davad

For a company “on-prem” might not mean the same as “local”. You might run them in your company data center or in a colocated server (rented space in a data center). In either of those cases, the data center might be physically close to you, but it could be on a different continent.

“On-prem” implies that the company has physical access/control of the server.

I knew it was a thing. Didn’t know it had a name. TIL

But does the GPS work? Is it able to correctly locate your car on the map? There are other cool things we use GPS satellites for, but their purpose is to calculate the position on a globe. A Global Positioning System, if you will.

I think it shouldn’t matter. IIRC, the GPS algorithm depends on time differences, not absolute time. As long as the satellites are coordinated with each other, receivers won’t care which parameters the absolute time matches.

The lived experience is definitely very different. But if the wealthiest group was only worth hundreds of millions, we might be able to avoid having any homeless.

I posted because people tend to have trouble internalizing just how big the wealth gap actually is. The brain can’t really conceptualize how big a “million”, “billion”, or “trillion” actually is. It leads to a lot of misconceptions (another example, national budgets). I hope little nuggets like this will stick in people’s brains to help them engage better with large numbers.

Edit: here’s more data on the wealth gap

According to one source I found, there are 996 US billionaire+ that control $9.5 trillion. The bottom half controls $4.3 trillion.

If we pretend that 171,469,137 people are able to organize to the same degree as 996 people, and that those 171,469,137 people don’t need to cover necessities with their wealth, the billionaire+ still have an outsized financial impact on politics and power structures.

Sources:

• https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:2023.3,2026.2;quarter:147;series:Net worth;demographic:networth;population:1,3,5,7,9;units:levels
• (Take this one with a grain of salt) https://www.wealthrank.in/country/united-states
• https://www.census.gov/popclock/

So…a “fun” reminder about the wealth gap. If you’re in the top 0.1% of wealth in the US, you’re still closer to homeless than you are to the billionaire+ class.

A source I found puts the top 0.1% at $64 million net worth (link) And the difference between 64 million and a billion is about a billion.