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Re:Cloudflare was down by Jasper_ on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:24PM (#23875788)
The point of the status page is so you can point to it for your five nines SLA and go "look? we were only down for one hour". As soon as the money relies on the metric, the metric will reflect the money.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by mjlawson on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:35PM (#23876012)
Goodhart's Law[1] in action.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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Re:Cloudflare was down by post-it on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:26PM (#23878115)
I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?
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Re:Cloudflare was down by Jasper_ on Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:28AM (#23878933)
It's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
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Re:Cloudflare was down by therealdrag0 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:11AM (#23878835)
Ya I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .
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Re:Cloudflare was down by zetalemur on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:22PM (#23877685)
That's a good one, did not know that. Interesting read.
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