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So that's basically the case for progressive corporate tax. Everyone acknowledges that small/medium business pay the full tax rate, while large/huge corps always never anything close to it. With progressive taxation you can directly impact the latter and not the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

"In 2013, Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA.[1] On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill. Snowden came to international attention after stories based on the material appeared in The Guardian and The Washington Post. Further disclosures were made by other publications including Der Spiegel and The New York Times. "

It's fairly ironic given the context of the article and GP's comment, but it doesn't sound to me like you're forming your opinion on "the media" on a rational, factual basis.

I also suspect that you (perhaps subconsciously) exclude whichever bloggers/youtube'rs/podcasters from your personal definition of "the media"

People incorporate anything and everything into their identity. Vegan/Crossfitter/Burner are all core identity components for many many people.

The "negotiation with society" is a function of how the individual externalizes it, and what type of reinforcement they expect to receive back.

To your example, Rachel Dolezal could maintain her self selected racial "identity" in peace and quiet if the society she was sharing it with was Tumblr and not the NAACP.

"ketamine doc who realizes that the situation he's treating requires psychiatry for optimum outcome, recognizes they lack said experience, and makes you go to someone with that experience, is also bad?"

The "ketamine doc" you're advocating people should see to treat their persistent psychological conditions such as PTSD or Depression, has no experience or background in treating any psychiatric/psychological conditions at all (and they get credit for recognizing that!).

Given the above, what service does the "ketamine doc" provide other than selling the ketamine? Like, what difference does it make that they are a doc? The access to an IV drip? The ability to google dosage? I can do renal function work ups with my family physician.

I'm genuinely confused on what value they add beyond a street dealer (assuming identical substance quality, home tests do exist).

Which is to say, a doctor is generally understood to be something beyond a prescription pad and should actually be involved in the treatment he's supposedly providing. Also, I feel like this "treatment" model is highly likely to incentivize profit-maximizing-pill-pushing clinics rather than compassionate therapists.

Look, if you're pulling external dependencies into your project from anywhere, and you don't version pin and hash compare those dependencies every time you build, then you get ZERO security guarantees. Simple as that. You might have some "in a perfect friendly world" expectations, but no guarantees, no recourse and no one else to blame when the world does not conform.

The notion that the author of the package could/should do anything to mitigate that for you is ridiculous. Ignoring many, many plausible coercion/honest mistake scenarios, just consider that a once-reputable maintainer can over time become malicious. That's it. If you have any actual real security requirements, then I'm sorry but you don't get to say "but but but DRY!!!" and call it a day. You are responsible for what software you run in your product.

Hard "distributed systems" problems in databases generally only creep up when you're trying to deploy a multi-active system.

I still don't know why programmers think their profession is so fabulously unique that their office time scheduling can't even apply to any other industry.

The reason is that to many people (myself included) your answer above is nonsensical.

  “With ~50M people capable of clicking ads, and assuming they click one ad a day at 20cnt CPC, it would be around 3.6bn. I think my assumptions are on the high side, but order of magnitude is probably correct”  

I'm all for "first-principals based structured thinking" but asking someone to demonstrate that by generating a rudimentary formula, that won't survive any contact with reality, and populate it with almost completely random values, seems like a weird way to go about it.

2) What is a "justifiable" P/E multiple? What is the justification (other than past values) for _any_ P/E ratio? What were the drivers of either the numerator or denominator?

This is to say, that macro and micro economics try to model extremely complex systems. When trying to analyze "value" it's worth considering that your mental model might not be accounting for many/most of the relevant forces.

You're also making a selection bias, assuming people that see a psychologist are not well adjusted. It's equally possible that only well adjusted people seek psychological consult, while others are sublimating their problems.

I don't necessarily agree with that conclusion either, but I think it's worth pointing out. Especially when discussing emotional maturity.

In general, comparing a massive company's notable operational issues to "software project delivered late" is nonsensical. If your software company's sole source of revenue is selling packaged units of your software and your company is continuously showing that it's unable to deliver those units of software in time, creating massive cash shortages - then yes, the market cap of your software company is going to suffer.

EDIT: oops didn't see OP already clarified.

Furthermore, running k8s to pack containers into AWS instances that are are themselves actually full blown VMs running on a hypervisor is of course one way to do computing. It is perhaps worth considering that there are others, more direct ways that can be achieved more economically.

Ahh, crypto-punk-decentralized-liberatrians never seize to amaze with the level of double-think they can achieve. How someone can hold both "the government is evil and might take your money" and "maybe you made this website angry so they didn't give you your money" at the same time is truly impressice.

Same with your comment about exchanges - yes the NYSE and NASDAQ can go down. Once or twice a year. For 20 minutes. Coinbase (and Gemini and GDAX and Kraken and everyone) are going down for about x5 times that in any given week. Which is not a "a small qualitative difference". It's an infinite difference.