https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite...

No the author is not some homicidal maniac. In interviews he emphasizes that no policy should be made based on his findings. But if policy were made, he would focus on universal healthcare, pre-school, government funded maternal leave, etc to support women.

I’m not saying that makes Nvidia worth 1T with it’s expected profit.

They had a complete backup site with redundant servers, modems (for point of sales systems) and a redundant staff because the cost of being down was so high.

We never had to use the backup site the entire three years I was there.

It’s much less maintenance than my days of maintaining servers myself.

And not to mention half the reason I went to cloud was not that I didn’t want to deal with administering servers, I didn’t want to deal with server administrators.

When I was at the 60 person company where I got my start in “cloud”, I could experiment with different types of databases, scaling, and other technologies just by throwing something together and deleting the entire stack.

I worked for a company that aggregated publicly available health care provider data (ie no PII) for major health care providers. They used our APIs for their own websites and mobile apps.

When we got a new customer (ie large health care provider), our systems automatically scaled.

When a little worldwide pandemic happened in 2020 and our traffic spiked by 100%+, guess how long it took us to provision new servers.

Hint: we didn’t, everything just scaled by itself.

I compare that to the old days when it took us weeks to provision an MySQL server.

Managing infrastructure is doesn’t provide a competitive advantage unless you’re something like Backblaze, DropBox or another company where your entire reason for existing is your infrastructure expertise.

And honestly, ChatGPT is so well trained on AWS CLIs, Terraform, CloudFormation, the SDKs for Python and Node, I can throw most of my problems at it and it does well.

So exactly how is an EU citizen suppose to use a service like Shopify - that has to store PII - and that’s not based in the EU?

> That is the opposite of true. I've seen it help internally at a data storage level, and seen people make use of it to protect themselves. You do not know what you are talking about.

And it also killed a small business who wanted to use Shopify to sell completely legal things.

Not to mention that the same EU that is being applauded for “protecting your privacy” is trying to get a law passed so they can have a backdoor to any W2s encrypted methods.

It’s not that they want to protect your privacy. They just want to be the only ones who can surveil you.

Or do you mean that when the drug epidemic hit “rural America” politicians started treating it “as a disease” instead of a moral failure when it was all about the “inner city” drug problem?

But either way, are you comparing going to a web page that stores data in the US that you can choose not to go to going to a crack house?

And the HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561222

And the HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561222

The EU is constantly taking away your right to choose which companies you want to use and it’s being celebrated