Riskable @ riskable @programming.dev

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Yeah! Go for it!

I'm curious to see how you'll haul away 19,600 gallons of corn syrup, 3,900 bushels of grain, 100 tons of random auto parts, 80 tons of paper reams, 70 tons of logs, 13,000 gallons of ammonia (or other dangerous chemicals), and the various other things that typically get shipped via rail these days.

You might get lucky and find a boxcar full of canned goods 👍

...or maybe even actual cars but... How would you get them off the train without the necessary equipment/track setup? 🤔

Everyone's joking but this is a serious problem. Imagine you're a billionaire and someone wants to assassinate you. The would-be assassin could figure out when you have a doctor's appointment (or similar) and force a train to get stuck, blocking their route.

It would leave the billionaire stuck in traffic with no escape until the train(s) started moving again. An entire cavalcade of security personnel would also be stuck (if they had one).

Aside: It could also work for robbing something like a Brinks truck but let's be honest: In this dystopian world it's more likely that this vulnerability would be used to rob a food shipment 🙄

Turning people's homes into "gardens" is not positive news. It's just one step away from Soylent Green.

To summarize: Texas allows itself to be governed via right wing ideology and right wing ideology makes for piss poor disaster preparedness.

Expecting your government to do anything at all to protect people from disasters is literally the opposite of right wing ideology. Disaster preparedness—in the form of warning systems and building regulations—are implementations socialism (and environmentalism).

If you're a conservative (or libertarian), little girls dying in floods every few years is your ideal scenario. That's literally what you believe in! That it's not the government's job to prevent such things.

And let's be honest: If you're conservative you probably don't believe in global warming either so this is just an "act of God" that no one could've predicted (except science did predict this). Clearly, God is punishing those little girls (or their parents) for... Living in Texas?

The US is not "openly bankrolling" any AI companies. The closest thing would be OpenAI's recent contract with the military:

https://www.theverge.com/news/688041/openai-us-defense-department-200-million-contract

Whereas China is definitely funding AI efforts in their country because they're communist (sort of). That's literally how communism works: The government funds stuff.

China isn't really communist in the traditional sense but they definitely use government funds to prop up business they feel will give the country a strategic advantage. They do this directly (here's a check to pay people) and indirectly (we'll subsidize all shipping for your business and make sure you get sweetheart deals with other businesses you rely on).

The Chinese government is in the business of picking winners and losers in the market and they're open about it. It's not a secret. That's literally how their government is setup.

The US has ways of picking winners but they're not nearly as direct and there's a whole lot of rules that must be followed or competitors will sue and win. Then the whole process falls apart.

TL;DR: You're directly wrong and you're framing the story wrong as well.

Aside: If OpenAI goes bankrupt after wasting billions of rich investor dollars the citizens of the US will not have lost billions as a result. Whereas in China...

Depends on your CPU and whatever else you have in your PC (e.g. is your cooler a beast too? Do you have six spinning disks? etc).

Generally speaking, 750W should be fine if you're using a boring air cooling setup with an SSD or two.

Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong...

Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.

This didn't work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed... That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.

Now we have the government itself violating it's own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷

...as in: WTF did you think was going to happen‽

I know, right? Why send my BBQ data to the cloud when I can just cook with a handful of GPUs, locally? To start the grill you just ask the animated waifu to dance and sing a random, AI-generated song that matches your taste in music. Then the fans spin up and send scrumptious GPU heat into the grill, cooking up a delicious hallucination where your animated waifu sings, "That looks yummy! Yummy yummy yummy! Hai hai hai!"

Flood warning systems are socialism though!

Lesson here for banks: You're not paying your employees enough!

~$1000 should not be anywhere near enough to bribe your employees! Anyone with access to such systems should be paid accordingly!

Those schools are heartless!

I dunno. They're pretty good with rocks. Given enough time they just might teach them to think.

Arrr! Just say a prayer to the bitch queen of the sea every day and you'll be safe in your hammock, pirate.

Foam mattresses float. Just keep a bottle of water and a hand axe under your pillow 👍

AccuWeather just uses the NWS data. They'd be lost without it.

So... To save lives in situations like this you need to collect taxes to pay for a socialist weather prediction and emergency management system.

Texas: "Taxes and socialism‽ Forget it! We'd rather die. All we need to defend ourselves from weather or anything else is big pickup trucks and guns!"

If they're proper mermaid tops they can be expensive though. You'll have to really shell out for them.

Well, Mr Smartypants, if it weren't for capitalism you would've had to make that chair/table leg yourself so then you'd only have yourself to blame which is the same as having no one to blame!

Any of these people who take the time to learn what any of these policies actually mean quickly become not-Republicans start to disbelieve reality and declare the truth as, "fake news."

FTFY 👍

No hot dog surprise cereal either, apparently!