Aren't they all privately owned? Anthropic, for example, is based in California. As a customer or taxing authority, that's all you know. Your jobs may be handled by DCs in Texas, Virginia or Washington State. But all those states know is that a power and water bill was paid. And they can tax that, but Anthropic's revenue is booked in California. As are the wages paid (and income tax collected) to its most valuable employees.

There are 640 acres in a square mile

[Sighs in metric]

A bit of income from the construction activity. And then from the revenue of half a dozen techs working in a basically empty building, swapping out bad hard drives and power supplies. Otherwise, it's just bits going in and out. Good luck counting those bits as they cross state lines.

Tokens are bought and redeemed a long distance away from these DCs. So they appear, at the state level, as huge operating expenses with no offsetting revenue.

The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.

Original sin?

So, add game software latency to that refresh figure. It isn't a 200/60 difference anymore. It's perhaps a few percent. Or not at all if the game engine incorporates timing to keep game playing equalized.

Anecdote: Back in "the old days", a display card manufacturer came out with a cutting edge 60 Hz card in a world of 45 Hz hardware. Game players were elated. "It's so much better. No more headaches due to flicker. Etc." Except that it was discovered that the display driver configuration panel loaded the same parameters for 45 Hz and 60 Hz. Discovered, I think, by people configuring Linux X11 displays with hand-edited XF86Config files. Suddenly, the gaming BBSs were full of people complaining of the same headaches. Pretty much the same as the guy who "cured" an office co-workers WiFi sensitivity by covering the flashing lights on the router. And, "My guitar amp goes to eleven."

You are faster because the display driver box says 200 Hz.

That would be sort of like emerging from your fallout shelter after a civilization-ending thermonuclear war. By then, what's the point?

And that's on the police department's IT/HR divisions. But, having permission (even as an active duty officer) goes with restrictions on the use of Flock data. No stalking ex-wives, etc.
Problem is: He's not necessarily bound by department policies as an ex-employee. Or that's the way he is behaving. What are you going to do to him?* Fire him? He's already gone.

*Interesting and somewhat scary stories about military people with security clearances. And what they (think they) are allowed to discuss once discharged. Too long for this thread.

Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?

Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?

It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.

... have among the fastest reflexes (the fastest?) of all mammalian species. It could be evolutionary, as a survival need. It also could be a matter of reduced involvement in abstract thinking. When you've got to evade a threat or pounce on your dinner, you move. Now. But many animals with what we would think of as reduced reasoning powers share this advantage over homo sapiens. Including our close relatives, the great apes.

I always keep this in mind when getting into arguments over monitor refresh rates. The average person cannot percieve motion at the rates some people claim. But that may be incorrect for those with lowered prefrontal cortex functions.

I fully well expect this to be modded Troll. Possibly within a few milliseconds.

This headline sounds like something you'd hear coming from a news report on a TV in the background near the start of a horror movie.

Low band spectrum is also useful for rural cell sites. Widely spaced base stations, good penetration through trees, etc. Could be that Musk wants to monopolize rural telecommunications, so he's buying up all the possible competition. That's the market which Starlink was supposed to serve (it's not very good for high density urban areas).

Video display on chest. Perfect Halloween costume.

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