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Yes, because it's a matter of scale. Napkin estimate that you can do at home is that there are about 2.7b buildings, and half of them use concrete. 8/1.35b = 0.000000001~%. Compare…

This site literally has a user powered ranking system so dissenting opinions get downvoted. It is an echo chamber.

That's for all cement in the entire world , not one data center. This math is not hard. Plastic is roughly 5% of our emissions but you would not point at one straw and say it is wo…

This would still pollute less than the usage of the center. You're underestimating how much energy they use once active.

On paper you can't do this, but in practice the fines for doing so (if they ever even reach your mailbox after you've bribed the local politicians, which you've done to get your ce…

Exactly, you can't compare them and they should therefore be treated differently.

Very unintentionally funny for you to say this here of all places.

A port area that uses the same water infrastructure that runs to residential areas, yes. The saboteurs are not named but I would wager that the Dutch group talked about in the arti…

Emphasis on "mostly" meaning that you do see people talking about the impact. There you go.

If you think bribes are at all going to the constituents, you don't understand what a bribe is. This is a very different thing from them paying taxes back into the city.

> Are we talking about the environmental impact? Yes, obviously. Scroll up or down.

Yep. Even in very red areas like Texas, isn't the public opinion something like 95% opposed? City councils keep allowing it despite this, clearly due to bribes. Whole situation suc…

I suppose if you're one of the people that live near where it would be built it might be worth sabotaging it if only to go another week without the incessant hum and brown, filthy …

Not sure about rating them against each other but I've had plenty of success with YouTube Music. Once it learns your taste well enough it starts giving you some real deep cuts. I'v…

In all fairness, a genuine attacker WILL be abrasive and abusive. They WILL single out employees that are gullible and exploit them. It's not pretty because a genuine attack is not…

"You take my privacy, I take yours" would be the thought process here. Not complicated.

If your point is that you're trying to parrot Sanders' beliefs in a deliberately stupid way, it isn't working, because this isn't why he thinks the public should have a stake in ho…

Why? He makes a compelling argument for his stance, and he is of course one man, not a business. If AI companies are going to have such a profound effect on the common man, includi…

Who is "we?" A utopian society is what we should ideally be aiming for at all times, not some dirty word like you seem to think it is.

This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Pretty cruel to do this right around finals.

I feel like this actually isn't that complicated. Just remove any special protections that they get on the judicial end. The judicial is already there with the intention of balanci…

I would imagine using any non-Chromium browser would cause it to fail to find any Chrome extensions, yes.

Fair enough, but I think many people miss that something can be suboptimal in one way and very optimal in another. As an example, plenty of people here hail ffmpeg as the most opti…