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But the water. What about the water necessary to "restore the soil". The soil in question of course, was non-productive desert 50 years ago. We are doing input intensive farming in areas where the complex supply chain necessary to support is causing what some people call "externalities". Others, the tragedy of the commons. Well run societies try to use regulation to keep this from happening.

The tech companies train their employees to say this in their social media guidance and training.

Agreed. What happens when every company lays off 10, 20, 40% of their staff? AI Agents don't pay taxes and dont participate in a meaningful amount of the consumer economy.

The Iranian guards, along with most of the armies in the second and third tier powers don't have elite anything. Please see Desert Storm, etc. Most of them ran. The ones that didn't were destroyed.

Apparently I can use deadly force most days in the trader joes parking lot - I've had people come that close to hitting me on a weekly basis in Seattle. She made a bad decision that cost her her life. The ICE Agent made an incompetent unprofessional one that took a life. They are not the same.

Appraisals are generally done to ensure that the loan guarantor will be able to recover their investment if the party taking the loan defaults. Therefore, cash offers don't perform appraisals. Cash offers lower risk for the seller and provide fastest time to close the transaction.

As someone who has worked in hypercloud data center expansion and planning - I can confidently say this analysis is um, incomplete. W/out violating NDAs...I'd refer everone to multiple public articles talking about the situation in Ireland, where the hyperclouds are consuming well north of 22% of total energy production.

I’ve been a paid synergy user for 10? years. Works great for multiple computers + OS scenarios. It does flake out very occasionally. I’ll have check deskflow out for some embedded and pi projects I have coming up.

Pretty sure these are definitively non-profit organizations.

+1 Stross is decidedly the opposite of the stereotypical US west coast sci-fi author.

I'm experiencing 4090 pricing violence.

Quantity has a quality of its own. Dude named Piketty wrote almost 2k pages about wrt capital accumulation. The opposite of what you propose is what actually happens. For another example, please see Amazon.

Always view the negging of non-orthodox approaches to anything by the WSJ as anything but surprising. Furthermore, cui bono with respect to potential outcomes? I think it's the pharma industry.