ttymck

You will pay the same tax in the US, and get much less for your money.

You might need to focus on what you can control (your business, which you've told us nothing about), rather than what you cannot.

What if my "one request" is: please provision a vpc with separate public and private subnets, internet gateaway with NAT, an ec2 instance in each and an rds instance with a read replica in the private subnet.

This is an oft-cited assumption that I would challenge. Is there really that much upside, or is it just wishful thinking? Surely, if you hired Steve Jobs, they might take your company to unprecedented heights. But would Steve Jobs stick around as a senior engineer at some random company? Would you listen to his ideas? You need to hire to someone to a job, there is likely innumerable people who could do it satisfactorily.

Surely the downside to getting it wrong is high, no disputing that. But unicorns are fantasies for a reason.

With a metric, you can use a monotonic counter to serve as a heartbeat. A timestamp would work. In your monitoring system, when the heartbeat value has not increased in X minutes, you alert.

> for once being selfish is exactly the right thing to do - if everyone did this, then it would yield the best result for the greatest number of people.

This assumes a sufficient number of people are capable of _accurately_ assessing what is in their best interest. To some, this might sound as romantic as not believing in lesser-evilism.

Witcher 3 excelled at this. It is the only game which I felt an overwhelming sense of dread and guilt after finishing.

It makes me wonder how we've gone this long with increasingly poor data table presentations (the mid-century modern tables are astutely pointed to as shining examples).

This makes me excited to get back into data analysis with python. Moreover, I see some possible API improvements and extensions I'd like to make.

> "No senior Wall Street executives were imprisoned for actions that contributed to the global financial crisis."

It's just for web app (a Todo app). Your GIS and CLI ideas are interesting, I haven't seen anything similar to realworld for those.