We once had a cloudflare outage. My CEO asked "mitigate it" I hit him back with, okay, but that'll take me weeks/months potentially, since we're tiny, do you really want to take away that many resources just to mitigate a once every few years half the internet is down issue?

He got it really quickly.

I did mitigate certain issues that were just too common not to, but when it comes to this sort of thing, you gotta ask "is it worth it"

Edit: If you're so small, cloudflare isn't needed, then you don't care if you go down if half the internet does. If you're so big that you need cloudflare, you don't wanna build that sort of feature set. The perfect problem.

We are truly looking at 1984 as a blueprint not a warning.

Rent is going up A LOT every year. My parent's house in a similar area is not, even with extra taxes, it is far lower than what I pay.

They fix up something, its fixed. We have a problem -- it will be fixed in the cheapest possible terribly looking way.

And rent keeps going up. All the time. By so much.

There's flexibility in it when you're in your 20s. But in 30s and 40s its terrible.

They are less prepared for problems. And so suddenly problems happen all the time.

But when there are no problems... Things are going well for the average person.

This makes me laugh. Not at you, but at the cycle. This was the convo years ago when this was possible, but getting consumers to trust a 3rd party like PalmOS (which was actually pretty darn good compared to android) is practically not possible.

Um... Looking at videos of crashing old cars into new cars, the old cars DO NOT hold up to new cars in terms of breaking. The only difference is in old cars the engine would stay intact and the occupants not, while in the new cars its the opposite.

However at 22 I wasn't the experienced person I am today. Nor was I stable, nor could I jump on opportunities like my peers could.

If having a child in your early 20s would mean not losing opportunities in progressing in a career, at least with enough free childcare and food to feed the children, people could be more inclined to have children while they get their life together. Our culture of moving away from home is also a big problem -- having 2 sets of grandparents helping raise a child REALLY helped me at my youth not miss out on youth and still raise my child.

kids between 25-32 is something our society should aim to be as practical and pleasant as possible.

My point isn't that this will scale. It's that you can get really really far without complexity and then tack on as needed. This is just another bit of complexity removal for early tech. I'd use this in a heart beat.

Having to just manage a database is far easier infra wise than a complex system for small rails operations.

Scaling up there will always be strong needs for complexity, but doesn't mean you can't get really far without it.

Now Disney will have to bow down and kiss the ring or their us incomes will fail. Make it too expensive to not bow down.

That's how this works. I'll make doing business too painful for you unless you cater to my will. So surrender.

Well......... Let's see if the gambit will pay off.

A new steel mill won't magically appear in the middle of the US within a month.

- spammers have 1 system to set up in order to spam. They get it right.

- company admins have dozens of projects, of which this is a tiny one, with zero ROI to the bottom line (if people don't consider how critical security is). So they delay.

- companies often have dozens of systems integrated, when I set up DMARC/DKIM the first time for my company, a bunch of email tools broke, we had to do a bunch of leg work, took us a month end-to-end. The value was recognized when we almost lost 20k to a "ceo emails you" scam. But until then it wasn't a priority.

- we didn't even have a full IT, i just stepped in because I cared enough.

- my current company has a dedicated security team. These holes are plugged VERY quickly.

- if you use 1password (an example), then you're generating a bunch of random and unique passwords for every site - questions to verify you as a 2fa tends to be less secure since you tend to make simple answers for those. And they're not convenient to enter into 2fa apps. - 2fa apps are typically great ways to guarantee one bit of randomness into the process

They also have a well trained army still alive while the Russians have only conscripts with weeks of training.

Russia manufacturing is diminishing daily.

I'm not sure Russia will have any bullets left by the end of the year. And north Korean reinforcements were such a bust, they were all slaughtered.

The main worry is if the US starts buying Russian oil, but that won't be an issue if Russia can't move anything.