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Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 85

Again I would suggest that anybody interested in living in a Democracy should read up on the Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025 that trump is following

This, friend, is a disconnect. They do not want to live in a Democracy, where they would be expected to vote on things and have those votes matter. They want to live in a Republic, where their vote is irrelevant, so they only have to think about the color red.

Comment Re:Should have dropped the racism sooner. (Score 1) 152

You mention SAP, which is actually German. Important pharmaceutic
al companies are officially US, but most of the work is done in Europe (remember the Covid vaccines?).

I also remember another time that a lot of *ahem* important pharmaceutical work was done in *ahem* Germany

Comment Re: WInning? Economic growth is killing the ecosys (Score 2) 152

You're the victim.

We're all the victims, even the people who think they're the victors, because this man-against-man bullshit is not sustainable. It consumes resources and produces pollution. Only through cooperation can we live in such immense numbers on this planet without destroying the biosphere on which we depend for life.

Comment Re: Abused housewives are happier/healthier than P (Score 1) 152

Americans have more stress, but more optimism and hope for the future...

That's really the problem, isn't it? It's false hope for most. It keeps people from seeking improvement when they have their heads up their own asses. Maybe for you it's justified, depending on how long you expect to live past today. But things are getting markedly worse for the average American right now. Wages are flat or declining against inflation, depending on who you talk to, especially if you talk to someone who thinks that price inflation is limited to monetary inflation. And unless you're an AGW denialist you know that things will continue to get worse, and nobody knows how much worse they will get.

TL;DR: If you're not old and not worried, you're not living in reality.

Comment Re:I don't believe it (Score 2) 41

Like I said, nuclear is the answer.

What you didn't say is that it's the answer to how to grift a bunch of money out of The People most effectively, and nothing else.

It's not good at load following. It always costs more to clean up after than it is supposed to and The People always have to pay for that, too. The little reactors don't exist and wouldn't make nuclear power more cost-effective if they did. Even without adding more storage we could get more utility out of grid improvements and more solar and wind production, so that we could bring clean and green power in from farther away. You have to pretend that economics don't matter in order to make nuclear power make sense.

Stop expecting us to play pretend with you.

Comment Re:Four years? (Score 1) 107

I do. This is why I need to get my shit together and get at least Solr set up if not some kind of "AI" search tool to figure out if I've got the citation for some Republican congressman or mayor or some shit (sorry, memory is hazy) actually being involved in a slightly-pizza-parlor-related child sex prosecution stored someplace. It must be more important than I thought at the time, which I know is a disgusting sentence but TBF society accepts a whole bunch of child molestation will happen when we know we can stop it just by being more nosy

Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 57

As soon as you consider capacity factor and thus required storage/backup/transmission of renewables, nuclear becomes much more competitive.

Nuclear has much more down time than you like to pretend.

Luddites

You don't know what Luddites are. Stop using that word.

If you can plunk one of these down in the same sort of time, space, and LCOE as a gas turbine

1) You can not.
2) Plunking down has never been the problem, it has always been everything which comes after that, and you like to pretend otherwise so that you can have your jerk-off nuclear reactor fantasies.

Comment Re: Fear is the appropriate response. (Score 1) 74

Sometimes checking information is simpler than generating information.

It isn't, though, at least not over the scope in which we expect LLMs to function. Comparing two values is pretty easy, and even if they are obfuscated or hidden in noise we have techniques for revealing them. But you have to set up to recognize those values. The LLM can produce so many kinds of bullshit and we expect so much from it that it's not easy to do check all of the kinds of output that we are asking it to produce.

Even in a "simple" case with an extremely constrained task, we are expecting a wide range of behaviors from a LLM.

Comment Re: Rookie Numbers (Score 1) 49

I can't speak to the pre-NeXT Steve, but the post-NeXT Steve was known for being extremely demanding, and expecting a high level of competence, and getting angry if you tried to bulls**t him, and even for berating people's work, but not for threatening people or berating the people themselves, to the best of my knowledge.

Comment Is it losing or are others improving? (Score 1) 152

Europe’s share of global economic output, measured in current dollars, fell from roughly 33% to 23% between 2005 and 2024

Percentage proportions are a zero sum game because there is only 100% of a whole. Thus, in economics, the percentage share of global economic output is a measure of DOMINANCE, not health.

If the EU, China, and USA economies have fully expanded but Lesotho establishes a New Renaissance, with their global market share jumping from 1% to 5%, the proportion of global market control for EU, China, and USA would have decreased, but it wouldn't mean that they would be any less well off.

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 85

The first stage of the revolution is to keep a cordial relationship with the Mensheviks. We're all on the same team. We're hear to overthrow that rotting edifice of the old order and create a stronger, better society, with a government truly representative of the people. We're all a big tent, and can accommodate differences of opinion.

The second stage of the revolution requires the sidelining of the Mensheviks. Yes, they have their objections, but those objections are mainly spurious, perhaps a little too influenced by moderate opinions. It's understandable, revolutions have casualties, and not everyone has the stomach for the hard fight. Objections will be duly noted and recorded.

The third stage of the revolution requires the expulsion of the Mensheviks. They've become too influenced by counterrevolutionary ideas. The middle ground they try to occupy is the path back to the old order. The revolution cannot afford these divisions, the people must see unity lest they question the revolution. Show the counterrevolutionaries the door, we no longer recognize their standing.

The fourth stage requires the destruction of the Mensheviks. It is not enough that they have been rendered impotent, they are traitors to the revolution, and like the moderates, in the hands of the old order. Some, maybe, can be rehabilitated, others must face more severe punishments. We owe to the people to destroy those who would undo our accomplishments.

The fifth stage has no memory of the Mensheviks at all.

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