Readit NewsThe West is "weirdly" attached to communism for many reasons, the foremost being that the past 50 years has been spent trying to clean up the mess left by communist regimes.
Do you ever stop and wonder what Russia could have been like had the Bolsheviks not terrorized it? Does it scare you to face just how badly your ideology has globally failed, and will be forever remembered as a point of shame in the grand story of human development?
If you haven’t experienced communism first hand, you have no idea how bad it is, even the watered-down communism of 80s.
I'm not sure what you mean with 'the west', but in Western Europe communist political parties were allowed just like any others. When I went to high school in the 80's it was even kind of fashionable to have communist sympathies. This was before the fall of the iron curtain though, once it went down it became clear how terrible communism had really been.
The thing is that my comment couldn't be anyhow related to today's situation (I've used the past tense) since communist doesn't exist anymore (not the way it used to) and most of the country that implemented it widely abandoned it (probably the only exception is perhaps North Korea)
Nowhere in my comment I said that communism is good
It was a simple comparison point on the previous comment that, by my standard was also wildly off base (given that he said dumb to a whole country basically)
the fact is that the west seems to be so attached (weirdly) to communism despite even those who implemented it already abandoned.
Are you scared of ghosts or what?
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true, because the citizens of these countries are already uninformed enough about communism that they are indeed the one that make it sound dumb
I don't think this is true at all. The cloud is just a fancy word for using someone else's computational resources, and the cloud's main selling points is not having to host or manage your hardware, and be able to scale on demand. A third less mentioned topic is being able to have global deployments.
None of these items imply a limit on how "big" are your computational needs. In fact, it's well established that once a company grows its cloud needs after a threshold, it becomes far more cost-effective and performance to just manage your own hardware and infrastructure.
Lastly, even AWS frames itself as the go-to solution to grow from zero to launch.
Today, is more important the time to market. You can use existing services to build your application, there are customers that don't have access to a pool of data scientist to run their own ML training for example. These would rather benefit from high level services that help them to deliver functionalities just by using APIs.
> it becomes far more cost-effective and performance to just manage your own hardware and infrastructure.
This is very wrong too. First of all managing hardware is not just buying a server and placing it in your room. There are plenty of other business functions needed to run an effective datacenter. Procurement, hardware eng, sys admin, security (net, app, etc) and the list goes on.
You can do that if you reach a critical mass or if you are able to attract the right talents for that.
Big enterprise customers will settle for a suboptimal usage of their resources with limited capabilities to expand further or settle for one size fits all. You need a DB? We bought 15mil on Oracle licenses sorry about that, your no SQL needs or your vector search would be better make it work there.
As I said earlier, eventually this affects the time to market. Which is a far more important measure than cost for business. Especially thanks to the agility. If it doesn't work they tear it down, you don't need to keep paying for it.