This comment seems a bit US biased. Other democratic countries, with semi-good political leadership, more educated population and social pressure regulated the spread of the virus quite well so far. I was actually quite impressed how from one day to another people started following those new rules meticulously.
Exactly, by saving us, science might do more harm than good. Finding a cure to covid-19 could also be seen as an human intervention into nature's attempt to regulate the human population growth. But in the the end there are only two possible outcomes: either humans will find a way to preserve an habitable environment or face extinction.
It depends on the perspective, in case of SQL I would argue that sanitizing the input is the same as escaping the output, because the query you are sending to the database is the output.
Escaping the output however as a term implies you are doing it right, while sanitizing the input could also mean you just replace("DROP", "") etc. (My last name is Dropmann, I know what I am talking about)
10 years is a long time, maybe until than its bought back to non-profit, you never know. Also it allows you the luxury of starting worrying about your migration later. If you could invest that money now with more than 4-5 times US interest rates (which is the price increase I would expect), then I would consider this a bad deal.
That is because most people found it appealing to have _one_ internet (read as domain name system). So the only option is to use the existing one. Given that, there was not really a choice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064537