That's kind of a weird ops story, since SRE 101 for oncall is to not rely on the system you're oncall for to resolve outages in it. This means if you're oncall for communications of some kind, you must have some other independent means of reaching eachother (even if it's a competitor phone network)
That is heavily contingent on the assumption that the dependencies between services are well documented and understood by the people building the systems.
Rogers is perhaps best described as a confederacy of independent acquisitions. In working with their sales team, I have had to tell them where there facilities are as the sales engineers don't always know about all of the assets that Rogers owns.
There's also the insistence that Rogers employees should use Rogers services. Paying for every Rogers employee to have Bell cell phone would not sit well with their executives.
That the risk assessments of the changes being made to the router configuration were incorrect also contributed to the outage.
When interest rates were particularly low years ago, we saw a large number of companies issuing bonds and then using the money to just do stock buybacks.
Yeah, like the restaurant can say “no” to giving a discount, they can say “no” to people wanting their food to get delivered now. It’s just that now it’ll be a bad business decision probably.
Everything is possible. And every choice has its own set of tradeoffs. But no, there’s no time machine to the pre-Doordash world now.
While it's true that preventing cancer means you're likely to die in a few years of heart disease, and preventing heart disease means you're likely to die in a few years of cancer, solving both will add dramatically more than both effects combined to both life and healthspan.
Those really are the big two - as the graphs in the article show, the next biggest things are much smaller and much less likely to get you, which means you live a lot longer and healthier.
> I’ve had this account for over 20 years and never had any issues before.
"Aged" accounts are a thing you can buy on the black market, as well as hacked accounts of users with long chains of legitimate activity. It's not as strong of an anti-fraud signal as you might think.
Yes but so what? All that proves is the account is aged. It doesn't prove it's not been taken over or sold. People move pretty regularly or order things for friends/family, a change of address doesn't mean anything.
Compare: "I still get spam, therefore all these anti-spam measures are worthless"
It is absolutely the case that there would be more cheating if we turned off the only partially effective systems. We know this because they are regularly stopping and banning people!
It varies. People are often thinner in their twenties than their thirties and forties. If you browse some before and after pictures the ones who have had their skin tighten tend to look younger for that reason alone.
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