You are confusing "service fees" with taxes. There are various tax regimes. Very few of them are proportional to the services you use.

I was wrong.

We don't really have any way to know that. Considering that there may be as many stars in the sky as grains of sand on Earth, there are many many unknowns.

For another example we don't know for sure if our universe is the only one and it's entirely possible that everything that could ever happen plays out in real time across and infinite number of universes. We don't have any way to physically measure that possibility yet. We only have mathematical theories.

Similar to how Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model, maybe our universe is not even the center of existence?

It is humbling to imagine.

Some recent parts of the government welcome the corruption.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizens-and-russian-intel...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/election-inte...

They tried it based on some published research. Here's one such study. https://n.neurology.org/content/66/12/1920

Two bricks wide has a 2x wider base.

Scala was really nice for this syntax when I used it for Spark.

Legally, that pile of paperwork gives the Apple corporation some rights of a person. Obviously it is not a living, breathing person in the biological sense. But it is treated as one from a legal perspective.

Should it be? That's a different question. Changing that would probably upend contract law.

IANAL

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

It's like UX for data people. How to make a cohesive experience among the various tools, scripts, services that people use day-to-day so they can use and maintain datasets efficiently.

A non-technical benefit is there won't be so much context to keep in your head when triaging data issues in the future.

A database table is very similar to the separation of concerns problem of core software engineering. A table really just is an abstraction for storing and fetching various data points.

Finding the right balance is part art and part science.

I'm seeing the pendulum start to swing the other way, where the complexity of these scrappy and loosely structured data models is hampering the ability to innovate, and even slowing down the business. The models are often inflexible and hard to maintain with hidden bugs and gotchas.

Deep Survival is a great read. I picked that up from it.

Human infants will die without physical touch. We are social creatures by our DNA.

The worst punishment in older times was banishment. It was usually a death sentence.

Being able to handle spikes and iterate quickly is probably more important.

Data engineering could be another path to explore.

I'd view your sister-in-law's certification course as more of a first step than an end. It could open doors but still have to stay relevant with broader skills.