And it's not just the gravel/sand that's important. The water itself also differs in its chemical composition (e.g. salts, minerals, basic/acidic pH), which can catch you really dirty when making concrete. Or when dealing with water at all, shout-out to Flint and its infamous water crisis that took eleven years to resolve - every single lead service pipe had to be physically dug up and replaced.
AI is just the same. CEOs all over the world have fallen to the lure of the AI grifters, believing they can fire people en masse now and ride it out with the remaining staff until AI catches up with the remaining 20% of capability.
Small focused AI/ML companies however that don't deal in LLMs? They struggle to find customers, even with stuff that clearly works, because they hit the wrong buzzwords.
Tell that to Trump and his glorious way of bombing Iran. Nothing against the idea itself, the Mullahs all but asked for it to happen.
But the execution? That was a level of dogshit I haven't seen in the time I was alive lol. Even Russia was better prepared with their invasion of Ukraine.
Both Trump and Netanyahu had a somewhat solid perspective on not getting utterly wasted in the next elections. Instead they go on one of the most ill-prepared wars in modern history, with results that may seriously upend the global economy if not lead us to WW3 outright.
> I hope the correction will take the form of "re-education" rather than mere emotional retribution.
Why? There is no re-education that could make someone like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Donald Trump or the people behind Match Group be a net positive contributor to society again.
Therefore... I'm fine with everything that makes them suffer, just like they made us all suffer.
It can work in actually developed countries such as South Korea that have effectively 100% fiber coverage.
In crony capitalism countries (US) or countries that have been governed by braindead "Das Internet ist Neuland" conservatives (Germany) and as such have less than 25% FTTB coverage, you can't run a data center.
> it wouldn't solve the problem of needing a supply of carbon atoms to make the carbon-based substances in the list.
How many of that could be substituted with biomass? We're already making natural gas replacements using feces, food and agricultural waste, and we're making diesel fuel replacements - in case of doubt, at least older diesel engines can burn straight olive, sunflower or rapeseed oil, just modern ones will possibly incur expensive damage in the high-pressure fuel distribution section.
> You can't make insulin, brake fluid or PVC out of electricity alone.
Insulin is made with GMO bacteria these days, so all we need is something to feed the bacteria with, IIRC it's glucose which you can easily create from any sort of starch-containing plant.
> this more about their afforts to appeal to a certain part of domestic popularion
And yet, more than a million Russian lives alone were sacrificed to make the appeal reality.
Russia, like it or not, is actively busy restoring its older glorious days and unfortunately there is no sign of them coming anywhere near to a point where they can't sustain their losses any more. They're permanently losing upwards of 1000 soldiers per day, and that's not counting the injured, only deaths.
As long as we are talking the current war https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c5yqkrz2xw1o Russia has 200k+ confirmed (via various sources like obituary, media posts etc) KIA. Even if we count MIA and add something on top - this is way less than mythical "million".
>They're permanently losing upwards of 1000 soldiers per day, and that's not counting the injured, only deaths.
> We'd never have "secure" boot or any of that hostile lockdown stuff if it wasn't tainted with commercial interests pushing their agenda.
To be fair, there is value to be had in reasonably trustworthy cryptography and computing. As long as you can enroll your own certificates in the secure-boot trustchain, you can have a device where you can be reasonably certain that, even assuming an evil-maid attack, as long as your computer is powered down, it is protected against a wide, wide class of attacks.
And for some people, that matters. Even in the US, greetings go out to ICE.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis#2025
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