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After seeing how big of a hard-on business drones have for OpEx vs CapEx expenditures, I don't think the cloud is ever going away completely. Like we have an e
by tomc1985 5y ago
After seeing how big of a hard-on business drones have for OpEx vs CapEx expenditures, I don't think the cloud is ever going away completely.
Like we have an entire cloud "revolution" (note the mocking quotes) because of a bullshit accounting rule!
- wahern 5y agoThe 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts (aka Trump Tax Cut) actually permits (or just increased limits for?) taking a full deduction, up to $1 million, for computing hardware, rather than following a depreciation schedule. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_179_depreciation_deduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_179_depreciation_deduc... and https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/new-rules-and-limitations-for-depreciation-and-expensing-under-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/new-rules-and-limitations-for-d... We'll see if that catches on and makes a difference. Accountants, like software engineers and every other profession, tend to follow trends.