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		dpeck on June 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you see the cops, start recording if 95% doesn't qualify as "the vast majority" of anything then the phrase has no usefulness.

mulmen on June 5, 2020 [–]

Would you use a hosting provider with 95% uptime? That’s 72 minutes of downtime per day. Would you describe them as being up "the vast majority" of the time?

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