rustyboy

Great read, the cancer of de-regulated financial services still hasn't been addressed, and might not ever if Trump and his richest cabinet in history continue to hold power.

Wall Street continues to take on obscene amounts of debt from the government for essentially no interest, see Quantitative Easing, so that they can avoid paying even more taxes on their even greater profit. This is also fueling bubbles in other wealthy assets as everything is actually just leveraged debt. The prospects of another financial crisis is just as real as it was 10 years ago and again the lower-middle class will be left to hold the tax bill while the fat cats get fatter.

> writing faster

Has to be one of the most arbitrary benefits to programming, everyone is different how do you possibly use this as a comparable metric?

Even if, typing isn't an evil. I write Python for my day job and extensively use the typing libraries because it ends up saving me more time in long run.

It depends what you're doing with that stream, most basically you would create a nano/micro EC2 instance that will just trigger Lambda events on every new tweet. Or you could create some more intricate script that does a lot of pre-processing and then stores it in RDS or S3, and with each new update to either of those sources kick off a Lambda.

That's not the most outlandish idea though is it? Plenty of people argue that if there were more living wage paying jobs, better universal healthcare, and legalized drugs then the opioid crisis wouldn't be as huge, or even exist as it currently does. That being said I agree that

> is like saying the only problem

capitalism cannot be the only thing to blame, but separating out the correlations versus the side effects of capitalism is a huge academic discussion in it's own right.