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by tptacek 3mo ago
The distinction is that Mastodon doesn't have to grow, and Bluesky does. There's an extent to which Bluesky is viable because its venture-funded owner pays for the infrastructure it operates on (Mastodon communities generally have
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Sure, but not if you've taken venture funding. We already have a public, community platform for building slow-growing tight-knit communities: Mastodon/ActivityPub.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
They do, but it's unclear how defensible they are. You don't have to operate Flock cameras to get access to Flock data (or Axon date) from neighboring municipalities; Flock even operates (last I checked) a subscription product for
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I mean, not really, right? Permeability would help, but the first and second principal components of our flooding situation are the fact that we're built on a flat swamp, so water has no natural place to go, and we're built around
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This is exactly why we took our cameras down in nearby Oak Park in Chicagoland. People talk online as if this is a Flock technology issue, but it only peripherally is. The core problem is that the hotlist systems states set up were never in
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by tptacek 3mo ago
So issue the grades but don't record them in the GPA.
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Having put two kids through college now: this makes sense. First semester grades are a shitshow anyways, and aren't especially predictive. The first semester at an R1 is utterly unlike any ordinary high school experience and a lot of w
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Part of the backstory here I think is that ALPR cameras are a commodity technology. They're not defensible by themselves medium term; the market will go to whoever ships the cheapest most reliable cameras with the best pre-sales team,
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It requires Amazon to directly employ delivery drivers in New York City and sets up a licensing scheme for last-mile delivery.
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In most states you can FOIA anonymously, and in every state you can just have someone else FOIA for you. This just reads as an excuse not to do things beyond posting about how a better world isn't possible.
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Really living up to the name there. :)
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I agree that a lot of data center advocacy is just incoherent polarization and populism, as evidenced by the guillotines.
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Unfortunately for your point, their votes count equivalently.
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(You mean that it takes months in the bottle; it's pretty much instant in the gut.)
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I'm not seeing polling break, just opinion writing. You're kind of making my case for me when you talk about people showing up to protests with guillotines.
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People say this all the time online, but actual opinion polls show otherwise. People generally love Amazon, and have a high opinion of OpenAI (if you're not in the industry, it's not unlikely you don't really know who Anthrop
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by tptacek 3mo ago
That poll says Americans broadly oppose data centers in their local area . A poll of all Americans would likely find broad majority support for the construction of data centers in Texas; a poll isomorphic to this one would also find simila
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by tptacek 3mo ago
That was my point. People disagree about this topic. I happen to agree that climate change is a real and imminent problem (though probably not, with the previous commenter, about its solution space). Pointing to public opinion about smoking
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Yes, because they have open permitting and encourage development. But they are also the largest producers of fossil fuels in the country.
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You hope. People who believe things you disagree with say the same thing about their beliefs! (I think the way through this mess is huge investment in renewables, and that blue states have calamitously dropped the ball by pushing so much da
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I love rock music. Banksy is the musical equivalent of My Chemical Romance.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Every serious street artist would disagree. Watch a video of someone putting one of these up. There's a zillion of them on Youtube.
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Oh, it totally is, it just doesn't prompt the same sense of glee and wonderment.
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If you come up with an argument for this that's somehow particular to ALPR cameras and not an indictment of all policing since the 20th century, I'll likely respond.
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It's also, as the article points out later, a permitted cap, not an emissions estimate. New plants generally have permitted caps far higher than their expected emissions.
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This is, putting it gently, not a majority opinion in the US and especially not in Texas.
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Yeah sorry, so many -croses and -coses!
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This piece would have been better if it had just been the prompts used to generate it. The entire underlying story is just "company does discretionary RIF". Some of these generated stories pay their freight on HN, because they dev
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This isn't true. Your body breaks sucrose into fructose and sucrose almost instantaneously; in fact, sucrose is so easy to break down that it happens in Coke bottles. Fructose is bad for you, but you're getting just as much of it
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I don't think understanding Banksy takes much work.

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