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I don’t know if I would trust opinion writing to be predictive of a growing reactive populist movement. I would caution people being dismissive of how angry people are, data center…

It acts as a negative feedback signal for producers because there is limited physical pipeline capacity. I think there are some financial incentives to reduce flaring for the LNG e…

What polls are you seeing where public opposition is starting to break? All the polling seems to be heading strongly in a negative direction. The Texas governor even had to accept …

Reuters/Ipsos did some polling on general sentiment about data center construction nationwide last month. “Building data centers at a rapid pace across the US is mainly a good thin…

It’s largely associated methane co-produced from oil production in the Permian. The economics of co-production means that the gas is often the cheapest in the nation and can have n…

Advancement of normal technologies can bring about profound conflict, I feel that is one of the main takeaways from the history of the Industrial Revolution.

Many polls were done post election about preferences among non voters. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec...

There have been a lot of published retrospective cohort climate model studies, ex https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08...

This is an incorrect way to frame the impacts of temperature increases. 1.5, 2, 3C makes extreme events like the one you stated significantly more likely in a probabilistic sense. …

Imagination applies also to how we organize society and “rights” we hold over nature and natural resources. Reforming outdated water law is the true fix no pipeline needed.

The southwest isn’t really over populated with people, it’s overpopulated with cows which require tremendous land and water resources.

138 MW is also nameplate capacity multiply that by effective utilization rate for ex solar (~20%) and it’s meaningless compared to the scale of the project.

Oil products are a fractional distillate of a barrel of oil. How are you going to pave the roads all these EV’s are going to drive on, or produce the plastic they consume (EV’s req…

How is ancestry.com a startup at this point? It was founded in 1996.

Just to note that language "duplicates in sparse arrays" doesn't make sense, if you allow for duplicates it is no longer an array by definition.

Most every (analytic) RDMS database system can model sparse arrays. A sparse array is modeled by defining a clustered index on the table "array" dimensions and defining a uniquenes…

Unfortunately "its just geography" is kind of one of the talking points for not really addressing the problem. Although true, concerted reductions in pollution have happened when t…

this is true (and a property of all? cloud formats Delta, Hudi, Iceberg, parquet, etc.) I was referring more to the fact that the cloud vendors can co-design their infrastructure a…

There are a lot of issues though with S3, latency, poor performance for small reads / writes, timeouts, api rate limits, api costs, and consistency issues poorly understood by thir…

This is a good description, except that TileDB (the open source client) is not transactional but eventually consistent at least for S3 and other object stores. I like your point ab…

Underrated it is not, just search for Cottonwood Canyon traffic jams to see what skiing really is like here when the snow flies. 30 minutes no traffic, can easily be 3+ hours now.

Moral of the story was that his dreams came true? https://twitter.com/mikeandersonKSL/status/12577783769258024...

they already provide this as a service

Funny that he mentions Salt Lake / the Salt lake valley as the only other experience with significant levels of air pollution. I often wonder how "silicon slopes" companies are abl…

Made the jump from OSX and for scientific users who don't to endlessly chase a working laptop setup PopOS and it's nvidia driver support (on a thinkpad) has been fantastic, highly …