This changes everything

Hypothesis testing is not of the form “what causes this?” What you’re suggesting seems to be along those lines.

Instead it’s more “can we say with high confidence that this specific factor causes this?”

That doesn’t mean you can’t test other factors! You can test them all with enough time and resources.

There are multi-factor statistical tools like ANOVA. But they still depend on you identifying what the factors might be.

But if you have factors A, B, C, and D in your analysis, and it’s actually the totally unknown factor E… you might find a lot of unexplained variance in your statistics, or you might mislead yourself into thinking it’s ABCD and never discover what E actually was.

But at the end of the day that’s just a fancier form of “does this specific thing cause this effect.”

And the essence of science is discovering Factor E and testing it, with new hypotheses.

Boil water advisories are often immediate - like a check valve has failed unexpectedly and there is, this very instant, a risk if sewage in your tap water.

Hard to mobilize a city-wide door-to-door campaign with such urgency.

As a secondary option, sure. But it’s not always like a planned-for-months water main replacement.

The four channels OP listed do seem inadequate though.

My immediate emotional reaction is usually some degree of “have you misplaced your brain?” So it’s good to pause.

Same reason I have a 3 minute delay for outgoing emails.

The right facial expressions will turn it into a contest they can’t resist

Paris

I use my 14-year-old prescription to get a couple pairs of glasses from Zenni every couple years. Averages about $75/yr.

Not really. See table 2 here (a ways down the page)

Cold generally slows degradation.

But using them at cold temps is bad

True, but anything over that just counts toward estate tax, which has the aforementioned exemptions.

The funny thing is, the gift wouldn’t be taxed anyway. It’s certainly valued less than the multi-million-dollar federal lifetime gift tax exemption (and no state has an exemption under 1 million, either)

they get audited, at least, yearly by law

The IRS doesn’t audit annually, companies hire 3rd party auditors. And it’s not a tax requirement, it’s a public-company requirement.

Yes there is a difference, but LLC is a legal concept, not a tax one. The IRS taxes sole proprietors the same whether or not they have an LLC.

Tax entities include sole proprietorship (default), partnerships, s corps, c corps. Any of those can be LLCs, but they don’t have to.

Profitability is just a proxy for whether someone is legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby. Businesses can deduct expenses, hobbies cannot.

So if you are running an etsy store or an engineering company and buy a 3d printer to make parts, the cost of that 3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes. If your “business” is actually a hobby, it’s not legally a business expense and therefore it’s not deductible

(In the USA)

On the other hand, if it had been two women who had both agreed that the one cup was the worst ever, it would have been a sure thing.

Got any utube videos about it?

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It’s not obvious to me how these things are related, could you elaborate?

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I see “taxes” a lot but I have never seen someone explain the mechanism by which this is supposed to work.

The only thing I can come up with in my head is that they have capitalized the development costs and are currently depreciating the resulting asset. And that by cancelling/delisting the games it may allow them to immediately depreciate the rest of it, thereby recognizing a large expense for the current tax year, reducing profit, and therefore taxes.

Is that how this is supposed to work?

Doesn’t everyone? That sentiment is kind of meme level these days