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You absolutely could. But you wouldn't learn how to build a system that recovers from yanking a power or network cable, wouldn't own it, and wouldn't be able to
by contingencies 6y ago
You absolutely could. But you wouldn't learn how to build a system that recovers from yanking a power or network cable, wouldn't own it, and wouldn't be able to run it on your terms. You'd need a credit card with an American-run payments network to operate, with a declared identity and a bank account, for which a prerequisite is a few months of stable living and income in a particular jurisdiction, itself something large portions of the world do not have access to. Further you'd need to be happy with the fact none of your data was in your country, under your physical control, and never would be. But feel free to ignore the rest of the world and the fact that all this rental crap runs on open source software, just throw in the towel and be a rent-payer: a strategy that has its perks and efficiencies, for sure. But don't discourage those who seek to learn more.
- Symbiote 6y agohttps://ipv6onlyhosting.com/ https://ipv6onlyhosting.com/ is the first result, and accepts payment by bank transfer. Many other small VM hosts accept payment by Bitcoin.
- notwedtm 6y ago> You'd need a credit card with an American-run payments network to operate, with a declared identity and a bank account, for which a prerequisite is a few months of stable living and income in a particular jurisdiction, None of this is true.
- contingencies 6y agoTry being from a random South Asian or African village. Tell me how you go buying cloud services with your nonexistant banking infrastructure and personal credit line.
- nl 6y agoThe physical location of a person isn't generally the key barrier to being unbanked; instead it's poverty. "The most common one was having too little money to use an account. Two-thirds cited this as a reason for not having a financial institution account, and roughly a fifth cited it as the sole reason. Cost and distance were each cited by about a quarter of those responding to the question, and a similar share said they do not have an account because a family member already has one. Lack of documentation and distrust in the financial system were both cited by roughly a fifth of adults without a financial institution account, and religious concerns by 6%." https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/globally-17-billion-people-did-not-have-bank-accounts-in-2017-world-bank-2018/ https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/globally-17-billion-people-... (And to state the obvious: poverty is also a barrier to owning physical infrastructure)
- Koshkin 6y agoNo, try buying cloud services while living in a remote village where clothing is non-existent.
- analognoise 6y agoThis sounds like some kind of fantasy; how many people without stable living conditions or without a bank account that can be processed by the US are concerned with...cluster computing? "What about all the homeless Iranian Ferrari owners!" doesn't seem like much of a rallying cry.
- mjgs 6y agoSurely if there is even 1 unbanked person in existence that is interested in cluster computing, then this is a worthwhile endeavour.
- analognoise 6y agoNo, absolutely not. Or maybe to Don Quixote, but he was famously delusional.
- mjgs 6y agoIs there any number of unbanked people showing interest in cluster computing that would change your opinion?
- analognoise 6y agoI "show an interest" in space, but I'm not entitled/deluded enough to expect someone to deliver a shuttle to me, because that would be a waste of time/materials/energy/money. It's the same here.
- mjgs 6y agoIf you had spoken to people in the 1960s and told them how many transistors we would have on a chip in 2020, they probably would have called you delusional. Also you are comparing a space shuttle to a few raspberry pis, hardly apples with apples.
- beckingz 6y agoSomeone needs to invent a way to drop things off your desk onto a power switch via ssh.