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Sure, it's possible. But, rent control is a serious disincentive to housing development. It requires correspondingly serious investment from the politicians to overcome that. In pr…

Exactly. The problem I don't know how to fix is that voting for rent control is short term thinking that ends up causing rental pressure to become much worse in the long run. There…

Economists don't say no one would ever need to move without rent control. They do say the situation is a whole lot worse for all of the other folks in your neighborhood because you…

Does anyone have any numbers on what percentage of recent datacenters don't follow those rules? Those are completely reasonable requirements. But, the high-pitched online discussio…

I don't think outside intervention is necessary. When I see stories about how a hardware startup like SpinLaunch has had to move over and over because no matter where they go, loca…

Are you talking about the Box Elder County Stratos project? I did some digging into that. AFAIK, they are mostly going to be powered by a natural gas pipeline. I haven't heard of t…

Maybe my feed is biased. But, I’ve been seeing good arguments lately that “The rent is too damned high!” is largely a problem created by voters. And, I don’t know how we’re going t…

I find what people want from the data center build-out is pretty reasonable: 1. Don't build loud machines across the street from someone's house. 2. Don't drive up water/electricit…

Good points all around. Hey! Thanks for the fun, good-faith argument! Such a rarity these days that most folks seem unaware are that arguments even can be collaborative.

I must disagree. One could argue that a human body with a mostly-functional brain that will never again be conscious is human but not a person. And, simultaneously argue that a few…

A human is born, lives a life, ingests the wrong chemical and becomes brain-dead. Now you have a human that is alive, but the person who was that human is permanently gone. To avoi…

With datacenters there is a huge amount of ragebait in the news and social media. People are anxious about jobs and reporters and influencers are cashing in on that anxiety by runn…

A moratorium seems excessive when the requirements to make a majority of people happy are pretty clear. The easy ones are: 1. Use energy and water independent of the municipal grid…

Lots of folks in here calling out the "billion scans a month" and skipping over the "capable of" part. They're not claiming they'll perform a billion scans. They're trying to build…

AFAICT, the "Rising layoffs year after year" news lately has been an intentional misreporting of "Layoff rates slowly returning to normal after the hiring spree during COVID stimul…

> AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning" What would it mean for authors who publish content publicly to the web, with…

The DoW is engaging in simple crybullying. In my time as an online moderator I see it all the time. “You are impinging on my freedom to force you to participate in activities you h…

I would very much like to see us return to something resembling the original copyright terms. Like: Manually file for 22 years of enforcement. Then manually file 20 years later for…

My source is first and second hand reports from management of game companies having worked in the industry for decades. But, they don’t make numbers like that public. The best publ…

> especially if you are willing to wait for some days or weeks after launch (an important sales window for the publishers). “Important” is an understatement. Even for long-term suc…

Is the content of the comment productive to the conversation? Upvote it. Is the content of the comment counter-productive? Downvote it. I could see cases where large walls of text …

“About half of all food deliveries globally are shorter than 2 and a half miles, which basically means that all of our cities are filled with burrito taxis” There is a future where…

> in fact they can start doing so today In fact they already have. There are 10s of thousands of forks of Bitcoin. Only a handful ever got significant attention. And, the original …

There are at least two reasons to buy Bitcoin: 1. You need it for use as a collateral asset for smart contracts. There are no crypto cops or crypto courts. Only collateral gives co…

At a logical level, Bitcoin should be decorrelated from stocks. The fundamentals of Bitcoin network adoption and utilization are largely separate and independent. But, at an emotio…