I'd argue it makes sense to have test drills simply because the system exists: much like backups need testing, so do emergency systems. I'm not sure that the current state of the world should influence whether or not the systems are tested.
I'm not sure I agree here. Those are definitely real issues that you've highlighted, but they're not because of crypto currency.
There's no reason that a crypto-exchange cannot be as secure as a bank (or more), and that governments cannot insure crypto deposits up to some value. Those are purely problems for regulators/governments, which have been relatively slow to adapt legislation.
The problems you highlight are real, and can be good reasons to favour traditional currencies, but they're also easy problems to solve - the thinking has already been done once for traditional currencies and the solutions for crypto are mostly identical.
Just to be clear, though I'm sure it won't shock anyone, the article is very US specific and therefore it's entirely likely that parts of the advice will not carry over into other tax jurisdictions.
I only comment this as I had assumed it was a more general article than dealing with the tax specific aspects of options.
Perhaps, but I think that this misses an important aspect of those first few examples: safety.
The reason that people are pulled over for speeding, broken tail lights and illegal lane changes are so that they can be convinced to remedy the situation and make things safer. The punishment is not meant to be the only outcome of the incident.
You may well be correct (after all, static speed cameras exist, and apparently have an effect), but personally I'd want to see a fairly detailed analysis to convince me that you are correct.
Even though I'm not a new graduate, I work in London so interested to know which unicorn this is.
I've not seen new graduates hit these sorts of numbers when I've been looking at the market. I'm sure there must be some, however I'd have assumed it was very rare. Still it's always useful to know what sort of competition might be out there when hiring, so genuinely interested in the details!
Slightly more complex than that, as the ECHR isn't an EU institution, so Brexit won't result in any significant change to the relationship with the ECHR (it's a little more complex than I've made sound, as there are some relatively minor links with the EU).
However, May has stated her desire to also leave the European convention on human rights (and replace it with a UK owned Bill of Rights). This is not something that's happening as part of Brexit, and no bills have been presented before Parliament with this as a component or purpose.
I would assume that the government would take the pragmatic approach that it's better to focus on Brexit for now, and deal with the ECHR once Brexit is over with. However, I have no inside knowledge of this, and that's just my wild and unsubstantiated assumption.
However, you're missing that the price is $9.99/month/user, not per year (for some reason I used $11.99, which is the price when not billed annually).
So it's 30,000 customers * 100 users * 9.99 * 12 ~= $360m per year. Your $30m is per month.