dathinab

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by dathinab 2mo ago
no it's people presenting "this is good for a handful of companies" as if it is the "desirable outcome for the general population" even if the final consequences seem rather bad for the general population and might
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by dathinab 2mo ago
I don't think this is legal?? It's like telling someone they have to drive none stop for their job but neither giving them a company car or nor a budget for it. (To be clear done and companies get away with it != legal. I know com
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by dathinab 2mo ago
I mostly read it AI Labs == established AI Labs i.e. under control of a few rich people. Else it wouldn't be called AI Labs but, idk. AI Comission (like FCC) or similar
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by dathinab 2mo ago
there is a huge difference here between that and the central bank the central bank is semi part of the state, AI Labs are not, AI Labs are fully under directly control of a extremely small number of people in a way which has nothing to do w
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by dathinab 2mo ago
this should and must not happen at least in a democracy, even if flawed, power comes from the people, that is the fundamental raison d'être for people allowing a government to exist this isn't the case of "AI Labs" what
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by dathinab 2mo ago
yes, quite likely and if we look on some of the more extreme cases: France Nuclear doctrine is not "we could decide to use nukes if our country is invaded" but roughly more like "we use them by default in such a case and you
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> You seriously believe coal fired power hasn’t evolved in the last 40 years? no but even with evolution it still is way worse then literally every other (practical used/usable) alternative e.g. the quality of German brown coal is s
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by dathinab 2mo ago
I litterally wrote a comment saying going by a single statistic is not sufficient. and it's not China being hadwaving "special" but the measurement you are applying really not working well for a country which is only half cap
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by dathinab 2mo ago
is that a serious quest? like - electric trains - electric cars outside of the US most trains try to run electric when they can as it's just plain better (cheaper, more convenient too). Yes bunch of fright trains still run diesel, but
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by dathinab 2mo ago
no, it's not physics but politics which are the problem here
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by dathinab 2mo ago
_decent, clean_ gas generators have a bottleneck cheap, dirty, loud "tbh. shouldn't exist" kind fo gas generators are far more available and what is widely used but also huge part of the solar supply bottleneck is artificial
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by dathinab 2mo ago
Idk. about any specific data center but many of this data centers aren't for AI training / making advancements on the AI race. They have sufficient resources for that already AFIK. They are to run AI, so that the 100th app can for
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by dathinab 2mo ago
and they (and many other AI data centers) run on some of the environmental/health hazard worst kinds of gas turbines available (i.e. cheap portable ones) A well build gas power plane can be one of the cleanest fossile fuel power plants
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> claims it won't be a world power at all: which is very much possible 50 years once just a blink in human history is today enough to have 2 major industrial revolutions nukes are not an argument for anything but main land defense f
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by dathinab 2mo ago
GDP is subtle broken in many ways A "in general" correlates with geopolitical power doesn't necessary mean you can point at a specific case look at their GDP and come to a good conclusion. Especially not if it's as much
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> What's going to replace it? I'm not sure if I'm mis-reading your comment, but: The idea that you "need a single extremely powerful country to replace it or the US will stay in its position" just doesn't ad
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by dathinab 2mo ago
yes, worth adding: Various changes/improvements in the way wind mills are build, have marking & lights on them are expected to reduce the number by quite a bit. Through a lot of already build existing wind mill and limited pressure
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by dathinab 2mo ago
no this way of thinking, is not very useful and can be pretty harmful, just because something is imperfect doesn't mean it's fully broken. Just because people have always manipulated democracy doesn't mean it "basically
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> fact is solar is too cheap and, unlike wind, very easy to deploy, so it doesn’t matter what your political views are, you will eventually support it this is my point, too renewables, especially solar, just have gotten very competitive
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> on ramming Net Zero down our power lines except this is AFIK just plain wrong much more relevant factors seem - spikes in energy need, mainly AI in recent years - extremely badly handling of power grids in a high multitude of ways not
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by dathinab 2mo ago
- calculate in all building cost, side cost, post-lifetime cost, accident risk cost etc. i.e. "all cost" - calculate expected total produced electricity which can be used - divide one by another - if one if majorly cheaper and cho
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by dathinab 2mo ago
is it just me or does that seems to be a decision driven fully by a personal dislike of wind energy without having actually run the numbers, or in other words the art of a deal isn't that like yes there was binding commitment to RWE ge
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by dathinab 2mo ago
no age verification is not ID verification through meta might have lobbied on both but they lobby for specific (often pretty bad) forms of age verification to be able to - spy on people better - have a regulatory moat where due to beady des
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by dathinab 2mo ago
yesn't in case of Russia a lot of their military just "didn't work properly"/"was ineffective in a very fundamental way" this wasn't the case for the US, their military did work and was effective in c
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> something wrong like waging a war while insisting they aren't really waging a war and it's just a special military operation and as a side effect having effectively no access to a lot of the resources/means normally used
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by dathinab 2mo ago
> German is a requirement. should be, but de-facto isn't, like seriously you can live decades in Berlin without learning German. As a German I could fully stop understanding German from tomorrow on and in any situation except my pa
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by dathinab 2mo ago
in EU it's normal - a company run the busses - its partially of fully owned by the city/state, i.e. NOT private investors, not private liquidity, no one expects any payouts - its commonly a special form of "company", e.g
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by dathinab 2mo ago
Because you did something very weird ;) - for insurance reasons it's not allowed for them to let you one once they "departed" from the curb, even if just by 20cm. They can literally lose their job over it and while it is a ve
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by dathinab 2mo ago
no, it's the Berlin experience, even for many Germans 1. speaking German doesn't matter too much in Berlin, except older "Berlin Berlins" most people speak conversational English. I have even seen cases of _all_ personal
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by dathinab 2mo ago
I have been living in Berlin since my birth and your experience is one _many Germans have in Berlin, too_. Berlin is it's own thing, both in good and bad, I would not treat it as representative for Germany at all. 1. Berlin is the _lea

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