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the8472yesterday at 10:24 PM5 repliesview on HN

Making a probabilistic claim while excluding a factor that dominates those statistics is... is quite creative accounting.


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mjr00yesterday at 11:16 PM

Force majeure carveouts are really common in every type of contract.

You should check your home insurance contract, for instance... It likely would not cover an ICBM strike.

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mpyneyesterday at 10:47 PM

Are you saying that most data loss happens because your data center gets blown up in a shooting war? Like, AWS is the first digital service provider to lose data in decades?

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eliyesterday at 11:23 PM

I think it's what most people comparing provider SLAs would expect

unethical_banyesterday at 11:27 PM

Are you suggesting that their technical documents have separate availability numbers to predict geopolitical events and war?

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mitxelayesterday at 11:42 PM

Creative accounting works and is good because it works. If your customers give you more money because you lied to them, but it's legal, then it's good.