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American citizens living and working abroad still must pay taxes to the US Government. As far as I am aware, the US is the only country in the world with this requirement. There is a reason the FBAR requirement is often called the "fubar" requirement.

I am not so sure. At the time I thought BeOS was a better purchase. I wonder what could have been if Apple had gone with Gasse instead of Jobs.

Take a look at overhead costs as a percentage of the total budget for universities. You'll see that administrative costs have ballooned, while the size of faculty and student bodies have remained relatively constant. That certainly was the case at my university. Here's another article about the issue: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...

I've got some news for the author of this article. University cost inflation started well before 1993. The chart here (https://www.edvisors.com/plan-for-college/saving-for-college...) shows that the divergence in university cost inflation and the greater economy's inflation started in the early 1980s. I know that my university education went up 4x in the 5 years (yes, 400% in 5 years, which equates to 32% CAGR) that I attended college, and that predates this 1993 date in the article.

I was doing a big release over the evening. I was working fine up until about 6 hours ago, when I signed off. Our network monitors show an outage started about half an hour later (at about 4:05am CST). Service restored a few minutes ago, at about 9:44am CST. I don't know if our problem is the same as this problem, but we are on CenturyLink.

This sounds very similar to the situation Nokia was in around 2007: - Nokia was booming financial. Things had never been better for them in that respect. - Nokia had XX times (!) the operating income of Apple's mobile business. - Nokia was one of the world's most profitable corporations.

And, yet, the writing was on the wall. Nokia was doomed once the smartphone era came. That's where Intel is today: AMD crushes them on the high-end general purpose CPUs. ARM crushes them on I/O performance and the low-end for general purpose CPUs. GPUs crush Intel in the middle, for special-purpose (mainly single-precision floating point) computing.

Right now, large portions of new computer sales, and an even larger portion of the high-margin cpu sales, come from cloud computing. AMD and ARM are stealing huge market share from Intel on that front. I don't see that momentum changing any time soon.

There's a reason that Intel has 8x the operating income of NVidia while having a smaller market cap. It's not because of where they are currently--it's where they are going. Stock market valuations are forward-looking, and the future doesn't look so bright for Intel.

It would have before fracking became common in the US. Now, production can be turned on or off relatively quickly in the US--just start/stop fracking in existing wells. Since it requires no capital investment (only operational expenses), very little lead time is needed. Production from fracked wells drops off very quickly once fracking ends, so overproduction tends to self-correct very quickly, also.

In the days before fracking, there would be a ~10 year delay between additional investment and additional production output. With fracking, it's more like weeks, not years, before production adjusts. That's why the oil price seems to have a price ceiling these days--any time prices go up, producers increase fracking and production. Overproduction is slightly different--fracked wells continue producing for about 12-18 months after fracking stops, so overproduction still occurs. But underproduction will be compensated for very quickly.

That changed last night. My wife is such a frequent user of Amazon Prime that I wonder sometimes if I should register as an Amazon Fulfillment Center. But last night, after our hair dryer failed, Amazon Prime would only guarantee delivery by April 21.

The good news is Wal-Mart's model relies on their existing stores, not fulfillment centers. Wal-mart's delivery times are still fairly short.

As I understand it, hotter weather helps to prevent the progression of the disease from the upper respiratory to the lower respiratory. When the disease moves to the lower respiratory area, patients typically need hospitalization and a ventilator, and are at a much higher risk of death. If you look at the death rates in Brazil and Australia, they are lower than in the northern hemisphere. Likewise, countries with ample spare ICU beds and ventilators (like Germany) have lower death rates than countries that don't (like Italy).

That is what we used to think. But it's not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857917 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109578 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585286

Note that dietary cholesterol only correlates to blood cholesterol in about 40% of the population. And even within that group, "Even though dietary cholesterol modestly increases LDL in these individuals, it does not seem to increase their risk of heart disease" (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe... -- emphasis is mine)

As it turns out, insulin resistance, like that associated with type-2 diabetes, is also related to inflammation (apparently due to cytokines: https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/inflammation-and-diabetes), which in turn is correlated with heart disease.

As I understand it (disclaimer: I'm not a doctor), the inflammation results in damage to the blood vessels, which your body repairs by using cholesterol, among other things, that are in your blood. When LDL cholesterol (the "bad" kind of cholesterol) is used in this way, it calcifies over time, leading to hardening of the arteries. As someone with a high CAC score and premature calcification of my arteries, my doctors have advised me to move to a low-carb diet and combine that with statin drugs to lower my LDL cholesterol. Low carbs generally means lots of meat and lots of saturated fat, which is the opposite advice that doctors traditionally have given for patients at risk of heart disease.

Lately there have been lots of studies that show that dietary LDL cholesterol is only very loosely correlated with LDL cholesterol in your blood--primarily because the cholesterol in your blood is produced in your pancreas, not ingested/absorbed from your stomach. So I did a self experiment--go on a ketosis diet for 3 months before I started taking my statins and test to see if my LDL cholesterol changed. It didn't--it went slightly down in my case. Then I went on statins--now my LDL cholesterol is at "normal" levels.

So, basically as I understand it, low carb diets can help prevent your body damaging your arteries in the first place, such that they don't need repair. Then, the statins lower my LDL cholesterol such that when my arteries do need repair, the cholesterol that is used doesn't calcify over time. Basically I'm attempting to address my heart disease from both sides: prevent the damage in the first place, and remove calcifying LDL cholesterol from my bloodstream when arterial repair is necessary.

Note that this is all pretty cutting edge stuff, and we don't have good studies to demonstrate its effectiveness yet. If you have issues with calcification of your arteries, it is best to work with your doctor to find a program that works for you.

You are correct. Urine color is an indicator of hydration. But sugar in your urine will cause your urine to be cloudy and more opaque. I've noticed that when I'm in ketosis that my urine is super transparent (just looking at transparency/opaqueness, not at color).

Closer to 50g/day, not 20....but the lower you go the more ketones your body produces.

AWS+kops is less expensive. Digital Ocean and Azure provide services without charging for master nodes.

I will likely choose AWS+kops.

For K8S, I think the best alternative is AWS+kops. EKS also has a high fee for the control plane, and has a ton of shortcomings aside from that. AKS, at least the last time I used it, was much worse in terms of functionality. But I can spin up a kops-based cluster really quickly. It is capable of creating truly production-grade clusters.

If I'm running a small cluster, I can use a small VM for the master node(s) and get my control plane costs down much lower than $73/month.

Google has a habit of killing off "enterprise" services and applications. Google has a habit of raising prices on services, while I've only ever seen price decreases from AWS and Azure. There is a reason why Azure has seen significantly faster growth than Google, even though both were late entrants to the cloud computing space. It seems that Google is doing their best to shoot themselves in the foot.

I used to recommend GKE as the best way to get started with K8S. With this price change, that advantage is gone. This price change kills off any advantage Google had for getting started in the cloud. Their enterprise-unfriendly habits have already killed off any advantages Google had for established, larger customers of cloud computing.

I guess I need to start migrating my clusters, then. $73 per cluster on my prod, dev, QA, and test clusters is a significant increase for me. Looks like Google is doing their best to kill off GCP - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/google-reportedly-wants-to-b...

So it is a golf cart? I must be missing something. I’m not sure why a golf cart would require such fanfare. I guess because most golf carts don’t have doors?

Shodan returns some 5100 Tomato servers, with about 1500 running web services (presumably the remote administration). I would bet that a fair number of those 1500 servers (maybe 10%?) have the default password, but I'm not going to check.

It doesn't matter. The Whatsapp exploit affected both IOS and Android: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/whatsapp-vulnerab...

Or they demonstrate that the CPU is throttling cores due to excessive heat. Compare the 24-core 3960x to the 32-core 3970x, and also look at the power consumed when running cores at 100% utilization. It would appear that the 3970x starts throttling the cores once ~21-22 cores are in full utilization, leading the 3970x to be only marginally faster than the 3960x, even though it has 50% more cores. EDIT: 3970x has a GeekBench score of 70655 (single-threaded: 5684) while 3960x has a score of 66676 (single-threaded: 5703; according to https://www.anandtech.com/show/15044/the-amd-ryzen-threadrip...). Meanwhile, power consumption per core starts dropping off significantly at 21 cores for both (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15044/the-amd-ryzen-threadrip...)

Yes, you are correct. And it would appear that the US was unwilling to shelve the Space Shuttle, despite the known problem of them blowing up every one out of fifty launches, didn't shut down the Space Shuttle until 2011, after confirmation that the X-37B could replace the military needs of the Space Shuttle.

But the stock dropped 1% in the seconds after the announcement. This isn’t a 1% drop over the entire day; it’s a 1% drop in 30 seconds after the market has closed. I think it’s safe to say the market values Ive’s contribution to Apple at $9b

You can if the laptop is a Mac: https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/imac-secondary-displ...

Interesting that the movie "Heathers" came out 30 years ago this year. It's about exactly this thing. If you didn't experience it 30 years ago, you may have been simply lucky.

Lead in the air we breath. Coincides pretty much with muscle cars. Once they removed lead from gasoline, muscle cars withered for a few decades.

Indoor smoking.

Rampant discrimination, against ethnic minorities, women, and LGBTQ.

The "good ole days" generally aren't as good as we remember them.

You think they figured it out early? Go listen to some Miles Davis recordings from the late 50s. Analog tape, two mics, and that was it. And it still sounds better than almost everything made since.

Studio-quality analog has had better than CD-quality audio since the late 50s (lower noise, more headroom). With "modern" studio techniques we've adopted multitrack recording, close mic'ing of instruments, and what not. While these may make the recording process easier, they don't make recordings of a higher quality. Give me a pair of high-quality mics in ORTF configuration and natural, unamplified instruments any day.

It's been happening in Houston for 15+ years, too. I suspect any city with decent HOV lanes and bad traffic has slug lines.

Yes. The compliance team at most investment banks will prevent individuals or members of their family from trading any instrument that the firm is actively trading in without going through a "waiting period". All personal trading accounts for the employee and direct family members must be registered with the compliance team. Banks employee independent investigators to ensure their employees follow through on these requirements; violations are a fireable offense, and I have seen multiple people fired for lack of compliance.

This is to prevent insider trading, among other things. Compliance issues with individual traders can result in massive fines for their employers.