Yes. It was the vision of the internet to continue on outside of the whatever political whims some tiny slice of western governments.

It’s just too ripe for abuse.

You can make whatever “whatabout” arguments on DNS, etc but none of those are required to get connectivity (DHT, p2p hosts, tor names, etc).

Any centralization around the narrow middle IP layer of the internet should be treated with extreme skepticism and pushback.

> Nine hours does not actually sound like all that much to me.

I think because of who you are you haven’t actually had to experience a regular tech interview in 10+ years.

Yes, it wouldn’t even be a headline. “Profitable company sells bonds, water is wet, news at 10.”

Continued rounds for a decade really blows as an employee.

The comparison to a superintendent is bunk because that’s a politically loaded position so the vetting is high because of that, not the comp.

None of the FAANG gang put up 9 hours of interviews and pay more than Oxide.

Just own it, your process is more time consuming and is NOT normal. But it’s what gives you an extraordinary team. FAANGs are filled with bad hires.

It doesn’t negate your point about 10 years to recover but it’s important to highlight how substantial the growth was after it did.

>"Aren't you a male, too?" Do you think I haven't tried to kill myself? It's surprisingly difficult.

Brother, you need help.

That 400 million number is BS though. Here is the methodology:

> After acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, an estimated 400 million people globally and 17 million, or 6.8% of Americans, based on Household Pulse Survey, experienced Long COVID symptoms, such as fatigue, cognitive impairment, body pain, headache, dizziness, sleep disturbance and a myriad of other symptoms and signs spanning multiple body systems [1, 2]

They surveyed people after the biggest societal disruption in 50 years and found some of them were tired.

This is why people don’t take long COVID seriously. It’s just a catch-all for feeling off.

I bought my house with a close neighbor because I know the neighbor can’t build a steel mill in their backyard. If the government comes in and says we’re all free now to build steel mills, that gain in freedom is a loss in value for me.

This is misleading. I had an old Dell computer in my garage hosting a php app that hit that level of uptime as well over a 9 month period. It was 100% so actually better.

Those uptime numbers only hold water when spread over many thousands to millions of users where you’re at large enough scale that you’re actually dealing with a meaningful volume of hardware failures.

A community can simultaneously be healthy and positive while being politically disagreeable to others.

That doesn’t support any argument against new builds nor does it support the notion that they are inherently noisy.

Also, in reply to your further up NIMBY nonsense suggesting I move.

I don’t think you understand how people operate. I like my small city and am upset idiots spread fear and harmed its prospects that we will pay for with continued anemic local employment, poorly budgeted infrastructure, etc.

I want to see good things here. I’m not just going to give up on it and go to some city that has its shit together on the business side.

Datacenters have been around for decades and the Dulles Tech Corridor, the ones around Portland, the SIX in Seattle, etc all have shown they can operate just fine.

> I understand you're disappointed that people had the ability to choose things in their lives and didn't choose the thing you wanted

No, I’m disappointed they did it based on ignorance and propaganda. There was no informed decision making going on. This is no different than people who voted against gay marriage because they thought their god would seek retribution through calamities.