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This is important news, but I don't understand the insistence of some people to post political news to this website. Seriously, this has very little to do with

by yosito 6y ago

This is important news, but I don't understand the insistence of some people to post political news to this website. Seriously, this has very little to do with tech. Post it to Reddit or Twitter. I do not come here to read about Trump.

TooCreative 6y ago
HN is not a tech news site. HN is pretty much the only place on the web where intelligent discussion takes place. That is why I hope for every news I am interested in to be discussed here. Reddit discussions are complete garbage. The top comment on r/news for this article is this one line: "That's $750 more than I thought he paid.". It has over 19k likes.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  It may be better than Reddit, but it's still not designed for political discussion. The voting algorithms lead to echo chamber formation or vapid, emotion-driven comments being given positive feedback without careful moderation. Human nature combined with anonymity means comments can dissolve into pointless bickering. Basically, it would require a ton of moderation(with the discussions picking up on the biases of the moderators), and even then it would still devolve with many comments about illegal immigration, gender issues, or pretty much any other social issue that involves identity.
- yosito 6y ago
  > HN is not a tech news site. Yeah, ok. Sure.
koheripbal 6y ago
If there were more details, or if he was doing something complex and interesting, I'd say post it. ...but everything I see in the article is normal tax avoidance that pretty much every family business does.
- digitaltrees 6y ago
  No this not. Trump claimed not one but two annual losses greater than $1B. So large that they were among the largest losses ever recorded. He obtained a refund that requires direct congressional oversight but seems to have been paid prematurely and without the required act of Congress. And in fact the entire basis of the refund—that giving up all ownership of his Atlantic casinos allowed him to transfer their losses to his tax filings—cannot be maintained because he in fact kept 5% of the casios meaning the entire tax write of would be disallowed and may have been fraudulent filed in the first place is not something your random family business does. Further, even if that were the case that doesn’t mean it’s legal. You don’t get to pay employees consulting fees as well.

by yosito 6y ago

TooCreative 6y ago

HN is not a tech news site. HN is pretty much the only place on the web where intelligent discussion takes place. That is why I hope for every news I am interested in to be discussed here. Reddit discussions are complete garbage. The top comment on r/news for this article is this one line: "That's $750 more than I thought he paid.". It has over 19k likes.

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
It may be better than Reddit, but it's still not designed for political discussion. The voting algorithms lead to echo chamber formation or vapid, emotion-driven comments being given positive feedback without careful moderation. Human nature combined with anonymity means comments can dissolve into pointless bickering. Basically, it would require a ton of moderation(with the discussions picking up on the biases of the moderators), and even then it would still devolve with many comments about illegal immigration, gender issues, or pretty much any other social issue that involves identity.
yosito 6y ago
> HN is not a tech news site. Yeah, ok. Sure.

koheripbal 6y ago

If there were more details, or if he was doing something complex and interesting, I'd say post it. ...but everything I see in the article is normal tax avoidance that pretty much every family business does.

digitaltrees 6y ago
No this not. Trump claimed not one but two annual losses greater than $1B. So large that they were among the largest losses ever recorded. He obtained a refund that requires direct congressional oversight but seems to have been paid prematurely and without the required act of Congress. And in fact the entire basis of the refund—that giving up all ownership of his Atlantic casinos allowed him to transfer their losses to his tax filings—cannot be maintained because he in fact kept 5% of the casios meaning the entire tax write of would be disallowed and may have been fraudulent filed in the first place is not something your random family business does. Further, even if that were the case that doesn’t mean it’s legal. You don’t get to pay employees consulting fees as well.