boingeh

Don't you find it kind of depressing how little the world was actually moved by the revelations? I do. For a few days at a time it was the biggest news story ever but barely anything has changed and people are still using Google, Apple et al. in the same ways. The news in general is just so transient, watching the documentary just brought it all back. It felt like it might actually amount to something but as far as I can tell, even with the courts recently ruling that GCHQs actions were illegal for many years and NSAs whole program amounting to nothing, no significant legislation has passed and for all we know they are still rapidly expanding their programs.

Why do you guys run your own datacenters rather than use say AWS like netflix do? I get that you probably get a better deal per GB but don't you incur more costs because you aren't as flexible, not only do more people watch at peak times but viewership can be extremely erratic, one weekend you could have triple your regular concurrents due to a big tournament.