This is unfortunately not helpful to those of us who haven't made the jump to AMD yet :(

Well the good news is you can pick up a very inexpensive board now, even a used one, and it will be compatible with the latest CPU. I bought my motherboard July of 2017 and will be upgrading my CPU to a Ryzen 3000 after 7/7 launch.

It's been 24 years since you could use an Intel or AMD processor on the same motherboard and some people just can't get over it.

Also, accurately reporting about an arbitrary source of downtime means you're smart enough to avoid the same sources of downtime.

Not that this can't have been an obvious reason (deleting all the servers in a datacenter or similarly trivial but severe) but it's likely impossible to ensure status page accuracy.

You could just ping the servers once a minute and tell if they're up or not. No need to know why they've gone down.

That only indicate the frontend of the service is up and potentially running. Being about to respond to ping and being able to serve HTTP request are two different things, and being able to serve HTTP request vs a fully functional website are two different things. Think about wrong SSL certification, wrong domain mapping between frontend/backend, broken JS/CSS etc.

This outage is a great example. I can ping Google Calendar servers and I get an HTTP response. SSL also works like a charm.

And yet everybody agrees it's down.

Most outages aren't so obvious as this one, and any ping will fail intermittently (often because the ping agent has a failure.) Google definitely has loads of pings hitting Google Calendar in various ways. Exposing this monitoring to the public is not practical or really useful. (And would aid would-be attackers.)

It seems to me that if NPs are incapable of making (at least some) correct diagnoses and must defer to the expertise of a supervising doctor, then they cannot also be responsible for the doctor being incorrect.

Either they are trained well enough to make the decision on their own (which would mean the NP shouldn't need permission for this patient to be admitted) or the doctor is actually the person who is responsible for the patient's well-being.

I wonder if they're trying to do something like drive traffic to certain products which they can ensure they have in abundance? That way they don't have to ship your favorite color flash drive halfway across the country overnight, they can just ship a pallet of them to your city and suggest you buy that one instead.

In the interest of giving PayPal some potential benefit of doubt, it could be that they're simply returns a match/no-match on the address as a fraud-reduction step or something.

This might skew the data in terms of "How much money will you actually have left after paying rent" but personally I feel it's still a decent analysis on cost of living. I assume (with no evidence to back it up, granted) that you can find the approximate price of a 1br apartment by taking some percentage from the 2 bedroom.

Do you see skew in some other way?