barney54

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by barney54 1mo ago
No. The modern grid has little relation to capitalism. There is some private ownership, but there are massive government barriers to entry and massive regulation of the system.
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by barney54 1mo ago
You are giving them way, way, way too much credit. They are not planning for a future economic crisis.
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by barney54 1mo ago
Sure there were some people involved in DOGE that had good motives, but overall they assumed that history began yesterday and that they were the only people that had thought about reducing the size of government. This was a recipe for disas
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by barney54 2mo ago
This is exactly who it sounds like Dvorak was. I never got to know him like that, but being a public curmudgeon, but private warm-hearted person is a pretty great compliment.
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by barney54 2mo ago
I enjoyed John and Leo butting heads. I agree that it was great. It's a bummer they haven't done that for a long time.
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by barney54 2mo ago
I write Donald sometimes. If you say Donald in the right context we know who are talking about. Or Kier or Emmanuel. There is nothing wrong with first names of public figures.
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by barney54 3mo ago
So far, the data are clear--data centers are not increasing electricity rates. Those are the facts. https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/the-numb... This may change in the future, but so far, there is
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by barney54 4mo ago
Except the environment in the U.S.—better air quality than almost all of Europe. Except natural beauty in the U.S.— the U.S. has some truly beautiful places to visit and to live. The people are very friendly, especially outside of the citi
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by barney54 4mo ago
I also had a Kelty pack. It was great for the time.
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by barney54 4mo ago
Types of energy are not fungible. In some circumstances they are, but not always.
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by barney54 4mo ago
That may be true, but also according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, global oil production is up over 8% since 2017 (2017-2025). https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#&
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by barney54 5mo ago
Nor does it say how much subsidence the satellite documented.
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by barney54 5mo ago
I mean, the likely democratic senate nominee literally has a nazi tattoo. Fascism still has its fans.
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by barney54 5mo ago
I read some AI slop earlier today and then read this. The AI slop was better than whatever this is.
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by barney54 5mo ago
The article concludes, stating that LLMs are the “apotheosis of knowledge stripped of animating spirit and reduced to mere utility.” Maybe, but LLMs have far more utility than this directionless essay.
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by barney54 5mo ago
It’s funny that you say that tweets are US policy when the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs.
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by barney54 5mo ago
What is this corruption you are talking about? What specifically are you talking about? Things you don’t like aren’t necessarily the result of corruption.
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by barney54 5mo ago
The U.S. can build trains and has a good rail system—for freight not passengers. It’s not obvious how Japan moves freight, but the U.S.’s rail system evolved to move freight efficiently. That is a huge difference and not necessarily the re
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by barney54 5mo ago
What is seldom mentioned in these conversations is that the United States has a very good rail system—-for freight. That’s what the U.S. system did well, not passengers. From the article it isn’t obvious how Japan moves freight, but they
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by barney54 5mo ago
I don’t think it’s a question that Linux has more jank. I recently installed a fedora spin on a laptop that came with regular Fedora installed originally and the WiFi didn’t work. That’s some janky stuff right there.
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by barney54 6mo ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted for this comment. Bondi's promoting the DOW during a hearing was bizarre.
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by barney54 7mo ago
Are you saving that an organization should be able to put together a documentary to criticize Trump and his supporters? Because that’s what Citizen’s United allowed. If you don’t support that, then the criticism will only come from rich i
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by barney54 8mo ago
That’s because net metering is a transfer from people who can’t afford solar to the rich people who can. https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/californias-ex...
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by barney54 8mo ago
And it really want's Ewan that was put out about the KTM rejection--he wanted to ride the BMWs, but Charley Boorman was pissed. Charley had dreamed of the KTMs for years.
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by barney54 9mo ago
Wow this is dumb. The reason I’m on Windows is because of Office. For my needs Office on Windows is the best—otherwise I’d be on a Mac or Linux. I use AI everyday and never found a use case for Copilot. So why rebrand Office, their best p
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by barney54 10mo ago
Or they like staying in business and producing energy that people willingly purchase.
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by barney54 11mo ago
Sadly Amazon only revealed plans, not an actual reactor.
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by barney54 11mo ago
I don’t know of a shop that doesn’t have some sales at some time. Sales are just such powerful selling tools. Factorio is a counter example. Factorio never goes on sale, which is kind of nice because when you buy it you know you couldn’t
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by barney54 1y ago
It is not moral to break the law in the furtherance of fraud. That’s the point.
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by barney54 1y ago
Community input is nice, but we first need working small reactors. Until we see that there is no need to talk about community input. And so far small reactors keep taking longer to get built than estimates.

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