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Sounds good until you try to run a business. Having businesses randomly out of commission is not a way to bring country from developing to developed status.
by badpun 11mo ago
Sounds good until you try to run a business. Having businesses randomly out of commission is not a way to bring country from developing to developed status.
- o11c 11mo agoBetter make sure they don't depend on AWS, then.
- jchanimal 11mo agoIf that’s your first thought, then you’ll hate this influential perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
- epistasis 11mo agoEven if you have an under-provisioned solar+storage solution and don't want to splurge for a generator, even on cloudy days you still get power, just less. Generally businesses are really great at balancing costs, and for highly-cost-constrained businesses if you give them 95% uptime at half the cost, the equation becomes clear. And in Africa, if the option is 95% uptime or 0% uptime, the choice is even clearer.