1. You don't need 20k to register an LLC or a corporation, but it's a good idea if you begin to collect PII data.
2. You don't need a complex landing page. Just something to explain your product, and collect an email. Use open source landing page templates.
3. Having software engineer friends does not automatically guarantee you anything. Move to an area where you can attend startup oriented events so you can meet founders and investors. They are the people that will teach you things and influence your success the most.
A good friend of mine told me that he developed shortness of breath and palpitations after his first shot, and had to spend 8 hours in the ER.
While I do acknowledge that there is a lot of misinformation on the topic out there, it was really weird to see an actual real person you know suffer from a side effect of a shot. I started to think that things aren't as simple as they seem to be advertised...
heard a story of a nurse vaccinating a 16 yo kids crying and not wanting the vaccine and dying in the minutes after the shot.
It seems totally unbelievable, but the story was only n+2 (from someone knowing the nurse). Also said people in vaccine center had clear instructions not to mention anything happening there.
All this seems totally paranoid, i know. But i've also found numerus videos of actual doctors mentionning huge numbers of blood disorders in their own patients following the injection, so...
Why are there two separate commenters saying that it was a panic attack?
Is this the recommended explanation medical professionals should provide now when a patient has to spend 8 hours in ER, or is HN full medical experts in panic attacks?
Laughed at the last paragraph, it's so true. Nobody will be able to even get on the roads, because without traffic lights and towing services they'll get clogged up very quickly (in just a few days), people will be abandoning their cars right on the road.
Can you post a link to your book (or book drafts), if you have it yet? I'd be interested to check it out.
Well, the idea is that most people will run out of basic supplies 2 weeks into the blackout, which will force everyone to turn to violence to survive. I agree that 2 days is not a big deal.
In a dying society like that however, it will be almost impossible to allocate labor to fix issues that caused the blackout, because as time goes on, violence on the streets increases. Weeks on end without food, water, heat, sanitation, order on the streets, weeks without ability to call or text anyone, people's trust into the government disappears, as does the trust into the currency of the country.
In a scenario like that, society eventually hits the point of no return.
My point is that a blackout won't last 2 weeks unless you've got major structural damage to the electrical system. We had a dang near worst case scenario (of no damage) and it was only 2 days
Also, I present Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico as hard evidence that when the power is out for 2 weeks the society doesn't descend into violence
Well, when you are able to pull in labor, food and other supplies from the unaffected areas, it's a much different scenario.
In the event where the entire US goes into the blackout for 2 weeks, things will be different. Sure, maybe not an apocalyptic anarchy on the streets, but there will be unrest. Because most people don't have extensive food and water reserves at the place of their residence.
The larger point I was trying to make is that things will be getting exponentially worse as time goes on, and the point of no return will be hit eventually, if we are not able to address the issue quickly.
The entire US physically cannot have one big blackout. There are 3 separate interconnects: East, West, and Texas. There are DC ties which connect them, but even if the tie was left open it's not enough to cascade the blackout.
To your larger point: sure if power was out over large swaths of the US for weeks on end, things would be difficult. But the power outage wouldn't be the problem, the problem would be whoever is causing the power to keep going back out (or the radioactive fallout from a nuclear war in the EMP scenario)
It would take months to replace some of the larger transformers, if they were destroyed by EMP or coordinated sabotage. And, there aren’t many spares available - lead time is very long.
Lesson to build your services with Docker and Terraform. In this setup you can spin up a working clone of a decently sized stack in a different cloud provider in under an hour.
If the setup is that portable you probably don't need the AWS at all in the first place.
If your use only services built and managed by your docker images why use the cloud in the first place ? It would be cheaper to host on a smaller vendor , the reliability is not substantially better with big cloud than tier two vendors, that difference between say OVH and AWS is not that valuable to most applications to be worth the premium.
In IMO, if you don't leverage cloud native services offered by GCP or AWS then cloud is not adding much value to your stack.
This is just not true for Terraform at all, they do not aim to be multi cloud and it is a much more usable product because of it. Resource parameters do not swap out directly across providers (rightly so, the abstractions they choose are different!).
But what's a good alternative then? What if the internet connection has recovered? And you were at the, for example, 4 minute retry loop. Would you just make your users stare at a spinning loader for 8 minutes?
Or tell them directly that "We have screwed up. The service is currently overloaded. Thank you for your patience. If you still haven't given up on us, try again a less busy time of day. We are very sorry."
There are several options, and finding the best one depends a bit on estimating the behaviour of your specific target audience.
I first learned about exponential backoff from TCP and TCP has a lot of other smart ways to manage congestion control. You don't need to implement all the ideas into client logic but you can also do a lot better than just basic exponential backoff.
Potentially, I've looked at Asana, Shortcut, Jira and a couple of others and this pricing seems accurate. Are there some features you are currently using that are missing? I'd be super keen to find out!
2. You don't need a complex landing page. Just something to explain your product, and collect an email. Use open source landing page templates.
3. Having software engineer friends does not automatically guarantee you anything. Move to an area where you can attend startup oriented events so you can meet founders and investors. They are the people that will teach you things and influence your success the most.