So you believe that the majority of HN commenters support the Big Beautiful Bill:

Adding trillions in unfunded liabilities to the US debt, kicking tens of millions off of Medicaid and food snaps, allowing the Trump administration to ignore court rulings just to name a few. Arguably the worst bill in the history of the US.

Tech bros putting their personal wealth and greed ahead of what is best for society.

Because let's be honest here. That is the only reason you're posting this now of all times i.e. in order to help push support for the bill ? I really thought HN was above cynical politics.

> if you lobby for a thing which does not do harm to other people

The reason this is being discussed now is because of its inclusion in the Big Beautiful Bill which will kill the poorest in society by kicking millions off Medicaid and food stamps and increase the debt to unsustainable levels.

So if you support this tax cut for software developers you are the bad guy.

Ah. Thanks! Since the letter only calls it "reconciliation bill", I didn't make the connection. Not an American here, oops. Maybe creating "mega bill bundles" isn't the best idea in general. ^^'

I still think this specific reversion / change, for itself, would be something you can lobby for, though. It itself doesn't do harm, the push to include it in this specific bill may do (if it is the thing which tips the scale for it to be accepted).

This "tax cut" is (and was) simply the status quo in most western countries for virtually all businesses, e.g. in the EU. It itself is not immoral, as long as you see developers as normal office workers, which they IMO are.

The existence of silicon valley giants and their faults notwithstanding.

And how does this all get paid for ? It doesn't.

It massively increases the deficit and debt which in turn will have a raft of knock on consequences for the economy and the reputation of the US.

Clearly "Section 174" is now, currently, an issue.

And vaguely I seemed to remember some Trump campaign statements that in taxes some business spending could be deducted instead of amortized (spread over several years) or some such.

I'm deliberately no expert on taxes or business taxes.

Some of the Internet discussions seemed to suggest that some of the worst of 174 were to be implemented, continued, canceled, whatever, so for more information on the background, status, future, etc. of 174, did a little Google search and came up with the discussion I posted here. That discussion seems to say that the "Big Beautiful Bill" may get rid of 174, and that would seem to be in the collection of deduction changes Trump discussed.

About the economy, growth, the Fed's Prime rate, deficit spending, interest payments on Treasury bonds, tariffs, inflation, the balances of trade and payments, R&D, AI, foreign investment in the US, 174, etc., to me the MSM (mainstream media) is short on enough credible information for me to have much in opinions.

In addition, for politics, mostly it looks like noise for some manipulation, effect, or other and a reason to follow "Always look for the hidden agenda."

So, about 174, the information I have looks no more credible and a lot less fun than an old Bugs Bunny cartoon! But maybe Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd would guess that getting rid of 174 would help R&D, new businesses, factories, business revenue, and even, net, tax revenue. Or did Elmer repeat "To make money, have to spend money."?

I'd scream at the junk -- drama -- in the MSM, but it won't do any good.

Summary: For the main issues here in the US, I just don't have good information. The stuff I posted above seems to suggest that the future of 174 is still in doubt.

> You'll note that the letter OP linked to does not say that it supports the bill

Which is incredibly cynical. And why ordinary people hate tech bros so much.

I assume so it can be included in the Big Beautiful Bill.

And if that is the case then shame on everyone who are happy to make themselves wealthier at the expense of the poor.

People are literally going to die because of the cuts to Medicaid/SNAP in this bill.

So is the idea here that the tech community should support the Big Beautiful Bill ?

Because that would be just typical.

Apple provides a battery replacement program.

And you can use third parties as well which Apple now officially supports.

It is just a lie to say you need a new phone.

We don't need to carry water for greedy billionaires.

JWZ was right about us the whole time.

Do you have some actual evidence that this is the case ?

Otherwise saying it is definitively true is misleading to put it mildly.

Maybe for "Apple", but there's one team that takes performance seriously. The WebKit team has a zero tolerance policy for performance regressions (https://webkit.org/performance/) dating back to the implementation of the Page Load Test in 2002 (Creative Selection, p. 93).

WebKit sounds like the kind of scrappy startup Apple might want to acquire and gain some hard-earned engineering knowledge.

>The WebKit team has a zero tolerance policy for performance regressions

But apparently they still welcome app-crashing bugs and UI-stalling code!

WebKit is the only browser that lags when there is too much logs in devtools console on my M1 mac... Pretty funny.

If Apple has been shipping betas for 2 decades that do not meaningfully prepare the release candidate for users, something is horribly wrong. They're either not listening to the feedback they receive or they're not giving themselves enough time; both are firmly within Apple's control.

Well, firstly, this is a developer beta. So the target audience are developers that want to get a head start on getting their app(s) ready. So measuring battery performance of those dev betas is dumb.

Also, they do listen to feedback and do gather it. They won't change entire design language now tho.

The parent comment wasn't talking about the developer beta, they were talking about the .0 release. They should use the release candidates as an opportunity to dogfood new solutions instead of shipping an MVP to prod.

Poor performance of a GUI is a showstopper bug. It should be, anyway.

> number of showstopper bugs

Screwing with the battery life on a mobile device would be a showstopper bug if Steve were still around.

Maybe we should stop accepting this?

> practically everyone is better off with a laptop

The majority of the world are using their phones as a computing device.

And as someone with a MacBook and iPad the later is significantly more ergonomic.

I prefer MacBook to iPad most of the time. The only use case for iPad for me where it shines is when I need to use a pencil.