We're talking about AI data centers here. The network latency is trivial compared to the processing latency, so it's irrelevant for most use cases.

Explain why something had to be done to reject a population that produces more revenue than it costs to support them and commits crimes at a rate lower than both the general population (slightly lower) and than the people hired to police them (FAR lower.)

Are you talking about the industry overpricing everything so nobody is buying anything here?

Where did you get the ludicrously inaccurate and ignorant and therefore on-brand idea that antitrust only applies to monopolies?

Pelosi and other congresspeople are clearly making what would be illegal trades for anyone who was not in congress. They are not only possessed of insider information but that includes their own upcoming actions, where they know what they will do which will affect markets before anyone else. The only reason it's "legal" is that nobody can hold them accountable but them. So yeah, that's technically legal, but it's also without oversight. (Citizen oversight doesn't count since Republicans deliberately damaged education in this country because they knew they couldn't continue to win elections otherwise.)

Precedent isn't relevant unless it's legal precedent, and the president putting his wealth in trust isn't that.

Shame you got modded down for facts.

Texas IS installing solar and wind, faster than any other state in fact.

But unlike China which virtue signals about the alt power they are building, Texas lack-of-virtue signals by crowing about coal and oil while building... the same alt power.

Chinese are more forward-looking than Texans.

Nope. I think the other objections made in this article are valid. I just don't think "they will catch that with DHCP" is.

Lots of people hate Nazis, we used to consider that normal

Hawaiian eruption last a long time and the lava flows persist for years.

Your effusive eruptions last on average no longer than our effusive eruptions. The fact that Iceland also has phreatic eruptions doesn't change the fact that most of ours are effusive basalt, just like yours, with corresponding eruptive dynamics. Also, FYI, for a given total effusion volume, slow eruptions are easier to divert. Diversion is much more challenging when an equivalent volume of lava is effused in a short period of time. And it's not like you have vastly larger average lava flows than we do. The largest lava flow on Earth in the Holocene (modern era) is in Iceland (the THjórsárhraun - 900km2, 25km3, 70km underground travel followed by 130-140km on the surface). For comparison, Hawaii's largest holocene flow is the Ailaau Flow at 430km2, 4-5km3, and 40km.

If we want to limit to more recent flows (since Ailaau was fairly recent, in case you think Iceland stopped having big eruptions), Iceland's biggest *after* Alia'au was Laki (1783–1784 AD), at 600km2, 15km3, and 80km. It lasted for 8 months to 2 years, depending on whether you count the concurrent Grímsvötn eruption as part of it. So much gas was released from that huge volume of lava that despite us being nearly arctic (polar volcanoes have much lower near-term climate impacts than equatorial volcanoes), it caused a winter so severe that the Mississippi froze at New Orleans and ice was seen floating in the Gulf of Mexico.

We simply get bigger effusive eruptions than you, full stop. Not all eruptions, of course, both of us have a huge variance in eruption scales and dynamics. But trying to claim ours are somehow "easier" is just not in line with the facts. Also, Hawaiian eruptions tend to occur on terrain that slopes significantly more consistently toward the sea, aka where you want to divert lava toward; on flatter or less-consistently-angled terrain, lava "piles up" more and makes it easier to overtop berms.

There is a practical side that it is easier to move people and build coffee shacks

I'm not talking about "coffee shacks", I'm talking about whole communities and beloved places. In particular, I'm thinking about the 2018 Lower Puna eruption. Of course the homes near the vents in Leilani Estates were doomed, but there is absolutely NO reason why you should have lost anywhere close to as much as you did so far from the vents. Losing Kapoho Bay for example was simply cultural fatalism. I watched a person crying on the news saying she didn't understand why Pele chose to take such a beautiful place. It's not Pele who took it, it's your insane resistance against doing anything to protect yourselves. That was one of the easiest possible flows to divert. Most of the lava fronts moved at a crawl, you had warning long in advance of the eruption and a very slow eruptive rampup (didn't really take off until June), and you had a steep slope to the south into unpopulated areas you could have easily diverted it down. Losing all that was a choice.

"Oh, we can't!" is just an excuse for your fatalism that gives you an excuse to not put forth the effort to actually do it. It's not the 1940s anymore, we're not chucking surplus WWII bombs at lava tubes anymore. Lava diversion is a science and is routinely effectively done. There are limits, but you were nowhere near said limits for sites far from the vents. There are costs, but they are nowhere near the costs that you paid by refusing to act.

Now? EA could already lick my taint.

In fact I have spoken against Islam time and again, along with every other religion. There is no difference there. I've said mean things about Mohammad here on Slashdot, etc etc. If you weren't a noob you'd know already and wouldn't accuse me of being an Islamophile. I oppose all religions in proportion to the damage they're doing at the moment. That means the collected Abrahamic faiths are the primary problem in my eye, and they can all get it AFAIC.

To be as clear as I feel like being, I believe in religious freedom, including the freedom to oppose it.

I don't care who was conquering who, that's irrelevant to the argument. What makes it stolen is that we made treaties in the process of ending hostilities and then broke literally every single one of them.

No one was ever kept in check by irrationality.

Capitalism and democracy are incompatible but you love that shit