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> Demand has apparently increased by about 4%, but that doesn't explain the 10x price jump. The price is set at the margin. Mines in wealthy high regulation countries are incredibl…

>Because we watched our careers go from being in service of an industry of tinkerers and designers, to being in service of the worst people attempting to maximize wealth extraction…

> I have lost almost all interest in it these days. It feels increasingly meaningless, and actively harmful. Everything has this arc. A civil engineer who signed on at a firm that …

>And they are less likely to create whole ideologies, political parties and movements that rationalize and defend all that abuse. Women are less likely to create whole ideologies, …

The amount of water actually being displaced isn't changing much, it's just kind of rearranging around where is water and where is ice.

Every time they do that you just redefine wrecking. First it was the fish ladders. Then it was a bunch of whining about how reducing the water level variation on the river is bad (…

The potential I see for AI to help here is identifying and recording a message for "if you're calling about the whatever that just blew up on maple street press 1" situations becau…

You're seeing all these half baked AI adoptions in government specifically because they're the entity most likely to be able to dodge paying for it when they've done wrong.

The long tail of women's erotic novels is way worse because there's a lot less laws regulating what you can put in text vs film.

>The "without lawful authority" condition will result in this being vacated upon appeal. Exactly. Meta will agree to pay a reduced settlement. Meta will agree to give the state a c…

>- Sprinting the last block home: Flight behavior consistent with shoplifting offense That's the kind of thing I can see them doing because they don't exactly get a lot of downpour…

The conflict isn't because of the lack of monopoly. The conflict and lack of monopoly are because whoever as the closest thing to a monopoly is doing such a bad job.

>the only somewhat subtle point is that people don't differentiate between the datacenters of yore that were built sort of well and sustainably and the ones built in the current ma…

> Specific example: $2B aud datacentre will support 30-60 jobs after completion. But that's not out of the norm for industrial activity. Like how many people do you think are actua…

Construction (or at least of the type we're talking here, not fracking and tunneling and other things that affect the subsurface water table) interferes with surface water, not gro…

I'd rather have a DC as my neighbor than an office because what are offices full of? People like you who call the next guy's stuff an eyesore.

>If any of us did that... You don't have Metas legal team nor does the power structure find your valuable to have helping them out nor can you harm them if you don't like them. The…

>I can’t get over how bad “Rovo” is. Somehow more aggressive and useless than Microsoft putting “Copilot” everywhere. You're looking at it the wrong way. Think about how much bette…

>Imagine using a small a-bomb for mining just as we use ANFO today. Nuclear cement kiln Nuclear pile jetter Nuclear tunnel boring machine.

>Because said person is sitting here saying "HN is stupid", it has nothing to do with the police, but the audience he's going after. I said that if you go into policy discussions w…

>This will ruin lives, even if they're eventually let go. Jobs lost, evicted from homes, cars towed, pets surrendered and put down. Yes. That's exactly the point. Comply with every…

It's a numbers game. There might be one person who's in the right place at the right time with the right understanding to second the nuanced professional take. There's a hundred id…

Basically every rule that tries to piecemeal outlaw the concrete jungle (muh setbacks, muh maximum impermeable area percentage, and so on) winds up introducing sprawl because you w…