alt Hacker NewsSeems to me it is more likely that someone did the calculations and figured it is cheaper to send a bunch of unlucky morons up the stairs with jerrycans in case of flooding.
Seems to me it is more likely that someone did the calculations and figured it is cheaper to send a bunch of unlucky morons up the stairs with jerrycans in case of flooding.
Unlucky moron here... eh, it's like the 5th order effect of the planning. Somebody definitely calculated it wasn't worth the money to maintain a hot offsite data center, and for the most part that felt ok because we had a profit sharing component to our salaries. But I don't think anyone could have drawn a line from that to the fact that Peer1 wasn't resilient to flooding.