cobookman

I wonder if that's a biased sample.

Top % of students likely transfer less often than bottom %.

Therefore transfer pool often has students from lower %. And statistically the applicants are worse than from initial application.

However that doesn't mean ones ods are less doing a transfer. It might be better given the transfer peers overall worse applications.

(This is all conjecture. I have no actual stats.)

As someone with an hsa / high deductible plan. I totally care about the cost.

Plus the rev to valuation makes no sense 40x ratio of Valuation to Rev. Compare this to Alphabet with a 8x, Amazon with a 13x...etc.

These valuations just seem nuts.

Sounds like it should be funded by Sales Tax / Income tax vs Property Tax.

Property Tax should be about using the land & making improvements to nearby areas. Not about funding things far away.

Sure put the tax on those who'd be commuting on this new infrastructure. However for those that live within a few miles of their job, what exactly are they gaining?

It's the same reason Bridges have a toll vs getting funds directly from property / income tax.

Sounds like Google is being unfairly targeted due to its success & cash reserves.

For all the crap I give the Cali government. Their high cost of gas made me buy an ev as it was cheaper.

Now with the PGE bankruptcy, rates will increase and I'll likely buy solar.

Capitalism works. people optimize for what's cheapest for themselves

If China bans iPhones I'm 100% positive they'll just be smuggled in.

They can create an app store on Android. Nobody is stopping them.

The same can't be said for ios

Looks like a student published his code from the labs: https://github.com/erafalovsky/ECE3056-Computer-Architecture...

Course is ECE3056: https://ece3056-sy.ece.gatech.edu/

Had to do the same assignment. I highly recommend doing it. Was the most painful thing I ever did in college, but it taught me so much about how processors work, and how to code in C.

My Georgia tech tuition was less than 25k/year.

Their estimates total for tuition + books + room & board...etc is 28k/year. With the hope merit scholarship it's <18k year

That was retail price. Most the operational aspects at google are somewhat fixed costs.

Power Cooling are per Server. However given the low load on longtail video content & ability for google to co-mingle high IOPs workloads with low IOPs workload.

Its not that simple...

TLDR, storage is fairly cheap in scheme of things. Even if having infinite video storage costs 100mil/year, google likely makes more from content monitization.

You overestimate the cost of storage at this scale.

It's totally worth them storing the data given the marginal cost.

A 10TiB HDD is only 150$ retail. These videos can likely be stored in less than 200MiB on average.

Storage has gotten cheaper YoY

With SDN the PoP would only need to receive the TCP request and proxy TCP acks.

Raw data could flow from a different PoP that's closer to DC.

Aka user->Closest PoP-> backhaul fiber -> dc->user

Who cares. 6.5k/4 years is 1.6k/year. the car needs to only last 3-4 years

Anycast ip.

You have a sole ip address. All traffix routed to nearest PoP. The PoP makes the call on where and how to route the request.

Lookup google front end (GFE) whitepaper. Or thd google cloud global load balancer

That front end server that lives in the PoP can also inspect the http packets for layer 7 load balancing.

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancing-...

With Software defined networking you don't need the subdomain to do that.

My Nissan leaf disagrees with you.

6.5k purchase price. Cost to Charge less than 50$/mo th. Maintenance nill. Insurance cheap ($35/month)

At their scale, the overhead isn't as high.

I've personally discounts ranging upwards of 90% for certain services and cloud vendors.

That was a Global Load Balancer outage. Not a GKE outage.

When that GCLB outage happened, GKE would still be able to get traffic if you used ngnix ingress and/or regional load balancers.

Might I ask the use case. Didn't even realize that HIPAA compliant transcoding was a thing

What office? Main campus in MTV is meh. But SFO / snv / the few smaller offices in redwood City and Palo Alto have some great snacks.

I'd also recommend checking out the playa Vista office in the spruce goose hanger.

Amazon makes ~10B illion/year total in ad rev. Google makes ~130 Billion/year on ads.

15% growth on 130 Billion is 19.5 Billion.

Aka Google's yearly growth is larger than all of Amazon's Ad rev.

There was a stock split in 2014. Not sure if there's share splits before then.

So > 1mil.

Goog has grown 957% since may 2005. So their 405k is now worth ~4mil.

Google's Cafe food has actually increased over last 4 years I've been at Google.

MK Snacks are better. Coffee Better.

Its less cost cutting and more about logistics. You can't buy Mom & Pop created chocolate for 60k Bay area employees spread across 100 offices. We'd be consuming > 100% their supply. Most of the changes are around streamlining our logistics in the bay area to single suppliers.

As for w-street's changes, its not all negative. E.g. When I First joined google I heard of a team spending 10mil on an experiment by buying custom hardware to test form factor...the same experiment could have been done with a 1000$ foam/clay/3d printed mockup. People like Ruth have tought many teams in google to be more frugal.

+100. because rent is expensive, both parents need to work. Because both parents need to work they need to pay for daycare Costs.

Rent is expensive because both parents are working allowing price to go up.

Because parents wait longer. Their earnings are higher. Allowing daycare Costs to increase.

Tldr it's a vicious circle

This is likely the first AWS operated DC in China. The ones in mainland china are operated by: "AWS China (Beijing) Region based out of Beijing and adjacent areas is Beijing Sinnet Technology Co., Ltd. (Sinnet), and the service operator and provider for AWS (Ningxia) Region based out of Ningxia is Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (NWCD)" [1]

GCP & Azure already have Hong Kong regions. [2] [3]

[1] https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/

[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/loca...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/hongkong/

One has to wonder if the same problems exist with airbus