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Not quite the nanosecond buyout yet, but we're getting there.

> 1-trillion-parameter

I'm going to pass, but nice to know it's open now.

> Political actors are eager for an excuse to redistribute AI rents away from capitalists and toward favored groups...

The current "favored group" is big-tech moguls, though. Just because the industry is new doesn't mean the people investing in it are newcomers.

> No, the fix for this issue is that the inverter of your local solar installation checks if the grid delivers a 50 or 60 Hz waveform, and breaks if it does not.

It's hard to apply regulation to people who already decided to skip declaring their setup. If everything was done by the book, the stuff would be declared.

The issue with this logic is that you build a cliff where, at some point, you need to massively invest in storage, and the storage industry hasn't had time to mature alongside the solar/wind industry.

> Installation labour cost and inverter cost are now the largest expenses.

That's true for the solar development project, but such a project typically ignores grid costs.

> I have no idea how serious these reasons actually are.

Basically, the grid was built with the assumption that plants produce power, and that households only consume it. That means opening a breaker between the transport grid and the distribution lines should allow to safely work on the consumer-bound side.

That assumption no longer works if consumers energize the network, and while I assume workers have safety guidelines to check the line before starting work, there is still a risk.

Fixing this issue would require new remotely-operated breakers to be installed, which is costly, and it's hard to justify installing them proactively just in case.

> decentralised energy generation is going to be the way developing economies leap over more advanced ones.

Good luck with running industries on decentralized energy production. That's how things started during the industrial revolution, and the grid was a net upgrade. Reason for that is building a factory is much cheaper when you don't need to also build the adjoined power plant.

Decentralized production works well with residential or low consumption tertiary sector, but not much else. Even then, a working grid will have better quality of service and economies of scale on equipment. The issue with developing countries is that their grid typically is dysfunctional.

> The outcome is a much more resilient grid energy system.

That claim depends a lot on the threat model you're looking at. If your goal is to still have some energy under coordinated attack, sure. If your goal is to maximmize uptime for critical services, not so much. Backup generators, inverters, etc. typically have a higher rate of failure than a well-performing grid.

Yeah, and it’s amazing that we chose to build our society around maximizing the benefits of taking credit regardless.

Factorio isn't really relevant, its electricity simulation subsystem is pretty bland.

Dear Wilson,

As a country, I host a somewhat large and educated group of humans. Some of them are economists like you. They most certainly have heard about georgism before.

The current issue is not so much that they don’t have enough ideas, but that they can’t agree on which ones to apply.

Sincerely, France.

Quick question: what would happen if you decided to simply shield yourself from France’s action without applying any change to your dns? Or is blocking french users considered a compliant answer by French courts?

I don’t get why you would still need to block french users if you also need to exit the jurisdiction.