we also live in a world that does not appreciate well crafted software and a lot of things are driven by the desire to build a resume. I've maintained code that was decades old and was amazing to work with and was still generating ridiculous amounts of money. I've also worked on code that was just written and used all the possible bells and whistles and development speed grinded to a halt once the it's been around for more than a couple of months.

My worst case scenario is having to work on code where the original developer didn't understand what they were doing and they just wanted to use X. Double the trouble if they didn't master X when the thing was put together.

Level 2) you pack your software into an ami and use the update the asg config. You can periodically "drain" the asg of old instances

Level 3) you deploy your stack again with the new stack having the ami that you've build at level 2 referenced. You start shifting traffic between the old stack and the new stack. You monitor and rollback if something is wrong.

We don't want to run k8s from scratch? Let's buy the managed version in the cloud?

It sounds like an argument for containers.

I mean, at that point why not use a simpler abstraction, like a VM. Or just use functions.

It is a full time job. The cost of using something is not just the setup cost. The same way that software development is not just the cost of writing the software.

Personally I would take managing "a couple of webservers and a db" any day over k8s.

Another thing that most people don't get or don't want to acknowledge is that intelligence and consciousness is relative to the environment in which the entity is intelligent or conscious in. If you take a piece of software and expect it to be conscious the same way a human is conscious you're going to have a bad time. There is heavy heavy projection when it comes to humans interacting with basically everything. We anthropomorphize everything.

From that vantage point we will not be able to recognize intelligence and consciousness unless it look exactly as our own.

Now, the reason for the ridiculous zoning based on housing type and commercial activity are really really simple: to separate the rich from the middle class and the middle class from the poor. It's extremely prejudiced and wrong. Yet here we are.

The more I see, the more I believe a civil war is not off the table. In fact it's becoming more and more likely each day. We have 2 camps today and people are more and more divided. There used to be a time when you could... talk about the issue and use logic and arguments around facts. Not anymore. Abortion will not lead to a civil war - not on its own - but it does add extra pressure to a pressure cooker that's about to blow up.

Setting aside political posturing: Who cannot get an abortion today? Even in deep red states, if you're wealthy the same rules do not apply to you.

Also, you need to ask yourself: is this about abortion? Or is it really about literally keeping the people poor, stupid and uneducated?

Think about it: if you're not poor this is not an issue. If you have 5 kids instead of 1, good luck getting them the proper education. But it's cool...we can use all that almost free labor to drive our corporate empires forward.

You answered your own question. It's the interpretation that matters. The Supreme Court is a joke.

Political debates have not been done in good faith in the US for decades. It's no longer about the people - it's about fooling the people into getting amped up about things and voting one way or the other. It's like a wrestling match. Does it really matter who wins if it's all fake? Actually I take this back: being a wrestler actually needs some sort of prep and physical conditioning. Wrestling is better than politics.

A channel between 2 entities is backed by real bitcoin and a scheme to manage the ledger based on bitcoin primitives (multisignature).

Lightning is just a series of channels + routing, so in effect it's a path of channels between you and the party you are transacting with + ledgers of those channels updating with the value that is being moved. At any point in time you can close any channel and materialize however bitcoin you have on your side.