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I work at a big enterprise saas company that's moving a couple billion dollars worth of hardware into cloud services, the price difference is wild. Original unoptimized costs were 8x, dropping to 6x in our first round of optimizations. Even the rosiest middle management protections put eventual costs at 2x owning the hardware.

Add to that we threw out plans to do things like virtualization on our owned hardware, and that engineering headcount has consistently grown faster than revenue, it's not clear there are any savings to be had there at our scale.

Working in the Bay Area, I'm sure I've had more colleagues who would implement this than would not. That's even though I've specifically chosen to work at companies that emphasize the importance of social good in their business.

Most people come to work for a paycheck, and the perceived cost to them of shaking up that paycheck (even just to get a new job) is very high.

200 GB of storage on Google One is precisely $3/month

Why are you so focused on online dating? 80%+ of couples don't meet on the internet: https://flowingdata.com/2019/03/15/shifts-in-how-couples-mee...

If online dating expectations are really the issue, why aren't incels pursuing the many other options people use to find a partner? And if they can't/won't, what does that say about their viability as a partner?

Regardless of whether you classify it as a disease, the CDC does in fact track and research car accident deaths and injuries: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht...

Additionally there are two federal agencies (NHTSB and NTSB) that regulate the various elements of vehicular safety at the national level, on top of state DMVs and transportation departments. By comparison, the federal BATFE is basically hamstrung on firearms regulation, and outside a few States so are its state level equivalents.

His NDA included USG restrictions on what he could publish, if he didn't accept the changes the outcome would be the same.

NDA available via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998966

Why would someone averaging <500 miles of driving a year need to own a car?

It's a major issue with AWS across a bunch of sectors. I work at a large SaaS company transitioning to public cloud, the number of companies that contractually obligate us not to host on AWS is at least an order of magnitude higher than any other cloud provider.

Here's a comparison project by Cooling Effect, which was recommended to me by reasonable skeptical, saavy people at my work: https://www.cooleffect.org/content/project/affordable-cookst...

My guess is this is still highly optimistic, but the project claims are 50% emissions reduction from cooking, which is at least possible.

I work on a product with a large amount of tech debt, and that debt was almost universally created using the methodology in your first category. Most of it is extremely well documented. That doesn't magically make it not technical debt.

> in places where public transit is good (NYC, Chicago, Boston)

The Boston one is a real giggle. At best, public transit in Boston is no better than the Bay Area, and on average is much worse.

The real reason for not running shuttles in these locations is office size. The Bay Area offices where shuttles are run have 10-100x the employees these other locations have.

Its job is to deliver a fission warhead without being intercepted by current or future antimissile defences, the dirty bomb inside is comparatively unimportant.

Seems more like perfect examples of jury nullification and professional misconduct in the justice system.

There's a high chance you'll go try to vote as someone who simply didn't register. In California you could then register as that person and vote provisionally, but polling officials will check your identification.

Alternatively you may attempt to impersonate someone using vote by mail. In that case, there won't be a ballot to vote at the polling station, and even if you are able to successfully register provisionally or convince polling workers to give you a blank to fill out, election officials are already looking for these kinds of duplicates.

I've run in affluent neighborhoods in at least a dozen US cities, walked in too many to bother counting. This isn't something I've experienced anywhere.

That's not really what they're trying to do.

What they're trying to do is make it so challenging to host MongoDB as a service that cloud providers can't do it. They implemented it with an absurd requirement forcing contributions to open source, but the intent is not to improve open source, it's to end regain market control.

I use offline Google maps (I have ~10 areas since I travel frequently) but still use 600 MB/month of data from that app alone, I'm assuming traffic data.

Cahill park is frequented by dog owners (and their dogs) and has a really nice playground for kids, it's a good anchor for a family friendly neighborhood.

There's also a great used book store a quarter mile further down the Alameda

Rush's last tour ended over three years ago and the band is over. Neil Peart has apparently left the music business entirely

It's not a charity, his donations to it aren't tax deductible or tax free. If the business makes tax deductible donations those will pass back to him.

USS is only applied to US Navy ships in active service, so the ships name is just the Essex. An interesting parallel for sure.

The large majority of Americans work for the military industrial complex?

> the bottom 20-30% of men who are involuntarily single

Is there data to support this percentage?

> Romantic companionship is part of Maslow's Heirarchy for a reason

Maslow doesn't classify it as a requirement, it's a contributing element of the Love/Belonging level but there's plenty of self-actualizing people who don't have an intimate partner.

Is there data to support this argument?

The issue isn't geography of the launch, it's company registration for regulation.

I use Lyft frequently on iOS all over the US, it gives an estimate that tends to be conservative (i.e. high). Do you not see the same thing in your app?

They have started collecting that data.

The real issue is they don't seem to properly weight responses to get accurate current year numbers. The estimated total comp for my position is about 1/3 low on Glassdoor, it's about 1/30 low on levels

> actually achieving meaningful results takes time and gets you bigger raises

Do you have evidence this is true? I agree with your point about satisfaction, but I've seen a lot of people who believed this about salary and got totally screwed as a result.

I fly frequently in the US, if you pay for TSA pre they don't check fluids below the limit, don't take anything out of your bag and you keep your shoes on. My average time in line is about 6 minutes (mostly driven up by a time where I left water in my bottle at Denver airport).

No one has to show a passport as long as your ticket is going somewhere in the US. Even the state licenses that don't meet the federal standard have been grandfathered into it for a few years, so they can fix it at the state level rather than pissing off voters.

It's also cheaper than the cheapest subscription offered in the US.