Yes. It depends on the customer rapport, polish of the product and elasticity of demand for the solution (how much pain they have and how much pain it alleviates). Some conservative enterprises avoid new products unless they're very expensive, while others try anything without any real intent and still others will throw down money right now to hope you can build something good fast enough. :D
Btw, correct me if I'm wrong regarding extendable output hash functions: Keccak instances of SHAKE are XOF, which allow varying lengths of output hashes rather than fixed-sized output of the predefined SHA3 instances?
Having deployed a dozen or so JIRA instances: it usually comes down to tuning and hardware selection. JIRA can be fast, but admins usually don't pay enough attention to better configuration.
Correct, weakness always invites aggression. It's human nature. "If you want peace, prepare (as Smedley Butler would: defensively only) for war." The problem is the US' neocolonial, corrupt MIC's blood lies in endless, fruitless war adventures that cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives. And worse, what happens in these wars adventures, like the Roman Empire, is eventually brought home: mass surveillance, drones, perpetual para/militarized occupation forces and so on.
Thread B.
"Democracy" has more than two meanings.
0. Policy debated and made freely and clearly by common-people's interests.
1. Some people take it to mean unlimited freedom, as in anarchy.
2. In international politics, it's usually a dog-whistle for whatever America "suggests" other countries should do.
I can't recommend Chris Hedge's latest book, America: The Farewell Tour highly enough to connect the dots as to why things seem so fucked up and why they're likely to get worse before they get better.
Terms like "democracy" and "peace process" have different meanings: one to you-and-I, and another to the diplomacy corps. To diplomats, these terms usually mean "whatever America wants" because it has, traditionally, had the global, neocolonial power to tell most other countries, in many (but not all) contexts, what to do in the international order. When news reports mention these "dog-whistle" or vague terms, consider that they have alternate meanings that aren't made clear by most journalists.
Hmm: looking at 19th century shops where only merchants picked products to self-checkout today, that seems like the trend. Everyone will end up doing everything themselves.
Not everyone qualifies for SS because either they didn't pay in long or enough. There's thousands of people working well into their 70's and 80's in menial jobs because SS doesn't cover their living expenses. For example, I'm worried about my mom because her finances are dwindling.