Also see comparative advantage re best roles for each actor in an economy

—PEP 8

However, I'm extremely reluctant to give my password database hosting to ANYONE. I feel like this is something I need to "own" myself. Perhaps on Coolify, Dokploy, or on a Raspberry Pi with regular backups hosted at my home or office. This is extra work that I'm not eager to do; and frankly, it goes against my philosophy of outsourcing "commodity" work to which I'm ill-equipped to add substantial value.

On the other hand, password managers are the most sensitive software I can imagine.

Lastly, Sharing passwords with my wife, coworkers, etc is genuinely very valuable. Either of us can update, maintain etc our shared set of passwords. Last I looked, Keepass and its ilk cannot replace that functionality

FSD is a better driver than me 99% of the time.

New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.

The point of school is to learn to think + learn to face adversity & failure....

Are you worried about claims in bankruptcy court or something?

You should execute the exact opposite pricing scheme: provide discounts to your most loyal customers who are willing to provide you cashflow long in advance of your incurring an expense to provide services to them in order finance your operation.

The point of static hosting is to simplify things, not feed into developer fever dreams of complex systems.

Plus, Wordpress is established, mature ecosystem that can provide almost any mainstream feature you could imagine.

I went to them after losing a weekend trying to stand-up my company's website after some ill-advised changes to my Wordpress instance (bad plugins caused Wordpress server to crash).

I haven't looked back since. Wordpress-based static hosting Just Works + makes sense

ps HardyPress was a similar alternative I evaluated. It had an issue failing to render some of my webpages to static....but maybe it's become better

Lack of competition in cellular is another story....

I don’t have Jeff Bezos’ resources, but if I buy a single television ad to advocate for my position I should be regulated?

I don’t see a difference between media companies publishing material and overt partisans buying advertisements.

A long time ago, the French decided that quality of life, and taking an easier path was simply more important than the economic, military, and to a lesser extent cultural dominance of the US. As a result, French people live generally better quality of life, but the very ambitious don't get as rewarded as in the US. You will find French of all stripes in the US who seek to live in the US because they can be rewarded more than in France.

It is a cultural choice. But let's not deny the effect.

In France you have 35 hour work-week, siesta, lots of vacations, health care, bloated government. But there is very little entrepreneur ism. The French fell in love with the large corporation and large government.

You'd find their backwards, less competitive economy to your liking.

Economic ignorance encountered here can be stupefying.

No matter what you think of China's economy, it is leaps and bounds better than what it was 20 years ago and provides a dramatically superior quality of life for its citizens.

Patients with horrible, painful, fatal diseases are certainly miserable. Pharmaceutical companies are certainly looking to further their own goals through the development and sale of life saving drugs.