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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by tomjen3 on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:59AM (#11612545)
Shouldn't Twillio, digital ocean and one small bespoke node app be able to do it?
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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by pjc50 on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:07PM (#11614491)
It's not about what needs to be done, it's about finding reliable people to do it, especially when there's all sorts of opportunities for people to funnel it to a "preferred bidder".
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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by kuschku on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:44PM (#11614244)
If half of them would work outside of the US, people would already be happy. DO’s usability goes down a lot if you don’t have a credit card (you literally pay to be able to pay), and Twilio is quite similar.
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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by hodwik2 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:23PM (#11625724)
The government was immensely paranoid about it, insisting it had to run on site, and be completely configurable by their tech staff, who were not themselves engineers.
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