To understand the scale at which we have printed money, analyze the fed balance sheet https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

have a look at this: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-payments...

it is like borrowing at higher rate than the rate at which are are growing our income.

now look at the deficits.

so let's not fight the battle that will never be won. there is no point in convincing pro-cloud people that cloud isn't the right choice and vice-versa. let people share stories where it made sense and where it didn't.

as someone who has lived in cloud security space since 2009 (and was founder of redlock - one of the first CSPMs), in my opinion, there is no doubt that AWS is indeed superiorly designed than most corp. networks- but is that you really need? if you run entire corp and LOB apps on aws but have poor security practices, will it be right decision? what if you have the best security engineers in the world but they are best at Cisco type of security - configuring VLANS and managing endpoints but are not good at detecting someone using IMDSv1 in ec2 exposed to the internet and running a vulnerable (to csrf) app?

when the scope of discussion is as vast as cloud vs on-prem, imo, it is a bad idea to make absolute statements.

edit- seems like remix customizations.

              "remove-watch-video-requirement": {
                            "defaultValue": false,
                            "rules": [{
                                "condition": {
                                    "env": "prod",
                                    "email": {
                                        "$in": ["@gmail.com", "redacted"]
                                    }
                                },
                                "force": true
                            }]
                        },
                        "score-only-lesson-phoneme": {
                            "defaultValue": true
                        },
                        "auto-stop-recording-for-all-practice": {
                            "defaultValue": true,
                            "rules": [{
                                "condition": {
                                    "env": "prod",
                                    "email": {
                                        "$in": ["redacted", "redacted", "redacted@live.com"]
                                    }
                                },
                                "force": false
                            }]
                        },
                        "use-speechace-v9": {
                            "defaultValue": true
                        },
                        "april-2022-price-increase-experiment": {
                            "defaultValue": false,
                            "rules": [{
                                "condition": {
                                    "env": "prod",
                                    "email": {
                                        "$in": ["redacted@usorov.com", "redacted@gmail.com", "redacted@gmail.com", "redacted@boldvoice.com", "redacted@gmail.com"]
                                    }
                                },
                                "force": false

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1400077796/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/1b6ru8u/2024_m...

https://twitter.com/gauravphoenix/status/1776285356146729185

Jokes aside, it is enlightening to see how far we have come. Just 10 years ago, seeing a Tesla in SF bay area would be a topic of conversation. Today, I have two Teslas parked in my garage and yesterday when we went for a NYE party, 80% of the attendees drove Tesla (or Tesla drove them ;)