FrankWilhoit

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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The data centers are starting to put dedicated gas-turbine generation right next to them.
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Just what we need: more opportunities for regulatory arbitrage!
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Time zones are bad magic but they're not going to kill anybody.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The only way to do this is price controls. Price controls only work in a short term, and then only if there is no looting going on .
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
In order to be a capitalist, you have to say that business must be above the law.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Should we be comforted that their priorities are as bad as ours?
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Is anyone free to speak to their family, their teachers, or their employers? Is anyone listening? The whole notion is dishonest.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
The suddenness is that of a busker trying to keep up with their audience.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
There are a higher proportion here of persons who think scientifically. There is no automatic intersection between that and politics; any intersection must be forced. But when it is forced, it will be found that scientific modes of though
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
Not unravelling. Refocusing. The peasant ideology will always dominate, until it takes the species down with it.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
6000 people are being committed to this project today so that they can be fired day-after-tomorrow.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
"made", or "was given"?
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
All while successive technological discoveries raise the minimum standard of thought: vertiginously, incomprehensibly, unattainably. Something's got to give.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
"Society" (i.e. northern European and Anglophone) doesn't want to be improved.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
The opacity is the point.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
Future historians -- far, far future, if at all -- will place Timothy Dexter and Elon Musk in the same category.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
It is no good saying that "...engineers know how to solve distributed trust problems...." Some engineers do, but much of the code (not only AI, but across all industries) is being written by engineers who do not.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
The difference between meritocracy and "meritocracy" is that the former is a training function, whose goal is to learn the set of contributors whose contributions can be ignored. In "meritocracy", on the other hand, th
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
Talk about the emotional illness of the owning and managing classes, taking the form of two paranoid delusions: 1. That all of their employees and customers are stealing from them; 2. That the purpose of "government" -- really,
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
And when demand collapses?
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
Who says the US has been so successful? I look around and I do not see success. Of course I do not see superlative failure either; but I do see accelerating deterioration.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
The only criterion is whether it makes a good story. Would you watch that, or change the channel?
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
The capital money has to be spent. But it will not be reallocated to the internal roles/activities that this article suggests, because those things are part CapEx and part OpEx. It will have to go to consultants, because they are pur
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
The purpose of automation is to obscure responsibility.
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Well, of course they can. Just look around you.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
I (composer, Sibelius notation software on Windows) have been using a landscape 43" 4K next to a portrait 32" 4K for quite a while now. It is the ideal combination for an unusual use case. I found that I had to turn ClearType of
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
"...more direct, more human, and sometimes more playful or fiery...." I rejected the original Macintosh because it smiled at me.
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
Are you thinking of things like Time Cube? Seriously, anything written 30 years ago could still be written today and would still run. Standards are made by first-movers even if what they move is howling junk. Every technology has been imm
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by FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
We adapt without learning.

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