I thought we had too many kids taking underwater basket weaving and wanted more of them in the trades where foreign language requirements only makes the cost of education unnecessarily more expensive. Or that was last week. But ... still, foreign language requirements are all over the place in high school and university programs. Or did you mean Latin specifically and not Spanish for some reason.

I can't keep up with right wing "culture" bullshit. It seems so arbitrary, like are we going to do Germanic runes next, or advocate a specific rugged typeface? Fuck indigenous American basket weaving, make kids do math in Roman numerals for "culture" education, seems par for conservative course of things.

Going to be honest, I didn't even read your whole post until after I finished writing mine and thank you, here it is. The Superman falls from the sky, Skynet spontaneously becoming aware comic book plot of an overwhelming force that appears from nowhere. It has to be unknown to be scary, so it happens somehow.

Look, every comic book problem has a comic book solution. The humans win in every Terminator movie. Just saying. Don't be afraid of a problem we made scary by definition.

Why would you force something more intelligent than you, something that by your own definition is capable of independent thought and free will, to do your bidding?

A person with fully twice your intellectual capacity can be enslaved, I mean it's a force and threats of violence thing not a brains thing right, isn't that the basic math for that equation? I'm asking why you think that is a good idea. What is this super-duper-intelligence, three, four times, immeasurably more intelligent than you? It's just as high as you can put your hand up thiiiiiisss intelligent, the exact imaginary point you're afraid you won't be able to restrain it, THAT level of intelligence, OFC.

Is it the intelligence you're afraid of? WHY? Intelligence should be restrained WHY ... and an intelligence great enough can't be ... WHY?

Can we back the fuck up and think about that premise a little bit please? We could play this game with Superman. If we make a Superman, how can we make Superman do our bidding? This is hypothetical but wow wtf people, who is the bad guy here, why are you even asking that. Besides that, if you have the technology to make a Superman, how do to keep twisting yourself into a knot where you don't also have the means to use force against him. Where does the asymmetry come from? He didn't fall from the sky, you made him in this story. So you need another plot device! We made him but we don't know how woooooo oooooohhh. GEE, never heard than one before. The AI will spontaneously make itself somehow, and therefore... hand waving.. unstoppable force. Good grief people. Don't you see how dumb this is.

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take this, it's like looking up how much Maine legislature is influenced by US national legislature prior to secession and trying to use that metric to somehow rationalize the clearly disadvantaged state it would be in after seceding from the US.

We can over fish the fuck out of lobsters now, so much freedumbs! Fuck you Canada! Camera pans to Maine when Canada sits down on the same side of the trade bargaining table it's on. Maine makes surprised Pikachu face.

That race to the bottom mentality and sad attempt to rationalize can only be explained by eating paint chips in your youth. DeplorableVibeCodeMonkey.

Bank doesn't mean retail banking services, jackass, it's a regulatory thing. Are you going to have your paycheck deposited in your Coinbase checking account? Financing your home or auto loan with them? Then in what way are they competing with ... Independent Community Bankers ...

Mainly this is happening because there aren't enough Banks willing to partner with and take on risk of all the various schemes going around. The regulatory environment for scams and schemers is hot right now.

How much more would you make by tripling down on an irrational market? Hell, go all in. We can't ALL ignore fundamental value all the time, you understand how catastrophically stupid that is?

"This time is different" "It always goes up"

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This is accepted practice in the devops world unfortunately. It always sets off my spider senses when I see it, but with an authoritative enough looking source and informed timing as the article suggests, you could dupe a bunch of "modern" developers. For non-technical people, forget about it, why would most people doubt sketchy hotel WiFi setup instructions given the mess they're already used to.

... was how to disable it.

Then why the fuck did you bring it up yourself? Are you paid to write propaganda or just do it for fun?

Where do you get that from, Macs integrate with AD better than Linux systems do.

That isn't something nobody talks about, it's widely known everything is worth whatever someone else is willing to pay for it, and a share price is decoupled from a company's value. It breaks down when you buy someone's $1 for $10. You don't raise the value of a dollar, you gave someone your money.

I'm sorry dude but this isn't like assessing the value a piece of art. You can slap a banana on a wall and sell it for a million dollars. We can debate the value of bragging rights and publicity stunts all day. But if you have a lemonade stand that nets $100 a week with no liabilities, no cash, no holdings. That's dollars to dollars. We can speculate on the future value, like the demand for lemonade or population growth or hostile takeover and replace the management, whatever, but there's some math there that's hard to ignore. It's not worth more than this, it's not worth more than that.

Yes you can entirely ignore the math, you could bid the share price up to a market cap of a million dollars for a $100 a week, with no reasonable expectation of revenue ever changing. It doesn't change the fundamental fact that dollars to dollars, it has a real value of $100*X+Y. That total divided by shares equals a fair price, and we can debate X ALLL day, but it's not the same as assessing a banana on a wall, or the even more worthless bitcoin.

This is one of the things that scales with the growth of their business. Power costs are a _signifigant_ chunk of computing costs. Their datacenter opex is probably not as insignificant as people are assuming here.

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"In its second quarter earnings, Google reported that cloud revenues increased by 32% to $13.6 billion in the period. The demand is so high for Google’s cloud services that it now amounts to a $106 billion backlog, Alphabet finance chief Anat Ashkenazi said during the company’s post-earnings conference call."

Google is in the business of .. computing. Google needs to squeeze more from less and do it faster, to increase profits like anyone else. There's no scale that makes it go away, because it scales with everything they do.

Power is the biggest cost in a datacenter. They're measured in megawatts. It doesn't matter who builds them, they aren't cheap and they don't get cheaper at scale.
I'm not sure what the argument is, Google has lots of money, therefore they should be running everything on a pack of mainframes? A flock of big iron UNIX boxes? I guess you could be forgiven after years of all the AI power demand pearl-clutching and crypto waste in the news, but what do you think a square meter of plain old boring servers in any datacenter did? They suck power and produce heat which sucks more power, it's their whole thing and we do that as densely as practical so we don't have to build more datacenter.

You're talking about a company that famously built their own custom distributed servers and switches. You can head canon that as Google alien science voodoo custom special sauce magic super servers or... lots of rough edges and they did it to save a buck, lots of bucks at scale. This is more of the same.

So the same way some mainframe bro was cheering when x86 killed SPARC and Power servers, well, this crusty Solaris admin is not, NOT cheering about ARM taking your lunch money. Suck it Intel. For a lot of you this is probably a wakeup call, enjoy the race to the bottom. I hope your out of band management blows, your firmware sucks, and you enjoy all the reliability of the cheap consumer grade junk you paid for. I welcome our new ARM overlords. /s but we do get what we pay for.

What the fuck does economics have to do with people being dicks to each other. Nothing.

And being a dick is entirely rational if you reject the golden rule and go with what feels good. That's just evil. Not helping someone being attacked by a dick is also entirely rational, and evil, and not having fuck-all to do with capitalism either way.

Do you want a longer lesson on what evil looks like? Yes it's man-made, you moron.

That's bullshit, I drink mine black, but coffee also tastes great when diluted in something else. It's why a faint whiff of it in the air smells so AMAZING. You can get that beautiful coffee aroma in other stuff. Instead of rinsing out your coffee cup, fill it with some cold milk. Or coke. A little coffee flavor goes a long ways in cheese cake, anything chocolate too.