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What are the best alternatives to YouTube, if any? And if there aren't any, why is there so little competition in this industry?
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The "bullet" in this analogy is AWS's notoriously high cost.
But which runs on most renewable energy?
As someone who has been responsible for large cloud budgets, I wonder if Google is aware that their "support strategy" toward both content creators/contractors and customers across the entire brand has completely ruled out GCP for me. GCP might have great support. They may not have automated bots suspending accounts. They might actually follow the DMCA counterclaim process instead of some weird process on top of it.…
I had just this scenario yesterday where Google ran out of capacity of NVMe-based N1 hosts in a zone. I was forced to upgrade a large number of nodes to N2 hosts, which cost more (despite their claims about them being cheaper -- the sustained use discounts are lower) and are still in Beta. I just wanted info before I started about whether we should expect to be able to even build those hosts that day and they wouldn'…
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AWS isn't a bullet to bite
? AWS is run like a gigantic social experiment in "how half-assed and crusty can we make it and still have people pay?" The reason we put up with them is because A. they're the new IBM, nobody gets fired for choosing AWS, B. you can reliably reach a human who will at least give you a straight answer when you start to suspect that the AI-powered auto-scaling is actually marketing fluff sprayed over a double/halve cron…
What are the best alternatives to YouTube, if any? And if there aren't any, why is there so little competition in this industry?
How would you monetize it?
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I was involved a bidding war between GCP and AWS where each was offering a healthy six figures in free credits to move our business to their cloud. GCP was offering nearly 3x as many but ultimately I didn’t want to move to a service where there was a chance offerings were going to get the axe with no warning. Their reputation has indeed hurt them — at least in one instance.
I was part of a focus group a year ago. The general consensus was Google might be great, but everyone felt better about using AWS for real world projects. MS Azure was a close second. Ironic how Google has squandered their goodwill.
Similar factors in deciding between Office 365 or GSuite. Different products, same Google story.
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Standard Get Rich Quick™ formula. They all churn out the same thing. Buy my book, my course, my whatever. It'll make you rich.
My understanding is that he spent years ramping up his piano course, and only recently started selling his "courses course". I'm in the process of launching my own technical courses, and if I feel like I come up with a great process for it, I'll sell that information as well. (And probably receive a similar criticism)
* Same extraordinary number to lead you in
* Massive cost crossed out with FREE on top of it
* No preview till you put in your email
* Some rando endorsements at the bottom from people claiming to also have gotten rich quick both of whom are also selling Get Rich Quick™ stories.
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"The data protection law establishes that you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated means, if the decision produces legal effects concerning you or significantly affects you in a similar way." One of the clauses of the GDPR gives EU residents the right to appeal certain automated decisions that might affect them. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
> you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated means Sounds like traffic lights are illegal in the EU.