There’s not a mirror function like what Snowflake offers directly but you can come close with a pgcron to upsert changes to the iceberg tables every so often.

You can also purge the table put to the iceberg version every so often too depending on your data needs. Then you can create a query unions the results of both.

If Walmart employees somebody who's part time and is on Medicaid are they on Medicaid because of Walmart or because they couldn't commit to enough hours to go full time? 9% of 1.6 million employees on Medicaid means they are employing over 1.4 million people who are not on Medicaid, all of whom are taxed for income, payroll, property, sales, etc.

If Walmart decided tomorrow to terminate all employees who were collecting Medicaid so that they could avoid a tax increase for that stat would it be a good thing? Is it better for a company to avoid hiring at all, even part time, if they can't fully purge the employee from government assistance?

It compounds if the incentive is aimed at domestic labor.

Should business that actually do create jobs in practice get bigger tax breaks?

For example, if I by some miracle create a 1 man company that makes $100 million / year profit and somebody else creates a company that makes $100 million / year profit but has 2,000 employees...should the two companies be taxed differently?

Walmart employees 1.6 million people in the US. 68% are full time. Average salaries range from $18.25 / hr (field associate) to $27 / hr (supply chain). Median $30,520 across all US employees. 156,000 employees are estimated to be enrolled in Medicaid (9.4%).

Amazon employees 1.1 million. $23 / hour average for field / fulfillment. Median $53,211 across all US employees. 123,000 employees are estimated to be enrolled in Medicaid (11.7%).

Both offer pretty extensive career development, training and tuition assistance programs.

Profit per employee:

- Walmart $10,800 / employee (1.6 million employees)

- Amazon $50,000 / employee (1.1 million employees)

By comparison:

- AppLovin $3.7 million / employee (898 employees)

- NVIDIA $2.86 million / employee (42,000 employees)

So what if we actually had a tax strategy that literally was aimed at "job creators" rather than "capital gains"? What would that look like?

I switched to Mac with the Intel change around...2006 maybe? Converted my entire family.

I personally switched to various flavors of linux around 2016-2017 because I wanted more hardware options.

Eventually, my son got into gaming and eventually we let him get an Alienware laptop maybe 2-3 years ago. Then my wife had to get one for work this year. It's like nothing has improved in 20 years.

I try to find something better when I can, but the need to put something on every post is exhausting.

There’s the system you are building…and the system that builds the system or the SDLC. Both are critical.

Solid read.

One thing that I've realized as I have gotten older, arcades have changed a lot. Dave and Busters and other arcades are designed to extract money as quickly as possible. When I was younger, if you were good at a game you could keep playing so my friends and I got very good at these games.

I spent so many hours at our local mall with my friends growing up. It had an arcade, a movie theater, book store, game store, place to eat. Our parents could just drop us there for hours. Skating rinks and bowling alleys were also a solid option.

It's one of the things that make it worth the time investment to follow sports, even if you're typically not interested in it. Getting people together to watch the game, go to games, tailgate, etc is huge.

Just having everything listed on 50 different streaming platforms isn't the same experience. There are things we really lose with efficiency gains.

Always been that way for me at least.

The more you're able to build up a base tan the less you need it to avoid a burn at least.

That is workload specific. Title should be "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite for Analytics" IMHO

Evidence of technical competence wasn't what I was talking about. I meant that it creates a trail of evidence for police to actually pursue them, particularly in the case of phishing.

To setup DMARC, DKIM and SPF you need to control a domain. Somebody has to own that domain, unless you just hacked a DNS or somebody's already configured email server.

If you hacked it, there's a trail to contact the domain owner to notify them. If you bought it, there's a trail to find the domain owner.

You can obfuscate that with stolen cards and fake registration details, but now there's a central point where identity validation and security can concentrate itself.

A lot of positive side effects happen when the bar is raised from "any email server can send email claiming to be from anybody" to "email can only be sent claiming to be from a domain if the domain approves the sending email server."

At least when the spam concentrates from major senders like Google, etc those major senders have the means to analyze and take steps to prevent it.