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Ennan
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Stuck in the Mathcad vortex
The big problem I see with the cameras where I live is that the ones that are installed are nowhere near where pedestrians would ever be walking.

From what I've seen, speed limits, to the extent that they are enforced at all, are almost always enforced on highways rather than city streets.
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Basically "is AI worthwhile" and "do I want a data center by my house" are different questions with the same answer ("no")

Arguing effectively against them requires thinking carefully about who your audience is and what argument you're making
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I remember seeing a different video about neutron star mergers where one of the visualizations showed them orbiting eachother over California for scale, and they were whipping across the state multiple times per second.
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The biggest part is verifiability. Only fools would trust a system they cannot verify.
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'm not too bullish on LLMs. I expect that special purpose ML will continue to be big and possibly get bigger, but I don't think we'll ever have computers autonomously making arbitrary (management, strategy, etc.) decisions in large companies or government.
December 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You kid, but I recall proposals to mine cryptocurrency in space. I'd bet many of its proponents are now on the datacenters in space bandwagon.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The entire logic goes as such
1. ("AI") Datacenters are cool and high tech.
2. Space is cool and high tech.
Therefore: Datacenters in space is a good idea.
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Is it a bad sign that I read "Where are the GPUs?" in your exact voice and intonation?
December 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Also, @lplouisiana.org has been very constantly anti trump.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I think that if everyone thought of Reason magazine or The CATO Institute when they think about libertarians, they'd be in a much better position than they are now.

Our voting system also makes all third parties unviable as is, so I think that's also why few take them seriously.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The problem with libertarian organizing is the same as left wing politics is having with radical leftists. Any movement that wants to be successful needs to disassociate itself from the wackos. The Libertarian party has not been particularly successful with that in recent years.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Reverse the Patriot Act which started the slow roll to the surveillance state in the U.S.
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM