New York's Silicon Alley makes do after Sandy

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6. A day down could be very expensive, given the punatives that are written into a lot of SLAs

In lieu of real tangible returns, a lot of e-commerce business models substitute promises of nearly perfect service that require people to be full-time slaves to keep their sites on-line (and the equity holders above water). The lack of a revenue stream also requires a lot of people to work for practically no cash on the hope the company makes a killing when (if) it goes public.

Something premodern, on the edge of starvation, and damned exploitative about a lot of this post-industrial cottage business.