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by TheDong 3108 days ago
Yes, I agree that it's a dumb comparison. I'm only making it to refute the parent comment which said:

> You can buy a lot of EC2 compute per month before you hit the cost of running outdated servers on your power bill.

I can't see any way of interpreting that other than as them claiming the dumb comparison I just made plays out differently than it does.

If the parent comment said something like "It will take a lot of time and money to reproduce any meaningful percentage of what EC2 offers" I'd be in agreement... but the parent comment was directly comparing a power bill with ec2 compute costs.