Just another reason to reign in private equity I guess. I don't know why we let that happen again, they're just the trusts we broke a hundred years ago.
Anyhow, you left out how "Lingua Franca" literally means "(the) French language", as they were the dominant force for a time. It remained the language for diplomacy well into the era of British dominance.
Note that most of the world uses the Latin alphabet, while the Chinese lexigraphy is an absurdity. Also, that analytic languages are mostly limited to China and its neighbors to the Southeast, and they suck. Synthetic languages, like almost all the rest, are far more flexible, expressive, and comprehensible. Plus, the rate of falling tones ending in 'ng', 'o', or 'eu' is much lower. I hate hate hate those sounds.
I just don't think it's likely that a Chinese language (Mandarin is dominant, they've suppressed Cantonese and the costal languages) will ever be the Lingua Franca. Look at the rate at which English adopted Japanese loanwords vs Chinese. Everyone knows what karaoke is, but what Chinese loanwords do we have? Some martial arts and Feng Sui?
Fortunately, this will lead to revival of nuclear energy. However, until these come online, this will lead to hardship where high electricity costs will severely impact poorest.
If one changes how electricity is billed, ie, the more one buys the more expensive it gets, that would help a lot. Particularly when those huge-demand customers would end up paying for the development of the very power plants that they require in the process.
Demand-surge pricing is already common in many places. I see no reason why it shouldn't be applied to industry.
Your suggestion is logical, but I don't think you considered industrial use. That smelter or fertilizer factory will get impacted as well...distribution centers, even ice hockey rinks. Lots of industries use a lot of electricity...it's just they provide actual value, unlike this AI Rush. Most of these are the backbone of your local economy. Not everyone can be an engineer at a big tech company...someone has to make raw materials, houses, grow your food, etc
In my view, the AI bubble is a cancer we just have to accept and accommodate. TMK, investing in electrical infrastructure is not a bad idea. There's no way to separate pointless computation, like bitcoin or most LLMs, vs legit cloud computing, which we want to encourage. And as many have pointed out, once investors realize LLMs are not going to provide the value promised, all that cloud computing capacity can just be repurposed for technology growth that I would consider much more practical. Once the bubble pops...once all the servers bought are obsolete....you still have an upgraded grid and distribution system to support EVs or whatever technology increases our electricity consumption in the future.
The story here is that local suppliers need to step up to make demand. The answer is to shame them, not the customers who want to buy electricity.
An open-source project many depended upon, maintained by employees of Kubernetes, and dropped because neither Kubernetes nor anyone else wanted to fund it. And here is an open-source project people may come to depend upon, maintained by not a Steam employee, but fully funded by Steam because they recognize they, and others, will need it.
Is Steam the better company?
At least they didn't say, "And because there open-source".
I like it when we agree. I'm unable to fathom why this guy thinks the images should be encrypted in a way that makes it impossible to provide the service. I'm forced to guess that the answer is sensationalism.
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.