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RDS/Aurora does do autoscaling, backups, georeplication, encryption etc. It's more a matter of time & convenience rather than skill. Sure you could do all of it yourself on an EC2 instance, but at some point it becomes a big chunk of your job, and you would rather be spending your time on other things.

I have tried every productivity app in the world, yet keep falling back to the iOS/Mac "Notes" app for daily use, so can definitely relate.

Because companies aren't spending millions of dollars, hiring specialists and tweaking their content in every which way to get to the front page of Bing.com results.

Why do you think WhatsApp doesn't need section 230 immunity? Do you think it can survive while being held liable for every bit of content shared on it?

That's an even bigger reason to use password managers. Use a mobile app and 2FA.

In terms of acquisition value, the codebase ranks dead last behind talent, product, engaged users, company brand, patents and just about everything else. Even very successful products are almost always rewritten when acquired by a larger company.

Depending on what your co-founder is walking away with, you may want to negotiate a better exit. If there is nothing else, then more than the code work on selling yourself to an interested company.

If I were you, I would fight for ownership in whatever is next for your cofounder

Depends on whether the cofounder is using the current company's assets towards the next venture (and it seems like the answer is no, so there is really no basis for that ask).

If you don't need a GUI then you can use Docker for basic sandboxing. It isn't a foolproof solution, but it's about as close as you are going to get without full virtualization.

The average non-technical user is never going to open up the terminal and run commands. The well educated technical user is going to be vary of untrusted sites and various forms of attacks (which I'm assuming the author of this post falls under).

IMO this is good advice for those that fall in the middle of these two categories, i.e. slightly technical people who run into problems and copy-paste solutions from Stack Overflow hoping that something will work.

you’re not running some random shell script from a random author

This is exactly what is happening in the vast majority of these cases. These users are going to be vary if linked to an executable or installer, but "hey just run this simple line of code" sounds like a very appealing solution.

leaving Apple to design the Apple car

Play that again in your head

Realtime conversations, to begin with (which is the entire reason people use Slack)

You clearly haven't used Outlook for Mac

In a capitalist free market, sure, but people argue that that's not what healthcare should be.

IN their stores, not outside on the streets.

It is, even more so than Facebook. Buying and selling your personal financial data is Equifax's entire business.

What about if/when they are the only retail company left and significantly raise prices? This is the reason such laws exist.

Friends is my most watched show on Netflix, but that's because there are 10 seasons with 24 episodes each (i.e. a lot of content) and it's just something that plays in the background while I do other stuff. I wouldn't care too much if it was removed, but I would if they took away Stranger Things, Ozark, Our Earth, The Crown, Altered Carbon, Narcos, Santa Clarita Diet, BoJack Horseman, Queer Eye, all the comedy specials and lots more.

~$10/month is still ridiculously cheap for what they offer. One single show in their catalog you like will probably make it worth it. They can still raise prices by a LOT before people stop being interested.

At this point it's understood that Netflix is a service for watching Netflix original content. Anything on top of that is a bonus, and may not be around a month later.

It does in parts of the world where costs are low. Over here it makes sense for them to let Uber/VCs subsidize the operation.

I can't believe the number of people who are defending Motel 6 here. Anyone who works for a mid-large sized company in certain departments will know that government agencies and police departments are always asking for stuff. It is not illegal for them to do so. The correct answer to 99% of these requests is "this is confidential/proprietary information" or "come back with a warrant". There is zero excuse to do anything illegal because someone official-sounding asked you to do it.

If you do something illegal to help the federal government, you are still on the hook for it.

Everyone is constrained by economic considerations. It's not like China has unlimited money. They are just choosing sectors and making bets on what to prioritize and what to ignore, same as everyone else.

If someone is bullish on the rideshare market then why not invest in both?

If this is age discrimination then so is health insurance, but that is completely acceptable?

Whether or not it is "technically" copyright infringement, it is going to be impossible for a publisher to argue that in court considering they themselves have to publish an AMP-compatible version of their page in the first place, and caching is sold as a core feature of AMP (https://www.ampproject.org/learn/overview/).

That's a common sign of huge wealth disparity. There isn't a middle class for luxury goods manufacturers to target, and the ultra rich can pay pretty much whatever you want them to.

I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?

You mean billions, but yes I agree

If you think they are lobbying now, wait till their Virginia HQ opens up.