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Someone at Microsoft could probably check to see if he's still an employee, but I highly doubt he's still working a day job. Though maybe he is. He's surprisingly not that prolific for someone who's so successful with his writing.

You provided two links which both reference the same news source, which cites their source as

> One of the first netizens to share this news, David Ng, a student at the Education University of Hong Kong, told Taiwan News that this information came from a trusted source who works as a manager for Cathay Pacific Airways

I found it interesting that another username commented with the exact same message[0] in a related thread, slightly modified but with the exact same sentence structure and quotes.

> You only just have to open the SCMP front page to find them calling military deployments in a stadium near Hong Kong "drills", citing anonymous sources that say "they are not of concern" and quoting liberally from anonymous posters on Chinese message boards spouting hate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20684694

That article cites the Williams Group, which appears to be some sort of consultancy with the tagline "we prepare heirs."

This isn't the first time I've heard the 70% number, and I've never been able to find a single scientific study supporting it. There's also never any clarification on what "rich" means, or what qualifies as "lose their wealth."

I work for a company in a similar situation, and I agree.

The author wants us to look at things from the customer's perspective. The thing is, we (and presumably all major cloud providers) do. Every feature released, every API call, has a canary associated with it that does nothing but pretend to be a customer using that feature. There are definitely cases that slip through the cracks that shouldn't have (we forgot to properly test for a certain condition or combination use case etc) but the vast majority of the time a customer experiences an outage it's because of something the customer did.

That's not to excuse the 5 9 guarantee that inspires fake confidence. But we're always upfront with customers that there's a shared responsibility for availability: it's our responsible to make sure what customers pay for works, but it's also a customer's responsibility that there's enough redundancy in their architecture for their use case.

1. Where should this if statement live?

2. Your solution assumes the full shipping address is known to where you think this code should live.

3. No edge cases are being handled here.

4. What's the additional server burden for your solution? Do we need to provision additional capacity? What about DB capacity?

5. What does pay_gst actually do? Is it handling only charging an additional price? What about accounting, tax, and reporting?

6. Why are we evading sales tax in the else? We might still need to collect other sales taxes. Amazon.com is also the primary portal for NA, so it still needs to collect local/state taxes.

7. How should we handle updating the DB tables? What about the derived tables?

I could easily go on.

You're right. I don't really know much about the field at all. I was basing my opinions off the article. I'm still surprised they're touting geostationary satellites as superior though. The speed of light is constant. SpaceX's plan while very expensive, at least theoretically could provide a complete internet experience. Same thing with Google's balloons. Astranis at best can only serve static sites.

There's a reason that no other company tries to use geosynchronous orbit.

Stationary orbit is at a distance of 35800 km above sea level, which implies a one way latency of 110 ms based off the speed of light. Since any request from a user requires a total of 2 round way trips (one for request, one for response), the minimum latency for a request is 440 ms.

Avg latency with fiber is something like 30-60 ms, so we can assume an average request with Astranis will have ~500 latency.

Most modern webpages will not be able to support such latency. Astranis will need to essentially cache webpages on demand and deliver them to the end user as a fully rendered page, which will introduce security headaches.

I don't see why Astranis chose this vs a lower orbit.

The tweets are blatantly inaccurate.

There's an r/android discussion on this currently, where the consensus is that the twitter poster is a serial clickbaiter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7t6joy/statement_f...

> read the site rules and comment civilly and substantively

Civilly I can give you, but substantively?

> The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything?

I don't understand how you can claim I'm not commenting "substantively" when I'm correcting blatantly wrong info with citations.

You are wrong. Pilot in command[1] only qualifies when the plane is in flight, which is even mentioned in the quora question you linked. In flight definition requires plane to be moving under its own power. Additionally, the pilot did not tell the passenger anything. An on the ground manager did.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Please throw away your throwaway account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_in_command

Maybe you should do a modicum of research before deciding what is the truth, even in this post fact world. Pretty much everything written by the commenter who you replied to was wrong.

Punishment for treason is not necessarily death. Snowden leaked the info to trusted news sources who then proceeded to decide what to publish. Snowden was stuck in Russia at the airport en route to somewhere else when everything was getting grounded to find him. Russia took the chance to offer him asylum and as he had no other options he took it.