Ponder that for a second. This is a company that is more or less literally renting machines that print money. My head breaks a little when I try to wrap it around the weird economic recursion in that. And I'm trying to find a reason why it makes sense to rent out such a system, instead of just running it on your own account. I have a suspicion that the owners of the system are essentially using it to hedge currency fluctuations, and that most users of this cloud are taking on more risks than they properly understand...
There is an economics dissertation in here, somewhere
Ponder that for a second. This is a company that is more or less literally renting machines that print money. My head breaks a little when I try to wrap it around the weird economic recursion in that. And I'm trying to find a reason why it makes sense to rent out such a system, instead of just running it on your own account. I have a suspicion that the owners of the system are essentially using it to hedge currency fluctuations, and that most users of this cloud are taking on more risks than they properly understand...
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Is anybody following me only here any more?
(Unlike nearly everything I post, this is intentionally only being posted to LiveJournal.) A few days ago, I posted my analysis of the new LJ Terms…
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Signal Boost: Affordable Housing at Assembly Square
Mainly for Somerville residents -- the developer of an enormous new apartment complex at Assembly Square is trying to skeeve out of some of the…
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A Study of the Battleground
When I dubbed my current politics posts with the tag "wartime thoughts", that was not originally intended as a general statement about the…
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