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In my opinion, it was always crazy to build a wind farm in the most scenic part of the Pacific coast. The neo-industrialist in me thinks it would have been cool to see that driving…

It's gonna be E. The birds are nice, but there's no way they do the birds. The other ones with people are too photorealistic or too cartoonish.

I think there are probably sinister motives behind some of the push to pass keys, but you'd think that if that were true, they would make it really quite easy to add one and to use…

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I have always wondered about the origins of the anti nuclear opinion of Germans. It has Cold War origins to be sure, but what kind? I suspect American intelligence has been support…

this is rational because pedophiles are not a threat to the state. if they were, the bill would look very different.

Funny, now it's the management saying "Go be a bohemian, experiment, spend freely." and the employee saying, "Hold on, where's my ROI?"

This seems like a shot across the bow for all large Claude API customers, which I'm sure they saw coming. But still, a TSMC style pure play model provider would win huge business i…

what a joke apple has become. all to make a few people's careers.

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I'm surprised more people are not talking about the fact that the two best models in the world, Gemini 3 and Claude 4.5 Opus, were both trained on Google TPU clusters. Presumably, …

I despise Facebook and all that it stands for, but if the surplus value that it has extracted from humanity over the last two decades is reinvested intelligently into nuclear energ…

I would buy a Cybertruck tomorrow if it had a gas engine. I would buy a $10,000 or $15,000 gas generator add-on if it enabled unlimited range (provided I have gasoline). There are …

Given recent high profile redaction events, I think one simple use of AI would be to have it redact documents according to an objective standard. That should in theory prevent over…

I’m against internet shutdowns, but I cringe at the phrase “international community.” Who does that even include?

I'm dyslexic and I much prefer to read Times New Roman to Calibri. I think it's a good move.

Whether or not the patent was actually granted in this case, I have not been able to think of a compelling reason to have patents for software. In fact, I think most intellectual p…

You gotta give it to Meta. They were making AI slop before AI even existed.

Who can do this with good data controls? I don't want to have to dig through the fine print of some Terms of Service page to figure out if a sequencing company is going to save a c…

"Democracy" is obviously a scam if a foreign power can buy the platforms and adjust information flows to "shift" public opinion their way. Votes are the output, not the input. Not …

I don’t think Rust syntax and patterns (no classes) are especially elegant for many tasks. I can’t express the behavior of a system as cleanly in Rust as TypeScript, C#, go or Pyth…

The idea that artifacts belong forever to whoever inhabits the land today is going to put under increasing pressure as ancient DNA continues to reveal the number and severity of po…