In some corporate networks, everything is locked tight, and if you want any access (outbound or inbound), you have to send a request with business justification.
What we had was many devices behind such corporate networks. Instead of requesting exposed ports for each device, or setting up OpenVPN (never done it so I'm not sure how much the red tape would it be), I requested only outbound access to our bastion server's SSH. Since SSH is pretty standard, admins usually allow it fairly quickly.
There were also a few cases where non-HTTPS connections were also banned, so we set up an HTTPS proxy that tunneled the SSH reverse forwarding... But that's probably not needed in most cases.
If you have many different remote devices behind NATs or firewalls, a cool trick to access them all via EC2 server (or such) is to setup Remote Forwarding via UNIX socket on the server side, to devices' port 22. Preferably, UNIX socket filenames should start with a common prefix, so an SSH config can be written that will use ssh+socat in a ProxyCommand to establish the connection.
It's amazing how lightweight this method actually is. I have managed to connect hundreds of devices using a single EC2 nano instance.
Meta-gaming is a natural progression in all human games. Chess players find "metas" like openings. It's just that video games are too simple and have very restricted meta set.
By themselves, they don't. But quantum probabilities are unique. They cannot be explained by missing information about local, pre-existing properties. Therefore, to maintain determinism, you are forced to accept extreme alternatives like non-locality (actions here instantly affecting the other side of the universe) or the existence of infinite splitting universes. If we reject those unobservable overheads, non-determinism is the most direct conclusion.
Any interpretation that asserts a deterministic universe must invent a "hidden" mechanism which causes the apparent non-determinism, and which we cannot measure nor predict.
By Occam's razor, it is more probable that the universe is simply non-deterministic.
It will take a few years until scheduled data center construction finishes, and together with software optimizations that may come up in the meantime, it may cause a significant decrease in token price.