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by rcpt 3mo ago
Those workers pay quite a lot of federal taxes
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by rcpt 3mo ago
People in London buy Instagram ads to sell products to people in Birmingham and that money comes into the US. There are plenty of ways for you to catch some of it.
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by rcpt 3mo ago
Why are they bright? Do they have big lights flashing or is it reflection
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by rcpt 3mo ago
Examples of SEIU ballot box warfare + Proposition 8 (2018) + Proposition 23 (2020) + Proposition 29 (2022) Probably their best example is "Healthcare Worker Minimum Wage Drive (SB 525)". They created a bunch of populist local init
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by rcpt 3mo ago
https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-healthcare-... SEIU UHW has a history of bringing economically explosive populist slop to the ballot as a negotiating tactic. Usually it's in the form of
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by rcpt 3mo ago
Anyone who's not able to populism their way into a cash blast for their org. I am not a billionaire. But I don't want to risk losing my job or moving out of state so that the dialysis people can cash a paycheck.
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by rcpt 3mo ago
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake
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by rcpt 4mo ago
https://grokipedia.com/page/2020_United_States_presidential_... Dude
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by rcpt 4mo ago
"tsk tsk"
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Seems to be an exclusive article that's also paywall. Anyone know the story? Ensuring secure elections and auditing extensively seems like good practice. However the issue has become political and neither party is interested in that. T
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by rcpt 4mo ago
That wasn't really an ad hominem attack. If you're going to use the model to learn history you're going to learn the version of history that the model teaches you. A little bit of digging around grokpedia should give you some
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Have you considered becoming a shareholder?
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by rcpt 4mo ago
That video is completely fake btw. https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Can you explain how new data centers "destroy democracy"? Pretty sure that problem is not limited by computer power
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Those two guys removed an established easement. Sure one can argue that it should never have been installed in the first place, but it was and apparently it became widely used. They had no business taking it down.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
I don't there's any reasonable way to have a conversation about trends when you're only talking about a dozen famous people. Yes Elon lost his marbles but my colleagues have not suddenly become "tech bro" that we co
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by rcpt 4mo ago
20 years in and my coworkers are about the same. What's changed is the public perception. Arguably because of the media https://x.com/i/status/1588231892792328192
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by rcpt 4mo ago
I think the only way it makes sense is if local busybodies succeed in banning data centers from the ground.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
I was messing with a stray cat in Yunnan.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
"We're traveling to Tokyo on our way home from China. We'd like to plan a trip accessible by train that hits some beaches, some hot springs, and allows me to get the 4th does of a rabies vaccine sequence (the first three shot
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Solved a bunch of Erdos problems.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
That's roughly what Elon thought about Twitter. The app is so much worse now.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
The water usage is floating point error compared to ethanol and the electricity prices near the centers are some of the cheapest you can get. In terms of the physical world this is maybe the lowest impact industry in history.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Such as
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by rcpt 4mo ago
No they aren't.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
They really aren't.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Can't put new technology back in the box. We don't build the chips or even the machines that build the machines that build the chips. We don't own all the rare earths and our ability to generate electricity isn't anythin
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Bitcoin Mining is 138–205 TWh annually. Surely that's more than a few data centers.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Most everybody isn't affected by data center build outs.
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by rcpt 4mo ago
Not much layoffs and they're probably due to the Trump #1 tax hikes on engineering anyway. But you can't say that without getting tariffed. Saying you're using AI is a much safer bet

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