[motherofzappa]

playing devils advocate, but taking peoples word prima facie is dangerous. Especially when it deals with financial issues. Pretty sure you can any contempt person could game the system if people found out “students” automatically get refunds for bs charges. I think AWS is different as they have their educate program and distinguish between students and free trial customers. AFAIK gcp doesn’t have an education system for students, so it’s harder to differentiate a legitimate request

[quickthrower2]

What will these system gamers do with computer power? Mining crypto will make them pennies, and running a business on stolen accounts isn’t sustainable.

[kkarakk]

there are entire dark market businesses built out of finding secrets and deploying a crypto miner as fast as possible and mining as much as possible.

that's just one use case, DDOSing an API/website through seemingly legit requests from the G3's cloud infrastructure is another.

Lots of things you can do with massive amounts of computing power. It doesn't have to be sustainable in the short term, you just keep repeating the process and the value adds up fast