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byLordofWinterfell
uary 13, 2026 @03:02PM
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Attached to: America's Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem - Too Many Data Centers
Anything that uses over a certain percentage of power for said plant should be directly charged for infrastructure upgrades required to deliver it.
Telecoms do that already - you want a special fiber line, shoot you want a connection to an area that isnâ(TM)t yet served - you pay up front for that connection. Iâ(TM)ve seen Comcast charge $10k to extend their service to a new neighborhood.
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byLordofWinterfell
cember 18, 2025 @05:56PM
(#65867817)
Attached to: AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2025
They are building them. I think the early âoeAI Datacenterâ was built for size, not efficiency. Regular AC, because it was industry standard.
Then they saw how much power is being consumed, how much their chips are being slammed for calculations and realized this was unsustainable.
lol
Now the designs are all-in for efficiency. Zero water (aka closed loop) are the next generation being built right now. More efficient chips, efficiency for the infrastructure, even on backup power generation.
So yeah , this is bad, but itâ(TM)s like comparing 1970s cars to now, when they didnâ(TM)t care about how much gas they used.
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byLordofWinterfell
mber 10, 2025 @12:32PM
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Attached to: Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
You can choose to use debit cards only, in that case. This wonâ(TM)t make store loyalty cards go away, but it will make it so Kroger only accepts Kroger credit cards.
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byLordofWinterfell
vember 06, 2025 @10:47AM
(#65777510)
Attached to: Thousands of Flights in Danger of Cancellation as FAA Announces Major Cuts
The other option is to allow the GOP to wait until after the insurance subsidies end, explain that itâ(TM)s Obamaâ(TM)s fault, and try to use that damage against them in the midterms.
You know he doesnâ(TM)t have a plan to either fix or replace ACA. They broke two major portions that would keep prices low, and now are happy to cash in.
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byLordofWinterfell
ptember 25, 2025 @11:26AM
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Attached to: Accenture To 'Exit' Staff That Cannot Be Retrained For Age of AI
Iâ(TM)m sure they will thoroughly test their workers ability to use a chat-bot, then determine that each one who doesnâ(TM)t use it properly happens to be born before 1990.
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byLordofWinterfell
tember 09, 2025 @02:49PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Forces Workers Back To the Office
Where is everyone going to go, that can match those salaries? Other places that also require in office work?
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byLordofWinterfell
st 22, 2025 @01:16PM
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Attached to: Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI To Power Revamped Siri
So you avoid safari since it uses google for search?
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byLordofWinterfell
28, 2025 @11:56AM
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Attached to: Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out
Those people are the vast minority, and even when they do Balkanize a neighborhood, over time that usually drifts away, as their children and their childrenâ(TM)s children see the value of assimilation and leave.
Look at the Balkanized Amish areas - would you say they have been a danger to progress of the rest of America? Or did the world move on without them, as their kids have been embracing the modern lifestyle of their neighbors?
Most minority groups do integrate, and bring along their culture to mix into the rest. Do you like BBQ? Was that a European culture dish, or was it introduced by economic minorities who mixed with the rest of the culture? How about pizza?
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byLordofWinterfell
y 15, 2025 @02:00PM
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Attached to: Perplexity CEO Says Tech Giants 'Copy Anything That's Good'
I don’t see where Perplexity was an internet giant when Google decided to copy them.
There’s derived ideas, and theres copying. Perplexity was deriving from Google, google just straight out copied Perplexity’s implementation.
It’s like:
You invent an Apple, and also sell Apple Juice, based on your apples.
Your neighbor tastes your Apple Juice, and thinks they can do better, and invents Apple Cider.Some people like Apple Cider, some prefer Juice, both of you get sales.
Then, Kroger sees your Apples, and Juice, and makes their own Apples and sells Kroger Apple Juice and Kroger Apple Cider. You both go out of business because they dropped the price so low that you can’t make that many Apples to compete. Then Kroger raises the prices when you are gone, and also makes smaller less juicy apples, but it doesn’t matter because there’s nobody who can compete.
Did your neighbor
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byLordofWinterfell
une 25, 2025 @11:55AM
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Attached to: Australia Regulator and YouTube Spar Over Under-16s Social Media Ban
Problem is most parents are painfully unaware, and then let their children down by taking no action. Kids are getting groomed online, and we can’t just say “well parents should take better care”..are we ok with larger and larger segments of our society falling apart because the current generation doesn’t understand technology?
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byLordofWinterfell
22, 2025 @10:49AM
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Attached to: Americans are Buying Twice as Many Hybrids as Fully Electric Vehicles. Is The Next Step Synthetic Fuels?
Use solar to get the initial charge without fuel costs
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byLordofWinterfell
13, 2025 @01:08PM
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Attached to: The Audacious Reboot of America's Nuclear Energy Program
You think all liberals are âoeelites living in gated communitiesâ you must live in deep red state. Most liberals live in cities and communities with all sorts of people around and they discover that brown people arenâ(TM)t scary.
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byLordofWinterfell
06, 2025 @05:53PM
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Attached to: Trump AI Czar Sacks on Universal Basic Income: 'It's Not Going To Happen'
However, you still aren’t answering the question - so if you don’t have actual jobs for everyone to do, how do we survive? Even bringing the low-profit-margin manfacturing that Trump wants here, it won’t pay enough to cover rent. Do we want even more homeless workers, or maybe if we, instead of spending all of that tax money on more weapons, we actually supplement our workers, maybe we can have happier, healthier workers who can afford nice things.
Our current tax regime is designed to milk our economy and transfer money to shareholders. That’s what happens when you reduce corporate taxes - corporate taxes exempt investing in your business, you only pay taxes on the profits, what gets distributed. If we taxed corporations at 50%, do you know how they would avoid paying them? By spending that money on the business - hiring employees, expanding their business.
With low corporate taxes, you don’t need to reinvest your money, since the taxes are low enough that you can extract the profits and distribute to shareholders for their own stash. Some might end up in the stock market, so its reinvested, a lot more is stashed away in private business and banks, so that its not working as hard as money that YOU make and spend.
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byLordofWinterfell
06, 2025 @05:47PM
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Attached to: Trump AI Czar Sacks on Universal Basic Income: 'It's Not Going To Happen'
Maybe, but you don’t accomplish it by firing everyone in USAID, cancelling their jobs and funding, and then say to state “Ok now all of that they did is yours”.
You move the head of USAID to State. Marco Rubio used to LOVE USAID, and if merged in with state department, it would be perfect that they work on their joint mission together. But as of now, there’s nothing to move.
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byLordofWinterfell
ne 05, 2025 @01:17PM
(#65430090)
Attached to: California Court Says Holding Phone For Maps While Driving is Illegal
There are additives to prevent the salt from clumping, when you have pepper in it as well. That is what is carcinogenic.
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