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> The result is linked below. Those cranes in the back of photo 2 are building yet another data center. Is this supposed to be bad? Maybe the datacenter in the first picture has an…

>NIMBY is largely used for housing development discussions and to contort it in support of developing data centers is incredibly intellectually dishonest. No, it's frequently used …

>Modern heat pumps easily keep efficiency below freezing. Ours goes to 22F before there’s any efficiency drop. A different model goes below 0F (we just didn’t need it). No they don…

>Heatpumps should absolutely be the primary choice in the correct climates. But these deals are rarely good or efficient for a taxpayer. I'm amazed at the cynicism here. [thing] is…

...after they abandoned communism ("let some people and some regions get rich first") and liberalized their economy?

> I don't know what they put into pizza "dough" but it's not real flour. That conspiracy doesn't make sense given that flour is probably the cheapest ingredient in a pizza besides …

But oil companies are already subject to a windfall tax, bringing their total tax on profits to 78%? If the author's complaint is that oil companies are making too much profits, fa…

...or UPI (India), wechat pay/alipay (China), SEPA (EU). The problem is that none of these systems are actually global.

>Longtime subscriber. Pretty disappointed in how biased their coverage is. >The most critical piece they have put out on AI is oh no it's so powerful it's hacking everything. It's …

>Why not create a new HN account for every post? Your profile: >created: 1 day ago

>Right now RAM is the same price per GB as it was in 2007 and prices per GB look to continue to rise. ...when looking at nominal prices (ie. not adjusted for inflation). If you adj…

"subsidies" implies the number is negative. Now it sounds like you're moving the goalposts from "datacenters are getting subsidized" to something vague like "they're not paying eno…

>Subsidies to multitrillion dollar companies at the expense of taxpayers. How does this square with the fact that one county in Virginia derives half of its budget from datacenters…

>Arguably if new information arrives which changes the risks or impacts of a project, especially if the project was initially on some kind of fast-track process, then projects shou…

>but Israel has joined the group of countries that taint everything they touch, much like Russia. [...] Israel seems to be working hard on becoming a pariah state. Sounds like you'…

>We direct scraper traffic to a bot-specific server using Cloudflare's load balancer, slowly analyzing traffic and adding conditions one at a time. No accidental scraper DDoS in a …

>I don't really understand why there is resistance to in-browser Anubis-style gating using crypto mining for public sites like this. But in the case of anubis it's not even used fo…

>But this was early on for domains and I wonder what the process is like now. UDRP: https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/consensus-polici...

>I thought the whole issue with manifest v3 is that prevented extensions from being able to block connections? No. See: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d…

So going by one statistic (GDP) is bad, but going by another (population) gets a pass because... China's "special"? I'm sorry, but that just sounds like a special pleading. I don't…

Serious question: which sites have you encountered where ublock lite doesn't do the job? Even tricky sites (eg. youtube) are defeated with scriptlets, not by intercepting network r…

>In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking. I …

DNS based adblockers have strictly worse adblocking capabilities than manifest v3 adblockers. I mean, sure they have their uses (eg. blocking ads/telemetry in apps or whatever), bu…