AnthonyMouse

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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> Noise, pollution Both of these are complaints about gas turbines rather than data centers. Data centers can pretty easily do the opposite by offering to curtail load during energy supply shortfalls, both through region shifting and by
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> when negotiating it's better to start from a harder position (no building) and soften up (limited building, cover the cost of extra electricity) then vice versa. That's assuming they have so few alternatives that opening with
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> AC at 68F is obnoxious and wasteful. It's actually significantly more environmentally friendly than heating to above 68F in the winter in most cases, since most AC is done with heat pumps but most heating is oil/gas (100% f
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> So just make a rate card for data centers that ensures the burden doesn't fall on residents. This is actually what happens in most places. It's even what happens in many cases when the data centers are given a discount , bec
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
Notice that this is entirely a regulatory problem. Do we imagine that entrepreneurs in the US can't produce the technology for a good payments system? That's not the reason. The reason is that anyone who wants to build it gets s
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> Like all the other monopolies that governments already have Your examples are things that aren't inherently monopolies and are significantly worse if you try to make them such. It's better to give people the right to self-def
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> Other countries do not want to have their payment systems rug pulled at the whim of whomever US voters decide to put into office each election cycle. Which is the reason the US is also shooting itself in the foot every time it rug pull
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
Suppose you have an actually decentralized payment system, like cash, or any digital system that preserves the same properties whether or not it involves a blockchain. An example of one that doesn't would be a global decentralized prot
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
If the US had any foresight it could stave this off by making its own global payments system be the one with the lowest fees, and thereby keep people using US currency and US institutions. Whereas if you give other countries the obvious win
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> It's not like not having that permission would stop Apple from accessing them against your will, as they have access via the OS anyway. This presumes the OS is something other than a bundle of apps. Does the filesystem driver have
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
In addition to that, there are permissions that Apple gives to its own apps that it denies to competitors even if the user consents to it , e.g. permission to install third party apps is given to Apple's store app without asking but c
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> Why build apartments when you can build a hotel? That one's easy. Because if you stop inhibiting people from building things when there is more demand than supply for hotels then they build some hotels. Then some local demand for
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> definitely an improvement over their bespoke customer identity and access management solution Is it though? With a service-specific system, if the system gets compromised, you lose your data on that system. With a centralized system th
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
The analogy tracks because the stupidity of doing those other things is directly analogous. It's like pointing out that slamming your fingers in the door and slamming your toes in the door both hurt. That's why you shouldn't
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
That has been the case for a while now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...
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An ordinary kitchen knife can be used to assassinate someone before others can react. How do you think the time it takes to do that compares to the police response time? In both cases the catching them comes after the fact and has the purpo
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> This was a direct effect on housing development as governments did not want to bring in new residents without the property tax base to support infrastructure, education, etc. Based on how Prop 13 works, creating new developments is exa
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> The alternative is Claude-style "safeguards" aka censorship Another obvious alternative is to just have the model do what you tell it to do, and then arrest people who use generic tools for crime instead of trying to make a k
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> If there's a huge payout, sure. They're going to ignore you for a $10,000 case. The entire system basically doesn't work for a $10,000 case. That's probably about the worst case scenario. For small claims you can ha
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
The lock-in incentive is counterproductive but the main cause is still zoning. Prop 13 makes it so long-term owners don't want to sell because moving triggers a huge tax hike even at the same property value, and the most idiotic thin
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> Data center NIMBYs are arguing for much the same thing, but focusing on building data centers a good distance away from housing seems pretty reasonable. The trouble here is that the two things are related. It's easy to build a dat
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> No, I don't think so. Too much research for not enough profit. Isn't this basically how things work now when lawyers take cases on contingency? > Time is cheap when your wages are low Disposable time is very expensive wh
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If that's supposed to explain it then why is housing also expensive in Massachusetts or Colorado? It's ~18% more in California than Massachusetts but ~313% more in Massachusetts than Oklahoma.
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> This seems like an entirely predictable outcome of data center builders and operators behaving like anti-social neighbors with noise just because no law prevented them from doing so. The vast, overwhelming majority of data centers sour
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Can you name any place where property tax rates on other residents were increased as a result of a tax break to a data center compared to the baseline of the data center not being there?
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> Could you maybe tie it back to majority control? Then you get three corporations that each own a one third stake in all the things that constitute Alphabet and a variety of investment instruments that allow anyone to buy shares in all
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> I'd argue that in such a case preventing such a person from seeking justice would be wrong, since they were really victims and diserve redress. If the system isn't actually going to give them redress then what benefit is ther
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> You can never fully isolate CPU power. Even software reading of CPU power is not always accurate. And what results from this when you compare system with a 15W CPU to one with a 60W CPU on performance per watt when both systems have an
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> Its obviously impractical for a number of reasons, I just find it frustrating because based on the last century of IP law that should be what's happening. Eh. Most LLM output is significantly transformative. The challenge here is
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> Unless you can get insurance for the fee, significant amounts can be a big deterrance even when they're quite unlikely. But then won't experts be offering that insurance on easy to win cases left and right? > 1% might no

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