Are you going to hold your savings in Chinese currency? Or forego US stock market returns and hold Euros?

What if you subsidized US electric cars and let them compete freely, rather than cherry-pick some convenient reason why they should be banned? Since the dollar is the US's dominant export, can we easily afford it?

"the waste heat that's dumped outside has some potential to worsen local urban climate"

Do datacenters use more efficient cooling than residential AC (Copilot says yes)?
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Why don't heat dome doomers mention that the AC they recommend you turn on makes the heat dome that much worse?

Why doesn't google publish the top search item on a continuous basis like the debt clock?

Why was it a secret? Is this a case of manufactured scarcity incentivizing arbitrage, so is your real problem with capitalism itself?

What if AI makes fewer hallucinations on average than humans, like self-driving cars have fewer accidents on average than humans?

Can smug comments on slashdot stop AI from holodecking us each a customizable VR where each of us is a sandboxed king simultaneously?

Does it seem hypocritical to treat electricity as beneficial when your creature comforts (not mine, AC gives me headaches) are tickled, yet claim electricity is scarce when datacenters which likely use less than AC anyway (Copilot says AC is 5-7x datacenter usage) are involved? Do you see how one might think your reasoning is motivated, by creature comforts that don't comfort me?

What if we're not feeble and have learned that it is physically healthier to sleep outdoors despite arbitrary social stigmatization? Why do you force air conditioning on me in hotel rooms for example, where windows don't even open anymore? Is this survival of the feeblest?

What if the datacenter is in Quincy Washington using hydropower that would otherwise be curtailed due to massive oversupply?

Isn't air conditioning partly to blame for getting us into this mess in the first place?

IMO: even before that. My cut-off date is when RHEL was certified to run Oracle RDBMS. A cash-cow has appeared, and the rest of the OS (along with community) became just a baggage.

In the age defined by cybersecurity, this is a very very [*beep*] comment.

They have said "the last straw", not "the main reasons". I've seen recently a number of migration to Debian, because the current generation grew up, got tired of the "latest greatest" stuff that's half-broken all the time, and simply want stuff that "just works". Funnily enough, Debian is still "it". (Heck, even for the gamers.)

Doubt RHEL goes anywhere, but it's funny how many people grow up out of the denial that RHEL, well, sucks. Started gradually sucking even more after RH started going after market share of commercial *nix systems, and started adopting many traits of the monolithic commercial *nix OSes.

Can you imagine the possibility that by talking about quantum computers we might inspire some young genius to pursue an idea and accelerate the progress? Whereas if we downplay it as you do, it establishes a mood of pessimism that psychologically makes potential researchers give up before even starting?

What does Scott Aaronson have to say about how this is all nothing to see here, move along?