...mental health medications, to my knowledge, that’s the only type of medication that when people find out you’re taking it, they feel this freedom to offer up their entirely unsolicited opinions about it, right to your face, it happens all the time...
Like nobody has ever been diagnosed with diabetes and had their ignorant cousin go, “You’re gonna take insulin?” “For now, right? You’ll get off that shit someday.” No one in human history has ever said the words, “What’s so wrong with your life that you need chemotherapy?”
For the same reason weights and measures legislation is of course impossible.
This is why every time you go to the shops you have to carry your own standard weights and balance scale! The idea that society could regulate the weight and volume of every product in every shop is simply preposterous!
More likely that sensible mainstream journalists will laugh at people under Govt surveillance because they sound like the reddit conspiracy nuts from their youth...
But think of the innovation we'd lose out on by jailing executives doing this. A bank that gives sub-market interest and "invests" part of the difference in a scratcher game that they run. Oh, and for complex legal reasons, they're not a bank, but they do offer bank accounts at a different bank.
I think you're absolutely on-point. There's literally no end to the amount of money they could innovate for themselves if we'd just let them do whatever the hell they want and then claim it's too confusing to figure out what happened when they steal it all. Won't someone think of the innovators?!
> Seems like a rather large moral hazard if we don't
Based on what? The catastrophic failure rate is low. And if you’re sensitive to that risk, don’t bank with a firm that’s selling you on sticking it to the man or whatever.
Sure it's only taking a webhook, reading an API, looking up a db entry and then updating via API.
But just knowing it's running on someone else's infra and there's so little code to validate is very comforting.
Prior to this I had a version running on a VPS and yeah I can do it. But you end up with a LOT of code / config to run the web server, the queue, the database... And any of that could be introducing bugs and security problems.
Wild.