petergrace

Yes, I could ping your phone if there wasn't a firewall blocking it between you and me.

But having 1-2 cashiers is only the norm now because of self checkout. Prior to self checkout there used to be nearly all lanes staffed at our local grocery and wait times to checkout were low.

Yep, had four dead ash cut down last year and a whopping 22 dead ash cut down a few weeks ago. The grub form of the ash borer can be found in the firewood rounds.

These results seem inconsistent with the current understanding that the majority of the sugar in honey comes from fructose, and as such can be very damaging to the liver (fructose is a major contributing factor for 'fatty liver disease.') 'Use in moderation' is a fine cover-your-butt, but how many people do you know who consume anything in moderation, especially in the USA?

Excellent points! You're quite right that there are a lot more things we could do to improve the high availability in the Stack Exchange environment. Unfortunately, I was hired well after the environment was designed so any suggested changes would need to not only pass the rigors of review by the team but also be able to handle the load that stackoverflow.com generates. Changing pieces at this point would be nontrivial and difficult to get approval on if it meant that we'd affect performance of our main property.

That being said, I'm 100% in agreement with you that the two options you supplied would be wonderful additions to our environment.

This is a really good point and I appreciate your viewpoint, but just because I wrote the article for/about stack exchange it doesn't preclude me from having done it differently at a prior employer.