Are you one of the guys who doesn't wear a seat belt due to 1 in a million chance that it might actually not help you?

15-35 kmph for recreational usage. It's sprinting speeds for people who walk.

When you get side-swept by a car you're going to fall. Getting rammed from the side or behind is not the only collision scenario, and getting side-swept seems like an extremely more likely scenario in London out of all places, where traffic in general is slow.

This is sarcasm, right?

Not sarcasm. If a car isn't beside you they can't side swipe you. You are aware that London basically doesn't have multi lane roads, right?

Why would I be aware of that? A quick Google Maps search shows some multi lane roads.

Because this is a discussion about a London company. If you don't understand the context, you should at least be prepared to learn.

A quick Google Maps search shows some multi lane roads. Do you have a good way for me to learn more?

There is a HUGE difference between NOT REQUIRING helmets and PROHIBITING helmets.

I'm not familiar with [location redacted], but in Poland you need to prove your work history and education to calculate how much time off you get (e.g. if you have a degree and 2 years of work history, you get 26 days of PTO a year, otherwise you get 20 days).

It seems like such a minor thing that you could get it clarified by calling them instead of posting on HN.

I want to work in Poland now

Why would you take your best engineers and then give them a completely unrelated job which is going to be a huge time sink? It's something that is done, but should it?

Single family in suburbs?

I trust in Azure much more than solutions like that. I'd imagine most of their customers do too.

Then we are back to the starting point. If you are already trusting Azure what's exactly the threat model the encryption is supposed to protect against?

I see two: someone physically stealing the storage devices, or Microsoft disposing of the storage devices without destroying them first.

Which both mean that you cannot really trust Azure. Although the latter is an easy mistake to make for hosting providers and thus indeed a valid threat model.

The theft scenario is exactly the reason why you wouldn't want to trust Azure to do the encryption for you, since they can just extract the plain text data from the virtual machine. Unless you are saying you don't trust Azure datacenter techs only?

And for preventing the leakage from old storage devices very non-fancy and simplistic encryption setups are good enough (most of the complexity comes from trying to prevent/detect MITM or manipulation by the hosting provider).

> Unless you are saying you don't trust Azure datacenter techs only?

Yes, and also the local datacenter people. I understood that Microsoft didn’t build a datacenter in every region and rents some space in existing datacenters managed by other companies.

Not the person you asked, but we had a flood of low-quality candidates which clogged up our pipeline. Eventually the process was redesigned to have a more aggressive funnel, but candidates don't like that either.

How does it replace the backpressure mechanism from reactive solutions?

Send to a full `BlockingQueue`, producer will block. Automatic backpressure.