Lorenz-Kraft

Hi.

I first thought this is a stupid question, but the details make it difficult to answer (I think).

So mainly I would say: No, you can not sue someone over its pricing schema, except its "price gouging" or "monopolistic".

But why is there a different price per Country? I would suggest that prices are lowered (or raised) depending on "market entrance" and "market competition".

So in order to gain market share, the entry prices are low, even free.

About "circumvent" this: Yes, probably possible. About suing when "discontinue account": Probably there is something written in the TOS, so mostly no chance of suing.

Might be that your computer is infected. I would try to use a complete "blank" PC for log in. If this does not work: Out of ideas. Is there a YouTube contact (I bet even if, its going to be difficult to resolve this issues due to the high automatisation of YouTube)?

Might be a nice blog article if you write down your steps how to resolve such problems.

Also: good luck!

The sense of time is connected to your age. There are studies about it and why time, as a child is perceived different than as a adult.

About: "Like, almost 1.5x faster." You can check your perceived time by traveling the same distance you have traveled as a child (trip to grandparent, local lake for swimming etc.). If you are not 50% faster at your location, its surely your perceived time that has changed.

VR is here for about 20 years ... still nothing has catched up. VR has some inherent flaws that will probably hinder itself from ever getting to anything except niches (like gaming).

AR, on the other hand, MIGHT get some traction, but I'm not sure how. AR currently adds another layer of abstraction ... that's one layer too much. There should be something where it adds more use than the additional layer of interaction takes. I personally like the IKEA App where you can visually place furniture into your AR room, that's pretty need and helpful. Other than that (and gaming of course) i don't see any applications for the web.

Applications for other things like "way finding" or "place something in AR (like an electrician virtually places the markers where to install outlets) might come if there is more benefits than "the old way".

Against depression: You might want to get involved into local JS/PHP/C/whatever communities. Most people there are very enthusiastic and like working on problems (like solving, not just complaining). Some are open and visionary for new ideas. If your ideas can stand the feedback of your community (and your ability to solve arising problems (these might be legal problems also)), you are good to go and start a business.

Starting a business without any plan and vision is a sure way to nowhere.

Most of the fast growing companies run into your described problems. As long as there is no upper management commitment to the values of "proper written tests and benefits" or "correct GIT usage" or something else, there will be no change but "Burn Outs" (the one's that try too hard to do 100%).

Your "Head of IT" is most probably "forced" into dropping those values in favour of a "up & running" product.

In my personal case (as Head of IT), I got a commitment to security from the upper management. This allowed me to drastically reduce access to resources like DB and SSH access and "force" people to document their needs which helps understanding where "South" actually is. While enforcing rules, many double/tripple/quadruple works where detected and migrated and also some new "Specialist" where found that were very good at their specifically assigned work.

As a programmer, you and your team need to understand the companies goals and try to establish according rules/workflow for your daily business. For example: Your product is basically "done" and now management wants "Features". The "Features" Section of your products requires a clear interface for "plugins" and probably also a quick way to "prototype" new features. So you as a developer should find appropriate ways to optimise your workflow which might require to change your workflow for a specific section of your product.

Of course, this is totally oversimplified, but I hope you get the point.

Bye the way, this all requires Communication AND Understanding of all particpiants! Management need to communicate the way you are are heading and IT needs to articulate what is needed for the upcoming tasks. Be aware, most solutions are not found in a day. Complex Situations needs time to fully grasp and find solutions.

P.S. If communication and understanding is missing, you are most probably on a dead ship. Be prepared to drown (evaluate your market value) and don't get emotionally involved (Danger of "burn out").

Good idea! I was thinking about all those techie stuff and workflows via special software ... and then I read your response. Simple and nails the point of OP!

That's the current "improve yourself" mentality. Gadgets are there to help you.

Besides that, I noticed that many people actually don't really know anymore how to live "normal" (aka healthy) and really need those Gadgets. For Example: Make Sports, Sleep and eat well ... that's nothing new, but many people seem to forgot how to do so and need Apps to remind them on a hourly basis to do so (don't forget to stand up for 5 minutes every hour).

Beside all that: Proper sleep is not about tracking sleep and get a reporting that you have slept properly. There are several things that contribute to a proper sleep, like sleeping habits, eat well (and at the right time) and more.

You probably might want to go the way almost everyone in your position is about to go: Apply for a Investment.

Not sure if you are aware, but you currently are on a investor site ... HackerNews. See at the bottom: "Apply to YC".

Of course, that's too simple explained. Preparing for such a application is not easy. Some investors want to see complete business plans and stuff. Around this whole "startup" scene, there are tons of ways you might want to go first, almost always depending on your needs (like selling your idea because you have no way to make it happen).

The most comforting way seems to be finding a partner. This partner might be there for you to prepare all the business related stuff (in case of investment) or to help you to put your project on its own feet (in case of bringing it to market on your own).

well ... there is certainly something in-between. Changing is mostly done in little steps.

I personally think that selling your car is the most cost and also climate effective thing you can do.

Without a car, use a bike to get around (I'm doing this for +20 years now, despite everybody says its not possible. IF you urgently need a car, for example you have to move something big and heavy: just rent a car/van/whatever. Done)

The second most effective thing: Probably let go of all your plans about flying via plane.

Beside that, in your household, using HOT WATER accounts for 10 up to 30% of your annual energy bill.

I "found" out, that using about 36 to 38 degree Celsius warm showering water is most ideal for your skin (and no, it does not feel cold! It feels warm, not hot, not Luke warm, just warm as in very comforting). So if you use just warm water for showering, you might decrease your overall boiler temperature, which mostly is set above 60 C.

Beside ALL this: Spread the word and show everybody that changing is not hard at all and it even is promising a longer life (due to more biking, less products to "repair" your dried out skin due to too hot water etc.)

We were using simple Hetzner 49Euro/month (SSD/NVME) Servers of the shelf (these do not include Terabyte Storage, this will be a paid upgrade (10 Euro/m ??)). The "reliability" of the servers are normal. So once every two years or so (my personal experience, might be worse, might be better) there are hiccups with ventilators or something. So if your tech knowledge is allready in-house, you should put a little effort into fallback or load balancing to not disturb your daily business. Also, a automate spinup of servers (fixed install and setup routine) should be your best practice.

Bye the way, your in-house tech (and proggers) should keep an eye on "Vendor Lock in". As soon as your are using services that are not open source, you will tie yourself to one company and its pricing scheme. Getting out of this rabbit hole is mostly painful.

Depending on your analytics needs, you might even consider having your analytics server IN YOUR office. For example, if you are doing any kind of deep learning, you can buy "little" servers and two or three top notch GPU (Graphic Cards) per server to fit your needs.

Like I said, this all makes sense if you allready have tech knowledge in-house. If you don't then I would strongly advise to use providers like AWS and such, because they are handling all the above described. Also, if your data access is critical to be available 100%, these providers often give you pre build solutions that are battle proven.