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I was denied the vaccine by my healthcare provider as a man in my mid-20s. Their reasoning being that I was likely already exposed.

It may have been true, but would still have liked to get the vaccine since it covers many multiple strains.

It also seems, really low?

A stack of bills is roughly 0.5 inches. Assuming a 12-ft joist-to-joist spacing, that's 12 feet per floor \times 12 inches per foot \times 2 stacks per inch = 288 stacks per floor = $2.88M per floor since a stack of 100s is $10k

So that would be a 1,000M / 2.88M ~ 347 story building.

Or is my unit conversion wildly off from dealing with sick kids over the holidays?

Not sure about this one in specific but assuming most of the time the system is idle at ~200W, you’d be looking at ~$25/mo for most states in the US.

Peak draw could probably be 2kW for a beefy system so electricity costs could really skyrocket depending on usage patterns.

> and learns how to say "where's the bathroom", "hello", "would you like to sleep with me", "thank you", "goodbye"

Quite a story condensed into those five phrases.

Totally, it's going to take a minute to get it all working. On a positive note, they recently got some sponsorship from Modal [0], who is supplying GPUs for CI/CD so they should be able to expand their hardware coverage.

Kevin Murphy racing to rename his Probabilistic Machine Learning series.

> This was possible because AI helped write the file system.

I have my doubts

I see this a lot as someone that came from a solidly middle-class background (parents were a teacher and secretary) and went to a "highly-ranked" university with plenty of upper-middle or upper class students.

I work in the same jobs as my peers, but there is a clear wealth difference in how our lives are spent.

We have a nice house in a good neighborhood, but our peers have very nice houses is some of the best neighborhoods due in large part to down payment gifts, gifts for remodeling, etc. We can both afford the mortgage payment, but the down payment would take us probably a decade to save for.

On vacations, we'll drive a couple hours away with the kids, while our peers will fly to Europe and spend two weeks since they pay for the flights and their parents pay for lodging and food.

And then there is family support. Some of my peers have parents who bought second (or third) homes to be closer to their grandchildren, or will pay for the very nice private school, etc.

It's taken me a lot to not very bitter about this -- and I'm clearly still a little bitter -- but I also know that we will likely be in a position to offer some of this support to our kids in 20+ years.

I'm trying to download my 1099 forms from TreasuryDirect and it's coming back as unavailable. Probably unrelated to everything going on now, but the fact I thought that it could be related for a second is crazy.

>>> TreasuryDirect is unavailable. >>> We apologize for the inconvenience and ask that you try again later.

I feel like his first term benefitted from his administration being wholly unprepared to govern, as witnessed by the numerous stories of there effectively being no transition plan for a vast majority of departments.

The only real policy victory his first term was the TCJA. Otherwise, it was a lot of bark, no bite.

But now with four years to prepare, they came in barking and biting like hell.

Ironically, losing in 2020 gave MAGA time to create a game plan which we’re seeing in action now. A second Trump term right after the first would have been more effectual than the first, but not to the degree we’re seeing now.

I know a similar number but they were "acquihired" to essentially return money to investors and get the founders promotions at their former companies. So an exit on paper even if it's not necessarily so in practice.

We're saying the same thing, really. Basically until AWS/GCP/Azure have minimal egress fees there is no way we can switch over to a different storage provider. They obviously know this so it will probably never happen.

Working at a startup that deals in large data (our storage is measured in PB), egress is the only thing thing that matters if we're going to choose a new storage provider. And an automated class management system a la S3 or GCS.