Everyone knows one is stock and the other is flow. It doesn't mean that we can't measuring the ratio between them. Actually, measuring ratios between "stock" and "flow" values is one of the favorite things analysts and economists do! (e.g., rent vs house price, P/E, fixed cost vs marginal cost...)
There is even a name for marketcap/GDP, Buffett Indicator. And historically the current value is very high.
If you're not from Israel, Israeli companies are by definition foreign institutions to you. Pointing out a media company is owned by Chinese companies are not racism against Chinese. Same with Israel.
What GP meant is that the CTO of a $1b company wold absolutely not fire someone for going Azure because at those scale it's very likely they have a set of customers that exclusively want to work on Azure, so that choice makes sense.
It's easy to do blanket statements like "never choose azure", "avoid GCP at all cost" or "never again on AWS". Until real world comes your way and you are forced to deal with it.
That being said: I'd fire anyone choosing to deploy a workload on GCP.
Another reality is that at that scale you need to diversify your vendor portfolio so you never get stuck in a single-vendor scenario (for contracts, liability or scale). Many companies half this size have infrastructure across all three - AWS, Azure and GCP. The primary reason is redundancy, but that also gives them potential leverage for contract negotiation.
A quick glance at sigmazero.cc suggests it is just yet another low quality monetized blogspam operation that rehashes tech "news." This link is submitted by the "Founder of Sigma Zero" who has made 4 submissions to HN, all links to his own website, and zero comments. I am going to flag this submission as I feel it is too low quality for HN.
And as others have pointed out, this article is very likely written by AI.
I'm honestly flabbergasted that everyone's implicitly accepting that it's "people" who wrote this blog post. This reads exactly like the distorted half-true nonsense an LLM would confabulate together from a cursory search on the subject. Like the artifact from the prompt "write an article on the MJ Rathbun incident."
The other articles from this blog that seems to be peddling a $10 subscription don't really do much to convince me of the opposite. I wouldn't be surprised if this entire blog was the result of some OpenClaw kicked off with a "make me some easy money with a slop mill about AI and tech or whatever" instruction, because that's essentially what that site is.
Counterpoint: I think it can also useful to avoid LLM-isms because it's a quick test to check whether you're saying something derivative or actually saying something novel/interesting/significant. Which is to say, if someone could credibly accuse me of being an LLM, then that means my writing is no better (for whatever definition of "better" you want to use) than what happens when you melt down all of human language into a paste and then reconstitute it into featureless little cubes.
Obviously there are exceptions; you can use certain constructions in a way that's still unmistakably human, or use them within a larger context of unmistakably human writing. But in general it makes me think about Orwell's argument against cliches:
> A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically ‘dead’ (e. g. iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.
If LLM-isms give readers the impression that I'm too lazy to phrase things in my own words, even if I did in fact phrase things in my own words, then I take that as a sign that I should pick better words!
Granted, I've had a strong desire to write as distinctly and un-cliche-ish-ly as possible since long before ChatGPT's public launch, so I might not be as grumbly as other commenters who feel like this would force them to change how they write.
From late 19th to early 20th centuries, it was common for British workers to hire charwomen to clean their places. Domestic service was the most typical job for women by the time. Historically it wasn't really something exclusive for the rich.
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