Not sure that makes sense in this context: "each operator improvising its own survival plan in isolation" is the essence of open source. Scratch your own itch. Do it without endless coordination and compromises with other people being required. Explain and share your solution. If others like it, they can use it. If not, they can improvise their own.

Hush now, trumpist, we've debated this to death in another story. You lost.

I think it's a great idea. It was a technically reasonable solution to sharing the costs of hosting and serving content when the web was small. It got run over by spam and trolls and warez eventually but we've learned a lot about content moderation and filtering in the last 25 years.

The main issue is that companies feel they can't monetize their own content if they have no way to control distribution servers, but that should not be a consideration for open source provided it's the kind of open source that is willing to be free to use by everyone.

And just like that.... we're reinventing Usenet.

So they should willingly contribute to the public good by wholly paying for not just the expansion they want themselves but also extra.

Many of them will eventually, by going out of business. That will cause demand destruction. In the meantime they are like the smelly neighbour who showed up at the party, and everyone just has to hold their nose.

The US Navy has been acting as pirates in international waters. That is a fact. People have been kidnapped, cities on the shore have been bombed, civilian ships have been threatened, damaged, and sunk, people have been murdered. What part of this isn't piracy?

And the comment wasn't unrelated to the thread: Bread and circuses. Roman Empire. Predatory behaviours. Every empire that runs low on resources inevitably thinks to plunder from the neighbours.

Perhaps lower the hyperbole intake. You're frothing at the mouth.

I don't give a fuck about the accounting, mate. I'm not American, I care about oil prices, and I blame the crazy foreign fatso for causing trouble.Rein him in.

Probably dump. Reality is biased towards the Liberals.

Indeed it is not. The source of Trump is the American People. But nobody wants to blame them.

Efficient extremely large storage capacity is a significant reason that SSDs are used. For example, if you need access to hundreds of petabytes, which is not unheard of in certain industries.

Performance is not the first concern. Likely you would want to have a separate gateway server with 1-2T that caches reads and writes to RAM, and optimizes infrequent accesses to the SSD itself. Remember, if you expect to update a single 64Kb file on a large capacity SSD, then you're doing it wrong.

Those guys pay tariffs (or used to, who knows)

Well, they're pirates. That's why they sail the high seas looking for bread baked in oil and tariffs.

Anyone an Amazon affiliate? Now would be a good time to post a link to the Mythical Man-Month :)