> about 0.1c per month to store it,
> 0.4c per view for bandwidth
No. Those estimates are 1 order of magnitude wrong. You wouldnt even pay that much contracting the highest tiers in AWS/Azure/GC , let alone owning the infrastructure.
Thanks god, that will fill with joy the hearts of all the orphans in iraq and afghanistan. May god bless America forever. Greatest country in the earth by a gigantic margin.
People like OP actually scares me, the fact they cannot understand that is "exactly the same" makes me think chauvinism has taken over the rational part of the brain and anything, no matter how horrible, could be justified if done by "the right people".
Either this the biggest concentration of actual multi-millionaires in the history of a forum thread or they can pat themselves in their backs and laugh all the way to the bank since the hoi-polloi fiercely fight the ideological battle for them. I suppose from the misguided belief they will soon join the club.
That is not how it works, having a water cooler in the office increase the productivity 100x vs not having water, that does not mean you should pay millions for one. That is a myth invented by SAAS vendors and consultants to justify their sky-high price. The value offered of course factors in the price but many other factors too (scarcity of materials and resource to produce the good,cost of production, maintenance cost, cost of the products of your competitors, risk of vendor lock-in, etc)
Plenty of places pay X for tools that add more than X in productivity value.
In fact, nearly every tool I have ever gotten at a company worked like this. Most of them are also willing to test pricey tools to see if they would pay off, and when they do, the company starts buying such tools.
If you don't work at such a place, look for a place that values developer time.
I worked for a Fortune 20 company so you can stop the patronizing tone. A paper and a pencil also increases productivity by a lot ( perhaps more than any tool) that does not mean you need to pay 5% of your developer salary by month for them.
But, you likely would pay 5% of salary (or more) for a paper and pencil (to continue with your analogy) if you had no other choice and there was no alternative tool that could substitute. So I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
Create a landing page. I will write a couple of posts saying that Sam Altman and Paul Graham are the smartest guys this century and we will be soon launching a a show HN, new YC company.
It's a very longstanding cliche to complain about people from California moving into the nearby states. Lots of that when I went to school in AZ in the 90s.
> Interestingly, homeownership has a split effect on political party affiliation. Those who use private mortgages “polarize,” according to the authors, with some becoming Republican and others becoming Democrats. But homeowners who get mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, so-called FHA loans, are much more likely to become Democrats.
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In fact, the authors point out, even those who were previously Republicans “shift markedly” toward the Democratic party once they receive an FHA loan. It could be that those who receive FHA-backed loans recognize the value of government in helping them obtain a low-interest mortgage or perhaps it is because FHA loans are only available for more modest loans, and are more likely to be taken by working- or middle-class people. At the same time, Republicans who do not use FHA loans become even more Republican.
> It’s not just that becoming homeowners makes people more NIMBYish, or that homeownership locks people into place, but buying a home changes people’s political behavior writ large. Once someone buys a home, they act politically to protect its value. As the authors point out: “Overall, the results suggest that individual economic circumstances importantly influence political beliefs and behavior, and suggest that homeowners have special influence in American politics in part because their ownership motivates them to pay attention and to participate.”
This is the thing, not all projects are super giant web applications being maintained by hundreds of front-end developers. For a dummy like me who curses at the laptop every time he needs to center a div and whose style sense pretty limited, tools like tailwind are a bless. I do a small library of components, copy what people who knows more than me does (taking examples from here https://tailwindcomponents.com/) adapt them to my needs and that's it. I dont have neither the skills, nor the time or the inclination to spent time on other alternatives. I like the style (more than bootstrap) and I am willing to pay the price of a cluttered html.
I personally wouldn't trust a person who can center a div on the first try - something isn't right with them!
What makes me concerned with tailwind is that its yet another API to remember. Why would I pick it over material UI with some theming or chakraUI? Why Did you pick tailwind over material or chakra?
Having worked with Tailwind, Bootstrap, and mUI, Tailwind is by far my favorite. With bootstrap and mUI you have to work very hard to go against the grain of the design they ship with, while Tailwind forces you to make your own designs, to an extent.
Sites can _feel like_ bootstrap or mui sites, but rarely have I seen something and immediately thought “this is a Tailwind site.”
For one, Tailwind has a minimal learning curve if you already know CSS. That's a huge thing going for it.
Secondly, UI frameworks are more suitable for full-blown applications, whereas Tailwind can be used for anything—applications, Wordpress themes, static sites, etc.
Material-UI React specifically has terrible performance. It's been a known issue for a while and it's still causing problems on the latest version. One of my projects has a seemingly random 400~500ms render time on any component that uses even a single Material-UI component, which I believe to be an issue with their styling engine. It's incredibly frustrating.
Since Tailwind is literally just CSS classes, at the very least I know I won't ever run into this.
In a car centric environment such as the US, there is a large burden society pays for when it comes to under age drunk driving. The harm from a car related fatality is felt immediately. It’s hard to compare that to the delayed and difficult to measure societal impact when kids play too much video games.
It's delayed, and difficult to measure precisely, but there's a substantial cohort of people who cannot and may never be able to support themselves due to the combination of gaming all night and cultural expectations around hiring.
Perhaps it would be free-er for the government to intervene and force everyone to have a different cultural expectation, but both are very substantial interferences.
Data? There have been really flawed studies to bash video game playing (just like there was for playing chess...look it up), but I've yet to see any that withstand scrutiny.
Most places restrict the age at which you can buy alcohol and most places seem to restrict it to at least 18. 21 is higher than the average but legal age laws seem to be pretty standard.
And as mentioned in the article the restriction to gaming is being implemented not only in China but in SK and Vietnam, what it is normal and what is totalitarian seems only to reside on who implements it. Usual tribalism dressed-up in sophisms.
No. Those estimates are 1 order of magnitude wrong. You wouldnt even pay that much contracting the highest tiers in AWS/Azure/GC , let alone owning the infrastructure.