Gold has been stable for thousand years. In Roman times an ounce of gold would pay for a suit.

This holds true today.

https://www.businesswire.com/n...

Obviously gold stocks are subject to speculation but the tangible asset remains stable.

There is a certain scale ( less than 2k servers ) where colos are much cheaper than a cloud provider.

Thing is its the beancounter war of Opex vs Capex. Balance sheets run the world.

I feel your pain... immensely

Attempting to integrate windows into cloud automation is a serious PITA

Windows is a 3rd class citizen when it comes to standard automation tools and suffers because of it

Disagree,

There are so many changes with containers and the ecosystem around that aspect its really challenging to find someone who really understand the lower levels of linux.

Compare Slackware to Ubuntu. Ubuntu has all the new bells and whistles where Slackware remains loyal to its roots. I think you can learn more with Slackware and many of the choices Ubuntu is making will seem questionable to you.

That said you will need to learn Ubuntu and the new container ecosystem.

Networking is something I see many many people simply do not understand. NAT is a hack that has infected everything and there are layers upon layers of it causing issues everywhere.

Surely you didnt post that from a cell phone which is doing the same thing to landlines

Please apply this everywhere.

Let us first start with property taxes and schools. Can we shift that burden to the families with 8 kids instead of homes with no kids in school ?

I echo your sentiment on finding talent.

I think we need to push people to learning how to learn instead of googling for howtos.

I think it's more the Bazaar vs the Cathedral combined with Theo's uncompromising stance on quality proving to be the better model.

BSD isn't Linux, BSD is an OS. Linux is a kernel.

I wonder how long it takes folks to figure this out ? ( been a few decades already )

... but it can buy it.

Used to work in the internet marketing industry. Your tax dollars support these businesses via govt purchases of data.

Nifty end run on the 4th dont you agree ?

Hey now, I am an old guy who keeps up with the trends and I am making bank building complex k8s clusters for people who actually need a single autoscaling group.

Dont be knocking the complexification strategy of more money.

Having interviewed quite a few people I would like to know what you consider best ?

There are smart people who have degrees but most of what they know is obsolete by the time they get out of college. They also think their opinion carries weight. It is really hard to balance their emotions while telling them to sit down and be quiet. Assuming you even hire them.

Sounds like a night out on the town here in the US :)

Your culture is much different. I am not sure what exactly the cause is ( perhaps the nation being born from rebelling we take pride in breaking law ? ) but it truly is a different culture.

Even the police act different. Granted I can only speak to the German polezei I watched in action but their methods spoke volumes compared to the US

I disagree. The reason terrorists dont use guns is because an IED is much more effective at large scale killing. A gun is terrible for killing lots of people. It requires skill practice and some form of protection from the authorities to rack up a decent body count.

An IED like the Oklahoma bomber on the other hand.... killed many people.

Having been in the military and used bumpfire weapons as well as full auto belt fed I have questions about the Vegas shooting I would like answered. Feed all those videos into that system.

It might be interesting.

Quick way to get on a watch list. Use cash for all your purposes and you get added to a terrorist list.

It is impossible to be not tracked. You are either tracked as identifiable or tracked as one of the few black spots. The tracking accumulates and all it takes is one piece of data linking your identity to all that activity.

Every action you have in the connected world leaves a bit of data regardless of your connectivity.