This is official policy, but not "common practice."
According to CNBC: "These circuit breakers have never been triggered in their current form during regular trading hours."
Actually not true. This is the first time ever these circuit breakers were triggered during regular trading hours. Even still, on election night, stock futures were only under the 'limit-down rule'. You could have still been buying futures while that restriction was in place, so this is very much different and unprecedented
Major IdPs tend to provide an endpoint where you can send them the JWT, they validate it and return its contents as a plain JSON response. You're effectively trading JWT parsing for HTTPS.
They can't walk JWT back now without breaking existing apps, because parsing it yourself was advertised as an option.
Sia is very reliable from the customer's perspective. Its only individual systems and storage pools that have lax uptime requirements. Thanks to some clever network-level redundancy mechanisms (10-of-30 redundancy), 95% uptime at the storage pool level translates to 99.9999% uptime from the customer's perspective. See the "Uptime Math" section in the OP for details.
When you says Sia is reliable, do you mean it could be reliable if hypothetical X, Y, and Z things happen?
Because according to the homepage (sia.tech) there are only 895 hosts storing a total of 206TB right now, which is a very, very small amount. Backblaze, a relatively small player as compared to the big cloud providers has 1.1 million TB of raw capacity as of last year (redundancy reduces the available capacity, but still) [0].
By reliable in this context I mean robust against hardware failure. (Including the failure of entire storage sites.) The OP explains the math and associated assumptions for how they derived that "99.9999%" figure, and acknowledges that since the calculated chance of data loss due to hardware failure is so infinitesimally small, other failure modes outside of what they modeled are likely to dominate.
As for the relatively small number of hosts at present, 895 is more than enough for 10-of-30 redundancy to work "as advertised". You really only need 30 hosts technically. The bigger issue I think is the relative immaturity of the software. Sia is still pretty new compared to most other data storage systems; and although I've never heard of any software bugs in Sia resulting in data loss, that doesn't mean such a bug will never be discovered. Be cautious, keep backups, and never rely on any single storage medium to store your data.
Users of Sia are the customers. So your question reduces to: who uses Sia? It used to mostly be interesting for customers interested in reliable large-file data backup on the cheap, but now it has expanded to customers looking to do content distribution on the web, etc.
> Can't be more than 2.5 because Backblaze B2 already gives you $5/TB/Mo.
Well it can be, if they have a lot of inefficiencies. Backblaze could have more experienced engineers who overcame these. I assure you, I can accidentally design a very expensive storage system as I’m not that smart ;)
> Bureaucracy is rarely as expensive as aggressive profiteering.
Have you seen the DoD and other gov entity contracting? Perhaps we can expect the same level of contracting that the DoD has today, outsourcing those expensive mistakes to others, for them to take the blame/fall/
I can see a situation where pharma bureaucrats refuse to approve or pursue things, because government mistakes are more unforgivable than business mistakes (where failure and experiments are often encouraged). I would expect more layers of approval/red-tape to develop as no-one wants to accept the blame of approving.
>> Bureaucracy is rarely as expensive as aggressive profiteering.
> Have you seen the DoD and other gov entity contracting?
DoD contracting seems like worst of both worlds: a combination of bureaucracy, aggressive profiteering, and rare real-world evaluation of the products.
I'm kinda surprised military production hasn't been nationalized. It seems like it's mainly done by a handful of companies that are almost wholly dependent on government contracts, and the government is loathe to steer too much work away from any of these entities in order to preserve their capability.
the virus uses RNA to keep its code, RNA is error prone.
so the code shifts gradually everytime it replicates, usually its not a big deal, but if by chance just the right point mutation, or a long series of them accumulate, there can be major changes in the character of the virus, such as how catching is it, what cells it goes after, what kind of animals/hosts it can infect.
5G a total rebuild of the internet being sold to consumers (ineffectively) as an upgrade for higher speeds, while the true purpose is to enable non-net-neutral service agreements with network slicing.
> Most fan-run conventions run on a barely-above-breakeven budget at the best of times.
Ya, I've had local races get cancelled due to weather, and they also have a no-refund policy. Much of the revenue has already been spent, so I understand.
