I'm sorry that someone close to you is dealing with that struggle, but I have two questions:
1) Do you think that your friend was at all dissuaded by current US drug policy? Of course this is impossible to know for sure, but I'm curious to hear your view.
2) Is having their door kicked through in the middle of the night by SWAT, and being sent to prison in any way advantageous to someone struggling with addiction?
"sweat equity" specifically means doing repairs to a property to increase its value, as opposed to building equity by making payments. A tech worker's income is not sweat equity.
People often claim that, but it's not a particularly credible argument. Emergency room visits account for less than 2% of total healthcare spending in the US.
The brake pedal actuates the master cylinder, which is connected hydraulically to the calipers. Even if stomping on the brakes triggered more throttle problems, they are still plenty strong enough to stop the wheels from turning.
Also not trying to blame the victim, but it seems the even more obvious/natural approach would be to use the brakes. Those are hydraulic, and plenty powerful enough to counteract any force generated by a Camry's engine.
I personally really don't care about the money (no lying, I swear).
I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like.
These two statements are contradictory. The whole point of having it is that it is stored value that can provide you with the things you actually need; time, in your case.
>One could adopt some kind of event-based system in scala or clojure, but Erlang and Go are alike in being the lone runtimes where running millions and millions of very small messaging processes is AOK no problem for the runtime
> Let's exaggerate in order to enhance the effect.
Let's not, they are entirely irrelevant.
Noone is claiming that any specific tool will make your startup succeed, or fix your bugs, or add features to your software for you - I thought we were discussing text editors.
> In the context of starting, launching, growing, evolving and maintaining a tech business
Possibly, but some people are not starting, launching, growing, or evolving anything but software - and a text editor is where 99% of that work happens.
Awesome strawman you have there, and the same non-argument could apply to any technology: "I am going to take a month to learn Ruby...". In any case, you can relax - no one is trying to take Notepad away from you.