It's "real" because it exists in the real world. It's naturally scarce as a result since two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. There's only so much land available.
It's a completely different matter compared to imaginary artificially scarce cultural property which boils down to ownership of unique numbers. That's what's ridiculous.
> Also why do you need to post links on Twitter, i though you were leaving the platform?
If you change your address, it makes sense to share your new address with contacts? If you change cell provider because they suck you probably would give your new phone number to your contacts. How is this not 100% obvious to you?
I wouldn't know. The person I replied to claimed that it was "private information of individuals". If it's public info by law then referring to it as private seems very misleading, wouldn't you say?
The aircraft tracking data itself is public, but what's not public is the information which links the temporary aircraft identifier to its owner when the owner is using that privacy program, which is the case for Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603803508087537665
That source is a reply by Musk confirming a statement by another person (https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1603748611896283137?s=20&...) commenting about Musk being enrolled in the PIA program. That statement also has a link back to the creator of the tracker themselves also admitting Musk's plane(s) are/were in PIA but they figured out how to track it/them anyway.
If the lives of 1 000 employees are threatened by a third party I think it's quite reasonable for a company not to continue offer its services to monetary supporters of this third party. Seems like a good business decision regardless of any sanctions.
I wrote some C# code a couple of years ago to generate PDF invoices. Has been running fine since then generating tens of thousands of PDFs. It was pretty straight forward back then, only annoying thing were page breaks when there were a lot of line items, but apart from that I would not consider it a "pain".
What issue have you had? What do you mean by "custom"?
The pain in there is that every time you want to have a PDF generation system, you have to do the same stuff, it's not "complex" at all, but it definitely takes time, whatever the technology you use. On my experience, having ten thousand PDF generating at the same time was a very high load for our infrastructure and the cost was enormous, that is one of the main thing I'll focus on today : the scalability of it. It also depending on the way you create your template, hard coded with pixels or HTML!
You're right, per se generating a small number of PDF is indeed easy.
What's complex is:
- Dynamic PDFs: you're trying to digitize a government process for instance, by launching online forms with a variety of user paths for the answers and generating a PDF with the answers that still fits specific government requirements
- Doing it at scale
