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My 10yo and 6yo rarely get screen time and when they do it's for something productive and not mind numbing like gaming or Youtube. Every day that goes by with them being relatively screen-free is a win in my book. They get to be kids - lots of activity outside the house and lots of creativity inside, music, acting, painting. It's hard though as most of their classmates are screen zombies. I just don't understand how most parents don't see this so clearly.

I'm not trying to be a troll, but really - how are you ok with this as a parent? Why are you allowing this?

Isn't it obvious? Sleep is when the body does most of its own healing and restorative functions. Hospitals make money when people are ill. Why would they want you getting better on your own when they have a host of treatments and medications they can sell you on?

Been using Fastmail for ages... great provider.

True, agree with that

I have an email address that I've only ever used as my AWS account email since many years ago. Somehow I started getting spam on it last year. It is not an address anyone could guess or somehow generate based on other data points such as name or otherwise.

No, the lesson is: "don't give companies data they don't need".

Dry fasting for minimum of (7) 24-hour days per month (not necessarily consecutive days, but it does happen often like that) and eating only organic raw fruits and veggies, and drinking no water at all even on non-fasting days (or other liquids for that matter) - I get all the water I need from the food I consume. Stand-alone water intake is not for humans. Wake up with the sun.

Why are we surprised they're okay with censoring in China when they already censor here at home, for example conservative voices on Youtube.

Clearly you have not seen Azure's UI.

Being the worst is not as bad as people think. McDonalds has the worst burgers and Taco Bell the worst tacos, yet both massively successful operations.

This is an ongoing trend. Same thing is happening right now with Twilio with their Flex offering competing with longtime customers such as Talkdesk.

Surely an HN user with 42k karma and 8 year old account should know better than to purposefully use a clickbait title instead of the original. Or maybe that's how they got to 42k karma...?

Somebody needed to park money somewhere.

The Saudis are returning the cash back into the country.. not fearing confiscation anymore.

I recently switched from a $3K 2018 Macbook Pro to the latest $1200 base Air model and couldn't be happier.

The complexity of AWS is exactly why it is so successful.

It is being pushed by both outside consultants and employees who become the experts within the enterprise. GCP's ease of use is a disadvantage in the big picture.

It is always a couple versions behind the build that the NSA/CIA has on their AWS account.

The Saudis facing confiscation and raids back home dumped their cash into Bitcoin which fueled the rally to $20k. They are now pulling the money out.

Facebook ads are a goldmine for both advertisers and FB. Not hard to see the value of the company, now, or years ago.

The cyber 9/11 will be done by rogue AWS employees who are part of a sleeper cell at Amazon.

I really don't care to do that, no. I'm not looking to convince anyone of anything, just stating facts. The level of access to decision makers in many industry-specific private FB groups is incredibly valuable. I closed several 6-digit multi year deals just because I was at the right private group at the right time. To dismiss FB as a useless tool and delete a profile is short sighted. As a business you owe it to your employees and customers to be where business is conducted. A big part of it is now transacted inside FB's walled garden. Deal with it.

Getting acquired by Dialpad in 3, 2, 1..

Yes. You are looking at it from a developer/employee point of view. Running multiple businesses I know for a fact Facebook is a must. Even CEOs and other execs at companies using our products reach out routinely over Facebook. Then of course you have the private groups. So much business is done at private FB groups, you have no idea. Leads that we have been chasing for a long time over regular channels such as email, phone, Linkedin, etc. - became closed deals due to short Facebook messenger exchanges with decision makers.

That's on the business deal making side.

From a consumer point of view - if you don't have presence on Facebook, you simply do not exist.

For anyone running a business or otherwise involved in the selling process of any service or product, deleting FB/IG is foolish. You are letting your emotions distance yourself and your business from where the customers and prospects are.

The Azure portal UI is horrendous. It is the prime example of exactly how NOT to design UI/UX.

Facebook posts from actual people are so mundane, self-serving and egoistical that I actually enjoy the ads more.

It sure did. It took us about a minute to fully fail over to AWS, and we are running there now for the rest of the day. We will promote GCP to be the primary cloud again tonight.

Without our multi-cloud set up we would have been down for over an hour. In our business this is not an option.

Funny, a day after I posted this...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429099

Is our first time actually rolling over the entire stack to AWS - and it worked!

GCP outage currently is massive, can't even use other regions.

Edit: This also affected AWS Oregon region earlier. I do not know how yet, but they too were unreachable briefly. Seems to be okay now.

I can't comment regarding GKE as we don't use that particular service, however we are very heavy users of many other GCP services, including Compute, Datastore, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Storage, Functions, Speech, and others. Zero issues this weekend, everything is running 100% as any normal day.