I live in reality. It's me first, then it's my family and my close friends, and then my local community and then, finally, local charities. That's how my budget works. A budget is money in and money out. And when all of that is good, then maybe I'll think about larger charities where I can't be directly involved to see where my help actually goes.

Except it doesn’t. If you’re poor, 10% directly impacts your life negatively. It means less (or lesser quality) food. It means less money set aside for yourself in the case you need it — and you will.

10% for middle class is fine. That’s just one less night out.

People should not give to charity if they themselves are likely to be dependent on charity.

Repeat after me: Any medical intervention has a cost/benefit analysis.

Having lived through this, observed it first-hand, read the studies, having dozens of anecdotal evidence on top from near friends and family, and still not able to even question the new mRNA platform publicly without knee-jerk backlash and demonisation, has done more damage to my faith in institutions and the medical community than anything else I’ve witnessed in my near forty years on this planet. Covid made crystal clear to me that we still live under tyrannical dogmatic rule devoid of scientific nuance because it’s “for the greater good”.

> Each new staging environment still required DNS and CDN configuration - not difficult, but not automatic either. The team also took on responsibility for server monitoring, security updates, and handling any infrastructure issues themselves - operational overhead that Heroku had previously covered. And while Hetzner's price-performance is exceptional, its limited presence in the US was a consideration; for this staging workload, it wasn't an issue, but it's a factor for production services targeting US users.

If you factor in salaries, I can see this ending up costing more than Heroku. $3000/m is one (underpaid) developer here in Scandinavia.

That's the equation that's often lacking, and why Heroku is still worth it where I work.