note though it is not 100% AWS, ex they use Akamai instead of cloudfront

Interesting note on WW2 expenditures, the B-29 Superfortress actually cost more than the Manhattan project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress

"Including design and production, at over $3 billion it was the single most expensive weapons project undertaken by the United States in World War II, exceeding the cost of the Manhattan Project by between $1 and 1.7 billion"

I'm curious about how that happened, honestly. Was there a "second-system effect" that settled in after the B-17?

mid missouri US sample size;

gregs-Air:~ greg$ ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=51.035 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=52.024 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=52.945 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=77.263 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=53.427 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=57.311 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=192.017 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=55 time=174.206 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=55 time=142.224 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=55 time=288.815 ms ^C --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 51.035/114.127/288.815/77.996 ms gregs-Air:~ greg$ curl ifconfig.co 174.125.4.196 gregs-Air:~ greg$

in terms of efficiency not for the foreseeable future. hydrocarbons are essentially condensed solar power. when will it become more economically efficient to move and assemble all the materials for a solar panel vs extracting hydrocarbon stored energy (sapiens living in poverty can't care about the environment of tomorrow if they are struggling to thrive today, admittedly this is my global view)

Now ish

it seems like most of the pro https arguments are asserting the right to anonymous public patent inspection. it is fundamentally impossible for the uspto to provide this access* (free speech traps ahead). if you don't want data about access patterns tracked the burden is on the consumer not the provider for public resources

*https://thestack.com/security/2017/04/12/netflix-found-to-le...

Never mind that HTTP can easily be man in the middled and tampered with and I have no way to ensure I am communicating to who I think I am.