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by consensus1 3d ago
Is this basically a free pen test, or am I misunderstanding the setup?
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by consensus1 6d ago
Is that important context? I would say it's not. What if those companies already made massive profits and said "I think people are willing to pay more for this, so I'm going to raise the price." And there's absol
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by consensus1 6d ago
I assume you got that > 50% number from actual CPI data and not just vibes, right?
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by consensus1 13d ago
And I hope nobody is claiming that mainstream journalism has any accountability
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by consensus1 13d ago
I think that's a hilarious statement given how they drink in the UK
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by consensus1 17d ago
Why would you ever expect that you would have a choice of what products you use at work? You are being paid to work there. And yes, if you feel that strongly, you absolutely do have the option to vote with your feet at any time.
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by consensus1 17d ago
Isn't part of " Europeans are ought to be able to decide how they want to live their lives" that they have the choice of using products of US tech companies?
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by consensus1 18d ago
The people imposing the rent control are the same people responsible for the shortage, so I just can't get behind that.
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by consensus1 18d ago
Yeah, I hear you. The "stock market is rigged, insurance is a scam" vibe is strong here. HN has really turned into a sounding board for bitter people who think the whole world is out to get them.
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by consensus1 18d ago
They don't care if you have to follow the rules either. Why don't you get mad about the fact that you are forced to obey all these idiotic rules instead of somebody else finding a way around them.
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by consensus1 18d ago
It will be a test of what they think about the relative cost / performance of a model is, and not a single thing more than that.
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by consensus1 19d ago
I was joking (mostly). The stock market absolutely is positive sum, but at the same time things like 2x levered short VIX ETF's exist...
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by consensus1 19d ago
Which we called the "stock market"
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by consensus1 19d ago
I get that anyway. It's just that in democracy it's a mob of millions of idiots who don't care about me. I guess I'd rather have it be the billionaires because at least they want to build things and advance our infrast
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by consensus1 19d ago
All of them are good except for democratic oversight. Those other things are beneficial and cheap and easy to comply with. It's the democratic oversight of what gets built and where that is nothing more than a giveaway to worthless b
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by consensus1 19d ago
Who is causing what here? If there is no demand for those services then the data center will sit there idle and cause no pollution. You can't consume services that cause pollution without accepting your share of the responsibility.
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by consensus1 19d ago
The AI companies look at something called the "endless government bureaucracy" and they think to themselves "fuck that, I'm not waiting 10 years for all that bullshit, I'll just use the loophole." I truly cann
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by consensus1 21d ago
The entire point of a temporary visa is that the host country can refuse to renew and force you to leave the country at their whim. When you apply for such a visa you accept those terms.
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by consensus1 21d ago
We'll be fine. It didn't take Germany & Japan that long after they started WWII
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by consensus1 21d ago
It's unethical to decide I don't want to go through the whole visa bureaucracy to hire employees?
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by consensus1 21d ago
No it's really not the same because we have laws against racial discrimination, but it is the entire purpose of the state to represent the interests of its citizens above all others.
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by consensus1 21d ago
I am well aware that's not what you are proposing. What you are proposing includes "wait 10 years" which absolutely no reasonable person is going to accept.
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by consensus1 21d ago
That's how it works already. You pay the power company and that money is invested into the grid. Somehow this has worked in Ashburn VA for their massive data center build out so I don't see why it can't work in other places
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by consensus1 21d ago
And this doesn't make you question the narrative that they are really damaging anything?
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by consensus1 21d ago
People complain when you hook them up to the high efficiency generators that power the grid, so this is what they get.
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by consensus1 22d ago
So where is the guy who is respectful to the government and compliant with regulations that is out there building millions of EVs, rockets, and massive satellite constellations? If he existed I could respect your argument. But in reality
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by consensus1 22d ago
It has a political valence when one party is campaigning on punishing and stopping them from building. "Should" is a meaningless word unless I have agency to change that, and I don't.
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by consensus1 22d ago
The whole "temporary jobs" line is completely irrelevant nonsense. Sure, it's correct, but who cares? The alternative is zero. It's not like there is only a limited amount of undeveloped land and a bunch of people bid
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by consensus1 22d ago
And where did that money to increase wages come from?
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by consensus1 23d ago
Yes, that's what I meant, but I thought your comment meant that it was a property management company hired by Blackstone, not an internal division of Blackstone. That changes things completely.

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