Sr_developer's comments

You are correct, I must have made a dumb mistake in my mental calculations

The answer is MONEY, not "Freedom" or any other pablum you were taught. As economic conditions improve in China,India,even Mexico many educated people are returning. No one wants to live in a racist country when they will be treated as second-class citizens at best.

> My point above is not that the US is above reproach, but that it isn't disapppearing its citizens for criticizing the government or practicing different religions or being of a specific ethnicity. Etc. To say the two countries are "equally bad" is a pro-ccp propaganda point.

The US has killed their own citizen with drones, has imprisoned people who revealed government abuse and just last year arrested more than 100 journalists.

https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-ja...

So I could easily same the same about you, you are repeating a pro-CIA propaganda point. I would suggest to ask around in Latin-America, in Africa in China and even in Europe and ask people who they consider more a threat to world peace and which behaves in an arrogant, "my way or the highway", imperialistic manner. You will be very surprised and the whole worldview you were taught in your perfectly designed educational system will come crash down.

Less swearing allegiance to the flag and more travelling. I hope that is not ad-hominem enough to try to ban me.

> 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.

How much is the payment for being a CIA shill? Is the lost of one's decency and common humanity worthy?

https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/health-and-society/dark-histo...

Shameless.

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.

Do you understand that that was the intention of my original post right? Please tell me that you do.Because if not, Jesus!

> 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.

> By submitting my information, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 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.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-28/how-homeo...

Oh look, another HN commenter with 0 idea of what he is talking about, but all the bravado to support his dumb position.

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.

> at least one more tome each.

Super-uber-duper-friendly suggestion: Proofread your comments before posting them.

So you are repeating my original point, congratulations, it is not only the productivity that factors in the price, go back and read it.

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.

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)

All those staunch conservatives in San Francisco, Seattle and Portland.

More like can pick one these days

And I wouldnt trust a person who cannot detect exaggeration for effect. It indicates severe lacking of understanding social clues.

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.

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.