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		andresmh on Dec 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. Th... How is this different from, say, a coffee shop saying "sorry, we're closed because the electricity went out"?

robmurrer on Dec 29, 2012 [–]

I guess the difference would be that there is usually only one electric company that can supply you with power.

saurik on Dec 30, 2012 | [–]

A coffee shop has very little equipment, and what they have tends to be isolated from other utilities (such as gas): they could easily run their shop off a generator (mate even a battery for a short time).

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