Yes, Texas is near the top in reliability, if you start counting in the mid 20's. link

The vast majority of people leaving the state are over 60, so of course they are wealthier.

From 2021 to 2022 ACS data (S0102 table) shows California added over 200k net new residents with BA or higher, while shrinking slightly.

Net impact is that BA or higher over 25 yrs old went from 36.2% up to 37%.

The top quintile makes over 50% of the income and has over 70% of the wealth.

Cry me a river about them paying two thirds of the tax.

Census data includes everyone.

ACS might be flawed because of non-response, but they do follow up and responses are technically required by law.

I seem to live in a different "US" than you mention.

Here in the US of A there are all sorts of laws with tight boundaries that aren't related to lethal behavior.

"Funny, I don't generally elect my representative government officials to FORCE me to do shit."

Interesting.

Where do you live that laws are voluntary?

At current interest rates, batteries are about 65% more expensive than nuclear.

PV Solar is about 70% less.

Given typical usage patterns is it a fair trade.

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If we could figure out why existing "predictions are accurate or what the physical models neglected/incorrectly weighted" the existing models would be better, wouldn't they?

This is about the substrate - computers, racks and networking.

To get a cloud, you just have to add the cloud software you want.

And if you want the worldwide scalable fault tolerant services the cloud can enable, click on the "feature request" button on the Oxide support site.

Part of the "loss of control" for Cloud services is also freedom to upgrade to new server technology when it become available without needing to replace your existing hardware investment.

The "let's do everything in house" advocates forget this, and the pain of supporting heterogeneous fleets.

If you assume an in house server has a 4 year life cycle, then your calculation should also include how much faster the Cloud server will be in perf / $$ in 3 years.

If you rely on fringe value added tools and APIs from your Cloud service provider, you are designing in the potential headache.

You can accomplish the exact same pain by purchasing 3rd party software for your in house servers.

$100m for a run, where getting it right took hundreds of runs?

Do you have a source for that number?

The first successful piece of hardware after millions of servers and switch ports worth of networking gear that was the platform for the whole company.

But sure, let's go with "first".

There are two kinds of Ice Road drivers. "Those who have been in the ditch and those who will be in the ditch".

Cloud security people are hesitant to brag to much about how much safer they are because they know how risky things are.

Nothing looks sillier than "XYZZY Cloud Co is so secure" followed be a headline a short time after "Major Data Breach at XYZZY Cloud Co".

Also, most of the cloud security people who would be credible enough to matter on the record have insider knowledge of exploits that are actively being addressed. There is a permanent sword of Damocles in this industry.

Any CIO that tells their Board that the company data is 100% secure should be fired or demoted to a place where they cannot do any damage.

The trains in Spain run only on the plains.