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100% agree

For what its worth, I've bought 5 of these. 2 for myself, and 3 I've given as gifts. They're amazing and have completely changed the way I cook. Nothing compares.

I used to think that until I went on a multi week trip where I had lost my ID. I went through TSA without any ID about 7 times and developed a strong respect for the agents I encountered along the way. I was a difficult case and they treated me with respect and worked hard to get me through the process. I've never been a big fan of the government, and the TSA has flaws no doubt (I hate security theatre) but I think the vast majority of the agents are good apples. They chose to serve in an "essential" service, so that was a choice. Government shutdown's aren't a new thing anymore and they still choose to serve with honor and dignity to their role. I'm happy to agree to disagree.

Most of the government employees I know feel it's an honor to serve their country and do so with loyalty and pride. In past shutdowns, they've all gotten paid retroactivly. It's not always about money.

As someone who has avidly fished for salmon in the NW for the last 30 years (~75 days per year), I can at least give my opinion that this is mostly BS.

Pervasive, non-selective, commercial and tribal gill-netting that is optimized to remove the largest specimens from the gene-pool is a big part of where I point my finger. Throw in the dams and massive increases in non-native, invasive California sea lions in the lower Columbia and you have a mess in the making. Lots of factors but I believe most of the problems are in-river, not in-ocean.

Also disclaimer, my opinions mostly come from experience on the Columbia (The largest Chinook runs in the world), not the Sound or further north.

I have a hobby that I read 3-4 print magazines for (fishing in the northwest, not that it matters) and after numerous times talking to the publishers, I still, in 2018, cannot get them to distribute an electronic version. I would pay big money for a digital archive of one of them all the way back to the 60's. They all fear piracy so strongly they won't innovate. Boggles my mind.

With more and more corporate applications going to externally hosted SaaS providers, doesn't a service like this become less relevant over time?

Depends how you define richest while saying "in history"

From Forbes... By the time Rockefeller died in 1937, his assets equaled 1.5% of America's total economic output. To control an equivalent share today would require a net worth of about $340 billion dollars.

I have used both extensively and love them for dev and non production environments.

Perhaps I have some old biases, but I have gotten caught up in noisy neighbor hell more times than I can count. Being impacted by DDOS attacks on your neighbors is no fun.

Add in privacy/security compliance where they attempt to leverage their facilities SOC2 reports rather than operate their own business to this standard and it just doesn't work for me or my customers.

EDIT: FWIW, my concerns tend to come from a place much further along in the game that might not be relevant to you right now. If you're still proving your business model and this is the fastest way to get there then by all means.

Better get very very good at configuration management, provisioning, patching, monitoring, and all the other things that go along with running large quantities of infra (even if virtual). I don't know anything about your app, but I do know many shops that deeply regret going down this path rather than building multi-tenant in the first place.

For what its worth, and some may disagree, but production SaaS apps don't belong on Linode/DigitalOcean... but that's a whole other topic.

The individual responsible is him.

And I win sucker of the year award... wonder how to delete this thread?

I wonder what this means for Google Music?