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Not only would there be significant downtime of major internet services, but lots of people would die as well!
by waynecochran 11y ago
Not only would there be significant downtime of major internet services, but lots of people would die as well!
- qq66 11y agoDowntime of major internet services could also cause deaths elsewhere, as more industries become reliant on cloud services. I could imagine hospitals losing access to health records, emergency responders losing access to mapping or route planning software, people losing access to Uber and not being able to get to the hospital because the taxi companies have gone out of business. Of course all this stuff is supposed to have clean failover, but not all of it has had its mettle tested.
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- zecho 11y agoMan. In times like these—the northwest falling into the ocean or whatever—it's unimaginable to think about the sheer amount of data loss that could occur. I'd probably be really worried about that loss of data or, worse, the loss of services if millions of people suddenly died.
- myth_buster 11y agoIsn't it the case that there is replication across data centers which are geologically spread apart?
- deegles 11y agoOnly if you had the foresight to set that up.
- hdunlop 11y agolike Uber, but for once-in-an-epoch natural disasters
- h_dunlop 11y agolike Uber, but for once-in-an-epoch natural disasters
- JPKab 11y agoThat would be absolutely horrific, a loss that I can't even comprehend. The loss of life would be sad too. /s
- Locke1689 11y agoWell, I live here, so, yeah. I think the people who live here understand we're screwed, the point is what the larger effect will be.
- markonthewall 11y agoI believe the parent comment was referring to the numerous hospitals or other critical services who rely on these infrastructures.
- jodrellblank 11y agoIt's almost like you didn't read the article.
- waynecochran 11y agoI read the whole thing in gripping detail with Mt St Helens out my office window... I was imagining the horror of not being able to blog about my death as the Tsunami was approaching...
- prawn 11y agoI think the human toll goes without saying (well, until you said it). The technical impact is naturally of interest specifically to HN readers.
- jodrellblank 11y agoThen you'll realise the human impact was mentioned repeatedly in the article - population in the affected regions, elderly people, school children, estimated death counts by different organizations. That was one main focus of the article - how many people such an event would kill. Why is it necessary to prefix/suffix a comment on the article, with an "of course, people will die and that's obviously bad, we don't want people to die, is this enough mentioning of the people dying that we can say something else without you passive aggressively implying I don't care about the people dying?"
- waynecochran 11y ago
- cko 11y agoReminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edl0l3VaIks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edl0l3VaIks