement to a potential employer it will raise a huge red flag.

There were some other unclear and/or non-idiomatic things in your post but that is the biggest issue.

I suspect what you meant was something like: "Though I have 2 years of experience in the Cloud ..." but that's not at all how it came across to me initially.

It's political. A significant portion of Americans, mostly conservatives, are unable to accept that anything not invented in the US could be superior to what they are accustomed to.

There was a push toward adopting the metric system under Carter but since then the right wingers have been largely in control of the political discourse.

> But almost nobody seems to be interested in finding out, for some reason, despite them routinely flying in our restricted airspace without permission.

Congress seems very interested in finding out. There is legislation in both the 2022 and 2023 Nation Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA) that mandates government investigation of UAP. An unclassified report was supposed to be delivered to Congress last October but for unknown reasons it has been delayed.

If that's the case it couldn't have been very well publicized, since I graduated from Cornell in 91 and never heard of it.

The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.

Have you tried simulating your ideas in software ? There's nothing an FPGA can do that a software simulation can't. The only advantage of the FPGA would be speed.

The level of hardship imposed is going to be minimal once the black market structures are in place. These kinds of sanctions may have had an effect in the first few months of the war but that effect has probably vanished to practically nothing by now.

At the same time sanctions and export restrictions impose costs on the US and its allies. Those costs aren't worth it if the restrictions aren't themselves effective, which they almost certainly won't be for common off the shelf components.

Why would you think the supplier is centralized when any of X billion people could have bought the component or a product containing it and sold it to someone who sold it to someone who sold it to Iran ?

Trying to prevent common cheap components that almost anyone in the world can order online from falling into the hands of adversaries is a lost cause. It would require shutting down over half the economy and instituting a draconian and virtually totalitarian control regime. The Biden administration seems to be playing from a 1960's era playbook that makes zero sense in the 21st century.