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> Philosophical opposition to AI's impact on society. I think this is the real reason, while the others don't make that much sense when we really think about it. Large datacenters …

One of WMF's more controversial expenditures was its $4.5 million "Knowledge Equity Fund", a grant program that tries to fight racial inequity. The recipients don't have to partici…

I think it's safe to say you're in the minority. Empirically, "fast and cheap" cosmetic upgrades like repainting usually more than pay for themselves. > I'd rather the outlet cover…

To add a few more: it's similarly easy to swap cabinet handles, vent covers, outlet wall plates. Fresh caulk is nice too, even if it's a bit sloppy, still beats stained or cracked …

The centralized leadership has no hard power though; the community normally goes along with changes they propose because they're normally sensible. If they go rogue, people will st…

Moreover, the vast majority of active software development work relates to modern proof-of-stake blockchains like Ethereum, not Bitcoin which is mostly ossified.

There isn't really a technical difference that made PoS viable for Ethereum but not Bitcoin; it's a hard fork in either case. The differences are more cultural - - For better or wo…

Compared to traditional concrete, isn't hempcrete much weaker and less rigid? It's an interesting material for sure, but I thought it was basically considered non-structural filler…

My point is essentially that there are no new problems here, just the usual problems that we already have regulatory frameworks to address. Sometimes those existing frameworks are …

The rules shouldn't be specific to datacenters though; mechanics like Pennsylvania's "but-for" cost allocation make sense globally. If a new smelting plant requires upgrades to a s…

Yeah - there seem to be a lot of pretenses which don't actually justify banning a particular industry. If environmental concerns were the real issue, we'd be talking about how to t…

What do you mean? Proving things about sensitive data without revealing it is what ZKPs are for. If you mean that the tech isn't mature enough to be trusted yet, I think there's so…

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Right. Is your view that nothing can be done about the extortion? I think there are lots of ways other states could make it risky for ships to pay Iran; the US was at least attempt…

The usual view of the international community is that everyone is bound by customary international law. This would remain the case even if the US or others violated it; the hypocri…

Any Jew certainly has cultural ties to Palestine, if we're talking about the region rather than the modern national identity with the same name.

What do you mean by “Palestinian”? They’re Palestinian by the classic definition of “those who live in the region of Palestine”. If you mean citizens of the State of Palestine, tha…

> rare exceptions of Mizrahis It's not rare at all, the majority of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi.

A lot of the stricter codes have very real safety benefits though - modern electrical is much safer, fire sprinklers add significant cost but really do help contain fires, etc. (No…

> Judaism is in fact, just a religion Never heard of non-religious Jews or Jewish atheism before?

> Don't start wars US/Israel may have opened the current front, but the Iranian regime has been waging proxy warfare since the early 80s. They also attempted to assassinate our pre…

> They just want to raise families [...] Most ordinary Iranians, sure; certainly not the Islamic regime. It was their decision to train, fund and supply weapons to terrorist groups…

> this with an American flag and its hull number in open display Soldiers have uniforms with distinguishing colors/marks in open display, yet millions of soldiers have died by frie…

> the U.S. makes excuses for Israel's attack on its own USS Liberty in 1967. It's strange how this 59-year-old incident keeps getting brought up. Friendly fire happens all the time…

You said "the evidence is there" about Israeli rape dogs, not some other allegation. An incident that has nothing to with rape isn't evidence, nor is an incident that happened in a…