Why would AWS provide a feature that makes additional transaction and storage charges (as well as subsequent reads to see which is the correct version) irrelevant?
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Agreed. Actually, they could probably jack it up to 90% if not for the inevitable lawsuits from state Attorneys General..
> If Apple was somehow deemed responsible for policing crypto-scams, the only rational thing to do would be to ban Crypto apps.
This might be true if the only scam apps were crypto related.
Apple's quest for control over the apps translates to a quest for increased control over their users;
Just as with Google's ability to control search results, when Apple can control how you work, which apps you can install, and even what you say in those apps, they ultimately control how and what you think.
That's a pretty powerful position for two of the most powerful companies in the world. It becomes self-perpetuating and people will automatically suppress any evidence that their opinions are being shaped.
Apple deliberately degrades the performance and functionality of web apps in the sole browser allowed on the IOS platform (Safari, all other browsers are a wrapper around it), slow walk and introduce bugs into standards such as WebRTC, and make it very difficult to install apps as a PWA in order to funnel everyone (50% of phone users in the U.S.) into the App Store, and ban all other app installation methods.
And, when they introduce new features like privacy nutrition labels, it's always so that they can force even more users into their walled garden, and strengthen proprietary apps like iMessage, and build up their ads business. It's like "nobody but us", where "us" is Apple.
So, yes, if they are holding out that all of this app review process is to benefit and protect the users, and the users get scammed because their app review process is apparently incapable of catching these obviously scam apps, then Apple should make the users whole.
0. Apple says its App Store is ‘a safe and trusted place.’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/22/apple-s...
It's inevitable that some things will leak. Defense in depth will help mitigate the risk and contain the fallout.
(extreme paranoia, perhaps bred of experience, doesn't hurt either!)
Also, the hardware can be depreciated, which reduces its net (of taxes) cost dramatically over time.
Five years (probably the useful life of the equipment in general) of $210,000 per month is $12.6M. That's a lot of savings.
10PB costs more than $210,000 per month at S3, or more than $12M after five years.
RackMountPro offers a 4U server with 102 bays, similar to the BackBlaze servers, which fully configured with 12GB drives is around $11k total and stores 1.2 PB per server. (https://www.rackmountpro.com/product.php?pid=3154)
That means that you could fit all 15TB (for erasure encoding with Minio) in less than two racks for around $150k up-front.
Figure another $5k/mo for monthly opex as well (power, bandwidth, etc.)
Instead of $12M spent after five years, you'd be at less than $500k, including traffic (also far cheaper than AWS.) Even if you got AWS to cut their price in half (good luck with that), you'd still be saving more than $5 million.
Getting the data out of AWS won't be cheap, but check out the snowball options for that: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/
1) The police stated "no one was in the driver seat at the time of impact" of the Model S
2) Two people died in the subsequent fire from the crash into a tree
3) "it took firefighters nearly four hours and more than 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire."
4) "At one point, crews had to call Tesla to ask how to put the fire out, Herman said."
5) "The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road. He said the owner was found in the back seat upright."
Another link with some additional details: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/tesla-spring-crash-f...
That's rather impolite. And I'm absolute surprised that Apple hasn't already eliminated the real web -- just like AOL and Microsoft (tried to subvert with MSN and IE), because full and unrestricted access to the web is full of negatives for Apple's business model.
> the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden".
No idea what this means. Are you talking about how the iPhone provides "pervasive and elegant access" to.. the web?
And yet somehow you found this site, where you claimed the uncensored internet was a fantasy.
Dysfunctional to the point of being unusable indeed.
Wow. That's an excellent and very telling point.
What is the point of IOS's endless restrictions and censorship of free speech?
Is the point really to protect users from exercising their own intelligence or guarding their own kids, or is it to protect users from alternatives to Apple's own products?
It's kinda like Gatekeeper on Mac OS; you cannot (easily) install apps that aren't from the App Store. Was this only to protect you from malware? Really?
It's like all of these restrictions have a dual purpose on Mac OS: the stated reason, and an unstated reason: to increase Apple's control over you.
I'm actually surprised that Apple even allows web browsers at all, or third party mail apps, or anything that lets people access things outside their walled garden.
Sure, you might end up moving in a year or two when the job plays out, but you can just move to another non-coastal town. Be flexible and follow the jobs, and you'll see more disparate types of environments (and learn more about how different people think) than you ever could. You can learn pretty much everything there is to learn from a given team in less than six months, so looking at it as a consulting or training gig (even if it's a full-time job) can give you a much stronger resume. (Bonus, you learn people skills from dealing with people from many different regions and backgrounds.)
You are only considering one side of the question -- and actually a limited form of that one side (namely, the material benefits/pay for the unionized employees).
What about the productivity of the firm and workers? The profits? The cohesiveness of the market strategy? The sense that the workers were participating in the success of the firm itself (and not the success of the union)? The creation of healthy relationships between management and labor?
It's probably beyond dispute that unions introduce a "middleman" between management and labor, but we are probably arguing about whether or not that middleman is (most often) a good or bad thing. (I do not dispute that sometimes unions can be healthy and might align its incentives with company success, but I tend to believe that this middleman is not usually a good thing except in extremely unhealthy companies -- perhaps like Amazon, and I must confess that in working with about 50 companies, of which less than 10 were union shops, I've never actually seen a union shop where labor didn't put union goals over company goals, to the detriment of both.)
It's as simple as "Please clean out your desk". Have you never seen The Apprentice? Do you believe that people never get fired?
Real cloud vendor lock-in is when you have decades of code written against a [cloud vendor] and you're getting charged outrageous [cloud] rates and it would also cost a fortune migrate.[sic]
Even though I would handle this much like the GP, I still do rely on those sites for some of the alternatives. (and many people don't know about the "productthatmightwork vs " trick to see what happens on autocomplete on DDG/goog)
The title seems both true (for the author's situation) and falsifiable. I don't think it's clickbait.
While it's true that tech choices are signals that enterprises do use to determine quality, if you are relying on a particular choice of programming language to sell into major enterprises that's simply a mistake. (And enterprises have invested vast sums in technology written in c# or PHP, so clearly it's not all "lol" out there.)
Rust's and Go's capabilities of compiling into a single binary, without requiring a JVM that needs to be fed and cared for, make them a particularly compelling choice for enterprise deployments. Kubernetes itself is written in Go.