Yea, that's why unions make almost zero sense for high skilled jobs. This essentially adds some foundation to the lowest performers while kneecapping top end pay ranges.

Blizzard doesn't create a whole lot of games to begin with. They work on the expectation of every game being a hit. Both Blizzard and Rockstar (with GTA6) run the risk of hitting their hubris, and I wonder if one of the two will have a massive flop by the end of the decade.

Yes, we need regulation to crush all our competitors so no one else can enter this space and then we'll jack up the price

They won't be doing it themselves. They'll have to contract out. Most nuclear plants use Bechtel, Sargent and Lundy and like a dozen other NRC certified contractors. People work their asses off to get into those programs, but you can easily get stuck in a situation where you're moving every 2~4 years to a new nuclear plant. People who want families often try to get FTE positions.

The big danger is draining people from TVA or other power providers. Data center electricians are pulling in $200k/year right now! A loan like this could draw out people from other plants for that big payout. But in reality, unless they plant to build new plants and use this to train up new nuclear workers, they're just going to hurt the existing energy industry.

But that's the big issue: no one can build a new reactor today. And no, not because of NRC regulations. America literally has no steel plants large enough to create a nuclear pressure vessel. These things are massive, and historically had to be transported by river or have specialized roads put in to move them. The last steel plant that could make these closed decades ago. The smaller reactors people are talking about are totally non-viable. Nuclear works because of the scale. Each pressure vessel and reactor core can provide 1Gw ~ 1.5Gw of power. All three TVA nuclear plants (max of 7 reactors between SQN, WBN and BFN plants .. I think only 6 are operational) produce between 6Gw ~ 7Gw of power. Keep that in mind when you hear about data centers needing like 20Gw. That's a fucking insane amount of energy!

Everything he's saying is literally true. There are "sabbath light switches" approved by rabbis and there's a wire around all of Manhattan:

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He doesn't need to "take his pills," you need to stop taking yours.

He's a puppet. He doesn't believe anything he says. If you look at some of the C-SPAN feeds, you'll see he's distracted and not paying attention at all half the time. When he speaks, its' like lines from a Hollywood script, as is all of congress. It's a joke. It's sad people believe any of these people legitimately care about or believe anything they say. The few who do (Dennis Kucinich, Thomas Massie, Ron Paul) either don't last long or don't really accomplish much of anything.

Are they getting rid of Flock only to switch to competitors like Axion? Or are they holding against all of the surveillance companies. (The Axion solution clips onto normal street lights and blends in. They can be painted to be unnoticeable).

Also, remember if you have a newer car, pull apart the dash and unscrew the permanent cellphone modem antennas. Screw resistor packs to them to keep your data private.

Why is the panel of oncologist better than the laymen? They haven't done even 1/8 of the research themselves. They're depending on information dissemination. Everything they read might be backed up by their observations, and might be entirely wrong (like the famous WW2 airplane diagram and survivors bias). Sometimes it takes an independent observer to realize things like Fen-Phen can kill people and Viox can destroy your heart.

You're making an appeal to authority.

> this is the result of any lack of legislative progress on a national ID or any better way to identify people online so instead we have an unenforceable patchwork of standards and now we'll have an unenforceable patchwork of state laws on top of that. What a mess.

Um... so... good? I'm all for bureaucratic bullshit preventing the government from taking away our rights and increasing surveillance. Unfortunately this isn't all that true as the government will just contract all this out from the private sector.

Also, three in five Americans are fucking retarded. If you want your kids shielded from the Internet, don't give them devices! Unfortunately when they get old enough it becomes unavoidable, it involves sending them to the expensive schools that don't use devices. At the local level, all you can do is fight back against your local school system: "No my student will NOT have a Chromebook and mandatory Google account. I'm supplying my own Ubuntu laptop. He/She can print out their papers because I will not allow them Google docs account."

Very few parents are that autistic, or even have the time (if they do have the knowledge) to de-Google their phone and keep their family's systems privacy aware. If they are, they can probably afford to homeschool.

Except this is a first step. You think they're going to stop here? This will also means a lot of Linux/BSD systems won't be able to connect to a lot of websites once California starts requiring that "signal" to be sent from the OS to the destination site.

or they just made the entire thing up as a propaganda statement to make it easier to campaign for more war.

Except that might not really be true. I had a friend of mine die of brain cancer in 2019. Dude was constantly on his cellphone when he was younger, and it matched the side of his head in the MRI scans. Could it be coincidence? I think it's much more likely some people are genetically sustainable to biological damage to non-ionizing radiation. It's probably a small percentage, but there are a lot of cases in the courts, even with modern LTE phones. The phone companies are going to do whatever damage control to make this seem like it's a non-issue, while at the same time any couple trying to have a kid will have fertility experts tell them to not carry their cellphones in their pockets.

These are also slow cumulative effects, so it's not like these people won't pass on those traits. It might be another century, but at some point clusters of families with brain cancer won't be deniable. For the vast majority of peoples it's a non-issue, but I don' think it holds true for everyone. People going on about how it cannot possibly harm DNA are probably just going by news articles vaguely based off studies that are probably funded by cellphone research groups.

I've stopped caring. When I had good karma and got mod points I'd vote up all the -1s that made perfect sense and try to fight the deranged one-sided echo chamber Slashdot has become. It was never like this in the early 2000s when I started using it; lot more debate and reasonable people. My karma is sliding back towards terrible and that's a good thing. It's easy to vibe code a user script that highlights all the 0 and below comments to find things that are truly insightful. It's also why you should read from the bottom of ranked comment sites:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

It's bullshit. I don't understand how they can claim these kinds of numbers. It's probably to sell you stuff that will give you Alzheimer's, just like how the COVID jabs gave people heart disease and turbo cancers.

Preventative medicine is a scam. They "find" things that aren't real problems, charge your insurance thousands to "prevent" them and it will probably end up killing you. Colonoscopies can cause gastrointestinal problems, and if they fuck up, they can cause damage leading to infection. A biopsy pierces a cyst or tumor over a dozen times! Your body is trying to cover misbehaving cells to kill them and the doctors are literally spreading malignancy by letting them loose. Mammograms squish women's breasts painfully and older women almost always need an ultrasound anyway due to their increased breast density.

It's all a scam. If you need any proof, look at the damn Amish. Modern medicine can be amazing when it comes to reattaching fingers and saving people after car wrecks. But vaccine adjutants are incredibly dangerous and cause allergies. We like to think modern medicine is some type of rational science when it's a lot of religious beliefs and not that much different than bloodletting.

> AI is adding adding trillions of gallons of greenhouse gases

Challenging one religious narrative with another doesn't help. You don't have to believe in the religion of hydrocarbons do understand the tangible and easily measurable impacts of speculative data center expansion.

I do entirely agree with the assessment that we're losing our cognitive engineering skills. That is a real issue. I've written about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

We're also nowhere near global capacity for data centers. I doubt any company is even using half of the capacity built. If it wasn't for two decades of moving everything to "the cloud" instead of building local talent and locally hosting all our shit (including security cameras), there would be more demand for local AI hardware running open weight models and all this subsidized speculative token use wouldn't be remotely viable. I'm wondering if Anthropic's recent limits were real or completely manufactured.

These data centers are not primarily for coding agents or making girls with anime titties. There's no way we need this level of capacity for those operations. No, I think there's something more sinister going on. The psychos like Altman (literally: Alternative to Man) are part of an elite Epstein class that honestly thinks the high dimensional space these models operate at will somehow give them access to something supernatural (call it AGI, multi-dimensional beings or whatever). I don't think that's true, but that's likely the real reason behind the tulip mania.

How much of this $10b comes from what they saved via the CHIPs act? Fuck Micron and their murder of the Crucial brand to intentionally drive up prices. It's obvious they're colluding with Samsung and SK to drive up prices (the previous ram company cartels have been found guilty of this in multiple courts over the past several decades, but barely faced any consequences).

Micron can go fuck themselves. I doubt this will help Boise's economy in any meaningful way either. It's just more of these shit companies contrasting supply and fucking over their former customers.

Take Cxmt needs to come off the sanctions list. I know they're output isn't high enough to put a dent in ram prices right now, but we need more real competition in this insane market.