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by benmanns 7y ago
You can have both. Cloudflare has an IPFS gateway that you can use with a Cloudflare domain. Content hosted in IPFS and CDN-ed via Cloudflare's network. An IPFS-capable client will bypass Cloudflare via the dnslink entry. See https:&#
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by benmanns 7y ago
Yeah the savings would be on the flat rate (Stripe charges $0.30, who knows that Starbucks pays). Grocery stores, convenience stores, etc, are also not selling Starbucks gift cards for free.
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by benmanns 7y ago
MoonMail[0] is a similar product, but runs via Serverless framework on Lambda and other services on AWS (or their hosted version for $$). I really love the idea but it was a huge hassle to deploy due to many service configurations and diffe
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by benmanns 7y ago
Yes, the franchise tax. You can't get out of it by incorporating in another state. CA residents pay CA taxes.
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by benmanns 7y ago
Look up setting up a single-member LLC in your state. It's usually fairly simple and cheap (but state dependent).
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by benmanns 8y ago
Not sure if this is based on their earlier pricing, as I know there was a price reduction, but I'm calculating ~$9 per month at 0.25 vCPU + 0.5GB memory. (0.25×$0.04048+0.5×$0.004445)×24×30=$8.89 https://aws.amazon.com/
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by benmanns 8y ago
The math is excluding compounding. A simplified look (payment due at end of 15 years) is around 6.3% annually https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2.5%5E(1%2F15)&assumpt... The math including payments is a bit mor
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by benmanns 8y ago
The dev command includes support for some of their edge logic (redirects, proxying) and functions with first class support.
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by benmanns 8y ago
I made a PR for -0+0 based on your suggestion: https://github.com/getify/getify.github.io/pull/1
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by benmanns 8y ago
$95/(0.06-0.03)=$3,166.67 If you spend $263.89 or more per month at grocery stores it makes sense to upgrade to the Blue Cash Preferred. Keep in mind this excludes Costco, Walmart, Target. If you buy groceries at Whole Foods and are a
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by benmanns 8y ago
My reason: I want to create things that other people can run on their own for ~free and scale with usage. Services that can spin down to 0 (or under a free tier) are ideal. Examples: Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cloudflare DNS. If you have to pay
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by benmanns 8y ago
This is exactly how it works. You get minimum wage. If you get tips, your wage can be reduced to the tipped employee minimum wage of some $2 per hour. Usually $2 plus your tips put you over minimum wage, but not always.
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by benmanns 8y ago
NAT gateways are one of the things that blindsided me on the whole "serverless" idea for hobby projects. To have a Lambda function with access to the outside world and your private network resources your $0.01/month function
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by benmanns 8y ago
Those are completed transactions, not properties listed for sale.
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by benmanns 8y ago
What would you like to learn more about personal finance? That’s something I’m well versed in and want to teach and write about in the coming year.
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by benmanns 8y ago
Very interested. Have been churning for awhile - benmanns at gmail.
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by benmanns 8y ago
Cool! Signed up. A couple notes: • Seems weird to use Google Authenticator as a single factor for authentication • I found it annoying to have to do a captcha to fill out my profile details • I probably won't think to check back. Can y
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by benmanns 8y ago
You can use JavaScript on the frontend to call a Lambda function that you 100% control (including CORS, etc). You can use this to do things like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, as well, versus just giving open access to an
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by benmanns 8y ago
Agreed. I've switched out my complicated GitHub+S3+CloudFront+Cloudflare for static hosting to Netlify. Netlify also handles some of the stuff you don't even think about - e.g. partial deploy failure. With my past scripts I might
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by benmanns 8y ago
Why?
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by benmanns 8y ago
I learned Rails because it was way better than PHP. I had a colleague show it to me and was amazed at how much simpler things can be when you have your ORM, MVC, templating, configuration all set up in an opinionated framework. As for wheth
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by benmanns 8y ago
Generally you take out a loan at X% if you have some opportunity that will pay back >X%. Also, loans can help with liquidity. I'd rather have $1,000,000 cash and $999,999 in debt than $1 to my name. You can work with a million dolla
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by benmanns 8y ago
Found something! I'll post if/when the hole is closed. Til then it could cost some $$$.
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by benmanns 8y ago
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=FQoGZXIvYXdzEL7//////////wEaDLrjfq5THKULF+vCbyLdAXvIJIQYpbvyNbsoM78owNvdOi4xqqwm0kYRol0RLCtpO9QnBhn+4LhWWZHSjH0vfxRgbY3trqeTfX/U4c1zmtjMEbyN9ALic8Jo2s6m4CRdB+KMLd
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by benmanns 8y ago
Yep, as long as you're doing it on your own time, own equipment, with none of your employer's trade secrets.
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by benmanns 8y ago
I'd also love to chat. My contact info is in my profile.
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by benmanns 8y ago
If you're the fastest and you don't make > $XXk a month then why would an institutional client pay $XXk per month for better access?
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by benmanns 8y ago
Very cool. I hope more of the "value add" stuff from cloud providers ($$$) can be replaced with open source running on their cloud functions. My suggestions: * FFmpeg supports http/https as input protocols if compiled with th
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by benmanns 9y ago
Schwab does have a 6% minimum cash allocation which afaict they pay ~0.15% on. If you could have invested that at 10% nominal returns you're paying 0.591% in opportunity costs.
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by benmanns 9y ago
I like that Lambda can scale down to 0 and up to infinity without changing your architecture. However, a $20 droplet is probably a better value as I've spent many hours banging my head against AWS Lambda docs, Serverless framework inca

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