>> Unfortunately, our culture seems to have two settings: legal ban; full celebratory embrace.
If something is legally banned, there's generally a black market for it. Once it's legalized, the bar for consumers to enter the market is nearly eliminated; large companies can pour a ton of money into gaining new users in the legal market and moving users from the black market to the legal market.
>> Should there be half a dozen betting ads every hour on primetime TV? No, that’s crazy too.
It's even worse than that. There are betting ads during the actual game broadcast. Commentators read ads listing various odds on the current game. Betting companies sponsor a ton of stuff related to the teams and leagues. ESPN (Disney) both broadcasts games and runs its own sportsbook. You can't watch a sports game without hearing about betting on that game itself, much less sports in general.
In the US, depending on the state, murder need not require intent to kill or cause death. For example, 3rd degree murder in Minnesota explicitly states that the perpetrator acted without intent to cause death [1].
The theory behind murder requiring intent is very reasonable but, at least by statute, isn't actual legal practice.
From a pragmatic viewpoint, the CSVs that I get from finance (usually saved as .xlsx) have the same issues for parsing the data as a CSV. But since the issues are consistent, I can automate conversion from .xlsx to CSV, then process the CSV using awk to eliminate errors in further parsing the CSV (for import, analysis, etc.). Sure, I'm essentially parsing the CSV twice but, because the parsing issues are consistent, I can automate to make the process efficient.
Obviously that wouldn't work for CSVs with different structures, but can be effective in the workplace in certain scenarios.
As long as a human didn't generate the file, all things can be automated.
However, if you ever have the misfortune of dealing with human generated files (particularly Excels) then you will suffer much pain and loss.
I once had to deal with a "CSV" which had not one, not two but 6(!) distinct date formats in the same file. Life as a data scientist kinda sucks sometimes :shrug:.
Before 2010 and UTF-8 everywhere , I regularly had the misfortune of dealing with multi encoding CSVs. Someone got CSVs from multiple sources and catted them together. One source uses ISO 8859-1, another -15, another UTF-8, sometimes a greek or russian or even ebcdic was in there. Fun trying to guess where one stopped and the other begun . Of course, none of them were consistent crlf or escape wise.
> "...you specifically mentioned a "deficiency in memory", relationships, and emotional regulation – all traditional fields for such therapists to work in..."
I support the recommendation of seeing a mental health professional, and wanted to emphasize that the scientific literature suggests a moderate to strong link amongst the symptoms you mentioned (citations below). I selected articles that reference ADHD and Cluster B personality disorders because they very broadly map onto the symptoms you're describing; I'm by no means making a diagnosis, but only trying to provide additional insight.
From the abstract of a journal article regarding the link between emotion dysregulation and ADHD [1]:
> "Emotion dysregulation, a major contributor to impairment throughout life, is common in ADHD and may arise from deficits in orienting toward and processing emotional stimuli, implicating dysfunction within the prefrontal cortical network. Understanding the nature of the overlap between emotional dysregulation and ADHD can stimulate novel treatment approaches."
From the abstract of a journal article regarding the link between emotion dysregulation and Cluster B personality disorders [2]:
> "Individuals suffering from personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder, often evidence substantial problems in regulating and managing their emotions...The newly developed brief General Emotion Dysregulation Measure (GEDM) has shown good reliability and validity with a clinical sample of 100 individuals diagnosed with Cluster B personality disorders."
I am not a licensed clinician but have considerable experience in clinical psychology research, so if anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out. But to be clear, I am offering academic views; a licensed clinician offers medical views.
I think replacing it is the way to go. It's important to differentiate between the acute symptoms of COVID and the chronic, persistent long-term symptoms, even if they both emanate from the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the body. It will be helpful for research, treatment, and the general understanding of physicians, mental health practitioners in the general public.
I think there's precedent for such a decision in how concussions are generally viewed. An individual can be diagnosed with a concussion, which has common, acute symptoms. If the acute symptoms last longer than is typical for a concussion of a given severity, the individual could be diagnosed with persistent post-concussive symptoms (a.k.a. post-concussion syndrome). Of course brain injuries are different than viral infections, and we still have a ton to learn about brain injuries, but it's the idea of clearly differentiating between the acute effects and the chronic, persistent long-term effects.
To be clear, I'm not trying to relate COVID with concussions beyond the medical nomenclature, but I think the nomenclature is effective in making the distinction to which I'm referring. It's not perfect, but we'll never have perfection in research.
Edit: It's unclear if the paragraph breaks are displaying properly, so I apologize if it appears as a wall of text.
The IRS, if it chooses to do so. But auditing large companies with complex governance structures and large legal teams is prohibitively resource intensive for the IRS because it's intentionally underfunded by Congress.
Presumably external auditors would be hired by the stakeholders though. Particularly for the for-profit entity with investors and a lot of money passing through it. I’d imagine it would be conducted by EY, PwC, Deloitte or KPMG.
There was no discussion. The poster stated a claim without providing any explanation or examples. That's the dangerous part. There absolutely should be a discussion, but neither you nor the original poster want to have one. You both wanted to make a one-sentence, circular argument to claim the moral high ground.
Not while in office for most of them. Those that do already had those opportunities. They don't get the good payday until they retire and do lobbying or consulting.
I was prepared to dispute this, but now I'm not certain. According to capitoltrades.com, a site that tracks US politician stock trades, 213 politicians made trades within the last 3 years. Assuming those are senators and congress members, then it's fair to say that most aren't making trades.
That said, the GP comment that asserted "their power and insider knowledge makes them a lot more than that overall" isn't incorrect. 213 politicians take advantage of their elected positions to profit from the stock market.
If something is legally banned, there's generally a black market for it. Once it's legalized, the bar for consumers to enter the market is nearly eliminated; large companies can pour a ton of money into gaining new users in the legal market and moving users from the black market to the legal market.
>> Should there be half a dozen betting ads every hour on primetime TV? No, that’s crazy too.
It's even worse than that. There are betting ads during the actual game broadcast. Commentators read ads listing various odds on the current game. Betting companies sponsor a ton of stuff related to the teams and leagues. ESPN (Disney) both broadcasts games and runs its own sportsbook. You can't watch a sports game without hearing about betting on that game itself, much less sports in general.
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