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by vkou 3mo ago
Most data centers do not use closed loop cooling. They all have a closed cooling loop, but almost all of them cool the exterior condensers with an open cooling loop. Which draws from the watermain, sprays water on the hot condensers, the
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by vkou 3mo ago
The vast majority of the pro-datacenter 'externalities don't matter as long as I make money' is also pretty obviously astroturfed. The difference is that much of the communication on that end happens in backchannels, directly
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by vkou 3mo ago
More and more people producing information are moving more and more of their work to the LLM, and are strangling the ones who aren't.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> There's nothing dystopian about that. It'll be dystopian when that'll become your only source of information, and we're working on getting there. If you want to be horrified, look at what students (in school and pos
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by vkou 3mo ago
> His analysis of the theory of alienation/exploitation is literally invalid in the era of computers, What? Software development is the poster child for alienation, and LLMs turning your job into one where you manage an incredibly p
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by vkou 3mo ago
Forests take hundreds of years to become mature and healthy. If your magical yet-to-be-invented gene treatment technology works the first time around, you will see results centuries from now.
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by vkou 3mo ago
In that case, isn't the most logical and reasonable way to fight wars would be to immediately use city-killing nuclear weapons?
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by vkou 3mo ago
> Are there not processes in place, with the FCC? The impartiality of those processes is a bit in question when the prime mover here is so far in bed with the executive that he gets to go up on stage during inauguration to sieg a few hei
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by vkou 3mo ago
Only one person brought a gun (singular). The rest didn't shoot anyone, nor was there any evidence that they planned to do so. They were convicted for being at a protest where one asshole brought and shot a gun. He could have had the b
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by vkou 3mo ago
Ideally, you should ask the LLM to write that CI script.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> so before aiming for millions aim for 85K. yeah a far cry from the FAANG wage - but one - you will never get laid off. People making 85K absolutely get laid off.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Another possibility exists - the new one might well be less corrupt. Given that this one took nearly half a billion, it is, in fact, quite likely.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Thank you for giving a front-page example of the CCP's logic when it comes to dealing with protests and dissenters. Find one who did something illegal, hang the rest for conspiracy.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> it was an organized domestic terrorist attack A guy deliberately drove his car through a street full of scattering protesters in my neighbourhood a few years ago, and when people tried to pull him out of it, he shot one of them, and th
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by vkou 3mo ago
Only one person opened fire. He got 100 years. (I agree that he shouldn't have gotten a slap on the wrist for what he did, but I'll happily point out that killers serve less, if at all.) The rest got 70. None of them had guns. The
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by vkou 3mo ago
The case was pretty clear-cut, and as for the pardon... He clearly didn't pay the right president, Trevor Milton got one right at the start of this presidency.
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by vkou 3mo ago
#1 is a net-better outcome for everyone else than doing nothing.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> In an authoritarian government basic liberties we take for granted in the West are considered corruption Could you list some of those basic liberties? Are they the sort of liberties whose exercise involves taking half a billion in bri
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by vkou 3mo ago
> If you have a civilization, you have a vision about life, Do you? Your 'civilization' doesn't run on some kind of command economy five-year-cultural plan. Its values and views of what's good and bad are just some (o
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by vkou 3mo ago
There's something beyond idiotic about a society that goes out of its way to make having children an absolutely batshit insane decision for anyone before their mid-thirties. Doubly so when it blames children's television for its i
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by vkou 3mo ago
The federal felony investigation was for a protest where one asshole shot a gun, and the others, who didn't, got 70 years in prison. There is no world where this isn't completely fucking insane. There is no need to whitewash this.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Five (or fifty-five) people giving unambiguous eyewitness testimony that clearly identified the defendant and the crime he committed, with them all keeping their stories consistent under hostile cross-examination has exactly zero forensic e
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by vkou 3mo ago
The difference between AI and artists is that artists are humans, which should grant them more rights and fewer penalties than some fucking software. Artists don't get penalized, but for that reason, we should penalize the hell out of
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by vkou 4mo ago
Labor arbitrage isn't why the average personal vehicle MPG in the US is 25, but 40 in Europe. Nobody bombed us, all our problems are self-inflicted. Reducing America's oil and energy consumption was a priority for both parties unt
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by vkou 4mo ago
4) People in China want to save money on gas, while America prefers to bitch about gas prices, while doing nothing to switch away from gas-guzzling ICE land yachts.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Since you're kvetching about stupid political reasons I'm assuming you're volunteering to go first as drone cannon fodder? That 'political reason' is that US is war-weary, and the electorate will flip their shit whe
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by vkou 4mo ago
> But this may be one of the few times we have been unable to achieve a purely military objective. The military objective can be achieved, it would just require the 'No New Wars' party to implode from having 272 seats to having
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by vkou 4mo ago
Where did you/your ancestors migrate from, and did any of them do any work at any point?
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by vkou 4mo ago
Right, he never declares problems non-existent or acknowledges that he is an utter idiot who creates self-inflicted crises left and right. The economy is, after all, doing great and inflation has been solved, and all the bad parts are Obama
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by vkou 4mo ago
Or maybe people didn't do a deep dive of the consequences of putting a crook and his cabal of idiots in charge of the country, and just... Voted with their gut against the incumbent, because they didn't like the economic consequen

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