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Using tax preparation software is the cheap (or free!) alternative to what millions of Americans are doing. It was a change for the better for people who didn't do their own taxes. A regular person's taxes can always be done electronically for free, or if they really want, for $20-$100 through tax prep software.
What millions of Americans do is pay a local accountant hundreds of dollars. The accountant pays himself out of their refund. He is "their guy" who is going to find all the "loopholes" to get them the biggest possible refund. He is also a shield between them and the vengeful and anal IRS that will garnish their paychecks or possibly even imprison them for making mistakes. (This is how the accountants market things, not reality.)
The masses generally don't want to "fix" e-filing/tax prep because a) you can already do it for free if you want to, it just requires a third-party which may be dumb but isn't getting most people fired up or b) they don't care about tax prep software at all because they're using an accountant.
https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/return-preparer-office...
There are 800k people out there with Preparer Tax Identification Numbers(PTINs) being paid to file other people's taxes. Looking around for the estimates for the actual stats of the percentages of people supposed to use these preparers varies from 25-55%.
> "It is the French equivalent of what the U.S. announced with Stargate. It is the same proportion," Macron said.
It's like "if your going to sell chips to China, you have to spend some of the money funding non-Chinese tech".
Nokia's capabilities to deliver 5G networks is a direct competitor to Huawei, right?
Is Nvidia functionally an strategic hedge fund of the US Government? Would this fall under Jeffrey Sach's realm?
Interesting. Trump and the Finnish President meet a few weeks ago and explicitly discussed Nokia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmnKjx3LYw
ch --input-format LineAsString --query "SELECT line, count() AS c GROUP BY line ORDER BY c DESC" < data.txt
time LC_ALL=C sort data.txt | uniq -c | sort -rn > /dev/null
32 sec.
time hist data.txt > /dev/null
14 sec.
time ch --input-format LineAsString --query "SELECT line, count() AS c GROUP BY line ORDER BY c DESC" < data.txt > /dev/null
2.7 sec.
[1] https://clickhouse.com/docs/operations/utilities/clickhouse-...
Sounds like they entered into a contact to develop and sell the CM0 to several large manufacturers who happen to all be in China, hence the launch. But then discovered the supply of ram chips that it uses is extremely low (they apparently stopped manufacturing them years ago) and they want to direct as many of them as possible towards the Pi Zero 2.
So we will probably see a follow up to both later, and the CM0-B (or whatever they call it) will be more widely available.
Perhaps these RAM chips are more readily available in China through some means. There are companies that will extend the lifetime of a product if you can get them the design, we've used it for niche (expensive) RAMs. Surprised that would be worth it for something at the low end. Maybe they just have a huge pile of them in China.