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the Stratos development would have spanned tens of thousands of acres in Box Elder County’s Hansel Valley. The project would ultimately require up to 9 gigawatts of power—more electricity than the entire state of Utah currently uses

Did you even read the article? This is proposed to be larger than Manhattan. The amount of power will almost certainly burden Utahs grid in ways that locals will be on the hook for. So much of this build out will be the typical "privatize gains, socialize losses" playbook that yes it is an important political issue, and yes you have to "look at this spec" to understand just how insane some of these project proposals are.

If you equate being sexually promiscuous with beating your children, then you have some serious self reflection to do on your moral compass.

that pretty girl? a slut who's been had by half the guys in there.

I'm not going to comment on the rest, but this is a gross and misogynistic remark.

And right in line with the OP you responded to, that was 40 years ago

Where are these quotes from? They appear to be made up by you.

Here’s a better tip to measure things without a proper measuring device: spread out your hand on a table and measure the distance between your pinky and thumb. Remember that. Now when you need to measure something just measure it in number of pinky-thumb-stretches. I can quickly get the dimensions to +/- an inch by doing a few quick walks with my hand.

Its half that, $15.

The odds are now per candidate, not per application. If they submit multiple applications, it does not up chances for that candidate in any way.

And yes, it does work, because we have data from the year before this change, to the year after to compare against. The "Eligible Registrations for Beneficiaries with Multiple Eligible Registrations" dropped from 47,314 for FY 2025 to 7,828 for FY 2026. Source: https://www.uscis.gov/archive/uscis-announces-strengthened-i...

the companies that try to boost their chances with the lottery by creating multiple applications for the same person

This was already addressed by changing the odds to be per unique candidate, not application, thereby reducing the incentive to game it. More context here: https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces...

Actually not relevant, the pulling came after threats from the FCC: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fcc-jimmy-kimme...

Here is the most detailed analysis so far: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number

Another way to look at it is every single person, including children, are paying $75 a month for executives of 5000 public companies. Or $190 per month per household. That is significantly more than the average electricity bill ($130/month). Downplaying that shows you are out of touch with the average American.

Adultery not being a crime goes far beyond its enforcement mechanism.

Did you read the article? The whole thing is about how to actually calculate it, while being conservative through uncertainties. The answer: $3.4 billion.

Paying someone to watch your children full time so that you can do your full time job is inherently classist. Who takes care of the nannies kids?

The solution to "kids are expensive" being to just pay someone lower class to do it is absurd.

You can also have the nanny watch other kids in the neighborhood if you only have 1 kid.

You're re-inventing daycare here.

This is, as they say, “sanewashing”. Trump is doing this out of a mix of spite and a view of trade as a zero sum game. He may be advised into a path to try to pivot this into a “win” by large scale debt restructuring, but that is not the overarching motive.

Large panes will also bow under that kind of pressure.

They typically have support pillars arrayed throughout the panel to prevent any bowing or flexing.

This is the question I have too. The ability to create a "custom" ETF is highly desirable to me. I don't want to trade individual stocks, but instead would rather input some weightings on top of existing indexes (i.e buy less of stock A, more of stock B, etc.). However, my understanding of ETFs is that they are able to rebalance through "in-kind" creation/redemption in order to avoid creating a taxable event. I'm not sure how this is possible to scale to a custom one-off fund...

I don't know where you got the argument for "more police", but the direct quote from the GP:

police don't want to police anymore

Seems to contradict that being an argument.

From the official ruling on https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf:

(3) Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be im- mune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.

Terrible analysis.

He claims that Cisco lost all its value because their HW was commoditized. I mean in some ways, sure, but the fall in value was almost entirely driven by the DOTCOM bubble bursting.

There is also a claim that networking equipment is easy, "it's just moving data around". Moving data around is what a computer does. LLM's and GPU's are just moving data around.

Do you know what's about 5 times worse energy wise than electric cars? Gas cars.

CVS insists on calling me to confirm they can ship it to my house. F no!

You joke, but this is what my wife does for her infusion. Drugs get shipped to our house, and nurse comes to the house to administer the infusion. She gets to spend the time on the couch watching TV instead of in a hospital. And as a another indictment to the broken health care system, this is actually cheaper to the insurer!

I just checked, there was an iOS app update available and it enabled it. I'd check again if there's a new update (version 1.2024.129). Or you could use the website.

How much money would it take for you to get your index finger chopped off? Would you do it for $350,000? I personally wouldn't.

Its a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Yes, see https://www.methanesat.org/ Or a good podcast about it https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-these-methane

Keep in mind the embodied carbon also goes down as the rest of the supply chain switches to low carbon or carbon free alternatives.

For a company that produced negative income, absolutely absurd. Why do investors put up with this? Is there truly no oversight? There is no way he provides value close to his compensation.

It definitely raises my eyebrows more if cars do it (rare but sadly increasingly less rare)

It is extremely common, the default really, for cars to roll through 4-way stops.