So sad... There's a thread in cloudynights that seems to indicate they have a buyer. Unsure if they would just liquidate the stock or start printing the titles again, if it even goes through. Here's hoping for the best.
Good post - pricing is so very critical (although I do agree with others here that three weeks is such a _very_ short timeframe). It's interesting to think about pricing from a "what's my per-user cost so I can reasonably bootstrap this myself", but it's usually more reasonable (and profitable) to think about it the other way around - "what value am i providing to my user?".
The book "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing" was a real eye opener for me as I don't come from a business background. The crux is that don't think about it in terms of costs, but how much value (e.g., time saved, leads generated, etc) you are providing and if the price is worth it from the user's perspective.
The difference lies in their enormous existing lease obligations. Most corporate leases are for 10 years and they have very large payments that must be made, so it's not like they can just easily scale back in the loss-making locations.
It wasn't that long ago that we were doing service-per-VM and really OP has just described an implementation of that strategy with containers.
You would scale the virtual machines to try and reach optimal resource usage rather than pick a standard fleet of virtual machines for all workloads and let a scheduler do some kind of knapsack scheduling based on available resources.
Comparatively, service-per-vm approaches are very wasteful and ineficcient, moreso if a container orchestration system is used to manage the deployment. It makes no sense to fine-tune VMs just to match the resource requirements of a single process, particularly as they change over time and as that approach leads you to a collection of custom-tayloted VMs that are needlessly cumbersome to manage and scale.
Meanwhile containers enable you to run multiple services on the same VM, scale them horizontally as you need on the same pre-determined amount of resources, use blue/green deployments to spread your services throughout your VMs automatically, and achieve all of this automatically and effortlessly.
If you pay close attention to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/ you’ll note that a portion of the population does appear to have a genotype that makes people susceptible to arthritis which is exactly the symptoms that the initial negative response to Lymerix claimed.
I wish there was a Lyme vaccine but imho the case of Lymerix is closer to Rotashield than an innocent victim of anti-vaxxers.
Average daily volume of VOO over the last 60 days is about 2,000,000 shares. At ~$200/share (it's actually about $220 right now), that's about $400m dollars daily, so unloading $1m would be well under 1% of shares traded in a typical day.
And notably the fraction of VOO shares traded on any given day to the total market cap of the fund is about 100:1. With bitcoin it's more like 10k:1. Thus the liquidity worries.
Yes, some the most racist taxi drivers I have encountered were minorities with prejudices against other minorities. Everyone is afraid to call a minority a bigot so this behavior tends to be unchecked compared to when a white guy does it.
Try getting a cab in Manhattan at peak times, or during shift change (6pm-ish?). Technically they have to take you by law but even if you get in and refuse to move they will sit there until you are forced to get out.
It got to the point I was getting turned down more than accepted for rides from Manhattan to Brooklyn so now I just use ride share by default.
(For reference, I'm white so it's not a problem of being a minority. I do live pretty deep in Brooklyn in a "bad" neighborhood though - maybe getting a ride to Williamsburg etc is easier)
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