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brutalhonesty commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs   qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal
testrun · 7 months ago
It seems that there is quite a bit of confusion about this. What this does is that it reduce your deductible cost in the tax year.

First you have to make a profit (tax is on profits). Secondly, what this does is to limit your software development expenses for tax purposes in the current year because the development cost is seen as a capital cost that will be amortized over five years opposed to operating expenditure in the same year.

If you are a startup and not make profits, then the loss will be less in the current year, but either way, your tax liability is the same: $ 0.

So software development is moved from opex to capex.

brutalhonesty · 7 months ago
Profit is determined by expenses though.

A simple example to illustrate:

Say you had 100k revenue and 1 software developer you pay 100k per year.

Under the new law, you can only deduct 20k of the developer’s salary, so your profit is 80k, which you have to pay taxes on.

However, you have $0 in the bank because you earned 100k and paid out 100k in salary.

See how that is problematic?

brutalhonesty commented on Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/mikhael
geye1234 · 10 months ago
Is there some sort of Pareto principle that could be applied to reducing plastic intake? Can someone suggest a few easy steps that would cause >50% reduction in plastic intake, for those who don't have time to dig through the research, and can't make drastic life changes?

I'll offer "don't microwave in plastic containers" as a starter for ten.

Second might be "get a metal water bottle".

brutalhonesty · 10 months ago
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brutalhonesty commented on Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making   nabraj.com/blog/basketbal... · Posted by u/_tqr3
raincole · 10 months ago
It's such an arrogant comment.

"Really basic math"? Do you think NBA coaches reached this conclusion like this:

1. A player can throw X 2-points in a game.

2. Or he can throw Y 3-points in a game.

3. 3Y > 2X, so we should just throw 3-points all the time.

It's absolutely not what happened. And the reason teams didn't discovery the current strategy decades earlier was absolutely not that they couldn't do basic math.

brutalhonesty · 10 months ago
It really is basic math though.

A 3 point shot with 36% chance to go in (league average) = 1.08 points per attempt.

A mid-range 2 point shot with 45% chance to go in = .9 points per attempt.

The math is very basic.

brutalhonesty commented on Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you?    · Posted by u/throwaway494749
brutalhonesty · 2 years ago
Most of our clients either ended our contracts or scaled us way back. Normally we have to turn business away but now I feel fortunate to have full-time work.

u/brutalhonesty

KarmaCake day5October 9, 2014View Original