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by howdydoo 1626 days ago
Socks are in fact immutable infrastructure. When your EC2 instance crashes, you shut it down and provision a new one. When your socks get holes, you throw them out and buy new ones. This isn't 2010 anymore, you really think people debug their servers and mend their socks?
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You are thinking about threads, not socks. It's the threading technology you need to review; HINT: the color matters.
The threads built on NFT-w (natural fibre textile, wool) don't have these issues and can be spun up in a more eco-friendly way. All these garment-haters that talk about how cotton requires huge amounts of land and water don't seem to understand that we have already solved these issues by using a BAT (basic ALPACA token), and those of us who bought BAT early will be riding this kid all the way to new zeeland!

EDIT: the downvoters are just people who don't know how a POW (proof of wool) exchange works, or are in denial about how we can scale it by using clumps to have localized, bidirectional hair-pulls. It can scale from dual-crimps all the way up to a felt.

Socks are cattle, not pets
Only up to a certain age. Once you pass 50 or take up hiking, you start buying serious pet socks. Merino wool triple layer moisture wicking tough heel socks? Shut up and take my money, REI!
A lot of people haven't worked with socks beyond the level of Winsock.