You can, too. It’s the simplest and cheapest business to start in the entire history of humankind, and you literally just sit with your laptop at home all day pressing buttons

How do you separate how much having kids affects this, and how much of it is just being 30+ and not taking care of own health?

I have a few childless friends who say the same thing word for word.

Ironically, this approach would give power to an entity that decides who is relevant and who becomes a citizen, which is the government.

Well, being able to talk to superintelligent all-knowing savant 24/7 on your phone for $20 a month is also something

It is so much beneath him to ask for help from others, he’d rather change the world so that he doesn’t have to ask — instead of expressing some humility.

I also have a lot of pride in myself, and I feel deeply for the author. However it looks to me that he’a banging on the wrong door, and instead of waiting for all the people in the world to change a lot, he could change himself a little.

Also a monolith may (actually, must) have internal public interfaces through which components must communicate, and those contracts are more enforceable, amenable to static checks, and much higher performance that microservices’ network interfaces.

    (println (json/generate-string {:providers ["SUN" "SunRsaSign" "SunEC"]}))

Anybody can choose to which hospital they go, the “state-licensed” crazy expensive one or the “unlicensed” one for 50 dollars a visit.

As far as I understand, currently the pool of people in the US who are allowed to do medical work is artificially limited, and doctors’ salaries are inflated. Just look around the world, there’s a huge supply of doctors with no student debt who would be happy to work for 60k a year. Also tens of thousands of US citizens will just go get a cheap medical degree from other countries, come back, and open private practice.

Let’s make a thought experiment.

CEO of Cloudflare introduces hard billing caps at a _business_ (not technical) level. Your organization will never be billed more than the level you set. Your app may stop, or may continue running, but above the monthly cap it’s free for you, it becomes Cloudflare’s expense if they didn’t pause the services.

I guarantee you that in this case, all technical issues you’re talking about would be solved in three weeks, and your service would go down within 3 seconds after hitting the cap.

If CEO decision were that any over-usage above the cap is deducted from employee bonuses from the specific product division that didn’t stop spending in time — all technical challenges would be solved in 48 hours.

Currently, there are literally zero organizational incentives for CloudFlare to develop any usage caps

It turned out to be probably the crappiest, glitchiest piece of software I’ve used in the past few years. Its basic onboarding workflow was completely broken, GUI was a hallucinated mess.

Also it turned out that not a single person I know who dedicated time to configuring it, ever achieved anything remotely interesting as a result.

Price of rent increasing in desirable locations is not due to greed or collusion of bad actors (as long as government prevents monopolies), it's due to more people competing to live in a place that can house only a limited number. Of course everybody wants to live in big cities in the US. But rent is very cheap in dying small towns in the middle of nowhere.

People like AOC just pander to uneducated populace who'd prefer to use force to take free stuff of other people who work instead of working themselves.

Very easy to keep electing such politicians — just continue giving out more free stuff, so that people think it's the norm, and working is not required, just always taking is fine. People will vote accordingly

That's because creating a business is a lot of hard work and risk, and surely you'd instead better virtue signal in your free time to look better to other people who are also lazy.

But then again you're very young.

I fully agree, and remind you it's completely legal and simple for you to go and start a company that does equitable distribution of company profits. More people should do it instead of complaining that few people do.