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Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 48

the us has been fascist for a very long time

The US has been oligarchic and authoritarian all along, and has behaved towards some other nations much like a fascist nation would do, but in general has not subjected the general citizenry to full blown fascism. It's been horrible to everyone other than landed white males all along, though.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 106

If we had reasonable regulations then a data center could go anywhere and not be a problem, but since we don't, they can only go into unpopulated places with lots of water and power without causing harm. Normal DCs can just go into ordinary commercial zones because they use, while elevated, not completely obscene amounts of power and therefore water. And to return to the topic, this illustrates why AI DCs don't make sense in space, because cooling is harder in space than it is here.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 0) 106

While in general, I agree with your sentiment, you mentioning the Dunning-Kruger effect is not appropriate here. Dunning and Kruger (1999) does not claim incompetent people would consider themselves above the experts. It's just that incompetent people do no consider themselves as incompetent as they really are, and competent people don't understand how far above the laymen their knowledge is. But both would agree, that the expert knows more about the topic than the layman, and both would sort themselves in the right categories.

You could consider the effect of Dunning and Kruger (1999) as a "mental regression to the mean".

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 106

What I do not quite get in this context is that there are still investors around with the fundamental lack of insight

Well, you know, D-K... they don't know what survivor bias is.

Is this a case of "there is a sucker born every minute"?

They are sure they are smart because they got money, and don't understand that even if they did make an intelligent investment, there was a luck component.

Comment Re:The Ban Wasn't in the Packets (Score 1) 107

PPIN seems to mostly be a server feature. I don't feel like going into BIOS right now but I found this about a PPIN option on a Lenovo server. It shows an AMD processor so it's highly relevant. On my system I don't have /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/ppin and there's nothing about ppin in dmesg, but I don't know if that's because the feature's not enabled, or compiled in, or what.

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