I think the question is: If I have a 1000 packets and I lose 10 is the packet loss spread out of is it clustered? If it's clustered you'll have to retransmit anyway.
When you are trading at a P:E ratio of 50 you are expecting some phenomenal growth and at LinkedIn's size that growth is pretty hard to get. Scaling it back to 25 seems pretty damned reasonable honestly.
Eh, it's a different beast. Oliver only has to do one show a week and he has an hour. He doesn't want to just be John Stewart's show but with swearing. Doing this every night would be tiring for the audience. Doing it once a week saying, "hey here's this one fucked up thing in our society" is a digestible form.
To put it another way one is comedy news, the other is a comedy news magazine.
I have to give the CS rep some credit as he does seem to be trying to make things better. It's more response than a lot of manufacturers would have given.
I can't imagine the scope of a project that would move water 1500 miles over a mountain range. From the Missouri valley to western Kansas is a 3000 ft elevation change. You are literally trying to get water to flow uphill.
There are fairly basic steps to prevent HIV or Hep C. The worry has been if Ebola really gets loose and how quickly that could utterly fuck the world up.
I think the other side of the problem though is that if you can still get 100X performance from what we have today, but it costs 100X in power, you will still have a problem where few can really use it. Consider phones as one data point. Even quadrupling the power draw will make the chips unsuitable for use.