Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It's more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser's functionality.
nyan
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If the storage all belongs to one machine, yes. If it's spread across multiple machines with similar setups that share a LAN, then you need to put in a little thought to make sure that there's only one copy for all machines, but it's still doable.
In this case, we're talking millions of machines with different owners, OSs, network security setups, etc. that are only connected across the Internet. The logistics are enough to make a hardened sysadmin blanch.
If you assume that Scotiabank was supposed to have 18%, then I think it pretty much works out.
He's obviously spending too much time on internal narration to want to talk to anyone else. 😜
If the data has value, then yes, duplication is a good thing up to a point. The thesis is that only 10% of the data has value, though, and therefore duplicating the other 90% is a waste of resources.
The real problem is figuring out which 10% of the data has value, which may be more obvious in some cases than others.
Can you power it off from the command line without SSH? You may have a hardware problem that's keeping the board from responding to soft poweroff at all.
Provided the machine isn't writing to disk or holding unwritten data in a disk cache at the moment you press the button, you're unlikely to damage anything with a hard poweroff.
If your requirements deviate in any way from the common use cases envisioned by the designer, you will spend more time wrestling "it just works" into doing what you want than you would have spent on the setup of "flexible, but requires a little setup".
There are alternative sources for these . . . but the US has pissed all of those countries off too.
Massive deduplication across all accounts on all servers of image, audio, and video data would theoretically be possible, but ain't gonna happen. Or we could just discourage people from posting cat videos and bad memes (even less likely to happen).
Sturgeon's Law in action again.
'Tain't your money, dude—you didn't actually pay a cent into this, and I'm sure there's a clause in whatever fine print you signed that says they can freeze or close your account for any or no reason. Never count on loyalty bonus programs. Not only can your account vanish without warning, but so can the entire program (if the company files for bankruptcy, for example).
Cash out early and often.
You're assuming they'll ever release you.