josephc

I’m less concerned with the jamming of a major highway and more concerned with three or four companies having a defacto monopoly on the Internet. AWS, GCP, and Azure host what? 90% of all traffic? 99%? Considering how many providers have them as a direct dependent, the “own nothing and like it” prospect looms ominously to me. The Internet should be a decentralized service owned by people and lots of small companies, not a handful of corporations.

Looked it up. 1974 for the credit act. Thanks for the correction! Edited my comment.

If you’re being serious, there are lots of reasons ranging from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria to things like the systemic disenfranchisement of women in modern society.

Fun fact: when were women in the United States allowed to have bank accounts?

A: Since the founding in 1776

B: 1870’s

C: 1970’s

D: Oh God it’s 1970’s, isn’t it?

Answer: 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed.

(EDIT: this answer previously said 1970 instead of 1974. Thank you to u/elephantium for the correction.)

Joke’s on you. The porch pirate that stole my replacement GPU ruined my day before you even got here!

Yah, tbh this really smells like an implemented feature that got depriotized on the roadmap. The developers were probably like, “we can make an entry that has it as pending deletion, stop showing it in the UI, and then have a reaping job that actually deletes all the files.”

Later on, someone says, “Hey, to save on compute, we could just reap when we’re low on space. No need to delete on a cron.”

Then six months later someone says, “Hey, did we ever implement that? It’s high priority.” And someone up top says, “It’s not in the OKRs. Quick; make a chat app so we can shut it down in a year.”