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traskjd on Feb 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Reminds me of an old joke: Why do we host on AWS? Because if it goes down then our customers are so busy worried about themselves being down that they don't even notice that we're down!

nabla9 on Feb 28, 2017 [–]

Reminds me of an even older joke (from 80's or 90's):

Q: Why computers don't crash at the same time?

A: Because network connections are not fast enough.

(I think we are starting to get there)

contingencies on March 1, 2017 | [–]

These are both pretty good. Added to color fortune clone https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

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