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Good points! Thanks.


The author forgot to mention that Amazon kindle publishing take 70% out of your sale price :) Also, that when they print the books, the quality sucks - thick cheap printer paper, toner saver enabled. As a customer I have had very bad experience with books printed by Amazon.


> Also, that when they print the books, the quality sucks - thick cheap printer paper, toner saver enabled.

For what it's worth, I found the printed copies of my self-published book from Amazon often had higher quality than many CS books I have from traditional publishers.


I have always detested AMP. But there was no other way around - if you wanted to appear in google results on top you had to use it.



Completely misleading title and this is basically an ad:

(* Links to Vultr contain my referral code, which means that if you choose to subscribe to Vultr after you clicked on that link, it will earn me a small commission.)

host yourself means - running on your own hardware


You don't have to be very smart to figure that out. I get sick only from the slightest smell coming out of those things.


This is not necessary. They only have to tax the parent company at 21% and any of it's subsidiaries. If on the other hand a company buys services from its subsidiaries located abroad, then impose a customs tax of 21% for any imports / exports.



350–530 kg Al would be needed per apartment. One question left unanswered is - how many cycles does this system support before it becomes substantially inefficient?


This promotional video is epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKxEXZv4G3c


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