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Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ... by echelon on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:05PM (#44227279)
This seems like the biggest reason behind the mass layoffs, not the end of ZIRP.
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Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ... by cjbgkagh on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:09PM (#44227334)
With ZIRP it would be relatively easy to borrow the float required to make up for the amortization timeline.
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Re:Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev ... by _heimdall on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:19AM (#44235904)
How do you land on likely causality here?

It sure seems like it could be related, but I don't know where to begin finding what actually caused layoffs across multiple companies.

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