LusoTycoon

48 laws of power

chapter names already give you some pointers

still seeing it

yes please

That money gets you a good life anywhere, except for US and some big capitals/tech cities.

Why the viewer request latency? 50ms kind of defeats its purpose

How about performance? How much time to read from the database?

Apple did that and people would start cracking iphones open to replace batteries. Not in line with Apple's philosphy.

All rich countries do it.

There are industries that are inherently pollutant or energy intensive.

Rich countries tax and regulate it. China welcomes it with open arms, allowing them to operate under very lax regulation.

China put itself in this situation.

The article says they have a lot of reserved instances which at some point is not fully used.

So if you have 50 cpu hours reserved capacity per hour and during parts of the day you're using only 10h, they can allocate the remaining 40h which they reserved and paid upfront for encoding.

The 2nd comment in the article reveals some interesting things.

Basically tuition is usually not charged for Phd students but is used for accounting purposes to get money from Federal agencies.

The "tax increase" would stop incentivizing universities to do these accounting tricks and declare tuiton as 0.

This is a good step in that tax code is simplified and accounting tricks / loopholes are closed for corporations and universities (and other public/private entities).

This is what I read, can anyone clarify this?

" But from an outside perspective, the current rules look like a money laundering scheme. Universities use an accounting gimmick of setting an arbitrary dollar amount for PhD student tuition, and then waive it. At least in STEM fields, essentially no PhD student actually pays tuition. Why not just set tuition to 0? The reason is because “tuition” can be charged to funding agencies, and so this accounting trick of setting and then waiving tuition allows universities to extract more overhead from the NSF, NIH, etc.

Of course, this accounting trick represents a non-trivial fraction of government support for academic research. It seems natural to simplify the tax code by disallowing this trick, but unless the goal is to de-fund academia (maybe it is), it should be countered with an increase in direct funding to universities from funding bodies. "