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Volkswagen could’ve bought Tesla for the cost of the dieselgate fines, at the time of fining

Would you say the same thing about Anthropic defining the terms of use of its technology to the military?

You can think of them as the equivalent of the DNC-preferred wing of the democrats

This philosophy is why Windows on ARM is a shitshow and Mac on ARM is a mostly seamless user experience. Microsoft refuses to kick developers to get with the times, whereas Apple doesn’t hesitate to do so, and Windows developers have become all the more lazy for it. Microsoft could really do with regularly breaking private and legacy APIs, and imposing the cost of maintenance onto developers instead of themselves.

The US ideological push for homeownership is what eventually led to the housing shortage that we’re in now. If we tie up a big chunk of the majority’s net worth in their house, of course they’re going to vote for their own net worth going up. Of course they’re going to vote for renters to become their serfs. Of course they’re going to vote for subsidizing housing demand instead of subsidizing housing supply.

We needed a government to crush the majority’s house values yesterday. As a consolation prize, we got ‘08. It sucked investment out of housing, and we got a booming economy.

The average citizen should not own a home and be allowed to vote at the same time. Canada experienced the consequences of a psychotic ideological homeownership push, China dodged it by intentionally deflating property values, the US will pay the price if people keep voting for property values to go up.

Why do you believe that you should be allowed to preserve your present lifestyle in amber at a (very minor incremental) cost to economic prosperity for all of society?

Practically, at the current rate of CO2 emissions we’re going to be needing that electricity to do carbon capture eventually

The buses in SF and NYC suck because of this bipartisan belief of public transit as social welfare rather than a means for the bulk of society to get to their destination. This leads to things like far too many bus stops because granny complained, lack of fare enforcement, high staffing costs, etc. To make the bus as nice as Vancouver, these cities would need to cut stops and do a draconian fare enforcement campaign. For some reason, Canadian bus riders are not ungovernable barbarians like Americans, despite being poorer on average and more diverse.

Will the government pay OpenAI to run an ad-free free tier?

Apple used to do the same thing with TSMC’s newer process nodes, and nobody really complained because people were getting superior products. I happen to like US antitrust enforcement that considers consumer benefit primarily.

Personally, I would not like judgment proof people, who won’t be able to pay the medical bills of anyone they hit, on the roads at all

> but the world has finite resources

we pay our government to point guns at other people, so that resources become their problem and not ours

If we didn’t have stupid regulatory bullshit and protectionism, it would be cheaper to run a data center on solar and batteries in bumfuck Nevada

It should be mind numbingly trivial to stand up a solar farm and ram through some transmission lines in the desert, and mind numbingly hard to set up a temporary gas generator. We needed regulatory exemptions yesterday for clean energy, public transit, and EV charging.