John Dale

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• Our providers are able to give us lots of features, sometimes very shortly after they recognize the need for such features, and in a changing business and technical environment, in large part by quickly linking together a number of independently designed, maintained, and operated systems. As a result, systems have a number of independent points of failure. If they hadn't gotten pretty good at making each of those system pretty reliable, we'd see thing broken more often that working. But as we enjoy all this cool stuff, we need to expect it to be broken at times, likely when we need it most, and to manage our dependency on it accordingly. Unfortunately, this may be be a bit less efficient for us; for example, it may be prudent to do some preliminary income estimates for tax planning purposes a bit early, to have something in case there is an outage when we hope to do right before year-end, etc.

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