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Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

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Re: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You claimed Amtrak is an example of the ills of privatization, when it’s owned by the federal government. And attributed the effects of strong government regulation in the healthcare and broadband markets to “privatization”. My criticism is only low effort because you know so little of the subject that your world view is built on obvious misinformation.

Your critisism is so low effort you don't even bother reading - I never mentioned Amtrak. You did not bother to mention structural differences between railway networks in France and Uk, to give any example of succesfull private passenger rail, to deal with my claim that all sucessfull mass transit is public, to comment on the fact that Uk privatised national rail but they went bancrupt and the public had to pick up t…

Amtrak is the only significant passenger train service in the US. And you didn’t mention that air travel is far faster and as cheap as rail travel, which makes a huge difference in a large country like the US, over dense little city states like Europe. Air travel is replacing train travel even in Europe and has for over 70 years.

And privatization isn’t a guarantee against bankruptcy, which is a useful part of the free market. The UK rail was bankrupt as a public entity, forcing taxpayers to pay the bill. privatization successfully increased ridership and customer service. And it’s still privatized, Railtrak was only one of the group of companies created from privatization.

So again, do you have any real example that shows privatization doesn’t work?

Re: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your critisism is so low effort you don't even bother reading - I never mentioned Amtrak. You did not bother to mention structural differences between railway networks in France and Uk, to give any example of succesfull private passenger rail, to deal with my claim that all sucessfull mass transit is public, to comment on the fact that Uk privatised national rail but they went bancrupt and the public had to pick up t…

Amtrak is the only significant passenger train service in the US. And you didn’t mention that air travel is far faster and as cheap as rail travel, which makes a huge difference in a large country like the US, over dense little city states like Europe. Air travel is replacing train travel even in Europe and has for over 70 years. And privatization isn’t a guarantee against bankruptcy, which is a useful part of the fr…

You have gone from claim that Amtrak is public, then private, then back and forth again. You seem to think this half-assed service proves any point you want to make whenever convenient.

"you didn’t mention that air travel is far faster"? - Ow Really?

You've done nothing to address the question I've asked three times - show me privately owned railway or mass transit that performs as well, as the rail network in France or Spain. I am done here, please troll elsewhere.

Re: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

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It's tough to generalize from things like this because "a webapp for 55k monthly users" can mean drastically different things. A user could be loading a few static pages, or that same user could be opening websocket connections or making requests that require expensive database queries. Your average user could stick around a minute, or an hour. Different apps can easily have per-monthly-user infrastructure costs that…

That's intriguing. That means that they make significantly more than $8/uyr in selling your personal data to advertisers.

Re: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

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post #18

It's tough to generalize from things like this because "a webapp for 55k monthly users" can mean drastically different things. A user could be loading a few static pages, or that same user could be opening websocket connections or making requests that require expensive database queries. Your average user could stick around a minute, or an hour. Different apps can easily have per-monthly-user infrastructure costs that…

That's intriguing. That means that they make significantly more than $8/uyr in selling your personal data to advertisers.

It's interesting if they count people that "have no account" data of which they also monetize.
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