Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21387 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Paypal and Alipay are definitely banks.
Income gets paid into them, they hold it and will let you withdraw it.
They will also decide to lock your account with no notice, cancel your account because an algorithm makes a mistake and confiscate all your money fro breaking some vague 'terms and conditions'.
They also have no insurance, no regulatory oversight and often no way of contacting them.
>I can be accused of not including a global pandemic in the risk log of my last previous project
But probably will be going forward.
Not because another pandemic is any more likely, but because you know what the reaction to it will be.
It's like terrorism, the risk of death is probably lower than the 1970s, but the risk that you won't be able to access your building in the middle of $MAJOR_CITY because of a terrorist 'alert' is real.
Because it's a business decision by the customer.
They bought the cheapest service because it wasn't worth it to them to pay more.
Arguing that multi-site DR should be included in all plans is like saying only mechanics that offer free courtesy cars should be allowed. Or in this case, only spambots that make enough revenue that they can afford 5-9s uptime should be allowed.
>No, then it would be in a 'second' language. I would still have a native language, it would just be a different one.
Yes, that was the point. If 'native' was being used as the default language it might not be 'native' to everyone. But don't see how anyone could object to 'native' resolution = the resolution the screen was born with
There were lots of stories after the hurricane that hit New York.
Generators on roof of office block - for safety reasons you don't want generators in basement - feeling smug when basement floods. Then discovering either diesel tank or pumps for diesel tank are in basement.
Lots of pictures of people carrying 100s of Jerry cans up 20 flights of steps
This isn't as fast as running fibre to every last cabin in the woods
But since we can't seem to run non-lead water pipes to city centers, or transit to anywhere it's unlikely that rural America is going to become Singapore anytime soon
So yes, don't say we don't need any infrastructure spend because they can just use Starlink - but also don't block Starlink because it can't do 4k Netflix to everybody outside downtown SF
Imagine if there was a simple drug molecule that could be made at home and was widely available in Belgium and caused people to stab a member of their family and led to car crashes - I'm sure the Belgian authorities would crack down on it.
In comparison i think coke mostly causes bad ad campaigns
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