I don't know who the engineer was that designed it 1100MW, but they really should loose their job for not getting an extra 110MW from somewhere.

That is a straw man argument.

There are certainly many competitors for Dynamo DB that can work in AWS and also other providers.That is the customer's choice to use those products and decide to tie themselves to AWS. Most AWS products are based on open source products and moving elsewhere would be no problem. For instance, they have been pushing AWS Aurora hard in the past couple of years. This product is a repackaged Postgres or MySQL. Any program that uses Postgres will natively work on Aurora. What they are selling is the management package of that DB instance including al kinds of tools to make the DB super scalable. If you want to move your system to another cloud provider, you can with no problem, but you lose their value adds to system management.

AWS does charge to move data put, but not to move data in, that is true, but the rates are not more than you would have paid your own ISP to move data in and then out.

I've been using a few cloud infrastructure companies for many years. AWS since 2009. I can assure you this is a fallacy. There is plenty of competition in the space, and in all this time, I've never felt a "squeeze". I have only found that all services get cheaper and easier every year.

If you put all your eggs in one basket, that is purely from your own bad planning, and it is no different if you roll your own; It just costs more. If you roll your own, you are still the ISP's bitch, or the Hardware manufacture of your equipment you use. You just have much less bargaining power to get a fix than a huge cloud provider like AWS or Google.

I'm not sure it is fair to say "the cloud" doesn't offer a certain reliability. AWS in itself has multiple regions and availability zones to combat this very problem. You can also spread redundancy to other cloud providers to further mitigate risk. Nothing is perfect, but with the proper infrastructure planning, the cloud can provide great reliability. We use AWS's geo-redundancy capabilities, and even though our services are primarily in the region that has been having problems, we have had no downtime. It's all down to a little planning.

There are a few services in AWS that are only in one region. This region is where services that are "Global" is located. Some companies rely on those services, and so they are not redundant, but that is an infrastructure design choice by those companies, not a feature of "the cloud".

I will also note that if you build your own data center to host these services, you would also be prey to such outages. "The cloud" gives you opportunity to build geo-redundancy at a fraction of the cost.

Perhaps a Marine "launch" pad could guarantee a safe zone for launch?

I'm not a Physicist, but I would wonder if the system could have been normal, but at some point a massive object, like a brown dwarf or something could have passed through the system and bent the orbit of the 2 outer planets and possibly kick other planets out of the system all together.

Apple's algorithm does nto check for filesize or dimensions. It specifically works with resized or cropped images. It doesn't even use the image itself, but hashes generated from content in the image.

Don't embarrass yourself anonymous coward. He is absolutely right. The Universal part matters to this experiment.

If one is given some amount of money, but only if they are below a income amount, then they will be disincentivized to work, because working could move their income so that they won't get the stipend and could in fact have less money over all. This invalidates any conclusions you can draw about "do people still work if they are given UBI".

If you pay for staying below a certain income, then they will have economic pressure to eith stay below the line, or so so much better that they go well past the low income plus the stipend.

I will give you that you are right that you can learn something, it's just not going to be about UBI.

Life in "Jeff Bezos and 5 other guys get all the money" America isn't that great for most people either.

Maybe 80 hours a week of grind to barely make ends meet isn't fun either. Some people might be ok trying something else.

I guess that's a good point about Urban. That's not an environment I'm familiar with.

The basement is not as good either because there is not very much in the way of Solar there. I live in the suburbs, no grocery store has a basement there, so reconstruct would have to happen either way. It would be cheaper to build extra support for a second floor than to dig for a basement. That said, there isn't much reason why they couldn't shift their product into modules rather than a Container, then you could split the solar and growth modules apart. Put solar on the roof (or some other alternate power) and put the grow modules where ever is convenient for a particular build. A container really only makes sense for "a few out back" or on the roof.

What about the roof of a grocery store?

Yes and no. The VPN service has to have an IP of the remote site, and the IP of the requestor, but the OP was suggesting a method that those 2 are not connected directly in the VPN. It is suggesting a middle layer within the VPN that anonymizes the connection between the two outside parties.

That's not exactly true. VPNs or Proxies both invalidate your assumption. Each computer only needs to know the address of an intermediary.

What about Motorcycle helmets?

Car Bumpers?

Sound Dampening panels?

Perhaps "Tanks" aren't the only use for armor.

Consider Bomb Squad armor. This could lend some safety from a bomb blast, or an IDE hitting a Hummer in the field.