The truth varies slightly from the headlines. These companies paid huge sums for offshore leases. Trump is refunding those. Still a boneheaded move but the companies involved are definitely not profiting or happy about this outcome.

Geothermal developments are legit. Essentially, most of the US geothermal sites were built/drilled back in the 70s and 80s. Hydraulic fracturing and some of the other oil and gas drilling advancements of the past 30 years have yet to be applied to geothermal. There is room for a new player to tie these things together, especially if they can build turnkey plants or sell steam to existing sites on long term contracts (they plan for both). However, they aren't worth anywhere near $3B.

The fundamental issue is that theaters need to generate a certain amount of revenue per square foot to be profitable. People "rent" small amounts of space for a couple hours then they leave. But theaters are massive buildings, the desirable time slots are finite, and even on a good day it's a struggle to pack a theater. Somebody has to pay for everything and it seemes to be a figure that requires high gross profits and extensive upselling to get to that number.

Cuba is bullied because the Cuban community in Miami is numerous and have a loud opinion to doing so. Florida is generally quite important in winning a presidential election.

Amazon has been making a lot of amateur mistakes too in recent months. I expect it will get worse before it gets better.

I disagree completely with the premise. Prices don't necessarily have to increase. We have yet to reach maturity of chips optimized for inference, in addition to the regular old factor of computing work per dollar going up over time. Moore's law might be "slowing down" but we aren't at the end of the road yet. Keeping today's features running will cost less to deliver in both infrastructure and electricity in the future.

What will more likely happen is that features and functionality will keep expanding to use more processing power. But where is the limit? I say that comes when we can render at near-realtime 8k/240hz a video (or video game if you prefer) with procedurally generated world, characters, and storyline based on the users input via whatever real-world data, UI or sensors you want to use. This might even be possible now if you are a billionaire with access to million dollar server farms. Probably my imagination isn't broad enough in estimating the limit of "personal computing" but additional computing power beyond that seems pointless for any one individual.

In any case the price of an ai product will depend on the features offered and how much hardware is needed. Probably you can run a 500 billion parameter LLM on a smart watch in 2055 but if you want that power today it seems to cost about $20 a month. I doubt anyone will try to ever charge more for today's $20 featureset. The price of this stuff will absolutely decrease, the only unknown is how companies will roll out new functionality and how specific future features fit into the pricing tiers over time.

It's somewhat understandable though. The $5 contributors waited this long, they can wait a little longer for things to be fixed. If that is possible. Ultimately though they may need to verify identity or at least a domestic phone number within the user's region, which may not be what the users were looking for.

Your greybeard has such a crust that the crustie bits have their own wizard beards.

And that cuts both ways. The girl's school that the US bombed used to be part of a military base, but some years ago was separated and walked off. It should have been taken off the target list but with thousands of targets in the database nobody is really checking each one for updates.

This is the worst tech bubble I've experienced. Not only is it driving up prices for consumer goods now, but data centers these days have such integrated and specialized stuff that hobbyists won't be able to make much use of it when it goes to auction. The chances of picking up some 4U servers at a decent price when the bubble pops are not good due to the data centers the hyperscalers are building not using much of them. Plus, the limited number of jobs and extensive working from home culture now means that aeron chairs won't be dumped onto your local buy/sell/swap place either. I just want cheap tulips but they shan't be had. Worst bubble ever.

Ontario Power leads the Americas as far as running nuclear power efficiently and economically. I would even put them above Dominion, which is highly professional themselves.

The process is broken. I just voted in the Texas primary, which is the only election that matters here. And the Republican primary is the only primary that matters, so I vote in that regardless of my personal alignment. It ran over 100 races. Yes really. For the important races, there were a handful of choices, which I researched in advanced. Invariably the incumbent was polling overwhelmingly, most of the challengers were even more extreme, and maybe one with no hope of success seemed like a reasonable person. Then there were dozens and dozens of unopposed judges (why do we vote judges anyway?). It's completely rigged from before the start. The only reasonable nonbinding resolution was for term limits, which I expect leadership will promptly ignore.

Teamspeak is attractive because you don't need to log into an official server. It still can function on an IRC-type model where anyone can run a private server and anyone else can log in directly without touching an official Teamspeak login.

The problem with studying drugs like these is that the effects are so profound that there's no way to achieve a proper double blind trial. It looks like they went through the motions but it would be staggeringly obvious to anyone in the room whether DMT or placebo was given.

I'm in the same boat with the same drives. I wish I had bought a couple more about a year ago. The only good thing this shortage has been good for is making it worthwhile to sell a bunch of old "too small to be useful' drives on eBay.