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Also the standard SLA you get will be wildly different from the bespoke contacts negotiated by enterprises. Just depends on your spend.


This type of insurance does exist. Speak to your broker.


LOL oh only 10 mill within 3 years... that is the holy grail of startups.


Not sure about the conditions of employment with Google, but if he has archives of emails long after he's left the company, could a lawsuit be forthcoming?


Did you Google the name first? This already conflicts with about 4 different open source projects, a container engine and a programming language


"Their business model looks like their products: an absolute mess."

Quote of the year


Maybe they can spend some of that cash improving the atrocious service levels on gitlab.com


How is this different to www.katacoda.com?


I would also like to know. I initially thought it was katacode.


we really love katacoda! we're a bit more oriented on trying to visually explain what's happening (not there yet) and we're trying to give you a very high level of interactivity


Uhhh Russia?


No? How are they a threat? They spent money on Facebook ads and we don't even know if they came from the Government? By that standard, you can also say UK is a threat with Cambridge Analytia.


Yeh we should be wasteful BECAUSE WE CAN!


Who said anything about being wasteful? We're talking about two different ways of cleaning plates.


This is exactly the matter discussed here, one method being wasteful in term of drinking water and the other is not.

Which is why we should favor one over the other.


And the point being made is that other resources are being optimized for instead - wrinse cleaning uses less effort and thus time. The resource of concern varies by area as well.

Technically a nonpotatable unpurified water tap could be used for the same purpose but in addition to the risk of "oops accidentally drank direct river water with pollution and/or hazardous natrual bacteria" the infrastructure for the fringe use would be less efficient than just purifying more water to be flushed down the drain as a cleaning process. Plus in say southern California the freshwater purification is not the limit but the input water hence the dirty looks for bottling it there instead of say the Great Lakes area where it is actually abundant. Hong Kong I believe is one of the few places that uses salt water to flush their toliets despite large seaside cities being in no way rare.

It is like mass production technically wasting more materials - at that point it usually doesn't matter compared to the sheer efficiency gains.

Granted non-sustainable uses of source water is something to be accounted for.


It seems to me that in this conversation the other side of the comparison is not fully explored yet.


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