PaywallBuster

Interested!

Could you please share why did they close the account and what argument did you make to have them open it back?

I have the same issue for another Google service

Financial Health: Okay Users: Good Tech & Talent: Great Ownership Stake: 31% Going Public

Walmart still have a lot of (combined) efficiencies otherwise, people would jusy shop at the local grocer if that was cheaper :)

Unlike the government, no one's forcing people to shop at walmart, and if they were loosing efficiency (charging higher due to Admin costs) people are more than welcome to move to any alternative that suits them best

> Hospitals over-bill persistently and excessively to the point where hospital billing charges have ceased to have much meaning beyond their ability to shock and frighten people. The

> While Medicare and Medicaid control their costs by tying their payments to the actual cost of medical services, private insurance companies appear to be just paying a fixed percentage of what they’re billed. That alone gives hospitals a strong motivation to inflate their billing charges by more each year independent of their costs.

Could use personal plan from Backblaze for 7$ a month

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html

I'm sure there's alternatives

https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box

Dump the movies on a backup service, why do you need a full copy locally

Golden rule of data: "90% of it is not accessed after 3 months"

That's a rough estimate based on his numbers

5 small VMs, 2 big VMs, 1 managed db

moving from k8s to dedicated

not the same as VM to dedicated

At previous project, we have a team of 15+ people.

AWS bill is 5k plus per month

One deployment lead to regressions (^2 growth growing along with usage of the new feature)

When it became a problem I just upgraded the instance and made a ticket

the ticket was solved within next sprint, so 2 weeks or so minimum

You have a very small environment, what do you expect to save by moving to hetzner?

your aws infra: 600-1000 month? hetzner: 200 per month?

Is 800/month gonna make a difference to your organization?

Imagine you launch new feature with performance regressions and suddenly your database is at 100% CPU usage

Managed database service will allow you to scale up the instance in a few clicks, so you can redo the feature with a better plan, instead of rushing to roll back or deploy a hot fix.

Could be based on the valuation of the company based on the latest funding round

Which could be tanking as we speak

I don't see any news of the SPAC merge to have succeeded (estimated for Q4 21)

and this article shows they just laid off 1/3 of staff

https://therealdeal.com/2022/03/15/future-city-better-coms-t...

Sounds like a good bet!

> ALWAYS keep your finances distributed between multiple accounts.

always get biten in the hand, when the bank you trust with 90% of your savings decides to lock your account or wtv

never again, keep it distributed as much as possible

question: how to know when is it better to buy?

- now: high price but low mortgage?

- later: lower price but higher mortgage? (or simply take this and later refinance at lower rates?)

> My advice to y’all is to get out of the sausage factory

Certain cities/countries can be day and night!

Imagine SF is one of the worst places to be for single men

Oracle Cloud - good alternative for bandwidth heavy products (used by Zoom)

Heroku - For a more "abstracted" cloud that just works

Vultr/DigitalOcean - Cheap VMs, additionaly some services like managed DB and K8s

Hetzner/OVH - Cheap dedicated hosts

Netlify/Cloudflare Pages/etc - for static websites + functions/3rd party services for dynamic stuff

tl;dr: stick to contractors, don't form employment relationships

It doesn't make sense anymore

baby boomers: get a job and be set for life

gen z: change job every 1/2 years, all online/remote, work from anywhere, move to another country

things are moving fast, and regulations are 50 years behind

Huawei Matebook looks interesting alternative to Macbook

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/laptops/matebook-14-amd-2020/

Similar build and high power CPUs (not the mobile optimized/low power)

His voicing his opinion for the show.

If the show gets sued for what's being broadcast, then the lawsuits would take money from the company. By keeping it "bare bones", then lawsuits can't do much damage as he can file for bankrupcy and the value of the suits will be scaled down.

>>> Alex Jones, founder of InfoWars, was found liable for damages in a trio of lawsuits last year filed after he falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax

Doesn't sounds like a crime?

mostly because he got fired after his "reaction" to the small lunch organized by the company

PS: I'm just justifying the 450k reward as being fired for no reason (his reaction). It's understandable

in a poor country where the average person makes < 1000 EUR per month, how do you come up with 0.5M at 21?

for background: he's only 21, and he started the website at 14

Where can I see the rate limits?

as I remember, the discussion went that if EU implemented a tariff on on jet fuel companies would simply load their planes elsewhere, e.g. Russia/Dubai where there's abundant fuel with little to no tax

not so relevant for the shorter trips intra-EU, but still a factor

Mr Derrick seems to have gotten triggered by all this, which looks nothing but the unfortunate side effects of the US tax/legal system, and in that regard I'd guess it occurs often enough.

In the other hand consider that Mailchimp employees probably fared much better working on a digital all online product and getting their above average salaries than the average person, who actually lost their jobs, savings and health insurance due to covid

It's nuclear power based on Thorium instead of Uranium

The tale goes that DoD was researching both options during the Cold War? and eventually shut down the Thorium research due to the warfare potential of enriched uranium

It's becoming more popular last 10 years or so, with books being written about it and private companies picking up the development of the technology

>> " one of the senior engineers even pointed out they shouldn't be helping me with certain processes at this point."

Try asking another one lol

Some people don't like to help each other as much as others

if that's a big company, consider looking for other teams/projects to work on

if you're fully remote, try going to the office (and spend some time with your team if they're going too)

tl;dr it's Microsoft Azure

a relationship between 2 groups of people can change depending on the circumstances and feedback given

Easy to completely remove free CI minutes from their free tier but allow people to use self hosted runners (very easy to setup)