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Comment Re: And the earth contains $trillions$ in copper.. (Score 3, Interesting) 50

If you're a thief, you just burn the cables to strip the jacket. If you're more serious (i.e. electrician who does demo, a real scrapper) you have a stripping machine that pulls the cable through a blade and automatically splits the insulation. There's still a fuckton of work and waate generated, most of which contains shit like pthalates, lead and other delicious toxic materials.

Comment I don't think this will work (Score 4, Insightful) 130

If they really gave a shit about security, there would be minimum standards for cybersecurity and the auditability of all critical infrastructure. This is a price fixing scheme to further smash the electrical equipment that is in such artificially high demand for all of those data centers that aren't actually being built

Comment Re: Super neat, alas not a solution to the issue (Score 2) 39

If only there was a decentralized network of computers which ran on a protocol to serve any of those things to a variety of platforms via a universal and free protocol. Oh wait, we had the internet. Fuck apps and any fuckwit that thinks the bank, the grocery store, some shithole gas station, or whatever the fuck needs an OS specific application to present that same information...

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