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> allocate a bonus pool for the entire company, from which AWS expenses are taken out of

Also a perverse incentive.

If we use ec2.small, the customer's query will take 3x longer but be half the price. Let's turn off the nightly security audits. We can live with quarterly backups, right? What do we need all these logs for, anyway? We could hack something that works together in 2 weeks, but if we spend 3 months, it could be really efficient, let's do that...




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