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Netflix streaming was originally a free perk of being a dvd subscriber, because the hosting service was so much more efficient than the cost of mailing a physical object to your house and back. Now many ISPs have dedicated netflix storage appliances on site that further reduce bandwidth.

Also if you are on an ad based plan they would want you to use the service more.

Understanding texas - it's not political, they just worship money. So if you can make money making solar / wind farms nobody will stop you, and that's why texas has a ton of solar / wind farms. If you can make money running a bitcoin farm and then get paid money to turn it off during peak hours, nobody will stop you. If you can invent a power billing company that is market based so customers save money when rates are low but suddenly have an insane energy bill when ERCOT breaks down nobody will stop you. There is no moral code stopping green energy, it's just pure free market vampire capitalism.

Heroku was revolutionary, but was bought out (salesforce) and stagnated while retaining their 4x cost. More than a few of the addons i've used on heroku have shut down, and you still have to upgrade your app to the new heroku stack regularly, so hosting an app is not maintenance free.

I wish they had maintained momentum and attempted to price competitively, but at this point its probably too late.

Great read!

Design it exactly Twice. If you cant afford that design it once. Twice will also not be enough. Attempt to approach a local maximum because all design has competing values. Design for yourself, or someone you like more, or at least someone with a lot of money.

Dont fall in love with your first design and spend days weeks years developing it before getting feedback, or comparing it to the second design you never made. Also make sure the committee all gets a say and all their feedback is in the new design, to approach the global maximum design that eats all other designs.

Be sure to ship a design, but also a good one, that's better than the other one. On budget. With good taste.

Couchsurfing was an experience in radical hospitality. There was always the notion that a host / guest could be a terrible person, but there was also a review system aimed to weed out the worst. It was never as transactional as you get anything for free, but more about the acceptance that strangers could enjoy each other's company, and in exchange for hosting someone you might get a good story or cook together or share a bottle of something nice, and maybe someone would return the favor on your next trip. Of course you should still travel safely, and it is unfortunate the system didn't work perfectly. But i will always enjoy all the amazing experiences i had before the site got bought out and the community dissipated. It is truly sad someone was able to abuse so many people. It sounds like the police were judgemental and incompetent.

That is on webkit engine so would be similar to iOS Safari.

There is no billing / login / ecosystem convenience advantage to using google for any service, because once that service is killed off it is no longer convenient.

They decided not to end service and allow you to migrate to your provider of choice, but to sell your account to another provider. Meaning your account was not valuable enough to continue service, but was valuable enough to sell to a third party.

They started this whole process by aggressively buying the .dev TLD domains and forcing TLS, breaking tooling that used that domain for development (even if that wasn't a great idea).

All for what? Too much ad money and no vision.

How is this valid criticism? This is an excellent use of a scripting language.

I also have stopped buying eggs, but everything you said is correct. Maybe they are still underpriced? I wonder how high the price will go before the average American will buy fewer of them.

Aldi has a radically different shopping experience than most traditional grocery stores, mostly by having smaller stores that offer a complete set of private label items affordably priced, and a weekly or seasonal rotation of variety and premium goods. The selection is much smaller so it is worse for cooking a specific recipe, but the constantly changing goods expose you to many more possibly fun ingredients and prepared foods. The steps they have taken to reduce operating costs and prices and provide a minimalist experience are worth examining.

I feel like Ruby usage slowed after all of the innovations from the rails era - convention over configuration/erb/haml/slim/activerecord/coffeescript/sass became mainstream and were adopted into all the various frameworks or into javascript itself. Good ideas deserve to be everywhere. That being said I dont think webdev is in a good place now or done evolving by a long shot.

Do you feel the same way about private highways? All infrastructure is subsidized to hopefully benefit the economy. Obviously no private company would want an unprofitable long distance highway. These arguments mostly just show we have different priorities and you would rather drive or fly and i would rather not. And i would rather not wait 2 hours behind the air mail / freight plane when waiting to take off and i'm guessing you would not either.

Or we could embrace something that is new and uncomfortable and see if it brings us joy because we can own it and tweak it or if it ends up being bad because it requires maintenance and oversight and energy. It's not like there are tons of opportunities for networked sites to crumble. Myspace, Linked In, Facebook and Reddit launched around 19-20 years ago. Twitter was 16 years ago.

Amtrak tickets are sold in buckets and don't price fluctuate much. If you are booking in advance more than 14 days and Saver tickets are available those are the best deal. I have also bought train tickets a few days out and they were cheaper than last minute flights.

I saw an ad for a facebook tv show on the subway once and was surprised because i've never heard anyone talk about them anywhere. Looks like "Facebook Watch" came out in 2017.

Interesting to see the internal debate, even if i totally disagree with what they decided on. Has anyone ever tried to run a company will full transparency?