I recently stayed at a hotel and a small sticker in the bathroom caught my attention.
It reads:
Our towels are available for purchase If you would like to purchase a towel they are available to buy from our reception team for £20.00. If you choose to take them from the room we will charge your account accordingly.
I view this as a nice polite way of saying don’t steal our towels and if you do then you will be charged £20 for each one.
Like lots of people, especially developers, I have a long list of potential business/app ideas that sit around and gather dust. Some of them are just impractical, some I don’t have the skills to do but the biggest constraint is time and the battle with all the other commitments life throws at you.
One of the things that has deterred me from doing much personally in the cloud has been the potential cost.
The butterfly effect famously states that the flapping of the wings of a butterfly somewhere in the world can impact the weather on the other side of the world - a small change can have a huge impact over time.