Peak usage

If you look at someone like Amazon, their peak usage is orders of magnitude higher than their regular idle usage. For example, just the selling side of Amazon, late November, December, the one month before Christmas, they do as much business as they do the rest of the year.

Linus Torvalds

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Salt of the Earth (1974)


The company folded in July 1975, due to unpaid federal and state taxes amounting to $62,000: the Internal Revenue Service padlocked the offices and auctioned off all assets. Many of the label’s master tapes are missing and presumed destroyed.

(wikipedia)

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