There are a few other reasons why ARM is popular in data center tasks, including those that are targeted at performance. The easiest to explain is vcpus.

On AMD/Intel, 1 vcpu = 1 hyperthread (to oversimplify, 1/2 core)
On ARM, 1 vcpu = 1 core

Even if the ARM system is only 80% as fast on a per-core basis, having twice the core count on a similar class instance makes the overall cost much lower.

I'm pretty sure systemd on top of a cake is called fondant.

I'd love to see your source on the homicide rate. In 2016 (a higher than average year), the rate was 5.35/100k.

They are claiming around 35ms (altitude is only around 1100km)

5.6 is a minor release. PHP 5.0 (first major series release) came out July 2004... and 7.0 came out almost 3 years ago. I've used PHP off and on since 2.0.... If memory serves me, there were major breaking changes between 2 and 3, a few breaking changes between 3 and 4, rare few breaking changes between 4 and 5 and rare few between 5 and 7. The main exceptions I can think of are around misguided features such as magic quotes which were rightly deprecated.

We have quite a lot of old code in production that hasn't changed much over the years... it may not be pretty, but as long as caution was taken, just works. The same is true of most any language.

It's currently about 4 real to the dollar. Just 4 years ago, it was around 2. That may not be up to Zimbabwe's level, but that's crazy high inflation.

I think you misread the chart. The 3,340.4 is in billion, not trillion... that's mostly income tax plus social security.

Yes, but only on a voluntary basis... your well paid trade school plumber won't be forced to pay part of your much more expensive university education.

2016 presidential candidates on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal

Based on my understanding of their positions:
Clinton (D) - Mixed, mostly against as a presidential candidate
O'Malley (D) - Against
Sanders (D) - Against
Bush (R) - For
Cruz (R) - Mixed, initially for. 1 of 5 Rs in the Senate that voted against the TPA bill
Fiorina (R) - Unclear due to lack of details... possibly for
Huckabee (R) - Against
Jindal - (R) Mostly against
Kasich (R) Unclear
Paul (R) Against, 1 of 5 Rs in the Senate that voted against the TPA bill
Rubio (R) For
Santorum (R) For
Trump (R) Against

"and the performance testing results are encouraging. Nevertheless we need to keep
an eye on potential regressions, since this potentially affects every SMP workload
in existence."

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1508.3/04818.html

Another huge issue is their close ties to law enforcement and the resulting biased conclusions.

Drug dogs

Or polygraphs...

Or traffic/speed cameras...

I recently upgraded from the old kindle keyboard model to a voyage and love it. The page change buttons on the side are great and provide a little tactile feedback. The adaptive light is also very nice, especially if you like to read at night. I expected the battery life to be terrible in comparison to the old keyboard model because of the light... but it rarely needs charging, even under heavy use.

1756 / 32923 = 0.0533 ~= 5%.
Try typing 5.3% of 32923 in google. The math is correct.

Assuming your numbers are correct... the population of Salisbury is 33604 as of 2013 (10,276 households as of 2010), making a loss of $372/person or $1,216/household last year alone. The median household income was $32,923. Assuming every household subscribed to the $45/mo package, that brings the cost to $146/mo for a 50mbit internet connection or more than 5% of each household's gross income. This is of course, assuming that the 12.5m loss is an operating loss and the 7.6m wouldn't be added to it.

5% of the median family's gross income for a home internet connection is crazy.