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In metropolitan areas, people want to be close but not too close to train/metro stations or railroad/tunnels. 5-10 minute walk is ideal. Anything closer, people have vibration/noise and crowd/security concerns.

In US suburbs, a lot of people are going to drive even if they live next to a train station. So there’s no convenience or property value benefits. To them, they only see downsides.

If you need access to both apps from China and websites/apps from outside China, non-Apple devices have been difficult before this, primarily due to push notification infrastructure.

This makes it more difficult. But I don’t think it matters given how difficult it was prior to this.

Visa applicants can often be located in the US

Since 9/11, one cannot apply for a US visa if they’re in US. In the context of US immigration, “visa” grants entry, “status” grants stay. If you’re in US, and need to change “status” to a different category (business/leisure, student, etc), you have two primary choices: (1) apply for “change of status” in US, or (2) leave US, apply for a new “visa” in the new category, and enter US using that new “visa”.

A dental hygienist (those people who do maintenance cleaning at dentist’s offices) told me that saliva quality is key to cavity and periodontal health. The ability of keep all teeth moist prevents plaque/tartar build up. I don’t know how true that is, but this at least provide an alternative hypothesis to the two that you listed.

I don’t know the terminology for it. But the behavior that you just described isn’t just “not thread safe”. It’s violating basic assumptions. I’d call that hostile or a trap.

Nitpicking the numbers.

If you're assuming 13% California, that's $1M annual income. You should assume 37% marginal federal tax rate for deductibles, and assume 23.8% federal tax rate (due to NIIT) for long-term capital gains.

Therefore, donation generates $497 of value (37%+13.3%=50.3%) whereas selling and keeping generates $632 of value (23.8%+13%=37.1%). Therefore, the difference ($135) is quite a bit smaller than your math ($270).

Not sure whether it’s applicable here. But when learning scuba diving, we were taught (or rather reminded of, from middle school physics) that a balloon would become bigger as one gets closer to the surface. A balloon 90m under water will be 10X the size when it’s at surface. Therefore, using a balloon for emergency surfacing will lead to a monotonically increasing acceleration rate (which means you’ll going be too fast), or probably bursting the balloon half way through.

I’m not familiar with the details. But I assume there exist a way for creditors (incl the government) to seize it somehow, and then sell it to eligible buyers to recover what they’re owed.

Does your Stanford home has a mortgage on it? If so, I assume you signed a deed of trust somehow.

Lately, a 3000 sq ft house in Stanford (which can be sold on the market, but only to eligible faculty and employees) sells for over $2.5M, whereas a similar home in Palo Alto (which can be sold on the market, to any one) sells for around $5M.

As a result, while what you said is true, I don’t think it matters that much. At the end of the day, it’s an asset that’s worth millions of dollars.

The author appears to be in Vancouver BC Canada.

In US/Canada, power supply is done via 240V split phase. Therefore, a broken neutral between service and home would have lead to a 120V outlet getting anywhere between 0 and 240V AC. That sure would have lead to something a lot less pleasant than just gzip errors.

The author appears to be in Vancouver BC Canada.

In US/Canada, it is safe and code compliant to have floating ground in a GFCI protected outlet. The GFCI provides the safety benefit that ground is supposed to provide. Obviously having both GFCI and ground is better, but having only the former is allowed. Occasionally, ground serves additional purposes beyond safety, but that doesn’t apply for a computer power supply.

Additionally, in US/Canada, it is unsafe (and against code) to wire a new outlet directly to water pipe. Ground-neutral bond is required at the main service panel because the “ground” (soil, water pipe, etc) isn’t a good enough electricity ground. The ground wire in the outlet must be wired to the main panel (directly, or through subpanels), where 3 things are connected together: neutral bus, ground bus, and the “ground” (soil, water pipe, etc).

All in all, the author didn’t find the root cause of the problem. And in trying to fix the problem, the author introduced more bugs.