Not all of the UPSes need to be doing their test at the same time, just some of them. Mine, for example, tests every large handful of days (somethig like every two weeks). It's sufficient that a fraction will be doing their testing synchronized to a reasonably accurate clock and thus will be creating a load that is in lock-step, and have a detectable result.

When I was working for a startup in the early 2000s, we had our own servers. We were growing, so were adding servers at a pretty good clip. After one particular expansion, all of a sudden, Saturday night at 3 am, we blew breaker. No one had a good explanation, but the sysadmins were not happy about needing to go to the office in the middle of the night to fix things up.

A week later, the same thing happened. I suggested that it was the RAID check kickoff that might be doing it. And, indeed, it was. A couple of dozen servers all seeking their drives at once was too much for the circuits they were on. Staggering the startup time fixed it.

Coherence can be good, like when you're rowing crew, or bad, like when you have dozens of drives all drawing max power. Or, from the summary, gazoober UPS systems doing a battery check.

What you wrote is exactly true. But I would not use the word "cytotoxic", as it's too opaque. Instead, I'd suggest using "intentionally poisonous" to reach a larger audience. Chemotherapy kills cancer cells just a little faster than the patient. If given correctly, the cancer dies, while the patient can (somewhat) recover -- that's what non-specialists need to understand.

Let me clarify. Kids were waiting for buses in the dark. The reflective dots were being given out gratis by many businesses in order to make the kids more visible on the side of the road. Most kids in the US leave school by 3 PM. Itâ(TM)s not dark at 3 PM. If theyâ(TM)re leaving later than that, theyâ(TM)re getting picked up in a car. The only thing that has changed in 52 years is now we have a president who thinks you have to climb up the outside of a clock tower to move the hands on the clock twice a year. Stick to standard time year round.

US did year round DST for a year. It was a disaster. Kids walking into school buildings in the dark.
We would get free reflective dots at McD and other retailers to put on coats, shoes, bookbags.

Depends on the terms of their contract. If you believe the summary, then doing anything with the county's data other than serve it to them for the intended purpose is against the terms of their contract, which would make it actionable.

Zoom has turned into the app that wants to do everything.
Google Classroom is a rubber band ball of stuff tacked on to a bare bones concept of what happens in a classroom. It has a single instance, no beta, no backup. It does not allow exporting to a common format. It uses a single porthole view which cripples the ability to power rate lesson plans and differentiate in a useful manner. And it is made by an advertising and data capture company.

And the ROI is really, really impressive. Each dollar in the NIH budget gets returned as about 5 (depending on the study) in increased GDP. To my knowledge, there is no other billion-dollar scale investment that has consistent, long-term returns like that.

Congress knows this fact. They commissioned many of the studies showing it. It is difficult to believe the Executive Branch is not aware of it. If we really wanted to be America First, rather than reducing the NIH budget, we'd be promoting another run of annual increases with the intent of doubling that allocation in real dollars over the coming decade. Contact your congressional representatives today to advocate for the idea.

He was over-leveraged and didn't manage risk well. In other words, he was a terrible fund manager.

what did you say - I was scrolling

No, the worst part about ads is that they exist at all in a form that intentionally disrupts your attention.

That fundamental issue is then exacerbated by the current societal tolerance for lies, and you get intrusive advertisements that are deeply misleading.

So, why are you tolerating current advertising at all when there are tools that effectively eliminate it?

The assumption is that using your phone / infotainment system to search for, possibly purchase, and play a new release is an attention-demanding task that takes substantial time. The consensus above is that Spotify's UI, in particular, is poor, and thus requires extra interaction, and thus attention off the road, exacerbating the problem. We know that attending to a phone, even briefly, is mutually exclusive to attending to the road. That alone is an explanatory mechanism for the increase in fatalities.

But then we augment that supposition by the additional effects that new music is also a distraction, albeit much lower grade than operating a phone. It might be a lesser effect, but listening to a song or three is also expected to span longer time than interacting with a phone, so might have substantial cumulative impact.

An additional effect that I have not seen mentioned above is the expectation that the demographic listening to top releases is likely to skew younger, and thus contains drivers with less experience than the population. Less experienced drivers are at far greater risk of accidents of any sort, and are more sensitive to distraction.

And, as a parent of teenagers, the solution is clear to me: do not frelling use your phone when driving, period.

Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.

No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.

Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.

On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.

You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.

Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.

The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.