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by culi 7mo ago
Some people are addicted to the taste of boots. In most of the US, small cities are being bullied around by huge tech firms that have taken over their political infrastructure and bought out their politicians. The people of Maine are sticki
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by culi 7mo ago
It's a pause. And not a particularly long one either. Maine is saying "we don't have the legal infrastructure to make sure we can build these out in a way that protects the environment and our residents so let's put a pa
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by culi 7mo ago
This is the exact opposite of that though. This is people coming together and saying "lets put a temporary pause on new infrastructure until the research/science catches up so we make sure we don't screw things up for future
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by culi 7mo ago
This is far from a blanket ban.
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by culi 7mo ago
Maine is saying "hey give us until 2027 to research this and provide a good regulatory framework for massive data centers that don't impede on human rights to clean water and air". The moratorium expires after 2027. What huma
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by culi 7mo ago
If the council ends up being a total flop then it doesn't matter. The moratorium goes away after 2017 and everything will return to normal The council itself isn't legislating anything. They are simply researching and hiring relev
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by culi 7mo ago
The council is commissioning studies and hiring experts. Its not like the politicians themselves need any relevant expertise. They just need to be competent at writing good legislation, structuring such institutions, and knowing how to list
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by culi 7mo ago
I don't know if they're "worse" but both iron smelters and aluminum refiners are heavily regulated. It only seems logical to treat data centers the same
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by culi 7mo ago
Do you think the EPA is "a council of elders"? C'mon. Be reasonable for a second. Or at the very least actually read past the title before commenting. This is actively seeking to reduce NIMBYism > As part of the moratorium
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by culi 7mo ago
It's the opposite of NIMBY. It's smart thoughtful policy and it is NOT a simple ban. Nobody bothers to read passed the title but the main piece of this legislation is the creation of the Maine Data Center Coordination Council. Alo
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by culi 7mo ago
The moratorium is also only until Nov 2027. I think the moratorium is a small part of this bill. I think the most important part is the creation of the Maine Data Center Coordination Council. The title on this very partisan site is quite mi
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by culi 7mo ago
It's far from a blanket ban. Nobody here reads passed the (admittedly, misleading) title It's a temporary moratorium (on data centers requiring over 20 megawatts) until 2027 to give them time to research and plan for how to do dat
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by culi 7mo ago
It's not a ban. It's a temporary moratorium (on data centers requiring over 20 megawatts) until 2027 to give them time to research and plan for how to do data centers in an environmentally responsible way > The bill also create
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by culi 7mo ago
Maybe they will. They are not banning them permanently. They are placing a moratorium until 2027 so they can research and plan for how to do data centers responsibly > The bill also creates the Maine Data Center Coordination Council, and
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by culi 7mo ago
FFS did anybody in this thread read passed the title? It's not just a plain ban. It's a moratorium until 2027 for data centers requiring over 20 megawatts. The temporary moratorium gives it time to build the infrastructure necessa
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by culi 7mo ago
It's not plain banning. It's a moratorium until 2027. I think it's sensible policy given this craze is at the peak of a hype cycle and there's been a lot of investigative reporting on shady deals around hyperscaler infra
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by culi 7mo ago
States don't have "rights", people do. I don't support any state's power to take away any human's rights. And bootlickers who do shouldn't have the chance to act out their fascistic fantasies
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by culi 7mo ago
> It was an awkward gesture that he did once in the moment He was quite self aware of what he did. He immediately followed it up by visiting a rally for the far right in Germany.
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by culi 7mo ago
I think they're playing it safe. Data centers are at their peak of their hype cycle and it totally makes sense for Maine to place a temporary moratorium (it expires Nov. 2027) on new centers until the industry is a bit more stable
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by culi 7mo ago
And abolishing ICE! Why should states be forced to host armies they don't agree with?
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by culi 7mo ago
They are very dependent on natural gas and they also heavy environmental protections/pollution regulation that makes it hard to build stuff like pipelines and, hence, makes electricity more expensive compared to states with less enviro
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by culi 7mo ago
The title is misleading. It's not a "ban", just a "moratorium" until November 2027 And your "easy solution" has had a lot of research debunking its efficacy and a lot of holes in it. https://www
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by culi 7mo ago
It's a temporary ban (until 2027) and I think it totally makes sense to do so during a boom that has no strong evidence of long-term sustainability. I would absolutely support temporary bans for industries at the peaks of their hype cy
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by culi 7mo ago
The original work suggests the opposite of your conclusion > In a landmark article, foundational to the field of behavioral economics, Tversky and Kahneman (Reference Tversky and Kahneman1974:1130) argued that humans do not infer the sta
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by culi 7mo ago
They found 239 unique sets of dice from 130 tribes across 30 linguistic stocks. Although many of them are "binary lots" there is clear evidence that games of chance are extremely widespread in ancient North America > His final
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by culi 7mo ago
From the original work: > In a landmark article, foundational to the field of behavioral economics, Tversky and Kahneman (Reference Tversky and Kahneman1974:1130) argued that humans do not infer the statistical regularities embedded in e
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by culi 7mo ago
I would highly recommend you just read the original work instead of this article https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a... It goes to great lengths to describe the rich history of dice a
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by culi 7mo ago
The original paper addresses this question thoroughly > This omission stems in large part from uncertainty about whether prehistoric artifacts in the North American archaeological record can be confidently identified as dice. As DeBoer (
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by culi 7mo ago
> Second, the evidence developed here shows that artifacts exhibiting the diagnostic attributes of historic Native American dice appear in archaeological assemblages from diverse groups throughout all periods of North American prehistory
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by culi 7mo ago
They didn't find some new rocks. They reexamined a bunch of artifacts we had and realized they were something akin to "dice". And they weren't 12k years old. They were throughout the record all the way back to 12k years

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