It used the original MySQL SQL parser in its 1.x release, which is still released under the GPL. MaxScale 2.0, which is BSL-Licensed, no longer contains any MySQL code any more.
I don't understand why any company would use parts of the MySQL code base when the PostgreSQL code base has a far more open license. Just use the Postgre SQL parser instead. Maybe I'm confused about the Postgre license but it seems like a pretty easy choice, and the one I would make if I was developing a new open source or even commercial database (in the 1.0 release anyway).
With Musk the right question is never 'will it work?" but 'will it make any sense factoring in the costs?'
That is the great thing about having billionaires with the curiosity of engineers. Musk is willing to find out if these 'crazy' ideas make any sense factoring in the costs. Let your average VCs fund the companies whose ideas will most likely work. Men like Musk are the ones with the freedom to investigate the ideas which will probably not work, but would be phenomenal if the general wisdom is wrong.
IMHO Musk is filling in for governments who aren't spending enough on basic research and grand innovative ventures. For these projects it is expected that you will fail far more often than you succeed, which is why traditional investors stay away. I hope Musk keeps up his current pace of innovation for the next 30 years.
There are thousands of people with the next Big Thing, but because their product isn't advertising or analytics (read, more ways to spy on the user), their stuff is ignored by VCs.
Considering how much valuations of these companies are ballooning in recent years, it seems VCs are getting pretty desperate with finding companies worth investing in. I doubt there is this massive pool of people with truly marketable and executable ideas that simply cannot find funding. Nearly everyone has some idea they think could make millions, but having an investable idea is far different than that.
If your contention is that we need to be spending more money on basic research which is unlikely to pay off for many decades then I completely agree with you. But that is primarily the responsibility of government not private investors.
Typical - get a big idea, get resources together to make it happen, get it off the ground and running, empower others to complete your work, then lose interest. On to the next big idea.
FTFY
If only there were more successful serial entrepreneurs in the world. We would have our flying cars by now.
0.04625% (or 1 in 2000 10 mile drunk driving trips)
If you drive drunk once a week, that makes an accident a near certainty over an adult life.
If you drive 10 miles while very drunk (0.2 BAC) once a week, it becomes very likely you will have an accident because of your drunkenness over an adult life.
For reference, for a 150 pound individual they would need to drink about 7-8 drinks over a couple hours to reach 0.2 BAC. That is pretty drunk.
To be fair, although she was drunk as shit and should have never been behind a wheel, it appears from camera footage that she was swerving to avoid ANOTHER car that was traveling the wrong way on the street.
Driving drunk is not much of a problem if nothing unexpected happens on your way home. Even though someone has a 2500% greater chance of having an accident with a.20 BAC, that only increases the chances of an accident on a 10 mile trip from 0.002% to about 0.04625% (or 1 in 2000 10 mile drunk driving trips). Nearly 100% of people who drive drunk don't get into an accident.
Driving drunk is mostly just a problem because something unexpected might happen, like another car driving the wrong way on a street. When drunk you don't have the necessary reaction time to adjust and an accident becomes very likely.
Just to clarify, you want to sanction the USA until they return Texas and California to Mexico? Or maybe the UK until they return Gibraltar to Spain? Poland and Russia until they return East Prussia to Germany? Germany until we give Schleswig-Holstein back to Denmark? Shit, I can go on and on and on. You won't believe just how many countries have annexed parts of other countries in the past.
Every square inch of the planet inhabited by humans has been "annexed" by someone at some time in human history. The difference is we don't accept that behavior any more in the post-World War II era. Maybe that viewpoint will fall out of favor in international politics in the future, but it hasn't yet.
Clearly the decline in population for the last few years in IL; I'd say a majority of people disagree with you.
Agreed. Regardless of what most people say, they would rather take a larger house for cheaper than give their kids the best education they can afford. Where I live $500k will get you a 2600 sq ft house in the best school district or a 4000 sq ft house in the much weaker school districts 5-10 miles away. Many people prioritize their three car garage over their kids' education. But that is what makes the best school districts the best; they have better parents. Combine parents who value education with a high tax base and you have the primary building blocks of great schools.
The Chicago area is a dump, traffic nightmare, and a liberals wet dream! Taxes are so high in the NW Burbs. Glad to be gone.
Taxes are incredibly high in the NW Burbs (about $14k per year on a $500k house) but you also get private school quality education paid for with those taxes. There are plenty of Chicago suburbs with low taxes, but your kids ultimately pay for it. That or you pay far more in private school tuition than you would have in taxes.
Or more likely there is only so much room to fit people in the Bay Area, so hiring in other cities has started to take up the slack. It really is ridiculous to pay developer $200k a year in a place where that doesn't even give you an upper middle class lifestyle when you can pay people $150k in most large cities (or their suburbs) which can give employees a much higher standard of living.
I wouldn't take a job in the Bay Area for even a $100k/yr raise, since my comfortable six figure salary in the Chicago suburbs gives me a 2500 sq ft house with a nice yard and public schools that rival the best private schools. My $500k house would cost at least $3 million in the Bay Area.
The memory range which was set aside for the display, and which you had to write to in order to do graphics (non-hackers used libraries but hackers mostly went for embedded assembler to try and squeeze a little more speed out for graphics work)
My primary reason for disliking Win 95 was it was the first Windows OS which started to really mess with programs that wrote directly to the memory address A0000000 for graphics. I was only a hobbyist in high school at the time and had a hard time finding an alternative which performed as well as TASM code writing directly to the hardware. Eventually I started using DirectX but I remember having a real hard time finding information on how to use version 1.0 in late 1995. I relied heavily on Lamothe's "Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus" to learn these techniques at the time, and wasn't skilled enough yet to learn new technologies quickly on my own.
What's stupid is having an arms race with nature, GMOs included.
We have been having an arms race with nature since the agricultural revolution. Considering we have 1000x more people than the Earth was able to naturally sustain before then, I'd say we are winning that arms race. Although I guess past results are not a perfect predictor of future results.
Tesla has one of the highest recall rates of any manufacturer.
That doesn't seem to be true. Through September 2016 Telsa has averaged 936 total recalls per 1,000 vehicles. Porche was the best manufacturer with only 531 recalls, and Volkswagan was the worst with 1805. Of the 18 manfucturers listed in my link, they averaged 1072 recalls, or about 15% higher than Tesla. Toyota for instance had 10% more recalls than Tesla (per car sold) and Ford had 22% more.
Even though Tesla is only a 10 year old car company, their recall rates are better than companies that have been doing this for 100 years.
What political reasons? (I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know)
There have been a few people, possibly less than 10 from what I can tell from multiple news sources, who have cancelled their orders because Musk accepted a position on Trump's economic advisory council.
I think Trump is bad enough to disregard Godwin's Law, but I still want competent business leaders to keep a line of communication open with the man. Criticizing Musk for trying to advise Trump is a Tea Party level of insanity. Then again the Tea Party has sadly had a lot of success, so maybe liberals need to stop relying on only rational responses.
They're also getting a few cancellations (for all models, not just the 3) at the moment for political reasons.
FTFY
It behooves them to get the product out of the door and close as many orders as they can.
That is still true, but for very different reasons than you give. Even without the Model 3, Tesla will most likely hit the 200,000 US sales mark in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018 (probably 2017). That means the phase out period for the $7500 tax credit will start in either April or July 2018.
I am a firm believer in buying used, and without the $7500 tax credit I will almost certainly buy a 2014/5 Cadillac/BMW/Lexus instead of a new Tesla Model 3. Tesla only has about 12 months to deliver my Model 3 or my pre-order will be cancelled. This is probably a very common opinion among people with pre-orders.
I think the enthusiasm has diminished for the model 3. It was announced way to early before final production had even begun to happen.
Tesla is going to have at least a couple more major announcements in 2017 as they reveal the final design and specifications and then start delivering the first Model 3s. Both will be a shot of adrenaline similar to when they accepted pre-orders in 2016.
Tesla has basically bet the store on the model 3.
The whole point of the Tesla's last 10 years has been the Model 3. I agree the stock price hasn't priced in the risk inherent in the Model 3's success, but every investor should by now realize Musk's vision has always been to sell tens of millions of electric cars not a few hundred thousand electric super cars. He has shown he is willing to risk everything to reach for a grand vision in the past (such as nearly going broke funding Tesla in 2008) so no one should be surprised here.
I would normally agree with this, but because of government incentives early Model 3 owners will likely get between $1875 and $7500 off the sticker price (depending on how early they get their Tesla). While I would be wary of a first model year BMW or Cadillac as well, if they gave 15-20% off the sticker price to buy version 1.0 of their car it would certainly alleviate that worry. The same goes for the Tesla Model 3.
$7500 to go through 2-3 recalls in the first couple years, along with replacing my 170k mileage 12 year old Honda a couple years earlier, sounds like a good deal to me.
Those holding all the capital are sharing a little bit with you in exchange for your services. How much money have your made your clients/employer? Are you really enjoying the scraps from the table?
His employers are giving the portion of their income that he has earned from commanding a certain wage in the marketplace. He may complete a project for $100k, and his company may have increased profits of $1 million, but his contributions were not the sole cause of the income. Their existing client base, IP, salesmen, marketing, business processes, capital expenditures, and so on were also involved. This is often lost on individual contributors who only see their contribution and ignore the other costs of doing business.
it's not true wealth and doesn't bring you all that much in the long run. Sure, you may have $1-5 million in the bank when you die, but you will have lived your life at the whims of others. Start your own business. Own your own IP. Work for yourself and be free. It's the only way...
You have probably never owned your own business if you think business owners are not at the whims of others. You just trade a few bosses for thousands of bosses (customers). Being an employee instead of an employer is simply a low risk and usually lower return option for having a quality life. As long as you keep a decent cash reserve (which is much less than a business owner would need) and manage your career well enough to ensure your skills don't become obsolete, you can enjoy a quite low risk path towards $3-$5 million (2017 dollars) of retirement funds.
Anyone capable of being a successful business owner is also capable of being a successful employee. It's mostly just a question of risk tolerance and different priorities in life.
But there's another group of people, who we used to call the "middle class", who aren't necessarily lazy but still usually choose easy options in life who are on the brink of poverty, or falling into poverty, or generally having a tough time getting ahead.
FTFY. People making intelligent choices are quickly moving into the upper middle class (2/3 of people leaving the middle class are getting wealthier not poorer) because of those intelligent choices. What is being lost is the ability to keep your head down and coast through life but still make a comfortable living.
I'm bitching _because_ I understand the terms of the mortgage. I understand that I'm paying the interest up front so that the bank gets all of the profit and none of the risk. I pay interest up front because the longer I'm in the house the better the odds my life'll go to shit again when somebody gets sick or my job gets offshored or whatever disaster strikes next. Interest is suppose to be the profit a bank makes for risk. Why the hell are they getting so much damned profit for zero fucking risk?
Based on your comments you don't seem to understand much. You are paying interest up front because you don't have enough money to pay for a house in full, and no one outside of maybe your immediate family is likely to loan you money without any compensation. Current mortgage rates are at around 4.25%, which becomes more like 3.2% to someone in the 25% tax bracket. That is hardly highway robbery. Most people wouldn't be happy if their retirement accounts were returning them 4.25% per year over 30 years, but yet you think this is an absurdly high interest rate for some reason.
At such a low interest rate, your damn right the bank is not willing to take much risk at all. I sure wouldn't for those low rates.
The only reason 70%+ of your mortgage is going towards interest is because you are taking out a loan for such a long period of time (30 years). If you take out a 15 year mortgage with today's rates only 40% of your mortgage would go towards interest. You are intentionally trying to pay back the bank as slowly as they will allow but are then blaming them that your principal payments are so low. They are low because you choose for them to be low.
everybody else gets $10. It's not even worth my time to file.
I put a pretty high value on my time, but it just took me about a minute to potentially claim $30. I would have to value an hour of my time at about $2000 for this to not be worth the time to file. Although if I have to cash a physical check the math changes dramatically.
They call the sport football but it is not in any way related to actual football.
Football includes a family of vaguely similar sports, including Association Football (soccer), Gridiron Football (USA football), and Rugby Football (rugby). All of them can be rightfully called football, even though their rules vary greatly. There is no "actual" football.
Reminds me of an article comparing a doctor's lifetime earnings vs a UPS driver. In the analysis, the doctor doesn't pull ahead until about 18 years after high school, due to the long period of schooling and residency, plus debt load.
You make it sound like 18 years after high school is a long time. That is only 35-37 years old, or in other words only a little over a third of the way into your career.
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It used the original MySQL SQL parser in its 1.x release, which is still released under the GPL. MaxScale 2.0, which is BSL-Licensed, no longer contains any MySQL code any more.
I don't understand why any company would use parts of the MySQL code base when the PostgreSQL code base has a far more open license. Just use the Postgre SQL parser instead. Maybe I'm confused about the Postgre license but it seems like a pretty easy choice, and the one I would make if I was developing a new open source or even commercial database (in the 1.0 release anyway).
With Musk the right question is never 'will it work?" but 'will it make any sense factoring in the costs?'
That is the great thing about having billionaires with the curiosity of engineers. Musk is willing to find out if these 'crazy' ideas make any sense factoring in the costs. Let your average VCs fund the companies whose ideas will most likely work. Men like Musk are the ones with the freedom to investigate the ideas which will probably not work, but would be phenomenal if the general wisdom is wrong.
IMHO Musk is filling in for governments who aren't spending enough on basic research and grand innovative ventures. For these projects it is expected that you will fail far more often than you succeed, which is why traditional investors stay away. I hope Musk keeps up his current pace of innovation for the next 30 years.
There are thousands of people with the next Big Thing, but because their product isn't advertising or analytics (read, more ways to spy on the user), their stuff is ignored by VCs.
Considering how much valuations of these companies are ballooning in recent years, it seems VCs are getting pretty desperate with finding companies worth investing in. I doubt there is this massive pool of people with truly marketable and executable ideas that simply cannot find funding. Nearly everyone has some idea they think could make millions, but having an investable idea is far different than that.
If your contention is that we need to be spending more money on basic research which is unlikely to pay off for many decades then I completely agree with you. But that is primarily the responsibility of government not private investors.
Typical - get a big idea, get resources together to make it happen, get it off the ground and running, empower others to complete your work, then lose interest. On to the next big idea.
FTFY
If only there were more successful serial entrepreneurs in the world. We would have our flying cars by now.
0.04625% (or 1 in 2000 10 mile drunk driving trips)
If you drive drunk once a week, that makes an accident a near certainty over an adult life.
If you drive 10 miles while very drunk (0.2 BAC) once a week, it becomes very likely you will have an accident because of your drunkenness over an adult life.
For reference, for a 150 pound individual they would need to drink about 7-8 drinks over a couple hours to reach 0.2 BAC. That is pretty drunk.
To be fair, although she was drunk as shit and should have never been behind a wheel, it appears from camera footage that she was swerving to avoid ANOTHER car that was traveling the wrong way on the street.
Driving drunk is not much of a problem if nothing unexpected happens on your way home. Even though someone has a 2500% greater chance of having an accident with a .20 BAC, that only increases the chances of an accident on a 10 mile trip from 0.002% to about 0.04625% (or 1 in 2000 10 mile drunk driving trips). Nearly 100% of people who drive drunk don't get into an accident.
Driving drunk is mostly just a problem because something unexpected might happen, like another car driving the wrong way on a street. When drunk you don't have the necessary reaction time to adjust and an accident becomes very likely.
Just to clarify, you want to sanction the USA until they return Texas and California to Mexico? Or maybe the UK until they return Gibraltar to Spain? Poland and Russia until they return East Prussia to Germany? Germany until we give Schleswig-Holstein back to Denmark? Shit, I can go on and on and on. You won't believe just how many countries have annexed parts of other countries in the past.
Every square inch of the planet inhabited by humans has been "annexed" by someone at some time in human history. The difference is we don't accept that behavior any more in the post-World War II era. Maybe that viewpoint will fall out of favor in international politics in the future, but it hasn't yet.
Clearly the decline in population for the last few years in IL; I'd say a majority of people disagree with you.
Agreed. Regardless of what most people say, they would rather take a larger house for cheaper than give their kids the best education they can afford. Where I live $500k will get you a 2600 sq ft house in the best school district or a 4000 sq ft house in the much weaker school districts 5-10 miles away. Many people prioritize their three car garage over their kids' education. But that is what makes the best school districts the best; they have better parents. Combine parents who value education with a high tax base and you have the primary building blocks of great schools.
The Chicago area is a dump, traffic nightmare, and a liberals wet dream! Taxes are so high in the NW Burbs. Glad to be gone.
Taxes are incredibly high in the NW Burbs (about $14k per year on a $500k house) but you also get private school quality education paid for with those taxes. There are plenty of Chicago suburbs with low taxes, but your kids ultimately pay for it. That or you pay far more in private school tuition than you would have in taxes.
Or more likely there is only so much room to fit people in the Bay Area, so hiring in other cities has started to take up the slack. It really is ridiculous to pay developer $200k a year in a place where that doesn't even give you an upper middle class lifestyle when you can pay people $150k in most large cities (or their suburbs) which can give employees a much higher standard of living.
I wouldn't take a job in the Bay Area for even a $100k/yr raise, since my comfortable six figure salary in the Chicago suburbs gives me a 2500 sq ft house with a nice yard and public schools that rival the best private schools. My $500k house would cost at least $3 million in the Bay Area.
The memory range which was set aside for the display, and which you had to write to in order to do graphics (non-hackers used libraries but hackers mostly went for embedded assembler to try and squeeze a little more speed out for graphics work)
My primary reason for disliking Win 95 was it was the first Windows OS which started to really mess with programs that wrote directly to the memory address A0000000 for graphics. I was only a hobbyist in high school at the time and had a hard time finding an alternative which performed as well as TASM code writing directly to the hardware. Eventually I started using DirectX but I remember having a real hard time finding information on how to use version 1.0 in late 1995. I relied heavily on Lamothe's "Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus" to learn these techniques at the time, and wasn't skilled enough yet to learn new technologies quickly on my own.
What's stupid is having an arms race with nature, GMOs included.
We have been having an arms race with nature since the agricultural revolution. Considering we have 1000x more people than the Earth was able to naturally sustain before then, I'd say we are winning that arms race. Although I guess past results are not a perfect predictor of future results.
Tesla has one of the highest recall rates of any manufacturer.
That doesn't seem to be true. Through September 2016 Telsa has averaged 936 total recalls per 1,000 vehicles. Porche was the best manufacturer with only 531 recalls, and Volkswagan was the worst with 1805. Of the 18 manfucturers listed in my link, they averaged 1072 recalls, or about 15% higher than Tesla. Toyota for instance had 10% more recalls than Tesla (per car sold) and Ford had 22% more.
Even though Tesla is only a 10 year old car company, their recall rates are better than companies that have been doing this for 100 years.
It's always a good idea to wait a year or two after a product launches for the issues to be shaken out and the recalls to have happened.
Unless you get a $7500 discount from the government by being an early Model 3 owner. I'll put up with a couple extra recalls for $7500.
What political reasons?
(I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know)
There have been a few people, possibly less than 10 from what I can tell from multiple news sources, who have cancelled their orders because Musk accepted a position on Trump's economic advisory council.
I think Trump is bad enough to disregard Godwin's Law, but I still want competent business leaders to keep a line of communication open with the man. Criticizing Musk for trying to advise Trump is a Tea Party level of insanity. Then again the Tea Party has sadly had a lot of success, so maybe liberals need to stop relying on only rational responses.
They're also getting a few cancellations (for all models, not just the 3) at the moment for political reasons.
FTFY
It behooves them to get the product out of the door and close as many orders as they can.
That is still true, but for very different reasons than you give. Even without the Model 3, Tesla will most likely hit the 200,000 US sales mark in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018 (probably 2017). That means the phase out period for the $7500 tax credit will start in either April or July 2018.
I am a firm believer in buying used, and without the $7500 tax credit I will almost certainly buy a 2014/5 Cadillac/BMW/Lexus instead of a new Tesla Model 3. Tesla only has about 12 months to deliver my Model 3 or my pre-order will be cancelled. This is probably a very common opinion among people with pre-orders.
I think the enthusiasm has diminished for the model 3. It was announced way to early before final production had even begun to happen.
Tesla is going to have at least a couple more major announcements in 2017 as they reveal the final design and specifications and then start delivering the first Model 3s. Both will be a shot of adrenaline similar to when they accepted pre-orders in 2016.
Tesla has basically bet the store on the model 3.
The whole point of the Tesla's last 10 years has been the Model 3. I agree the stock price hasn't priced in the risk inherent in the Model 3's success, but every investor should by now realize Musk's vision has always been to sell tens of millions of electric cars not a few hundred thousand electric super cars. He has shown he is willing to risk everything to reach for a grand vision in the past (such as nearly going broke funding Tesla in 2008) so no one should be surprised here.
Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
I would normally agree with this, but because of government incentives early Model 3 owners will likely get between $1875 and $7500 off the sticker price (depending on how early they get their Tesla). While I would be wary of a first model year BMW or Cadillac as well, if they gave 15-20% off the sticker price to buy version 1.0 of their car it would certainly alleviate that worry. The same goes for the Tesla Model 3.
$7500 to go through 2-3 recalls in the first couple years, along with replacing my 170k mileage 12 year old Honda a couple years earlier, sounds like a good deal to me.
Those holding all the capital are sharing a little bit with you in exchange for your services. How much money have your made your clients/employer? Are you really enjoying the scraps from the table?
His employers are giving the portion of their income that he has earned from commanding a certain wage in the marketplace. He may complete a project for $100k, and his company may have increased profits of $1 million, but his contributions were not the sole cause of the income. Their existing client base, IP, salesmen, marketing, business processes, capital expenditures, and so on were also involved. This is often lost on individual contributors who only see their contribution and ignore the other costs of doing business.
it's not true wealth and doesn't bring you all that much in the long run. Sure, you may have $1-5 million in the bank when you die, but you will have lived your life at the whims of others. Start your own business. Own your own IP. Work for yourself and be free. It's the only way...
You have probably never owned your own business if you think business owners are not at the whims of others. You just trade a few bosses for thousands of bosses (customers). Being an employee instead of an employer is simply a low risk and usually lower return option for having a quality life. As long as you keep a decent cash reserve (which is much less than a business owner would need) and manage your career well enough to ensure your skills don't become obsolete, you can enjoy a quite low risk path towards $3-$5 million (2017 dollars) of retirement funds.
Anyone capable of being a successful business owner is also capable of being a successful employee. It's mostly just a question of risk tolerance and different priorities in life.
But there's another group of people, who we used to call the "middle class", who aren't necessarily lazy but still usually choose easy options in life who are on the brink of poverty, or falling into poverty, or generally having a tough time getting ahead.
FTFY. People making intelligent choices are quickly moving into the upper middle class (2/3 of people leaving the middle class are getting wealthier not poorer) because of those intelligent choices. What is being lost is the ability to keep your head down and coast through life but still make a comfortable living.
I'm bitching _because_ I understand the terms of the mortgage. I understand that I'm paying the interest up front so that the bank gets all of the profit and none of the risk. I pay interest up front because the longer I'm in the house the better the odds my life'll go to shit again when somebody gets sick or my job gets offshored or whatever disaster strikes next. Interest is suppose to be the profit a bank makes for risk. Why the hell are they getting so much damned profit for zero fucking risk?
Based on your comments you don't seem to understand much. You are paying interest up front because you don't have enough money to pay for a house in full, and no one outside of maybe your immediate family is likely to loan you money without any compensation. Current mortgage rates are at around 4.25%, which becomes more like 3.2% to someone in the 25% tax bracket. That is hardly highway robbery. Most people wouldn't be happy if their retirement accounts were returning them 4.25% per year over 30 years, but yet you think this is an absurdly high interest rate for some reason.
At such a low interest rate, your damn right the bank is not willing to take much risk at all. I sure wouldn't for those low rates.
The only reason 70%+ of your mortgage is going towards interest is because you are taking out a loan for such a long period of time (30 years). If you take out a 15 year mortgage with today's rates only 40% of your mortgage would go towards interest. You are intentionally trying to pay back the bank as slowly as they will allow but are then blaming them that your principal payments are so low. They are low because you choose for them to be low.
You don't have a bank that let's you deposit a check by phone? Even my local credit union supports that.
Honestly my wife deposits all our checks and I've never even looked into what tech our bank supports.
everybody else gets $10. It's not even worth my time to file.
I put a pretty high value on my time, but it just took me about a minute to potentially claim $30. I would have to value an hour of my time at about $2000 for this to not be worth the time to file. Although if I have to cash a physical check the math changes dramatically.
They call the sport football but it is not in any way related to actual football.
Football includes a family of vaguely similar sports, including Association Football (soccer), Gridiron Football (USA football), and Rugby Football (rugby). All of them can be rightfully called football, even though their rules vary greatly. There is no "actual" football.
Reminds me of an article comparing a doctor's lifetime earnings vs a UPS driver. In the analysis, the doctor doesn't pull ahead until about 18 years after high school, due to the long period of schooling and residency, plus debt load.
You make it sound like 18 years after high school is a long time. That is only 35-37 years old, or in other words only a little over a third of the way into your career.