Even if the company suing you will have a tough time proving their case, they can still bury you in legal fees.

Per capita, Northern Virginia is already the wealthiest area in the United States. Amazon will probably nudge it a little further into the lead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...

That's income per capita, which is a little bit different than wealth.

There is no place, in the US, that rivals the wealth and power of NYC. Now internationally, that's where you start to get your Beijing's, and your London's, and your Tokyo's, and your Monte Carlo's, and your Paris, and Shanghai's etc. But in the US it's NYC at the center of the preponderance of wealth and power. Only place in a position to make a run at NYC is DC, and they'll need a lot more than Amazon to do it.

(There's also LA and Chicago, but those cities are not as "powerful", nowhere near as wealthy, and to be frank, making a run at NYC is not their ambition.)

How are you quantifying wealth and power?

How is that creepy? It is normal to use someone's name to address them.

The Android app is still very frustrating to use.

That's right. Tons of contractors want to build into GovCloud as well, which will be exploding in the near future. They already have tons of data centers in Northern Virginia due to its proximity to ISPs and the federal government.

They (data centers) are not in Nova because the government is there, but rather because it has the lowest insurance costs in the Continental US.

Is that the major factor? I'd thought it was more:

* Proximity to low latency backbone connections (originally located there due to government agencies)

* Tax incentives by VA

* Low risk area for disasters

* Cheap power

* Available land

Yeah most will live in Virginia, where the offices will be, where the housing is cheaper, and where the public schools are better.

That's probably why AT&T has the upper-hand in this case. People can just stream HBO. This hurts rural customers who don't have reliable internet connections, though.

Plus streaming gets counted against data quota.

Just FYI, I think you commented to the wrong article by mistake.

I agree with you, but I think people (for better or worse) are using the two terms interchangeably in this thread.

I think the issue is that if you don't understand what a high-level language is doing under the hood, then you will constantly be surprised by side-effects. You shouldn't be using an ORM to substitute for your lack of understanding SQL; you should be using it to automate tasks.