I at least knew it was coming, and could have guessed the general shape of some of the problems (because while not being present in America for two decades I did read during the interim), but some of it is just flabbergasting systems design.
@patio11
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U.S. Healthcare System Experience Leaves Patient Bewildered
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Ruriko had her first experience with U.S. healthcare taking one of the kids to Immediate Care for routine childhood issues, and several days later is still in a state of befuddlement about it.
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Software Companies Face Tax Rule Changes on Engineer Salaries
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Fun fact which is in no way fun: software businesses are currently sweating related issue. A change in rules lead to engineer salaries moving to presumptively capitalized versus presumptively deductible, which has effect of ballooning current-year taxable income of cos.
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IP Investment Tax Treatment: Capitalization vs. Immediate Deduction
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I'm not in the movie business, but hypothetically if one were to invest to develop an IP, typically one would be forced to capitalize those (deduct ratably over useful economic life of the IP). Total failure of the investment, OTOH, lets you realize/deduct immediately.
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Cryptocurrency Executives Face Legal Accountability Issues
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That phrase is a legal formula and if you Ctrl-F it in, say, various indictments, you will see it used not infrequently regarding cryptocurrency executives who have a very casual relationship with their responsibilities under the law.
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Management Knowledge and Recklessness in AI Accountability
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That sounds like a fact which might in the future be phrased as "[management] knew or were reckless in not knowing…"
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Operational Losses Visibility in Business Accounting
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It's definitely somewhere (*), but very frequently, the person one is actually speaking to cannot see it. * Except when it's not, which while mindblowing does happen. That's why you have an Operational Losses account.
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Tax Cliffs Impact Small Business Behavior and Policy
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The term of art in policy circles for this sort of thing is a “tax cliff” and you can see them in many places relevant to small businesses, including in places where it is abundantly unlikely that it is a reporting artifact versus an actual change in behavior.
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ChatGPT annotates graph: VAT threshold already marked
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“Hey ChatGPT, could you please annotate this graph with a vertical line showing the VAT registration threshold? … What do you mean someone already did that? … Oh.”
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Tether connections to crypto fraud schemes examined
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(And of course he’s also deeply up-to-the-neck involved in Tether because can you imagine someone with that profile not being in bed with Tether? Which, ahem, another point of commonality with the FTX crew.)