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Your Amazon example is misleading. That $250 price today really undersells the growth because that’s post split. Their dot com high was like $4 in today’s terms. Or multiply today’s price by 20 for the 1999 equivalent ($5000).

It doesn’t negate your point about 10 years to recover but it’s important to highlight how substantial the growth was after it did.

>I don't have trauma.

>"Aren't you a male, too?" Do you think I haven't tried to kill myself? It's surprisingly difficult.

Brother, you need help.

You do know that places don’t have cell phone coverage at all still, right?

Why did you friend assume it was the Covid and not some other issue? How did the doctor help him?

That 400 million number is BS though. Here is the methodology:

> After acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, an estimated 400 million people globally and 17 million, or 6.8% of Americans, based on Household Pulse Survey, experienced Long COVID symptoms, such as fatigue, cognitive impairment, body pain, headache, dizziness, sleep disturbance and a myriad of other symptoms and signs spanning multiple body systems [1, 2]

They surveyed people after the biggest societal disruption in 50 years and found some of them were tired.

This is why people don’t take long COVID seriously. It’s just a catch-all for feeling off.

Eh, 21 limit was in place for all millennials and most of Gen X. And millennials drink like fish.

The reality is that most awkwardness comes across as creepy. Lots of people are awkward, especially young people. They shouldn’t be shamed for it.

I think you’re missing the point. It’s not you gaining more freedom with the land that’s the problem. It’s that all your neighbors now have the same freedom.

I bought my house with a close neighbor because I know the neighbor can’t build a steel mill in their backyard. If the government comes in and says we’re all free now to build steel mills, that gain in freedom is a loss in value for me.

> the AXD301 ATM switch achieved nine nines over a nine-month period using Erlang and BEAM in 2002. That calculates out to 24 milliseconds of downtime.

This is misleading. I had an old Dell computer in my garage hosting a php app that hit that level of uptime as well over a 9 month period. It was 100% so actually better.

Those uptime numbers only hold water when spread over many thousands to millions of users where you’re at large enough scale that you’re actually dealing with a meaningful volume of hardware failures.

Many churches believe they have a “healthy and positive” community along with their constituents while espousing those same views.

A community can simultaneously be healthy and positive while being politically disagreeable to others.

Being incapable of compromise for votes does not make good legislation. “You’re gonna need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes.”

You linked to a data center that was a bitcoin mining operation and is explicitly having noise abatement being applied before being brought back online as an AI one?

That doesn’t support any argument against new builds nor does it support the notion that they are inherently noisy.

Also, in reply to your further up NIMBY nonsense suggesting I move.

I don’t think you understand how people operate. I like my small city and am upset idiots spread fear and harmed its prospects that we will pay for with continued anemic local employment, poorly budgeted infrastructure, etc.

I want to see good things here. I’m not just going to give up on it and go to some city that has its shit together on the business side.

Datacenters have been around for decades and the Dulles Tech Corridor, the ones around Portland, the SIX in Seattle, etc all have shown they can operate just fine.

> I understand you're disappointed that people had the ability to choose things in their lives and didn't choose the thing you wanted

No, I’m disappointed they did it based on ignorance and propaganda. There was no informed decision making going on. This is no different than people who voted against gay marriage because they thought their god would seek retribution through calamities.

That’s not correct. I took my small children on vacations to grandparents all the time. Taking the kids to any extended family that can help watch them is a vacation. The best vacations you can have involve just taking kids to see family.

Well that’s idiotic. Approximately nobody “flies for fun” under that tortured definition.

> No one travels with babies for fun

I have encountered this many times flying so it’s not “no one”. It’s usually younger couples who either don’t know what they are getting into or just have the energy to deal with it.

On international flights from the US it’s common to hear the reason is to bring the baby to see extended family.

>In this scenario, there isn't going to be evacuation. At best, it's search and rescue. At worst, search and recovery.

Scenarios without evacuations are ones where nearly everyone or everyone is already dead. That’s not a case to optimize for.

Your 3 examples were all different regulatory regimes.

> There are tons of examples now of data centers harming communities.

But there aren’t. At least not in any of the anti datacenter discussions. There are just vague fears of using up the river water and spewing chemicals back in. Then the majority of actual issues people come up with aren’t even data center specific, they are just construction mishaps.

This is a strawman. I’ve watched my own city reject datacenter propositions much to my dismay. Tax revenue thrown away purely on FUD-fueled backlash.

I lived by a datacenter in Cali and would happily do it again. It’s about the most benign form of “industrial” activity you could imagine.

But why do you think they know what they’re talking about? That’s the problem with that show. It platforms people with no guardrails to stop quacks.

Not “people getting killed”, this is “all humans”. The only other ELE for humans that could possibly be caused by other humans that has been feasible is nuclear war. And lots of blood has been shed to prevent new players from getting bombs.

I’m not so sure on this, the hugging face incident showed that a relatively benign task can make it do quite destructive things in the name of optimizing a relatively benign goal.

Ah yes, famously one of the worst neighborhoods in the country in that time. Yet she could still drive 10 miles and be perfectly safe

No, momentary abuses of power do not mean the US has no rule of law. The law is what put Trump in office in the first place.

If you aren’t glued to the news and doomscrolling you wouldn’t know anything about Trump and ICE. Day to day for nearly everyone is exactly the same rule of law where you can call police for a murder and roving gangs can’t setup shakedown checkpoints.

For software that doesn’t make sense.

Pricing software is a game of estimating both software value and the purchasing power for customers. Only the latter might have any available data and even then it won’t be sliced the right way for any in depth statistical analysis that an actuary would perform to underwrite risk.

It’s much more traditionally a more salesperson like background where being in the target market or having strong connections to it dominates efficacy.

The two biggest providers deepseek compete with (OpenAI and Anthropic) aren’t in the stock market.

Same effect as a country club. You know a lot about the person you’re talking to just based on their presence.

Idiotic headline. This is a trainee pipeline. The headline is meant to mislead you into thinking they hired some people based on video games and they are now air traffic controllers.

Per acre is a meaningless statistic when your concern is water usage and its impact on your water supply.

Those aren’t real though. That’s just more propaganda. The noise can’t be heard very far away and power prices aren’t necessarily increasing if it’s increasing base load enough to amortize a large generation source better.

Stockyards and the increase in beef consumption it enables would do far more damage global warming-wise than increases electrical load that could be solar offset in a few years.

Also nobody is pushing for “thousand upon thousands” of these. Again, hysteria