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qmr • today at 5:13 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

"All three clouds" is such a weird phrase.

There is no "cloud". There is other peoples hard drives.

But let's pretend the "clouds" you use are "clouds". Ok. What makes the other hosting providers not "clouds"? Bit of a no true Scotsman.


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Domenic_S • today at 5:35 PM

This useless and obnoxious criticism actually ties into TFA a bit: when GP was writing for this audience, they wrote in a way that wasn't overly precise, but specific enough that we'd understand their point.

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