Sorry for the tangent, but I followed the thread, and something that confused me was this:
> Power outages, well there's not much you can do about that, again I don't know where you live, but those are pretty rare where I am. Maybe once a year for a few hours.
Once a year, a few hours. That’s not pretty rare, that’s close to frequent. I’ve had two outages in 17 years, only one of those was longer than a few minutes.
99.95% uptime is a few hours a year of downtime. Some people lose power almost daily. The thing about exponential / logarithmic distributions is your sense of what is frequent or rare is quite arbitrary and based on your own experiences which are rarely all that representative.
When I lived on country roads miles out of town power outages happened many times a year, occasionally for days. Some I’ve lived in big buildings with buried power lines I’ve never had an outage in years. People in developing economies in some places only have occasional electricity. Is quite hard to say which one is normal.
> Power outages, well there's not much you can do about that, again I don't know where you live, but those are pretty rare where I am. Maybe once a year for a few hours.
Once a year, a few hours. That’s not pretty rare, that’s close to frequent. I’ve had two outages in 17 years, only one of those was longer than a few minutes.