Every year, tax season feels a bit more like a round of trying to avoid falling afoul of the inscrutable designs of mysterious alien overlords.
Hanlon’s Smart Razor: Never attribute to malice or incompetence what can be explained as the secret doings of aliens in disguise.
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Government should do few things but should be allowed to do those few things in bloated, inefficient ways because efficiency is not the point. Reliability is. We do the opposite… too many things, all stretched to breaking point by under-resourcing and weird efficiency chasing.
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Last I read, the IRS processing systems were written decades ago in assembly. They were trying to rewrite it in Java, but government payscales have a low cap—too low to afford the kind of people who can fix it.
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The glass half reading of this signal is its an opportunity for the phoenix to reborn from the fire.
The breakdown in hand counting led in the Census led to the development of IBM for example: census.gov/history/www/in



