Hey, when you spend over $100 million a year to run your website, that's the kind of thoughtful analysis one might expect.

Maybe not idiots, but many humans are definitely not homo economicus rational actors.

How much are you saving vs an always-on ARM board with M.2 slots? Is it worth the pennies?

It's not like the individual share price of e.g. VTI or FZROX is all that high to begin with.

nextaccountic replied to this original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035698

Yes, nextaccountic's reply is confused about Rust vs C++ implementations. But the original mention was not talking about Rust.