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> America is at-will employment and employers can basically make up whatever rules they want. this is a bit misleading at-will deployment and "can basically make up whatever rules"…

_if_ stated in the contract exactly what is needed with any possible constraints on brands etc., this didn't seem to have been in the contract at all or else you wouldn't be able t…

no it's people presenting "this is good for a handful of companies" as if it is the "desirable outcome for the general population" even if the final consequences seem rather bad fo…

I don't think this is legal?? It's like telling someone they have to drive none stop for their job but neither giving them a company car or nor a budget for it. (To be clear done a…

I mostly read it AI Labs == established AI Labs i.e. under control of a few rich people. Else it wouldn't be called AI Labs but, idk. AI Comission (like FCC) or similar

there is a huge difference here between that and the central bank the central bank is semi part of the state, AI Labs are not, AI Labs are fully under directly control of a extreme…

this should and must not happen at least in a democracy, even if flawed, power comes from the people, that is the fundamental raison d'être for people allowing a government to exis…

yes, quite likely and if we look on some of the more extreme cases: France Nuclear doctrine is not "we could decide to use nukes if our country is invaded" but roughly more like "w…

> You seriously believe coal fired power hasn’t evolved in the last 40 years? no but even with evolution it still is way worse then literally every other (practical used/usable) al…

I litterally wrote a comment saying going by a single statistic is not sufficient. and it's not China being hadwaving "special" but the measurement you are applying really not work…

is that a serious quest? like - electric trains - electric cars outside of the US most trains try to run electric when they can as it's just plain better (cheaper, more convenient …

no, it's not physics but politics which are the problem here

_decent, clean_ gas generators have a bottleneck cheap, dirty, loud "tbh. shouldn't exist" kind fo gas generators are far more available and what is widely used but also huge part …

Idk. about any specific data center but many of this data centers aren't for AI training / making advancements on the AI race. They have sufficient resources for that already AFIK.…

and they (and many other AI data centers) run on some of the environmental/health hazard worst kinds of gas turbines available (i.e. cheap portable ones) A well build gas power pla…

> claims it won't be a world power at all: which is very much possible 50 years once just a blink in human history is today enough to have 2 major industrial revolutions nukes are …

GDP is subtle broken in many ways A "in general" correlates with geopolitical power doesn't necessary mean you can point at a specific case look at their GDP and come to a good con…

> What's going to replace it? I'm not sure if I'm mis-reading your comment, but: The idea that you "need a single extremely powerful country to replace it or the US will stay in it…

yes, worth adding: Various changes/improvements in the way wind mills are build, have marking & lights on them are expected to reduce the number by quite a bit. Through a lot of al…

no this way of thinking, is not very useful and can be pretty harmful, just because something is imperfect doesn't mean it's fully broken. Just because people have always manipulat…

> fact is solar is too cheap and, unlike wind, very easy to deploy, so it doesn’t matter what your political views are, you will eventually support it this is my point, too renewab…

> on ramming Net Zero down our power lines except this is AFIK just plain wrong much more relevant factors seem - spikes in energy need, mainly AI in recent years - extremely badly…

- calculate in all building cost, side cost, post-lifetime cost, accident risk cost etc. i.e. "all cost" - calculate expected total produced electricity which can be used - divide …

is it just me or does that seems to be a decision driven fully by a personal dislike of wind energy without having actually run the numbers, or in other words the art of a deal isn…

no age verification is not ID verification through meta might have lobbied on both but they lobby for specific (often pretty bad) forms of age verification to be able to - spy on p…