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The CPU in the 13 Mini is something like 20-30% more power efficient, making it much more viable given the small battery capacity of the phone.

I've seen several cases like this on Amazon, where products are not available to ship to California but should be. In one case I even spoke to the manufacturer who said they got it fixed, then weeks later it was unavailable again.

There's clearly something going on where their systems are being extra cautious on what can and cannot be shipped to CA.

I don't think that's true though? The OAuth provider knows which third parties you have authorized to have access to your account(s) as well as what information or privileges you've approved for each. And when you land on that screen, they know which third party referred you to them.

In other words, they could definitely highlight or otherwise hint to you which of the Google accounts you've already approved/used via one or more of your authenticated Google accounts.

Can you share what device you're using for the 3-minute shut-off and recovery?

Media companies are already taking this approach using ffmpeg, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions. I heard from two companies using such approaches at AWS re:Invent in October 2017, so it's definitely possible.

Rolling your own approach like this is certainly more complex to build/maintain than using Elastic Transcoder though.

Yes, the pricing is very attractive. Unfortunately it's still buggy, and lacking many simple features you would expect, e.g. duplicate an analysis someone shared with you to modify it without changing their original copy.

No, not yet (surprisingly).

Since when did we start referring to ourselves as "the tech elite"? This seems like the wrong way to frame the problem, or our relation to it.

Their fraud costs are not what you make them seem. The credit card companies do not take on the risk for fraud most of the time. They push that risk onto the merchants.

This is why large e-commerce companies have giant fraud departments trying to prevent fraudulent orders and charges on their site; because when they occur, they generally just eat the loss.