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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 …

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 produ…

> 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 …

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…

> 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 backgrou…

~$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 pe…

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 po…

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…