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by api 8mo ago
I think it’s simpler, at least for some politicians. You have to do something. If any other terror attacks happen and you didn’t do something, then “why didn’t you do something?” So you do something.
782.
by api 8mo ago
If you run stuff like ZeroTier or Tailscale or any other encrypted mesh or VPN you can just run telnetd and happily remote access with plain text. Not that it buys you anything other than being retro. :)
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by api 8mo ago
Isn’t the problem ultimately that water is heavy and it takes a lot of power to pump it and that’s expensive? You can pump water faster through a big tube but then you need big pumps and tons of electricity. If it’s going uphill that’s goin
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by api 8mo ago
Are you sure? That’s insane if true. It genuinely puzzles me why they wouldn’t buy some solar panels to run desalination. The oil they’d then be able to sell instead of burning would pay for it easily. Of course there is not always a good r
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by api 8mo ago
People think of it all the time. But there’s a giant system full of people whose careers and incomes are linked to the complexity, not just government bureaucrats but also lawyers, accounting firms, expensive consultancies, etc. It’s a hard
786.
by api 8mo ago
The answer is simple: simplify and streamline all the bureaucracy. Complexity is a regressive tax. It disproportionately penalizes small ventures and entrepreneurs who don’t have whole departments of people to deal with it. The effect is to
787.
by api 8mo ago
All these big socials are horrible brain rotting addiction machines no matter who owns them.
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by api 8mo ago
That’s a claim that would require real evidence, like someone admitting it or a very tight circumstantial case. Otherwise it’s like saying electricity prices are being driven up to shut down indoor hydroponic pot growers, to make up a rando
789.
by api 8mo ago
One issue with this analogy is that calculators really are precise when used correctly. LLMs are not. I do think they can be used in research but not without careful checking. In my own work I’ve found them most useful as search aids and br
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by api 8mo ago
Energy doesn’t take “social permission,” but it costs money. Translation for this is: we need to make AI make money or the bubble will collapse. I’ve been predicting for a while: free or cheap AI will enshittify and become an addictive ad m
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by api 9mo ago
One more important thing to note: If you really feel you must have NAT, there is IPv6 NAT. Unlike IPv4 NAT, V6 affords enough address space that IPv6 NAT can do 1:1 IP:IP mapping between internal and external. This eliminates entire classes
792.
by api 9mo ago
Other than maybe some very dry places, is this ever anything other than resource mis-management or under-investment in infrastructure?
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by api 9mo ago
I agree with those things but they were not rollbacks of executive power. That was Obama using executive power to reel in bad policy, not ceding the power entirely. Of course perhaps he couldn’t. Congress needs to do that, and the courts, a
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by api 9mo ago
Unbalanced executive power has been growing for a long time. It was just waiting for someone power mad enough to fully leverage it. If we make it through this intact we need to reel this in. Unfortunately neither party seems to want to do s
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by api 9mo ago
I remember predicting years ago that if MAGA got in again they'd raise taxes massively and sell it through some kind of deception that convinced people it was actually a tax cut or something else. I thought what they'd do is push
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by api 9mo ago
I’d also like an updated RISC-V Framework laptop board. There is one but it’s too limited. If they came out with that I’d try it as a laptop. I mean a board with decent storage and better performance.
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by api 9mo ago
Range? Bandwidth? A solution like that would work only in limited circumstances. It’d be neat but no replacement for cellular.
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by api 9mo ago
Sure, but then my question is why we need them. What service do they provide? That’s what I was speculating about. I don’t buy the conspiracy theory that they’re pure parasites, since hosts without parasites would then be stronger and would
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by api 9mo ago
Other than North Korea, are there still countries that are literal prisons that you can’t leave? It’s astounding to me that this was a thing. The fact that it’s so rare now is one of the quiet ways we have in fact progressed.
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by api 9mo ago
That’s just the stickiness of prices, not a problem with solar. Inflationary money is basically an ugly hack to allow prices to fall without falling.
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by api 9mo ago
A lot of the opposition to it is vibes based at this point. Big industrial projects. Big power plants. Big finance. Real men. It’s silly. If you want a real men trip get into body building and MMA or something and use solar power.
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by api 9mo ago
Look at the contrast. We are teaching the sand to think and working on 3d printing organs and peering at the beginning of time with super-telescopes and landing rockets. Then look at our leadership class. Look at the leaders of the most pow
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by api 9mo ago
Still would love a true AMOLED monitor that's decently large. Doesn't need to be this big. One with perfect contrast ratio.
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by api 9mo ago
I've read multiple comparisons between US groups like Patriot Front and the Proud Boys and hooliganism in terms of the culture and demographics. Similar backgrounds, similar attitudes, similar behaviors (get smashed, go start fights).
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by api 9mo ago
How much new capacity is under construction? Seems like it should be a lot, but other than Arizona and Ohio and a few other places I'm not reading about a ton of cutting-edge node fab construction happening.
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by api 9mo ago
If they're cheaper than nuclear, why is the AI crowd looking to nuclear for data centers? I can think of two possible reasons: (1) it's America, and it's very hard to build anything, and nuclear is smaller and fits on site, a
807.
by api 9mo ago
America is stuck in its past, specifically the 1950s-1960s.
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by api 9mo ago
> At $500 this is out of (my) Christmas gift range, but I think we're now at the point where dances, churches, offices, rationalist group houses, schools, etc. should consider them. One of the things in that list gives this away as
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by api 9mo ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted when it's quite an obvious trend in American politics. The executive has been getting stronger and Congress has been getting weaker and more dysfunctional for many years. We have been setting the st
810.
by api 9mo ago
I think it's just that there's more bounty on the Windows side: more business users, more credentials to steal, etc.

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