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Nord Stream 1 was stopped. Gas is still flowing from Russia.

Anyways, the argument is actually more likely the opposite. Opposition was planning a sabotage. In anticipation, to downplay the impact, Putin claimed to punish Europe by stopping Nord Stream1.

It is a reactionary action.

This is not correct.

Gas supplies are controlled by state-owned corporation. Putin and this corporation are one. There is no multi-factions within this organization. It is 100% under Putin's governance. If there was interest to cut supplies, they would have done this publicly. And they have the PR/Media to spin the story however they want.

On the other hand, elites don't benefit from this gas supply. For example, it keeps Ruble unreasonably high for their own exports. And it keeps the government under Putin's control (Gas finances the war as well as his pockets). And undermining gas supplies, creates a consensus among elites that Putin will not be able to sustain the economy for very long. Once there is a consensus, it is much easier to move against Putin.

In simple terms, like any Middle Eastern Dictator economy, Russian dictatorship is managed through government-controlled oil supplies, which elites don't have direct control over. If oil supplies are taken out of the equation, the economy collapses unless elites take over to manage it with alternative methods.

Bottom line, if gas stops flowing from Russia, elites (technology ceos, aluminium exporters, bankers, etc) gain back control.

Might be shocking to some, but not all of Russia is one people. There are multiple interests there among country's leaders. And one such interest: to get rid off Putin's regime quickly. One way of doing this is to prevent any notion of "restorable" economic relationships with Europe under Putin. Without Gas, who needs Putin's Russia...

A prediction: we will see more of such actions in the coming months, leading to the winter

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Am I missing something or have Yodlee and Intuit account aggregation have provided this service now for more than a decade?

that's the wrong question. People choose different tools for all kinds of reasons. And many of these reasons are totally valid. A tool, Looker or otherwise, is no panacea.

@akalitenya the way I used to explain it to the technical audience is: would you rather program in a low-level language like C or in a high-level language like Java, Python, or Node? Well, if you are writing compilers, you might choose C, but if you are doing almost everything else, you want to choose a language that fits the purpose: python for data science, Node for web backend, etc. Same with LookML - it provides a language that is ideal for doing analytics in-database. SQL is a language for extracting and summarizing data - it is not an ideal language to preserve business logic in just as C would not be an ideal language to preserve backend web dev. work in.

"scale" meant adoption, not performance. Scaling performance can generally be solved with hardware. Adoption, not so much.