For them it's 0.00...1% of their business. For a small customer who deployed on their service it might be 30% or more of their development budget. Of course that's the way corporations do business. But that's why as a small one you can't really trust any of them. You can just place bets and sometimes you lose.
To put it another way, it is an implicit cost of using AWS: You have to have contingency plans to cope with discontinued services, and you need to be able to realistically execute those plans. I think it is just another reason that AWS isn't as good a deal as it might initially appear to be for small businesses. (Larger organizations may have a better chance of amortizing these costs over many projects.)
That's because the community in the end rejected it overwhelmingly, as anyone who reads the comments in this thread will understand. Admins did nothing, other than refrain from intervening.
Normally a post of this sort would never stay on HN's front page. In the end it spent 4 hours on the front page. That's because we suspended our usual quality control, as I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680.
dredmorbius's sibling comment already made the point, but I wanted to add more in the hope that no one ends up with the wrong idea.
I went back to the Twitter thread to understand your perspective better - agree that the title could be worded differently. I think the immense amount of contention on that thread was from you making a statement on what should be the responsibility of such reviewers - i.e. that they have some responsibility to protect entrepreneurship.
As much as we'd like to believe, most entrepreneurship is not in the form of AI pins and apps and gadgets, it's people starting small businesses and handling some existing facet of commerce. If MKBHD started making videos titled "The worst mom and pop store I've ever reviewed" then there might be a more compelling debate about ethical behavior by reviewers. In this case, it is a heavily funded product experiment by wealthy venture capitalists, so people are a lot less sympathetic when they hear "give them a chance, v2 will be better".
I said MKBHD was irresponsible for using a highly sensational headline (worst product ever reviewed) when he has such as large influence. I never said what you're implying.
Sometimes the truth is sensational. I hope you know you lost at least one long time follower after your recent stretch of engagement farming. You’ve fallen off. Good time to lay off the tweets and look inward.
Taking a job is indeed an alternative. You pay yourself, but you get little control on what you work on (apart from choosing which company to work for). However, you can usually leave easily with a 2 week notice without many downsides.
Getting accepted into YC is quite similar to getting a job. You get paid (less), but you get more control on what you work on. Even though technically you have full control, you don't really do that for moral and ethical reasons. You will want to do things that have a chance of paying off big time, because that's why your investors trusted you with their money. And if you get fed up, it's not as easy to leave. What about your investors? What about your reputation? Will you want to let these people down? Etc.
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