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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Police in the US have been drastically more militarized since 9/11/01. Also, we now live in a surveillance state to a degree inconceivable prior to the passage of the PATRIOT Act, which was rammed through in the days following tha
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398448
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Sure, that sounds fine, but the taxpayer ought to not be responsible for footing the bill in any way. The studios do this for the tax writeoff, which is tantamount to robbing the people paying taxes (eg:us) blind.
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
It's pretty simple. Excessive egress costs = vendor lock in, and yes, forcing third party services into the same cloud (the walled garden), and limiting customer choice. Just another reason so many orgs are getting heartburn from goin
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Yes, I do believe autoscaling is actually a good use case for public cloud. If you have bursty load that requires a lot of resources at peak which would sit idle most of the time, probably doesn't make sense to own what you need for t
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Even without owning the infrastructure, running in the cloud without know-how is very dangerous. I hear tell of a shop that was running on ephemeral instance based compute fleets (EC2 spot instances, iirc), with all their prod data in-memor
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Yes, virtualization, overprovisioning and containerization have all played a role in allowing for efficient enough utilization of owned assets that the economics of cloud are perhaps no longer as attractive as they once were.
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by nyc_data_geek 3y ago
Some orgs are looking at moving back to on prem because they're figuring this out. For a while it was vogue to go from capex to opex costs, and C suite people were incentivized to do that via comp structures, hence "digital trans
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by nyc_data_geek 7y ago
No one said you are entitled to one.
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by nyc_data_geek 7y ago
Freedom of speech is not entitlement to an audience. People can always make a sign and shout in the park.
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by nyc_data_geek 7y ago
Germany does fine not allowing for nazi ideology to be espoused. Commoditizing the spread of bad ideas is not, in fact, a public good.