I develop on a Lenovo laptop, which ( only ) has an SSD. Anytime I get something done I consider of "historic importance" ( which may simply be simply be a file added to a project, a new method added to a class, an enum having gotten a new value, an interface's signature changed ) I do a commit to version control, with a relevant comment. Version control lives on a server with spinning disks ( RAID-5 ). That server "backs up" to another server - with spinning disks - by rsync, once per hour. THAT server gets backed up once a week.

The build server uses two SSDs in RAID-0, and gets its input from the version control server.

So my single point of failure is the VC server's RAID controller.... Yes, it would be better to have that RAID-5 array mirrored, by RAID-1. to another RAID-5 array. It would take an entirely new server to realize that, sadly enough. I still have to come up with a better idea, though. Not being dependent, in any way, on SSDs for business continuity is already an achievement in and by itself. Or so I believe.

It boils down to

1) not being dependent upon SSDs

2)Moving dependency upon SSDs away to dependency upon other hardware, namely RAID controllers....

No, it isn't. I like flat- or small-chested women. The only US-American girlfriend I ever had, was as flat-chested as Kansas' plains, and she was smokin' hot. Morale of this tale: flat is beautiful; the universe being flat, it is beautiful.

You seem to be the victim of a rather common confusion. Only within spacetime, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But there is no known law of nature prohibiting the expansion of spacetime itself at any imaginable speed. To such expansions of spacetime, the speed of light is meaningless. This is even the basic principle behind the Alcubierre Drive.

Let us build dykes in the void outside the universe, and polder in some more vacuum !

I spent the last hour thinking up applications for this stuff. Nearly all of them are bad for humans in the long run, both for individuals and society.

I'm going to re-watch that movie with renewed interest :-)

Agreed. For having walked from Amsterdam to Rome ( in 82 days, in winter ), I know how valuable a bottle of whiskey or schnapps can be. Especially when roughing it in, say, the Apennines in a cold night.

...and probably chock-full of bugs. On casually browsing through the source code, I found - and posted - a probable issue with the implementation of the Container state-machine. Does not really inspire confidence.

So. I already feel like a relic from olden times in my Saab with its turbo engine. One more reason to go against the societal current and keep it in top form.

The US state itself is a disastrously over-budget, over-deadline undertaking with the alleged goal to reach so-called "equal rights" for all. You hear nobody about that one.

for one particular, favourite whore ? Or for a BMW Z-3 ?

...to engender any kids ? I could start today, they'd be able to proudly claim to have been engendered on AFD . Now THAT is a claim to glory...

If yours truly and another law-abiding citizen encrypt communication, how is that going to hamper counter-terrorist work ? I pay my tax, he pays his tax, and the worst we do is getting drunk in his or my home on saturday evening, or screwing the occasional whore. Could it that Europol has been touched by the arrogance that comes from wielding too much unchecked, or at least badly checked, power for too long ?

True. I don't outsource any risk. Did you ever read "The Orange Book", on risk management ? It is a British government document, and considered rather as a classic on the topic. The TL;DR version: you only outsource risks if and when there are no new risks attached to the act of outsourcing itself. In my case, I consider there would be such extra risk: Amazon is a corporation I can't control, and it can change its policies any time. ( Please do note I do not even mention the NSA and the US state. There certainly is risk there, but I have no way of quantifying it. ) Moreover, once my data is with Amazon, getting it away from there ( if I ever want to do that ) becomes a guarantee for severe headaches, and in that case I would end up building my own cloud anyway.