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This sounds like one of those cases where the opposition may be right about the project and still wrong about the mechanism

If the city thinks data centers are incompatible with certain areas, it should encode that through zoning, permitting, utility pricing, noise limits, etc.

A data center can be a much quieter neighbor than a warehouse or shopping center. The catch is that most of its impact is pushed into less visible systems

Maybe, but "this would probably have been fine five years ago" is not a very reassuring standard. The physical impact matters more than whether the racks are running email servers …

The real issue seems to be that local zoning and utility planning never caught up with the scale of modern data centers. If a project can consume huge amounts of power, generate co…

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Elegance may not remain exclusively human forever but usefulness probably requires more than correctness

Yes, especially when the counterexample is formally verified. It converts years of speculative effort into a definite answer almost immediately

I think the asymmetry depends on the representation

This is probably part of why machines are doing so well at counterexamples. They have no aesthetic commitment to the conjecture and no embarrassment about producing something ugly

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Most of the cost is keeping crews, vehicles and equipment available for the call that may or may not come

Thin operating margins don't really settle the greed question when the ownership structure is complicated

This is exactly the part that makes "you can always refuse" feel a bit theoretical

I think your department is probably closer to what people imagine ambulance billing looks like

Yet "the payment model is broken" and "some prices are absurd" can both be true

Kids don't just get sick, they seem to turn the whole house into a slow-motion relay race of viruses

I guess it depends a lot on what they count as sick. I definitely don't spend 3 weeks a year in bed, but if you add up all the random sore throats, congestion, coughs that linger f…

It's strange how much we've normalized everyone being sick for weeks every year, even though the total cost is enormous

This is the kind of thing people miss when they say "it's just a cold". I really hope this work goes somewhere.

The tricky part is that the benefit is invisible. If it works, nothing happens: people just get sick less often. That is a hard thing to sell to building owners and employers unles…

Sending someone a dumb meme can also be a form of affection

I don't think the point of the strawberry example is that industrialization failed to make strawberries cheaper or more available. It obviously did the opposite in many places. The…

When housing, healthcare, work, social life all feel unstable, the predictable option starts looking less like boring conformity and more like one less decision that can go wrong