2024-07-12
News
US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon for their personal consumption.
While prohibiting the possession of an at-home still meant to distill beverage alcohol might be convenient to protect tax revenue on spirits, it is not a sufficiently clear corollary to the positive power of laying and collecting taxes
The economics of a Postgres free tier
We use shared clusters
Our default Postgres cluster uses
db.t4g.mediuminstances, which cost us around 210 for the Postgres part. For OpenSearch, we user6gd.large.searchinstance types, which cost about 420/month. This means the "BoM" cost for one Postgres+OpenSearch cluster is around $630/month
= $0.315 per month
1.8, but more closer to the front