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Yea, again how can you separate the market's reaction to 1) earnings from 2) the acquisition?

How can you tell what the market thinks about this decision when a company's stock price is a function of what is happening publicly at the company AND externally in the economy? How do you separate the 2 drivers?

Maybe Google Pixel?

You are missing point - the dark pattern is that medium told the user in exchange for creating an account, they could read the rest of the store. They created an account and then were told they could not read the rest of the story. The sign up flow lied to them. It's the equivalent of an e-commerce site saying "Sign up to get 50% off any order" and then when you signed up there is no discount on your order.

My partner is a physician in an ICU and a lot of her colleagues have talked about leaving the field as well. Their complaints are #2 & #3 along with:

5. Pay cuts - Most of the critical doctor specialties (ER, ICU, primary) that were the backbone of the pandemic got "raises" that were less than inflation (hers was 1.5%) while profitable elective specialties got big raises. The root cause is the billing system where elective surgeries bill pay out more than critical roles. Still, it's extremely demoralizing to be called a "pandemic hero" and have your pay get cut.

6. Criminal and Financial Liablity - Healthcare is delivered by a team yet the financial and criminal penalties for mistakes are assessed at the individual level. Recently a nurse was given a criminal sentence for a drug mistake which many believe was systematic failure (bad UI / IT systems, bad hospital practices, AND negligence on the nurse). Imagine getting sued or jail time as an engineer for dropping a production database. The few malpractice cases my partner has been involved in, it was very clear that the issues were systematic and perpetuated by hospital practices. However, if they had gone to trial, an arbitrary worked would d have been sued and the hospital wouldn't change its crappy practices. Institutions have effectively dodged liability in many cases.

7. Chronic understaffing and burnout - most ICUs have been understaffed throughout the pandemic. From an economics POV it seems crazy that their is a labor shortage but salaries are effectively dropping.

... only in a select set of countries where the regulator is more active.

The money they made with this message grossly outweighs any fine they got from 1 country they operate in.

I'm in the US and I recall seeing these same deceptive cancellation messages on my app in the last year.

Personally, I'm sad that this model seems to not pan out. I'm a successful bootcamp story - I graduated from App Academy about 7 years ago and have been working as software engineer since. My closest friends were all successful and all work at companies that you've heard of. The ISA model was key to me enrolling as I was skeptical of bootcamps. I was happy to pay if it worked about, but wanted to hedge my bet in case I enrolled in one of the many of the unscrupulous bootcamps that didn't actually teach anything.

In my case, I found AppAcademy really helpful because I had a set of engaged peers, I had access to TAs to help answer questions, and the material was solid. However, from what I've gathered, a lot of the industry moved away from teaching this way in order to scale their classes and make more $$. Videos have replaced live instruction, class sizes have increased, and they let anyone TA classes. I wonder if most of the failures of ISAs are due to the poor product these companies are offering vs the issues with ISAs themselves.