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When I say "scaring them" I mean "explaining the high risk well". My words were imprecise, but are not at odds with your suggestion, except that I don't explain the potential benefits and strong future. That's for them to find out, I just want to make sure they understand the risks because it doesn't seem well shared at this point.

My dad just texted me today asking if I owned bitcoin and if he should pick some up. I described it as uninsured highly volatile fine art(can be destroyed/lost) with a huge counter-party risk if he doesn't have the technical ability to store his own coins. Does anyone out there have a better analogy to scare family/friends away from it?

As a business owner whose entire revenue comes from adwords leads at this point, I can tell you it isn't a massively inflated cost. Sure, it's 90% of my expenses and half of what I even make, but I pay this because I still make money.

This may not apply to all types of ads, but I'm happy paying what I do, and I can't imagine anyone else would be paying if they weren't making money.

I'm having trouble reconciling him showing Amazon as the lowest spender by far of the three with their place as largest player by far. Are they just tremendously more efficient? I wouldn't imagine so given they're all essentially renting out a physical resource to their customers. Maybe I misunderstood something about the article?

Is exploiting software bugs to achieve leverage larger than is normally allowed and getting into a $4 million hole not drama enough?

Insurance prices are often approved by state regulators. It requires approvals and the state provides backstops and other safeguards. Prices in the insurance industry are pretty controlled. This even goes so far that despite there being a state backstop to many forms of insurance, a broker or agent aren't allowed to even mention this safety net without violating ethics laws. As for "why", I'm not completely sure. My guess here is it's to minimize the chance of the state needing to get involved with bailouts and to reduce competition so that companies don't take on unreasonable risk playing the odds that they'll make it through another year on the happy path without paying claims.

As a licensed insurance agent and tech person working in insurance, this sort of law is common and is a big part of the ethics portion of the licensing exam. I honestly don't think it applies here, but I could see how it could be justified.

As a heavy grpc user, I don't think ALB supports it due to a lack of trailer support. You're probably going to just use a TCP load balancer if you want grpc services behind a load balancer.

There was a re:invent talk earlier this week that said they have private fiber between DCs already. It sounds like it happened a long time ago.

I started programming around the beginning of high school and then stopped at the end of high school and became a car salesman. 8 years later I went back to school and got a CS degree and am thriving. So, I did have some early experience, but given the gap I feel like I'm more closely aligned with a late starter.