I used to work for a startup that quickly grew to become one of the biggest Lambda users in my country (according to AWS). The entire business was serverless, not just Lambda but backend DynamoDB, APIGW, Cloudfront, etc. There was maybe 2 EC2 instances in the whole company.
Having seen what that model of development can do from an operational/security/agility/scalability/efficiency perspective, I think the comments on HN about serverless saying "it's just CGI" or that they could do something similar without vendor lockin are honestly laughably ignorant. If you haven't messed with Zappa (https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa) or Serverless Framework (https://www.serverless.com/) at least a little you are missing out.
Yeah, seems dumb "economist" thinking. The idea that "if someone gives up and walks away, everyone behind them benefits" is a absurd on two fronts.The stall owner clearly doesn't benefit from a lost sale. Mulled wine, mince pies and hot chocolate are not fungible. Maybe you are allergic to chocolate. Maybe mince pies make you gag.
Also, optimising for queue length only makes any sense in the described scenario if all stalls are owned by a single entity.
I'm not even going to touch the "only add something to your todo list if you are going to do it immediately" stupidity.
You shouldn't pass unescaped/untrusted input into a subshell but your suggestion doesn't solve for every case. It protects against ";" but not path traversal with "../../../../../foo/bar".
This issue with the backups happened to me as well. I managed to solve it by disabling iCloud Backup which deletes all the backups, then re-enabling it. I think essentially what happens is some stuff gets backed up, and even if you delete that stuff from your phone it's still retained in backups for some period of time.
It's not the inflation component which is killing real personal income (ex transfer receipts)...it's the bad modelling which is used to generate current estimates that are subject to revisions.
The revisions show the real picture, and it is not pretty.