"Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth" - 1982

It should drive them to visit the data centers with some wire cutters and explosives

History is excellent. WTF are you talking about? I regularly read scholarly and popular history books as well as reference Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an excellent source for history.

Yes I have sympathy for people who don't have the resources to properly research when they are making life changing investments. But that's not who live in Tahoe, for the most part. Tahoe is a place where they have trouble staffing resorts because they refuse to build housing that costs $350k.

People need to wake up to the fact that you should never build or buy real estate without understanding where your electricity and water come from. I feel no sympathy for anyone who paid $2M for a cabin in Tahoe and can't manage to get electricity. Figure it out. There's plenty of land for solar. You have the funds to buy batteries. Stop your whining and live somewhere sustainable.

Wonder if the fact that these are cross border connections makes a difference.

Tahoe is in California.

Yes. That's where we get lots of our electricity. Imported at high cost from other areas. Which is why local nuclear is cheaper.

Excellent way to launder $60M in bribes.

And when you live in calm weather wind does not work well. And when you live in the mountains, solar does not scale. As I said, this is a constrained energy market. There's nowhere to put the wind and solar farms necessary to replace a nuclear power plant.

Nuke power plants might make their electricity cheaper. When they shut down San Onofre, that led to increased electricity costs for the region for years. They are quite competitive in constrained energy markets like you find in some hilly areas West of the Rockies. The reliance on imported energy increases costs. Producing locally using nukes lowers them.

I'm basically imagining a flat curve, which more closely matches the traditional distribution of grades which aren't using a curve. Under the 60/70/80/90 system, it was generally the case that the number of C's matched the number of A's.

The entire goal of training an LLM is to randomly generate words that appear anthropomorphic.

I would definitely argue Patreon has way more brand recognition than Substack. Substack is very focused on media personalities and fired news anchors. If you're not a political or news junkie, you're not likely to come across it often. Patreon is advertised in 2/3 YouTube videos.

I'm referring to the fact that the bell curve is traditionally used in such a way that F's and A's appear in similar quantities and at the same time 60% got you a D. The stupidest kids who just did the work should be able to pull in a 50% through guessing.