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If this is true, this is the person some folks think is fit to lead a nation. One little thing not suiting his whim of the day? Lets hate something that helps w

by prox 2mo ago

If this is true, this is the person some folks think is fit to lead a nation. One little thing not suiting his whim of the day? Lets hate something that helps with energy production. Welcome the world of transactional opportunism.

rayiner 2mo ago
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- anonreplier 2mo ago
  Hmm does this "aesthetic" include shrinking national parks?
  - ChoGGi 2mo ago
    Birds get confused when they have to much greenery, you need more land strip-mined for coal to keep them safe while migrating.
dofm 2mo ago
This is absolutely true. He has been angrily obsessed about this for years, and since he is a malignant narcissist with an ever greater need for narcissistic supply, his irritation has been manipulated by powerful lobbyists that tell him his instincts are brilliant and correct.
- deepsquirrelnet 2mo ago
  People called Don and irrational hate of windmills. Name a more iconic duo...
1234letshaveatw 2mo ago
I'm sure you would welcome a data center in your backyard
- wizzwizz4 2mo ago
  Datacentres are a resource sink that serves private interests, not a resource source that serves public interests.
  - 1234letshaveatw 2mo ago
    does this site not serve the public interest? I hope you didn't hurt anyone's feelings
    - wizzwizz4 2mo ago
      This site only recently (a few years ago) got multithreading. I'm pretty sure it could run off a second-hand laptop. It doesn't require a datacentre: just the two(?) moderators' salaries, and some rounding-error electricity and ISP costs.
      - 1234letshaveatw 2mo ago
        I'm fond of Netflix?
        wizzwizz4 2mo ago
        Wouldn't need datacentres if we had IP multicast routing. And actually, Netflix doesn't need that anyway: anycast and telco CDNs get most of the advantages, albeit at the cost of only being available to established players. Netflix uses AWS because it's cheaper and easier for them, not because it's technically necessary: if AWS shut down (with enough notice), Netflix would migrate to an alternative system, and nothing much would change. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Netflix's true overhead were actually DRM and account management, rather than the international distribution of perhaps a petabyte of multimedia data, most of which doesn't change. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33456782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33456782 estimates half that; https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/6mfzuj/how_much_data_is_contained_in_the_netflix_library/ https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/6mf... estimates a tenth of that.)

by prox 2mo ago

rayiner 2mo ago

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anonreplier 2mo ago
Hmm does this "aesthetic" include shrinking national parks?
- ChoGGi 2mo ago
  Birds get confused when they have to much greenery, you need more land strip-mined for coal to keep them safe while migrating.

dofm 2mo ago

This is absolutely true. He has been angrily obsessed about this for years, and since he is a malignant narcissist with an ever greater need for narcissistic supply, his irritation has been manipulated by powerful lobbyists that tell him his instincts are brilliant and correct.

deepsquirrelnet 2mo ago
People called Don and irrational hate of windmills. Name a more iconic duo...

1234letshaveatw 2mo ago

I'm sure you would welcome a data center in your backyard

wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Datacentres are a resource sink that serves private interests, not a resource source that serves public interests.
- 1234letshaveatw 2mo ago
  does this site not serve the public interest? I hope you didn't hurt anyone's feelings
  - wizzwizz4 2mo ago
    This site only recently (a few years ago) got multithreading. I'm pretty sure it could run off a second-hand laptop. It doesn't require a datacentre: just the two(?) moderators' salaries, and some rounding-error electricity and ISP costs.
    - 1234letshaveatw 2mo ago
      I'm fond of Netflix?
      - wizzwizz4 2mo ago
        Wouldn't need datacentres if we had IP multicast routing. And actually, Netflix doesn't need that anyway: anycast and telco CDNs get most of the advantages, albeit at the cost of only being available to established players. Netflix uses AWS because it's cheaper and easier for them, not because it's technically necessary: if AWS shut down (with enough notice), Netflix would migrate to an alternative system, and nothing much would change. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Netflix's true overhead were actually DRM and account management, rather than the international distribution of perhaps a petabyte of multimedia data, most of which doesn't change. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33456782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33456782 estimates half that; https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/6mfzuj/how_much_data_is_contained_in_the_netflix_library/ https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/6mf... estimates a tenth of that.)