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Offsite to.. where? Sea? Data residency in Gulf states is very strict and basically nothing is leaving the countries

A datacenter not owned/run by a major US or Israeli company seems like it might be a good first step.

Do you think they could ask for a backup

Typically 300 miles geographically but could be hard in some Gulf States

In a Gulf State 300 miles is still within ballistic missile range and any belligerent is going to target both places if at all.

Strictly speaking from a missile defense perspective there's an argument 2 sites are a waste of valuable interceptors.


They're likely going to target two datacenters, not the datacenters + your medium sized company's office NAS and the safe in the office manager's home.

(Encryption handles confidentiality concerns.)


> (Encryption handles confidentiality concerns.)

Which is why data residency is such a stupid concept.


Yes and no. For example if you are doing Azure, technically Azure can see tenant traffic I believe and you need to use both a Platform Key and CMK for data rest. VMs need encryption at host turned on too.

There is nothing to say that a determined adversary may still get at your data so it needs to stay in country.


Yeah same with AWS - they say they can't see my custom KMS key but... this stuff all lives on their servers, not on my servers. AWS definitely have the ability to see my KMS keys and decrypt my data but I assume that they won't unless a judge tells them to.

Non-aligned movement 2: electric boogaloo

They're very clearly aligned

Not really with the US anymore.

Anyway, I think you missed this reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement


Does it really count as non-aligned if the observer states are very much aligned?

The point was non alignment with the two superpowers.

Both Russia and China are observer states within the non-aligned movement.

I'm pretty sure that is a more recent development, and that at least the Soviet Union and China weren't observers during the cold war. (But I haven't looked it up.)

There are over 30 US military bases in EU member states, so I would classify that as alignment with the US.

> There are over 30 US military bases in EU member states

As of today, with current affairs and the unpredictable element in chief, you may never know how long.


I agree that if EU states start kicking out the US military, that would be compelling evidence of an actual shift in alignment.

There is shift in alignment, even if the source is different. A popular headline from earlier this year was "US pulling 5000 troops from Germany"[1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-adm...


Not sure if I'm surprised negatively or positively by the fact. My apartment (Germany) was built in 2017 and coax in every room was the choice planners made :_)


Collusion between Virgin and other companies and the developers. Just plain old corruption and ineptitude. Our 2019 new build apartment had coax too, which resulted in some really crap internet that was expensive.


Because back then cable TV was a common inclusion in apartments that could be unilaterally be added to "Nebenkosten" and was therefor sold to landlords as such a nice benefit by cable providers.


My cable cost $25 and offered 200mbps — 8 years ago. So it wasn't that bad of a deal. 400mbps was possible.


I know it was common, and it's sad state of things if cable is a common thing in frickin' 2017


It's back


Oh I hadn't noticed, but youre right!


Clear attack on workers' rights in Europe. Hope Tesla suffers in Germany the same way Walmart did


You seem braggy too much


Eh, the more details they’re willing to reveal the better. It’s probably their reality.


Düsselsorf is actually Japanese expats/migrants hotspot in Germany. Had great Japanese foos there on multiple occasions


Highest japanese population outside of Japan IIRC.


Düsseldorf, Germany, is home to Europe’s third-largest Japanese community [1] after London and Paris, featuring roughly 15,000 Japanese residents and hundreds of businesses.

Brazil has the largest ethnic Japanese population outside of Japan, with an estimated 2 million people of Japanese descent. Most of these individuals live in the state and city of São Paulo, which features the famous Japanese neighborhood of Liberdade [2][3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_community_of_Düsseldo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberdade_%28district_of_São_P...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora


And MacOS is Unix on Macs?


> it's basically impossible for the JR Pass to be more affordable than single tickets

Not true. It really depends on your use case and blanket statements like this aren't helpful. Yes, the pass has doubled in price since few years ago but it still does make sense in many cases, especially in multi-week multi-city Japan trips


From what I calculated, you need to use the Shinkansen every day and for long distances which is not how many tourists spend time in Japan IME.

This is not a blanket statement as my first sentence is recommending people to make calculations based on their planned trip.


What is long distance in Japan? A day trip from Kyoto to Hiroshima and back? Fukuoka to Kumamoto and back? Tokyo to Nagano and back? Osaka to Kanazawa and back? Tokyo to Nara and back

These are all "long" but really not that time-long distances. Shinkansen and regional trains work pretty well for these. And yes, a lot of tourists move between the cities quite often, even some metros accept the JR pass.

I was there twice in last 3 years and for our calculation it took 5-6 return shinkansen trips to justify new jr pass price (2 weeks jr pass). And let me tell you shinkansen are experience on their own so there was no lack of will to find daytrips using them


Most people I know do not travel Tokyo - Nara and back. They enjoy taking more time in a place while keeping the door open to day trips of course. If you spend more than 1 night in each place and want to do small distances (think Fukuoka to Hiroshima) it really is impossible for it to become a bargain.

Again that's my POV, but since the price hike I've never met someone who got a good deal with the JR Pass.


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