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Thanks for sharing. You've paid a significant price for a very tough life lesson. It takes guts to be so open about it. Kudos.

Might need some self-reflection on this comment. You are suggesting you have a better insight than a company that just generated $18b in profit.

They know what they are doing (TM).

> I'm just recognizing the facts of the planet we live in.

I think you will find, with absolutely no supporting evidence to back this up, that there will be more people outside of the US watching than from the US.

Or perhaps a global time, such as UTC, given the global audience?

What makes you think it isn't? The courts don't randomly choose numbers. Actuaries are involved to calculate the future cost of these events in order to determine what funding is required today.

This makes sense to me and might just need some context. My grandfather died from mesothelioma - a dust based disease caused, in his case, by asbestos. As a 20/30 year old plumber, he was using asbestos products without any protection as it was assumed to be safe. Later in life, he developed mesothelioma which effectively causes your lungs to fail.

These diseases develop over time so there are claims that are unknown at this point in time but will appear in the future. It makes sense for a fund to be set up to cover future claims.

You do realise that there are countries outside of the USA? Australia has no 2G networks and 3G is approaching EOL.

Depends who is asking and when they ask. When there's a run, 2% is clearly bad for depositors wanting their cash back. When times are good, the banks investors want capital working as hard as possible to low available assets (usually) means more profit.

I don't disagree with you. Bank runs can still happen even with the (successful) FDIC backstop.

> The FDIC insures deposits up to $250k. That covers the vast majority of accounts at most banks. So a run won't occur at most banks.

That's akin to saying my house won't burn down because I have insurance. Don't underestimate the stupidity of large crowds of people.

The parallel is selling equity when you are in trouble is not ideal. Different reasons or sectors or whatever...but the principal is the same.

> IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.

This is a position of privilege. The developing world would like access to the Internet and lack access to the (mostly) exhausted IPv4 space. Should we not work to make Internet access ubiquitous?

It might be worth looking into the Elk M1 security platform. It is fully supported in Home Assistant and allows you to leave all the messy electronics and integration work to a (somewhat) cheap, well engineered and understood platform. It's just hardware so no monthly fees or anything.

> That said, I built up an ideology that any automation added should never replace physical items. All automation should have physical kill switches. Any occupants of the home should have appropriate access to things that you would normally give them physical access to.

I call this the grandma test. Can grandma come over to my place and still operate everything she needs without a CompSci degree.

It is definitely possible to have a very smart home but still have physical fallbacks that cater for most visitors.

Maybe this supports the articles theory, but I feel wine is more of an experience more than just the chemical composition of the drink. After all, wine isn't consumed just for it's nutritional content.

You can get a good story from a bottle of wine - particularly around the vintage. Things like weather conditions in the years leading up to the pick and then right at the pick, volume of grapes and maturation method.

Talking out aloud here...could vertical farming help here? My theory is that we only use so much land because it needs access to the sun. If we use LED's and stack vertically, we can condense down the footprint.

I don't think it's an unreasonable measure. I want to know about the companies fundamental business metrics...not currency changes.

So much this! Add in health issues to your list of "reasons why things can be different".

It's ignorant to think that your experience with kids is how it is for everyone. Kids can be hard - very hard.

I'm not sure the futures market makes sense when this reserve is used for emergency/war purposes.

> not sure if I'm understanding what you are comparing with. what is your alternative?

An in-house AAA solution.

> and that your in-house solution would do better in terms of availability than this external solution?

It won't go broke and cease to exist nor does it traverse the wild wild west that is the Internet.

It's not the quantum but the direction.

> If you're making 1.5 billion in profit and the next year you have 2 billion in debt to payoff...

You refinance...of course. Debt is always cycled like this. Yes, interest rates are higher than before but they are still incredibly low.

> The box could remain the same for 100 years, and I'd buy the same thing, as long as the taste and quality inside didn't diminish.

See this comes down to simple maths though. If you can retain enough of the loyal customers and win some news ones with the "exciting change", the net difference is worth it.

This keeps happening so I guess the maths checks out.

Flywheel generators or UPS? AFAIK, flywheels are only temporary energy stores while diesel gensets are spun up to peak power.

Pumped hydro has been extremely effective in Australia since the mid 1960's. There's currently a project to extend the capacity of the Snowy Hydro scheme to soak up this extra transient renewable capacity.

https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/generation/the-snowy-scheme/

Can't be done. Those assets are held in trust...so essentially a liability of the company.

How does a company like Salesforce mess this up for such an extended period of time? I understand that companies can make mistakes early on in a critical incident but this has been going on for weeks?!

Correlation != causation.

Well done Datto! Thanks for supporting the Internet.

> more than 20,000 containerised workloads across more than 2000 microservices to date.

This is insane. What am I missing here that an organization is bragging about having 2000 moving parts?