A short list of those tons would be wonderfully helpful to share. :)
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My thoughts EXACTLY. The great power in "serverless" architecture (i.e. AWS Lambda + AWS RDS + AWS Gateway) is how it empowers prototyping a new product.
Counterintuitively, it's future-proofing. You should know in advance that it's too slow & expensive. But you get to spin up a prototype backend very rapidly, pay only for what you're using while prototyping, and Lambda's inherent limitations force devs to build modularly, start simple, & stay focused on the product's main goals.
When the time comes to need scale, either at launch or even later when user count goes up, your "serverless" backend can be relatively easily replaced with servers. Then, just like that, in response to scale need your product's costs and response time go down instead of up.
It's a nice way to build a software product: rapid prototyping plus easy future cost decreases built-in.
Straw man. No one has accused you of this.
> You do not have the freedom of speech to threaten others.
You have defined freedom of speech in a way that merely assists your argument. No one should expect the freedom you describe.
> Checks and balances in the united states is a check written as a bribe
Undefended baseless hyperbolic claim.
> slaughter of millions of innocent civilians during wartime is excused with a couple of decades
Straw man. I made it clear that this act is definitive of the USA just as Chinese government's present day actions are definitive of it.
> The LGBT person above feared for his life. That's next level brain washing right there.
No idea what you're talking about.
In summary, your thread rapidly devolved into a political flame war, I am sorry to have ever engaged with you, and I am done now.
Here is that agenda, also known as the 5 demands:
1. Kill the extradition bill. Done.
2. Retract use of the word “riot” to classify the protests.
3. Release and drop charges for protesters who have been arrested.
4. An inquiry into the widespread, well documented police brutality.
5. Universal suffrage.
In other words, they want their right to peacefully protest & vote for their leaders. To claim they have such rights already would be to ignore their words and their plight entirely.
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/22/20804294/hong-kong-prote...
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nbp5/hong-kong-stabbing...
> China does not have freedom of speech but in a way neither does the US.
A radical and undefended claim. In what way is this true? You never say.
> did edward snowden have freedom?
Yes he did. Then he broke the law and ran away from the consequences of his actions.
> It's just another regime.
A single-party regime with no term limits on executive power is a stark contrast with a representative democratic federation designed with a multitude of checks and balances on its own power structures.
> you still have to use the products that China made for you because you as a country do not have the technical ability to manufacture the same products
False choice between Chinese products & domestic. No reasonable person believes that China is the sole manufacturing presence on Earth. There are a multitude of other options. China, however, does need the US -- the largest free market on the planet.
> Just like how the slaughter of millions of people by the nuclear bomb dropped on hiroshima by the united states does not define the united states as a country, neither do the protests of hong kong define China.
Those two things are indeed important, defining characteristics of the two countries you describe. One of them was an act of world war decades ago. The other is current events, the result of an illegal act of oppression by a dystopian communist state, heavily indicative of what China is today.
Honestly I only posted my comment to stir deeper public discussion on the topic, while trying to be clear at the end that it's possible but I certainly don't think it's encouraged or any fun at all. I figured it wasn't news to you, but thought the topic worth opening, perhaps news to someone else. Cheers.
In theory, you carefully say what you want the software to do in given scenarios, human developers understand the spec as-is, and automated tests can read and execute the spec as-is as a test.
I have no professional experience with it because all the docs make it look like something I would run from: lots of in-code scaffolding and talking like a computer just to get the same job done. But maybe you'll like it.
[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11328920/is-python-stron...
Edit: for those who, for some reason, think my comment unworthy: "The ‘invisible hand’ has an iron grip on America " https://fortune.com/2014/08/13/invisible-hand-american-econo...
From the article:
> Thanks to a technology called “Digital Rights Management,” sellers and buyers could negotiate a subset of rights and a reduced payment for same... In other words, we were told that we must reject the promise of unfettered digital in favor of locked-down digital, and in return, we would enter a vibrant marketplace where sellers offered exactly the uses we needed, at a price that was reduced to reflect the fact that we were getting a limited product. We got the limited product, all right – just not the discount.
It's one thing to claim two teams _don't_ work together regularly; it's another to say there's a moat between them, indicating it was difficult or impossible for the teams to interact due to an external factor designed into the organization's structure. What does this moat mean practically, and why is this claimed division pertinent to the points the documentary makes?
In this thread a poster claims that multiple doctors couldn't save them until a "doctor" with "natural remedies" put them on a fast.
Now, I support skepticism all around; it is very healthy to get second and third opinions when you know your body doesn't feel right. But it's also extremely important to trust actual expertise over self-diagnosis, Facebook groups, and so-called medicinal practitioners who hawk herbs and starving oneself as panacea.
Therefore I too must concede that the beer plan is flawless.
From the paper: "For example, it is not conceivable that we could create a mathematical model that would enable the computation of the appropriate interpretation of interrupted statements, or of statements made by people who are talking over each other, or of the appropriate length of a pause in a conversation, which may depend on context (remembrance dinner or cocktail party), on emotional loading of the situation, on knowledge of the other person’s social standing or dialogue history, or on what the other person is doing – perhaps looking at his phone – when the conversation pauses."
Optimists in the comments here have hope for advances in mathematics that would give us a new method for modeling that could be applied. Maybe their hope isn't unfounded. I'm just a dude who read an academic paper. But I did enjoy it.
It's infected our news media, with ads masquerading as real news articles and news providers dripping with desperation to keep you frightened of the BREAKING IMPORTANT NEWS you MUST KNOW ABOUT right after this attempt to sell you razor blades.
It's infected our social media, where avatars that bear only the slightest of photoshopped similarity to the person they claim to be pretend to live a high-life, hiding their broke reality while trying to sell you herbal detox teas produced by failing corporations.
It's infected our telephone system, spammers trying to sell you a new rate on your student loan debt calling you 100 times more often than your own mother.
It's infected our email system, where no client without robust spam filtering is even usable, and you will delete 100 times more emails you never wanted to get than you will receive from your best friend.
Text messages. The postal system. Light polluting billboards on highways. You name it, if advertising has gotten its claws in it, it has either ruined or is ruining it.
Selling ads and selling users' PII are the two primary methods by which a website makes money. Both need to die.
"My DNA is my personally-identifying data," is a better one.
The question of what rights we have to our personally identifiable information is not yet answered fully, and the debate is an important one (e.g. consider GDPR and the "right to be forgotten").
Data's worth is recognized today by those who are harvesting it from us. The mountains of data which only a few multinational corporations can gather and store in globally-distributed data centers are imperative to machine learning and the artificial intelligences they are making, which will soon direct a great many of our daily conveniences at potentially great profit to them.
So it is important for us to today define what rights we demand to such a valuable resource, which is created solely by, and living within, the only item any of us has true natural possession of: our very bodies.