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wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

Let's just say the EPA can enforce vaguely written laws starting day 0 against property you own but you had absolutely nothing to do with the issue.

Vague example: You buy a house, a month later you get a demand letter from the EPA that you need to raise your home, spend millions to clean the ground contamination that was caused by a owner before you were born and more than 3 transactions before yours.

And they are not nice, they will gladly bankrupt you and put you in jail. Selling it or giving it to the EPA to release the obligation is not a option. The EPA can sometimes look a lot like a cartel.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

You're not wrong, but I'm fairly certain that if we did have a multi party system and ranked voting, not much would be different.

This is because the people on HN, Reddit etc are a minority. The views expressed here are not publicly supported by the people who actually go out and vote. Those people are not online writing in these long threads on the same topics over and over again.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

Here's a simple one, start at your state level. Talk to your state representative, should be easy enough to meet with them.

What are they doing about DC water and energy level requirements in your own state.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

Here we see a small glimpse into why Democrats can't win.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

They won't, it's hyperbole.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

Where do you live so I can get that same feeling?

I was in BPC during Sandy, never lost power, never had flooding. Stayed around to help get our servers moved over to DR. So yes, I remember.

Thankfully, people are seeing how bad NY and CA State governments are and are wisely moving what they can out of it. https://www.txse.com/

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

It's "all politics" when you agree to a particular issue

It's "regime" or "fascism" when you don't.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

EPA is garbage, pray you never end up on the wrong side of one of their poorly written enforcement mandates. They will take down your life's work for something you have no control over.

wallst07on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

And when you get to boomer age your cohert will do the exact same thing, and you will be yelling at the kids to get off your lawn, and the cycle will repeat.

Ask me how I know...

wallst07on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

You don't need to read the code manually line by line to do that. But yes, you need to know what you're doing.

wallst07on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

Or C, agentic coders who have been doing this for 20+ years (software engineering) know what they're doing?

Also, when people say 'read the code' do they really mean go line by line, or review the pseudo code? Meaning, read the high level architecture/data flow.

Because IMO the code matters very little if you have the proper testing environment and guardrails, the architecture always matters.

wallst07on AirPods 5

Some cars isolate the noise with speakers in the head rest so everyone gets a optimal level of isolation.

wallst07on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

We can easily accelerate past 1g... 1g is just chosen for human comfort, but running any rocket engine continuously for a year requires an impossible amount of fuel.

wallst07on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

And this affects you personally how? Other than a sense of keyboard outrage?

wallst07on I resigned from Anthropic today

How so?

wallst07on I resigned from Anthropic today

Humans take risk adjusted decisions all the time, OP is still correct that LLM risk is FAR below all the ones we know and accept today.

Death by Cars, Cancer, Heart disease etc...

wallst07on I resigned from Anthropic today

So the crazy who committed a horrible crime is the fault of a LLM? Maybe so.

Certainly there should be some protocols/laws followed here, but do you think this can extend out to cause mass damage or a singular event that should be investigated?

wallst07on I resigned from Anthropic today

Good point, humanity chose a and the sky in fact did NOT ignite an destroy the planet. The hypothesis was very very far off from what I recall.

But it's good we talked about it.

wallst07on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

It seems the consensus in this thread [if I'm skimming correctly] is most want copyright completely removed.

So in your hypothetical: you write the book and have a change of heart, I'll just copy it verbatim, slap my name on it and now I'm the author.

wallst07on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

The irony in your post ... "driven just by some internal feelings" and "violent backing of the state. It's a monopolistic practice abused by wealthy."

wallst07on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

I don't see an argument for removing copyright being a good thing other than people wanting other's work for free, not just free to use but free to sell as their own.

wallst07on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

"Compared to the economic and human disruptions of shipping most of America's manufacturing jobs overseas since WWII"

That didn't happen overnight and was not done out of an immediate law change.

wallst07on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_duration_by_...

Might want to check your facts mate.

wallst07on WeatherNext 3

I'm interested on how you drew the cause/effect of this, is there non-biased sources? Has google said as much, and how does this explain why some models are more accurate?

wallst07on We have a year to fix security everywhere

I don't know, I think this comes down to people that generally live with higher levels of anxiety than others. Now the response may be to call others naive, but where does the anxiety meat the naivety?

wallst07on We have a year to fix security everywhere

So you are horrified every day of living now? I don't get this at all.

There are horrifying acts that have occurred since humanity. Whole decades lost to war an millions dead, and Sep 8, 2026 is your example of "horrifying enough to live in a world"?

I think some perspective is needed.

wallst07on We have a year to fix security everywhere

Wouldn't it just as easy to do this on the defense side as well then?

wallst07on Doomscrolling ourselves to death

Now do /r/news or /r/politics , instant band for anything not leftist.

wallst07on The Real Luxuries In Life

The hardest thing anyone has to deal with is their own thoughts in silence.

I suspect most of the people here (including myself) are so addicted to tech and instant access to information it would be unbearable for most.

Experience: Meditated every morning for an hour for sometime, it was tough in the beginning.

wallst07on The Real Luxuries In Life

You are looking at it from the wrong perspective, you are trying to fit "healthy" into your current environment. I think it's the wrong approach.

For example: societies that live the longest and are generally the healthiest do not have gym equipment or trainers, exercise is a core part of their every day life.

The mistake you are making [I think] is looking at these things as impossible goals because of lack of more money so it is easy not to try and risk failure.