It's still not up to the private company to tell you that. In fact, disclosing those details might be a violation of their contract with their employer.

Ask the public office that hires and pays the team how often they are deployed and what for.

It's handy that modern filesystems are mostly copy-on-write anyway.

That's why 0 was skipped and they went straight from 1BC to 1.

Damnit! Messed up the tag.

[b]I think a much better way would be for companies to bid based on the value they bring to the end consumer public, with the company that promises the best value winning.[/b]

I believe Russia did something like this with their last spectrum auction. Companies received the spectrum for free (20 year lease or something) and made promises of certain quality of service and network capabilities in exchange.

Right up until you want a way to define API changes and continue to maintain back branches.

A rockstar programmer doesn't bang out a lot of code.

They pick the right algorithm which scales well (doesn't need to be rewritten), considers and handles most error cases cleanly (few bug reports), and often leaves easily maintainable code (another person can take over, doesn't require a support team).

Actually, they didn't. The benchmarking was done as the JSONB feature in Pg is brand new and they wanted to see how it stood up to the competition (being much much slower is a sign that something could be improved).

Being faster on a single node was a surprise.

That's almost exactly how it works with our quarter million dollar SANs.

They get paid to maintain the SAN and regularly visit to swap hardware bits or apply software patches to it.

Actually, I also stopped ordering anything from Windows computers years ago, because I couldn't trust them anymore either.

You just made yourself irrelevant to the conversation by showing just how different you are from the average consumer.

You don't need to break it up, just increase the tax rate a smidgen on large firms (revenue over $1B?). Call it "bailout insurance" and dump it into a non-profit government managed fund.

If companies have contributed, then they can make claims at roughly the same scale as they contributed (see government pension plans for a similar setup).

That is the airlines problem.

The more workarounds a person finds for not travelling (calls, emails, etc.) the less the cost to the ticket buying company; assuming they manage to keep productivity the same.

I assume the dues are tied to the estate of the person.

They're reclaiming it from the inheritance which should not have been passed down.

The largest diesel ship engines can kick out 80MW of power (100,000 hp) which is right in the middle of the marine nuclear range (40MW to 100MW is common).

The main benefit to nukes, as currently used on surface ships, is the size of the fuel tank.

Right. So 5 years from requiring a NoSQL DB, and hardware/software advancements in that period will likely give another 3 years of easy growth with just a basic Pg installation.

If it was 10m text/blob records per day, that would be a different animal; but it's probably 1/10th of that.