Besides, the original definition is not reflective of real world needs - which is why it’s morphed to something else.

This is all very “old man yells at cloud”.

Interesting historical note, but things change.

The sky looking better is just one thing. No more blackouts when there’s winds or thunderstorms or just stray branches is the real perk.

Interestingly, underground lines aren’t feasible in my hometown because of how close the water table is to the surface.

I’m 4 meters below sea level. We don’t have basements because the buoyancy of the empty space would cause the houses to literally float on ground water. But we do have buried power lines.

You are being lied to.

Overhead transmission lines are so 1950s.

Invest in your country.

Ngl the juxtaposition between “Pliny” and “Taco Bob” has me in stitches.

You are a pro cat namer.

Pliny is the one that’s supposed to travel, and then send you letters which range from “I saw a mountain just explode, yo” to “did you know aqueducts are like freakishly expensive” depending on whether he’s the older or the younger one.

Excellent, except for a tiny little detail:

I don’t play games to make money. I play games because I want to play games.

That’s very cynical but not entirely wrong.

No. But other people’s suffering has never mattered to him.

I’m getting Ariane 5 tbh.

Listen, Intel is fucked. It’s fucked right now, and getting bought out by someone else isn’t magically going to unfuck it. Saving the company is going to take money and effort.

We can also just let it go up in flames. No skin off my back.

Let’s start with what we’re not doing. We’re not handing out money to private investors in the old “socializing losses privatizing profits” bullshit we’ve been doing since the nineties.

So, if there’s a compelling national security reason to keep the company alive, we, the state buy it. Then we, the state, run it. We run it in a way that benefits our interests as owners and customers.

Maybe a few years down the line we can find a way to sell it (or our share in it) in a way that satisfies our national security requirements and makes us a load of money. This is not unheard of, see the acquisition and subsequent sale of ABN AMRO by the kingdom of the Netherlands.

Maybe split it up, write off some parts, sell some others, keep others.

Or we strip maybe it’s IP, and license it out to contractors to get the shit we need.

We can do whatever. We own it.

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It’s time to play “which Georgia”!

Considering her opponent and his supporters anti-intellectual fascists, I’m not sure the endorsement of a few egg heads is going to do much.

I kinda think she already had the Nobel winner vote locked down.

Windows is just the micro kernel running the actual operating system: Firefox.

https://archive.is/2024.10.24-071500/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/openai-copyright-law.html

The only positive thing is that they are SUCH GREEDY FUCKS that companies often patch out the protection after release to stop paying them.