Boring_Business In tech, it’s Section 174: salaries for software devs must be amortized instead of expensed, meaning that dev salaries create big tax liabilities. Congress created a tax penalty for employing developers and companies responded rationally.

I’m a broken record on this but the key to understanding Trump’s trade policy is that he just thinks the act of importing is itself an economic loss. He has zero concept of mutually beneficial transactions.

Tyler Austin Harper It’s my cross to bear in this website to remind everyone that the collapse of the software job market in the US was caused by the forced amortization of dev salaries starting in 2022 under Section 174, which made employing devs a massive tax liability.

Some guy who stopped going to Mass at 15: A key part of being catholic is feeling shame History's greatest theologian, Aquinas: when you're sad, try napping and taking a bath

A lot of people who think slow entry-level white-collar hiring is due to AI should take a look at this tax change and consider that there may be alternative causes.

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TIL that building more houses doesn’t produce more abundant housing. 🙄

It is not a victimless crime to normalize attacking artwork in museums. It leads to: -increased restrictions on visitors -placing plexiglass in front of works/keeping visitors too far back to see brush strokes -making a house for beauty a place you are surveilled and suspected

Ideological conservatism and conservatism in the sense of restrained behavior are only loosely related. New England is conservative in the latter sense, not the former.

It’s great if you feel fulfilled by a job. You can’t rely on a job for fulfillment, though. And it’s insane this is considered even slightly controversial.

Some feelings aren’t valid.

I've now read Aider's diff patching overview, and OpenAI's apply_patch manifesto, I decided you're all INSANE I just changed refactor.ts to use block-based patching, and I thereby and officially declare it the God's chosen patching format re-train your models

I think the FTC needs to see this scam Adobe keeps doing. It’s unreasonable. When is the end user suppose to cancel?

I love AI. I spent my whole youth wishing I had a little robot friend who could teach me a bunch of stuff and help me out. Now it's real, and I'm not going to hate it just because you hate "tech bros" and you need something to whine about on social media.

Standardized intelligence tests are good. Poor and immigrant kids are in fact much more likely to "just be smart" than to have great camp and travel stories.

It can still be rude even if you have a reason for it. Prioritizing your experience of the conversation over others is the essence of rudeness. (Though admittedly I am sometimes guilty of this.)

I think people should try to say true things and try to avoid saying false things. But apparently a lot of people don’t even consider that before they share whatever half-formed thought popped into their head. Sigh.

I'll keep retweeting this until the ralphing stops

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