I mean self repair without renting proprietary equipment, having to soften glue with heat, etc. I used to be able to swap batteries in seconds without tools. Some laptops could do it without shutting down.
The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft.
Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)
For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.
Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.
The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.
I thought so, too. I randomly found this on Reddit and it struck a chord with me, especially as an urban dweller that absolutely despises litter and litterers.
Huh? I don't think that's true, there usually is some sort of structural elements inside of the package, meant to be thrown away (usually made with cardboard/paper), and all Ikea boxes definitively have lots of air inside of them, not sure what would make you say otherwise, unless it's some joke I'm missing?
A box that contained a fully assembled kitchen table would contain a lot more air. I think that comment just meant IKEA designs items that can be packaged into a minimal volume.
Ah yes, on second reading it's actually pretty obvious that is what parent meant and I was reading it too literally. Thanks for the clarification, that's certainly correct :)
They do back a lot of companies. Is there any evidence that they are pushing unethical or illegal business practices on their portfolio companies at a rate higher than non-YC start ups?
They don’t have to say anything. The market speaks for itself: do illegal stuff, don’t get caught, capture enough market share of whatever it is you are pursuing, and you will be rewarded handsomely by investors. The name of the game is capital return at whatever cost necessary. We will be living through the repercussions of this system for decades
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