There is no such thing as a safe nuclear reactor. Only reactors that are less dangerous.

If you walk away from a solar farm because the money is not there anymore no harm no foul. There are some ecological impacts for building them out but that's it and honestly the land will reclaim given time.

That is not the case for nuclear power. There's a bunch of stuff you can do to make it so that it's basically impossible to have Fukushima happen but if we could guarantee those things got done Fukushima wouldn't have happened.

Every time I point this out inevitably a bunch of people come out and say that other sources of power kill more people which would be true if wind and solar didn't exist. Never mind the fact that as an American I would rather be dead than without property. Fukushima had to be evacuated for 10 years and everyone involved lost their property. America does not treat people without property well.

Anyone that doesn't have $600 for a new game console might care.

Squeak squeak!

Just get corn-on-the-cob, it will self-pop after this mess.

Careful what you wish for, the plutocrats always find a way to make us plebeians bail them out.

Any of the risks of using enriched uranium for power production went right out the window it seems.

Nuclear power done cheaply with limited oversight is incredibly dangerous. Yes nuclear power plants can be done very safely and very great expense. So much so that you would never build a nuclear power plant in 2026 unless you had major space constraints and couldn't build a wind or solar farm for some reason. That's basically Japan and nobody else. Maybe a few places in France. But even then that's highly debatable.

This means that if you're firing up a new nuclear power plant in 2026 and you're not doing it for research or military purposes that you are probably looking to do it with the lowest bidder and the least maintenance. You better hope you're not living next to that.

Massive AI data center boom and it took the announcement of the numbers for these chuckle fucks running the stock market to realize that why yes, one of the largest sellers of data center computers is going to be selling a lot of computers.

What I'm saying is that del should have been experiencing a slow steady rise as the AI data center boom took hold not a sudden 30% jump. This tells me that either we have idiots in charge or we have poorly written scripts masquerading as machine learning AI. Are the way they are in charge of the economy and your life and livelihood.

I mean not yours, you are a rugged individualist and a financial genius. I am clearly talking about those other guys.

Not with the layoffs, everybody loves layoffs right? That's why we keep voting for them.

But they really want companies to stop blaming layoffs on AI because it's weird but with AI devouring jobs, water and electricity the public isn't entirely happy with it. I can't imagine why.

Mark Zuckerberg is. He has billions of dollars and zero oversight or regulations so he makes the rules.

If you ever get tired of that situation there's a whole bunch of people who would change it if you would ever be willing to vote for them. But you are probably not since well, I mean you're doing well effort mod bait posts on a dead web forum. I'm just saying I question your judgment.

Every few years a new social media site comes up and all the kids go there because they don't want to be on the same site as their parents because of course they don't.

And then every few years Facebook either buys that site out or runs them out of business by underpricing advertising in that space until there's no revenue for that company and they run out of investor cash. It's gotten to the point where nobody's really challenging Facebook anymore for anything except hoping for a buyout.

Facebook does this because those kids are going to grow up and keep using the site they are used to and Facebook needs to make sure they own that and filter those users back into their main ecosystem whether those users like it or not.

They of course couldn't do this with tick tock so they just have the government step in since it's a Chinese company. Incidentally it was only because it was a Chinese company backed by the Chinese government that they couldn't do that.

If you start voting for politicians who enforce antitrust law then Facebook goes away in about 10 or 15 years.

Don got a gold bar in his knickers after hearing that.

"algorithmic funds" have been around for a long time. Letting neural nets guess rather than a hand-coded algorithm guess is not much different, conceptually. It's generally the type of investment that "high rollers" select.

That has not been ruled on by the high court yet. Only regulators have, aka bureaucrats. They enforce law, they don't make it.

This is only insider trading if these are commodities, and their not. And I have no doubt this guy's lawyers are taking that to the Supreme Court.

The court's pretty corrupt though so it'll be fun to see how it plays out, in a "our civilization is collapsing" kinda way

To be operating systems. They want them to be software platforms rather than document displays. And to do that you can brute force a lot of things but it is certain point to get the performance you want at the level of programming skill you want to pay for you need to start doing shit like that. Otherwise the apps get too slow.

Web apps are so much easier to monetize and so much cheaper to support that companies are all over them. I remember back in the days supporting a desktop app and needed three guys with decent tech skills and a small team of level 1 for a few thousand users. Switching that over to a web app got rid of all the tech guys with decent skills and the level one are now just password resetters.