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by rangestransform 20d ago
If we didn’t have stupid regulatory bullshit and protectionism, it would be cheaper to run a data center on solar and batteries in bumfuck Nevada
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by rangestransform 20d ago
It should be mind numbingly trivial to stand up a solar farm and ram through some transmission lines in the desert, and mind numbingly hard to set up a temporary gas generator. We needed regulatory exemptions yesterday for clean energy, pub
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by rangestransform 20d ago
We should have tap in/out in NYC too, it gives another opportunity to catch a fare evader
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by rangestransform 22d ago
I chose a MacBook as my laptop last job because my Nvidia drivers kept breaking on my Linux laptop
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by rangestransform 22d ago
The pressing issue for mankind is CO2 in particular and not this abstract notion that we ought to be noble savages
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by rangestransform 24d ago
No, we will not get to a post oil society by self flagellating like Europe, but by making sustainable options so cheap and plentiful that they displace unsustainable options. (Of course there’s some market intervention and government invest
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by rangestransform 29d ago
If ai helping normal people use rich people loopholes cause a government system to collapse, the system deserved to collapse
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
China prevented the founders from leaving the country
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
Modern incinerators still get a bad rap even compared to landfill
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
You can’t reform it because of the immense job loss that would result from an efficiently run public healthcare system. Think about all the useless paper pushers that are allowed to vote
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
The US could achieve the same thing with a proper migrant labour program
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
I wish the US could also use migrant labour like Singapore instead of the current system of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration out of necessity
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
That was what singaporeans were like too when it split off from Malaysia, if enough people wanted to we could beat order and rule of law into the US. The problem is that too much of the US are bleeding hearts who oppose any law that even sl
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
Coquitlam is slightly better than American suburbia, I had plenty of parks and restaurants in walking distance, there’s skytrain and BRT now too
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
Blocking unwanted neighbours with anything is exactly what NIMBYism is, and you could make similar arguments that housing developers are externalizing the burden of e.g. traffic or school capacity while privatizing the profits. Laws that en
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
I actually really liked uber pool in the Bay Area, talked to some interesting people
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
The unions will always get in the way of cheap transit construction, see the second ave subway in NYC
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
The transit-as-welfare idea that pervades the US precludes keeping trains free of antisocial behaviour forcibly as is done in Asia
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
See how politically difficult it is to build queenslink in NYC, a transit project using ab existing right of way in the most transit-oriented city in the US. Even there, the unholy alliance of NIMBYs and the degrowth/rent-control left
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by rangestransform 1mo ago
The idea of transit as welfare is a cancer to good transit in the US, even in places where it’s onerous to drive like NYC. This is how we end up with bus stops every block, buses from nowhere to nowhere instead of subway-like frequencies on
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
Sierra club environmentalists and NIMBYs have the option to shut the fuck up and stop opposing green power generation, but they still choose to
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
There was a real human cost to how China industrialized that isn’t “muh freedoms”. China overproduced STEM grads so that their industries could hire them for pennies on the dollar. They had to withstand insane competition starting in elemen
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
The only reason AI research is in conflict with limiting global warming is the unholy alliance of NIMBYs and Sierra Club environmentalists preventing the building of anything, anywhere. Clean energy has beaten out fossil energy on cost for
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
Imagine if all USB-C cables had a patent owned by the consortium and an identification chip made by the consortium. The spec could require that devices would not use the cable at all unless the chip is cryptographically verified, and bad ca
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
VPD has become notably more controversial after Jim Chu stepped down, before that it was notable how professional they were for a North American police department
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
Based on Alyssa Rosenzweig’s reverse engineering, the current GPUs are still descended from PowerVR IP
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
It’s still far too scalable compared to what was accessible back then. The police should be handcuffed to paying for a full ass helicopter if they want to do surveillance
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
There should be no optimization on police resources. When Katz v. USA (no expectation of privacy in public) was decided, surveillance was done by an officer who needed to be paid a middle class salary, maybe armed with a camera and a teleph
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by rangestransform 2mo ago
Moral responsibility is not real responsibility that can be enforced at the point of a gun by anyone or any nation, and so this responsibility does not have to be assumed
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by rangestransform 3mo ago
We saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market GPUs at a minor markup. The US would do well to keep the wo

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