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My guess it that for more senior roles they do not have the luxury to be so selective.

Deducting business expenses from revenue is not 'avoiding taxes', it's what all businesses do. Businesses are taxed on net profit, not on revenue. This is a feature, not a bug.

They sound confused about profit vs revenue, that $4.8B figure is not really 'profit' if it doesn't account for operating costs and depreciation of the car.

Very few businesses would be profitable if they were taxed on revenue rather than net profit.

Having worked on ERP software for medium businesses, that sounds spot-on to me; in my experience the biggest challenge was not so much technical as getting clients to change their processes so they can be systematized in a sane way.

There is a lot of resistance from employees not willing to change the way they work. Even seemingly simple things like standardizing language / glossary between departments so we can have a single representation in the system can be an uphill battle.

People will do it even if it's illegal, and it would be better for everyone involved if autonomous cars can deal with it safely.

Nitpick, SQLAlchemy overrides the binary operators (~, &, |) for query construction, not the logical operators (and, or, not). It also has its own operators you can import (and_, or_, etc.)

And you are right, it can easily lead to mistakes; if you use logical operators by mistake when building a query, you will probably get 'True' instead of a query object.

A much better article on this topic:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/284/5412/278.full

Any serious discussion of 'debunking' the tragedy of the commons should mention Elinor Ostrom, the only woman with a Nobel prize in Economics, which she won largely for her work on governance of the commons.

Sounds like you want (or already have) children to fulfill your own self-interested goals ('to leave a legacy'). That's a recipe for disappointment.

If you have children you do it for them, not for yourself.

And there are better, more predictable ways to leave a legacy. Having a kid is a shot in the dark; sure maybe they'll cure cancer, but maybe they'll be the next hitler, or more likely, they'll be an average joe with no lasting impact on humanity.