Downloader pays.

I make some content and upload it. When you want to download it, you pay Amazon the egress fees. And maybe I get to charge just a bit more, to help me with the Ingress, storage, content creation, etc.

I mean, I know that there's going to be problems with rate limiting, etc. And yes, we have those problems with LLM tokens today. But this just feels like such a useful thing that it baffles me that it doesn't exist already.

That means you need to be prepared to do X.

And what if some of the components of X expire? That means you have to pay to keep them on hand.

And the distribution of how often you do X is absolutely not predictable. Sometimes it's months between them. Sometimes it's 10 in a day.

If you had to be prepared to serve 20 hamburgers, any given afternoon, with no warning, how much ground beef would you waste, over a year?

Counting how much ground beef you did use does actually provide some information. I'm not discounting that. But it absolutely does not tell the whole story.

How often is there a malpractice case for a hip replacement?

I'm willing to bet that the costs of a malpractice case can be one, two, three, or even more orders of magnitude higher than all of those other expenses. Dwarfing any of those enumerated costs. Even cases that they win.

Of course they're looking at the statistics rather than counting beans.

I meant, "Yes, you're so damned right! It's even in the dictionary! I wish people would educate themselves and not believe lies!"

Apparently the dictionary is "woke."

Wikipedia: "A tariff, or import tax, is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer."

Oxford Economics: "Tariffs are taxes imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries."

If I had to guess at the comic author's intention...

It's commentary that the logic is flawed. If this is why you're doing tariffs, you're not using them correctly.

Not that tariffs should never be used.

A scalpel is one thing.

Dynamite is something else.

Like, "other countries pay the tariffs."

No. They don't.

How can we have nuanced conversation about the trade-offs, if the leader of one political party blatantly lies about a fundamental detail of how tariffs work?

600% reduction in the price of drugs?

We can't even start a discussion with people who believe this. At all. They reject any information, even their own knowledge of how numbers work.

He worked at Google for 12+ years. He created memcached, WebSub (PubSubHubbub), OpenID, and Perkeep (Camlistore). He's a late-stage co-founder of Tailscale.

If he's a junior engineer, then I have no idea what a senior engineer is.

What has OP done for me lately? :)

So, I want to make an RSS feed Gadget. And you will run an RSS Aggregator Gadget, and then some Presentation Gadget. Do I have that roughly right?

How does my Gadget talk to yours? Cloudflare Tunnels for CGNAT, NAT traversal? CapnProto for the schema? Fire and forget? Online only? Queuing? Store and forward?

How do I keep track of my Contacts? Who is allowed to read my feed? Are controls built in?

So so so many questions. Do you have office hours? :D

They might not be officials, they not might represent the official organizations, but those things do happen.