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That's making the incorrect assumption that all 900TB is hosted by the CDN... you typically only have a fraction of your content, known as your working set, in the CDN's working cache.

So you should factor in the bandwidth cost for CDN traffic AND origin pulls, which if you're serving from AWS (and not using CloudFront), is $0.08/GB.

The size of your working set also influences your overall CDN bill. Storage isn't free.

(A little off-topic but...)

In the last 5 years or such, that lax attitude towards IDs has changed.

Police departments in large cities, are asking bar owners to use the ID "verification" machines to check IDs at the door. And in some cases, that ask is making its way into the state's alcohol control departments' policies.

> http://www.idscanner.com/legal/new-york-id-scanner-law-affir...

I put verification in quotes, because while these machines verify the data on your ID, what they actually do is record the magstripe data for later downloading.

That data can then be downloaded by for CRM purposes, or likely by your PD after a crime, to gain a list of potential suspects and/or witnesses.

I think this is fantastic engineering work towards performance, without falling back on the "RAM is cheap" line and instead doing nothing.

It's not every day that you see an example of someone examining and improving old code, that will result in a measurable benefit to direct and indirect users.

It wouldn't continue uninterrupted forever.

Those power exports are paid for in currency denominated by the US dollar.

California is no longer part of the US, remember?

Each of those states would have to negotiate with the new Republic to receive something in equal worth to the power they were delivering.

And if they don't get it, they're not going to give away power for free. Their governments won't let them, their constituents won't let them, their budgets won't let them, and lastly, the FERC won't let them.

Not just the economy.

You'd also need high level US military leaders to go insubordinate, voluntarily ignore their chain of command, and "donate" the assets of the US armed services to the Republic of California.

Texas is the only state that could probably put up a fight, but it'd be very ugly and very bloody.

Secession almost always equals war.

I think the folks advocating for secession trivialize the fact that the end result is armed conflict and not knowing which side your neighbor is on.

And Brexit is not precedent whatsoever -- Britain can exit from the EU because there was no large amount of shared military/defense assets based within the UK, and the EU is primarily an economic cooperation effort.

That's not quite how routing works -- null routing the attackers affects RETURN traffic to the attackers. By then, the damage is done, the target host is already overwhelmed with attack traffic.

Federal funds for license plate readers are granted on the basis of data sharing.

https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ALPR/new-jersey/alprpra...

See the 2nd page, 2nd to last bullet point.

From driving around Texas which uses concrete for a lot of highway development, I can tell you the exaggerated road noise doesn't help.

We carry the PSTN over the Internet over private IP networks that interconnect with each other over the PSTN.

I know, it's nitpicking.