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Comment Re:exists because of immigration (Score 1) 97

Yeah, it says

"Home construction hasn’t been keeping up with population growth since the 1970s, said Schuetz, a housing policy expert at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic foundation."

Then when you look at the numbers as according to chatgpt:

"The Shift to Immigration (2020–Present): Due to declining birth rates and rising deaths, natural increase plummeted during the pandemic. By 2022–2023, immigration accounted for 100% of all U.S. population growth for the first time since 1850. In 2024, net international migration contributed roughly 84% of the nation's total growth (2.8 million out of 3.3 million new residents)."

so, no its not merely a "supply" problem, there would not be a "supply" problem, if we didn't have immigration. Immigrants are just the way to keep the federal reserve / social security ponzi scheme going, because you cant have a ponzi scheme unless you get more people into the ponzi.

Comment Res Judicata (Score 3, Interesting) 32

The problem is that they're doing it wrong, they should have opted out of the class, and filed a notice of appeal with regards to the judge's findings on the law, rather than try to relitigate what the law is, when that is going to be barred by collateral estoppel / res judicata.

Comment Re:Insanity. (Score 1) 53

They are doing the same thing as the housing developers, the problem is that the energy companies have been underinvesting in their core infrastructure for years, which led to things like Texas going without power several winters ago, and Pacific Power causing fires with their electricity lines.

Comment Re:Double Standard (Score 1) 53

Yes, because tbh alot of this power is coming online when the electricity is not needed, e.g. in the middle of they day, and not present in the middle of the night. Moreover, they are not always located close to where the other transmission lines might be, so these companies have to acquire the "right of way", just like a railroad or a city street might, which is a time consuming process of taking people's land rights away. Meanwhile alot of these datacenters are literally being built where former coal plants or industrial plants used to be located, and already have the right of way and interconnect ready to go.

Comment Re:They are and nobody will do anything about it (Score 1) 53

You're talking about before the "southern strategy", back when the democrats used to support the Jim Crow south. The democrats have always been about "big government" / nanny state , and the republicans have been against big government, just the motivations for big government have changed over time.

Comment Re:They are and nobody will do anything about it (Score 1) 53

Meanwhile left wingers completely ignore the electric grid demand of electric vehicles, or adding millions of economic migrants, will put on an electricity grid funded largely by publicly regulated utilities, whose publicly elected regulators will refuse to allow them in increase costs, to the extent that their electric grids are so dangerous they start massive fires, the fires of which they will blame on global warming instead of paying for forest / line maintenance costs, while at the same time suing the electric company for millions of dollars.

Comment Re:Only part of the story... (Score 1) 126

FPGA's on the same die, was so that they could work on accelerating development of onboard GPUs and other ancillary accelerators, it was basically an internal project that was also opened to outsiders (if and only if you could get passed the filters), you could never buy the FPGA / CPU hybrid chips at retail.

Comment Re:Quality Work Can't Be Rushed (Score 1) 126

This was a direct result of several things

1) management decided not to jump on the EUV bandwagon early, thinking they could amortize their existing equipment longer than they could

2) by the time they wanted to switch to EUV, they had already fired most of the old white men, based on diversity quotas and salary, which would be able to execute the switch, and they got stuck with the quartz mask absorbing too much of the light.

Comment Re:Quality Work Can't Be Rushed (Score 1) 126

Timelines are based on known knowns, unanticipated delays are based on unknown unknowns, and unfortunately alot of people there don't know shit. Sri Ramkrishna is all over business insider yesterday lamenting that he cant find a job, yet when i discussed with him the peril of AI in education, that students are graduating being unable to answer `what is a turing machine`, `what is a cosine` and how one employee is sending me (not an employee) git issues because they dont know how to bump a minor version in python's requirements.txt, he revealed that he himself cant answer those two interview questions.

Comment Re:"more semiconductors expertise on the board" (Score 1) 126

I personally had a flame war on the internal messaging board called circuit with Richard Taylor, with regards to how the DEI programs they were enabling were illegal, and unfortunately brad avakian and state leadership were using carrot and stick tactics, threatening to hit intel with disparate impact claims, otherwise they could play ball and get a 30 year tax break, which required 10% of the amount be given to nonprofits (like the rainbow push coalition, feminist majority foundation, et al, who would then provide it to 501(c)(4) political action committees). The governor of oregon John Kitzhaber was alleged to have been taking bribes, and I told the US attorney that Renee James seemed to have been a part of a kickback scheme, and she resigned from the company 72 hours later.

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