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Slope has been increasing in popularity quite a bit lately, and this has strained our servers. This morning, we initiated a process to substantially increase our capacity. If the site is down at any point this morning, it’s just a symptom of the migration. Not to worry – – the black helicopter squad hasn’t taken us down. It’ll be back to normal soon.
Only a government employee could point to a 99.5% failure rate and declare it a success.
Look no farther than my local newspaper this morning: the city of Menlo Park (which is an affluent superb like Palo Alto, but even whiter and more sheltered) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment to read the license plates of all the cars passing by certain intersections. (We’ll set aside the creepiness of the surveillance and just focus on the economics here.)
