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Comment Re:Just accel the move from Blue to Red states (Score 1) 69

The ops jobs at a data center be they phys plant, security or IT, are a pretty decent and better than many jobs available in rural areas.

While this is true, those jobs are few in number.

Also, again, what negative "quality of life" impact is it having?

Historically, little. The bulk of DCs have typically been located where people could go to them because that used to be more necessary, and therefore they were concentrated around tech firms. And they were planned out years in advance, and mostly sited where it made sense. They also weren't maximally power-dense, as there were other considerations. AI DCs are more power intensive, as they're shoving as many processors and as much memory as possible into every rack. And they're building them fast and desperately, so anywhere they can find to cram them in.

That means yes, noise issues, but also lots of other problems associated with rapidly installing extremely power intensive facilities in awkward locations when infrastructure is already strained. Resulting issues with power and water availability are now well documented.

Comment Re: Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 3, Interesting) 69

Godwin's law obviously has no modern relevance given that it was invented for USENET and that was effectively destroyed.

Now seriously though it never spoke to whether or not the comparisons to Hitler were apt, as that is situational, only that they would occur.

And sidebar, Mike Godwin explicitly stated that such a comparison is apt when it comes to der pedofuhrer. Just like to toss that in there.

Comment Re:Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 69

The guys who built those giant ovens could have told themselves that somebody was going to be baking a whole lot of bread ... very inefficiency.

Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too. The ones who do think all of the above is just fine. There will always be someone.

Comment Re:His crime was the following: (Score 1) 71

Hmm. Grounds for his conviction seem suspect and eligible for appeal:

1. The person who has the contract with the academic institution, and thus the person who has committed fraud in relation to that contract, is the student, not the stand-in exam taker. The exam taker has a separate contract with the student, which taken in a narrow contract, was not performed fraudulently but rather at the instruction of the student and as specified and requested by the student. That is a private matter.

2. His use of the students' credentials was authorized by each of the students, so it is questionable whether this was "unauthorized access". This (the login step, consdered in isolation) s analogous to someone assisting a, for example, visually or physically disabled person to log in to theiir online account.

3. Would disappear if 1. and 2. are not found to be not criminal for reasons similar to the above.

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