the smartest move they ever did was iphone. that’s what caused them to start making their own silicone.

i mean, that’s part of it. but it has gotten worse recently for sure.

“fair” is often ascribed to pay as you go (and flat taxes) flat taxes, but they are both biased toward working people. Add road maintenance budget to progressive income tax and make rich people pay a bigger share. they can afford it.

pay as you go and flat taxes are biased toward working people. Add this to progressive income tax and make rich people pay a bigger share. they can afford it.

Efficiency is a big deal in datacenters. Aside from the AI bubble, companies actually don’t like lighting money on fire. More efficient hardware saves them lots of money; less hardware, less power, less datacenter space, less maintenance, fewer support contracts, fewer software licenses, etc etc.

you’re vastly underestimating how destructive a typical oil field is, and overestimating nuclear.

An average oil field will produce tens of millions of barrels of oil per year which releases tens of millions of tons of CO2 per year.

Assuming a worst case datacenter pulling few hundred MW continuously on a coal power grid, it would be a few million tons of CO2 per year, like an order of magnitude less. But most of the time datacenters are running on natural gas which is slightly cleaner and more efficient than coal. And most datacenters are not using hundreds of MW.

As for nuclear, it’s pretty much 100% clean energy after its initial facility construction. Incidentally, they are working on building datacetners with small modular reactors. The benefit there is they can skip connections to the power grid which is the main bottleneck for getting datacenters operational now.

Your town definitely hosts services for your local population, just not an entire datacenter’s worth. No single town needs an entire datacenter.

literally no one calls a single server a datacenter, and there is no reason to. If you did, then you’d just need to come up with a new term for datacenters. for what? Just use the term the way everyone else does.

I know how safe they haven’t been - so that’s something.

do you? Nuclear, Solar, and Wind are all roughly equally safe.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

meanwhile leaving their own countries lagging behind. “America First” lol.

but hey, at least he totally fixed the middle east and egg prices, right?

Let’s be real, the vast majority of pickup owners aren’t long hauling or towing anything. Just like the vast majority of SUV owners aren’t offroading. It’s an identity they’ve been fed by auto manufacturers to sell them bigger, more profitable vehicles.

77 million people voted for this moron to run the country. For a second time.

So yes, i fully believe less than 1% of them bought trump phones.

unmitigated audacity to title this blog “building for the future”. i know PR is gonna PR but jfc.

i don’t think i’ve seen him in much before but he’s pretty good in the latest Daredevil season.

why is a darth vader version of anything white?

he did know, and made it part of the agreement bringing her on the tour that she can’t say shit like this.

stupid people are a global phenomenon.

exactly, hardware is their business model. this is like complaining that Google or Meta monetize your data. That’s the deal.

exactly, even just phone+ipod+safari was incredible in one device. Browsing the real internet on mobile didn’t exist before iPhone.

also while the Maps app (with google maps at the time) wasn’t full-blown GPS yet that was also amazing having in your pocket.