Lunyfringe
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One can only infer so much bias from a forum post, but I figured it was enough for some confirmation bias- and I probably implied it was more you than others by quoting your post, but most of the myth promulgating was by others (at least some were attempts at humor)...I think your spinning...my bias was against those who were trying to kill me, read it again.
There is no testing needed if you accept the fact they are simply different for the reasons I have already stated. They both well for the intended employment. Accuracy is totally subjective. Depending upon what box you chose to play in sub MOA or get every shot in the space of a pie plate, one is a sniper going for mile long shots the other is an Infantry soldier just needing to stop a bad guy on the killing field and the AR and AK both a good track record.
I built the first TELCO grade data center capabler of US Treasury transactions not built by a TELCO. In fact one of the legs of the backbone actually ran thru my datacenter. If my lawyers would have let me I could have given 5 9's SLA. I consulted with such companies as AT&T, Lucent Bell Labs and others on design architecture of hardware, redundancy etc.
A basic field grade M4 or low-grade commerical AR15 isn't going to be sub-MOA, either... but all your points about subjective accuracy are taken- Accuracy wasn't going to play a big factor when the average conscript had so little training. For that matter, many US troops are trained to get bullets flying at the target QUICKLY, so accuracy is not their primary concern in that situation either. It's just that the accuracy of the AK platform is widely denigrated, frequently without any basis... There are lots of reasons for that, many of them were mentioned in that full30 video I posted.
Nice job on the data center work, building proper redundancy and diversity is a chore... We constantly work with Telco issues around diversity, redundancy and latency (they want to consolidate to save $$, putting all the fiber in the same ROW as much as possible)... diversity and low latency are frequently exclusive to each other to some degree. One of our service offerings actually has an SLA better than 5 9's (that service is expensive, dual diverse carriers into redundant POP's that have a minimum separation). We hold to that SLA very well, outside of specific force majeure exclusions such as terror attacks, or widespread natural disasters (9/11 and Hurricane Sandy come to mind)... but the market was closed for a time for logistical reasons during those events anyway... our backbone was ready for the next market open.