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The U.S. is actually one of the best in terms of demographics in the western world. We make up for it with immigration. Most of the western world is declining much faster than the U.S.


I thought employee wages were always deducted. Is that not the case ?


Under the new section 174, software developer salaries are no longer expensable.


Just as an aside - as a general accounting principle, no, wages are not always deducted.

The easy example is a car company, like Ford. If they buy a car factory, that is a capital asset, and the cost needs to be amortized over x years. If they decide to instead BUILD a car factory...they still end up with a capital asset, and the costs (including wages) need to be amortized over x years.

In most cases this is what companies want - they'll have revenues over x years and matching costs over x years is generally better for everyone.


these people are not coerced, or inadequately rewarded. they are choosing to do this job and are being paid above-market wages (for _their_ market).


If their penetration testing didn’t perform fuzzing then you may want to look into a new pen test provider. Fuzz testing is default on most pen tests (I do this professionally)


skip the search engine for now. offload that to site:domain.com "search" on google. focus on your niche and delegate where you can. if you can't see why I am saying this, then you need somebody to help you prioritize cause search is not it when you can delegate it to google in less than a day.


its a simple 2 year cookie for every browser. it's not that complicated.


i haven't seen it posted before, but i've noticed many (if not all) Checker's (Rally's for some) burger restaurants have automated drive-thru order taker. You speak what you want and can upgrade sizes and so on and I've never had it not get my order correct.

Newer versions with the ChatGPT-like AI is definitely closer than people think. and Customer Service jobs are a very large amount of employment here and overseas. Bad for lots of people.


Altman did say that customer service jobs will likely be the first casualty. Voice AI is already close to human-like.

Countries like Phillippines will suffer a lot. In India, the BPO industry alone employs over 4M people, and this is the first step towards middle-class for a lot of people. If this is taken away, I don't know what they will do.


He’s talking about people getting $10 million plus. Not the scraps like you and I.


but the infrastructure for trains is too costly. what if we could reuse the existing infrastructure and everything else you said. we could call these autonomous vehicles 'busses' or something like that.


they have the power to leave the stock. nobody is forcing them to be stuck with this arrangement but themselves.


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