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Comment Surprising Background (Score 3, Informative) 42

This CNBC article had a surprising quote:

The big hyperscalers like Microsoft and Google, he said, have instituted a strategy of “offloading their capacity to other data center providers.” That’s leading businesses to use Oracle. “These are not organic customers to Oracle,” said Luria, who recommends holding the stock. “This is Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s customers that will use Oracle capacity.”

So the Big 3 cloud providers don't own their own data centers? Is the cloud some sort of infinite regress? Is it turtles all the way down?

Comment It's a Shame (Score 4, Informative) 215

I've seen so much progress in the education field. It's being truly treated a science, and a lot of important research is being done to understand how we learn, and how to teach. Unfortunately, education in the US is highly politicized and most of that research is ignored in order to score political points.

Comment Re:Regulation (Score 1) 105

Regulations mean nothing. Regulations are just a set of rules. The question is how meaningful the regulations are in relation to the topic under discussion, and the answer is not very. US cities, especially near industrial regions are fucking feral when it comes to particulate emissions. Just ask all the people who roll coal what rules are failing to prevent them from doing so.

It's a question of enforcement. Most large cities actually do a good job of it. I only see people "rolling coal" in rural areas with minimal law enforcement.

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 1) 24

The Switch 2 pricing was announced well after Trump was elected, and undoubtedly included *some* additional markup for tariff increases from the get go, since he had been talking about tariffs the whole campaign, even if it has been a continual game of roulette trying to predict the *exact* tariffs. So it makes sense that the Switch 1 prices would be more sensitive to the tariffs than the Switch 2.

Comment One Sided Contracts (Score 1) 24

They sell these price lock contracts as being in the customer's favor, however the ISP continues to raise prices whenever they want. Comcast/Xfinity is by far the worst at this. I've found Verizon to be much more honest by comparison.

Comment Re:Long, long way to go (Score 1) 76

Yes, and when they get to a power gain of two orders of magnitude they will have generated (but not extracted) as much energy as it took to fire the lasers that created the implosion since these use 300MJ/shot only delivering ~2MJ to the pellet.

...or they could use more efficient lasers.

Whereas NIF’s 1990s-era technology is only 0.5% efficient, Campbell says that modern lasers can get as high as 20%.

-Physicsworld

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