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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by pm90 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:24PM (#13756930)
Well what if you'd hosted it on your hard drive and it crashed? It seems like the probability of either is similar nowadays.
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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by jacobwg on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:51PM (#13757210)
The difference there is you can potentially do something about it, vs having to wait on an upstream provider to fix an issue for everybody.
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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by btgeekboy on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:42PM (#13760495)
"you can potentially do something about it" vs. "you have to do something about it"

Perspective is everything.

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by JupiterMoon on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:54PM (#13758402)
Grab different machine, git clone your repo, good to go.

What's the odds of the server with your repo and your own hard drive crashing at the same time?

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by _ao789 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:19PM (#13758699)
Strangely, your comment made me read this entire post about working out probabilities.. http://www.statisticshowto.com/how-to-find-the-probability-o...

Quite interesting really!

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by JupiterMoon on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:48PM (#13778050)
If we assume that the events are largely uncorrelated+ then we are multiplying the probabilities and our chance of wipe out are far lower.

+I would suggest that for situations where the probability of my machine and github's/bitbucket's servers being down due to the same event would be events of such magnitude that I would not be worried about my project anymore being more focused on basic survival...

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