This is terribly sad! Almost satire

I mean there are alternative models. Lee Kuan Yew from Singapore famously opposed the "helping the bottom kids at expense of the top ones". Is it really the right thing?

>straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be"

What do you think is behind the threats? Do the teachers fear being replaced or is it coming from a different set of people?

Until we see something like this,

The company is liable for $10 per hacked user minus 100X the bounty spend for that year.

Some are good but then think about it this way, most of them look forward to leveraging debt. Which easily puts them in a position, (with for ex. the current high interest rate environment), in which they are trapped.

And ^ above we're just talking about the ones that seek long-term investment. The ones that look for a quick flip in 6-10 years? Hard to trust them

Some people took it to heart

The direction of information flow

No? The Central Dogma is about the flow of sequence information: from nucleic acid to protein, and never back again.

It's not about regulatory information.

The direction of genetic information flow. And yes, multiple cases of the Dogma not working that way. That's why it is, literally, "dogma"

It's a good rebranding. It was getting ridiculous 3.5, 4, 4.5,

The FDA only cares about outright, immediately dangerous things. See how long they delayed with asbestos and thalidomide. Over long time frames, you are on your own

Well said. I suspect there is a lot of lobbying and legalized bribery going on. For example:

"If you pay me enough in speaker's fees, I'll approve any chemical you want!"

"If you promise me a comfy corporate job after I put in my time here, I will do anything you want!"

Card is a permanent %2+ tax, how does it compare?

See my sibling comment, but it is hard to quantify how much cash costs because a lot of the costs are indirect or infrequent capital costs. Things like employee time, and money handling equipment. It will also vary enormously based on the scale and nature of the business.

A small coffee shop can get by with a $129 cash drawer hooked up to an iPad and a manager spending a few hours per week counting money and visiting the bank. A large store like Walmart can easily spend $100k+ on all of the equipment for cash handling in addition to having to contract with an armored car company.

Note that "a few hours per week" for the manager costs perhaps $30/hour total compensation. That's more than the price of that drawer, every week.

Over a year, it's perhaps 4 hours/week x $30/hour x 52 weeks/year, which comes to over $6,000. That's real money for a small coffee shop.