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Re:Ask HN: Why did Congress recently add a Software "Special Rule" in ... on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:22PM (#39781590)
What I want to see is that they remove the "special case" rule for software from the line. Let us decide what is R&D and not R&D. Right now the new rule says "all" software is R&D and that is where our biggest problem lies.

Ask HN: Why did Congress recently add a Software "Special Rule" in the tax code?

Posted by rhornberger on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Does anyone know the history of why the new tax code has a "special rule" just for Software now?I've asked my Representative to help me research it but they still have no idea.In 2022, Congress added a "special rule" just for software companies, which means our industry uniquely can no longer expense our employees' salaries (including designers, engineers, QA, and more).You can find the special...

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PCIv3 brings nearly every web page into scope

Posted by rhornberger on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @06:17PM
from the self-post dept.

PCI v3 brings into scope any system that even redirects to a payment solution for processing. The first step of thinking takes you to small e-commerce sites that send you to a third party to collect payment (eg. pay with PayPal). But how far does the rabbit hole go? If you are a blogger, and you want to link to a product on Amazon with your blog, is your little WordPress install now a PCI...

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Re:Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @06:06PM (#6650335)
I'd like to see what this test looks like once you add event-machine to the ruby frameworks.
Re:How a Startup made a $7M Series A (Scan Inc) on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @03:44PM (#6523371)
My bad. Thanks for the comments.
Re:How a Startup made a $7M Series A (Scan Inc) on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @03:28PM (#6523272)
clarified. Really it was Ben and Garrett who flew out there though ;) The first time I heard this story was reading this article today.
Re:Scan gets $7M to do QR Code Scan To Pay on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @03:26PM (#6523250)
PandoDaily just released the story on how Scan secured the funding. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6523182
Re:How a Startup made a $7M Series A (Scan Inc) on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @03:16PM (#6523188)
Awesome story about Scan Inc. (http://Scan.me) and how the company closed a $7M Series A investment.

(Disclosure, I'm an employee of Scan Inc.)