Just in case: worth noting that honey is quite dangerous for infants because of the high risk of botulism, which infant immune systems struggle to fight off.
From the standpoint of nearly every individual company, it's still better to go with a well-known high-9s service like AWS than smaller competitors though. The fact that it means your outages will happen at the same time as many others is almost like a bonus to that decision — your customers probably won't fault you for an outage if everyone else is down too.
That homogeneity is a systemic risk that we all bear, of course. It feels like systemic risks often arise that way, as an emergent result from many individual decisions each choosing a path that truly is in their own best interests.
Sounds like the way they're obtaining it without a subpoena is by simply purchasing it from a commercial data broker, though. If that's true, I'd say the real problem is that a broker is willing to sell virtually anyone this data with essentially no oversight – a problem that's sadly existed for quite a while already. One of their buyers being the government isn't the first-order problem there.
Isn't the idea that maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates are somewhat in tension with each other though? Which would mean the mandate is to balance those three things – e.g. maximize employment to the extent possible while maintaining stable prices and moderate interest rates.
The retaliatory tariffs if we did would be devastating for the US, because so much of our overall trade balances are carried by services rather than tangible goods.
