thinking of quitting my computer science phd program to become a professional piano tuner. many apparent benefits
– get to work with hands (touch grass every day)
– solve interesting problems (tuning pianos)
– make more money (many pianos, few tuners, basic supply and demand)
ECONOMY
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PhD dropout considers piano tuning career over computer science
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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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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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Digital Asset Management Platforms: Security and Trust in Banking
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Banking today requires accessible platforms for digital asset management. Investors seek tools to handle digital and traditional assets, focusing on security, transparency, and low fees. Trust is vital in this evolving digital finance landscape. Microblog @antgrasso #finserv
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AI’s Promise: Radical Abundance Across Food Energy Healthcare Education
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What's a good outcome for AI? a world where we harness its potential for radical abundance in food, energy, materials, transport, healthcare, and education. With careful management, the future looks incredibly promising! https://
finance.yahoo.com/news/qa-with-a
i-expert-and-deepmind-co-founder-mustafa-suleyman-things-are-about-to-be-very-different-124814894.html
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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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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.)
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Justin Sun’s Crypto Empire: Misappropriation and Leverage Schemes
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(If you have not followed this saga, Justin Sun is a crypto magnate who has a complicated and extremely leveraged business empire which does effectively openly the thing which FTX et al did by stealth: issue tokens, buy businesses with customer assets, misappropriate, repeat.)