PowerCrazy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I guess having a thick provisioned VM image on your laptop means that you are hiding something. Again if the evil government you are trying to hide something from doesn't need reasonableness as a reason to detain you, then who cares? No matter what you do you are rolling the dice every time you interact with them.

Which is of course similar to the US today, so if I needed to hide something from them I'd make sure that once i'm legally compelled to give my password they at the very least wouldn't have what they are looking for, since there is no way I could prove I didn't have it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Beat what out of you? You already gave them a password that decrypts a specific file/volume/etc. If they want to beat you, they will beat you regardless of your possession of any encrypted materials.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

They know it exist as a concept. They can't prove that the specific decrypted message contains a super-secret encrypted message as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Then they better figure out how to block it, I'm not going to assist the nanny-state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I believe each country should get to have a say in what is permissible, and content deemed unacceptable should be blockable by region.

Agreed. But if I'm running a website, I'm not going to block content based on what some other country that I don't live in wants and why should I?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's a huge waste of energy.

If the "waste" is "highly radioactive" that means that is has A LOT of energy left in it. It should be reprocessed, recycled, and should provide power for another 20years. The whole idea of nuclear waste needing billions of years of storage is just propaganda to ensure nuclear reactors are never a threat to the existing fossil fuel markets.

By the way despite a huge increase in the amount of "green energy" produced by germany last year, they have also burned more fossil fuels then they ever have in history, same story in China, the US and other European countries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"America" doesn't have plans. It's just a bunch of senile dumbasses passing public money onto their biggest donors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Iran has to worry about self-preservation since Israel absolutely will use nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yea I suppose the maintenance of those systems provides some employable benefit. So let's say 1000 contractors, is that worth ~500million in tax breaks over 6 years? I'd say absolutely not. If that number were 100x or even 10x maybe, but ultimately it's 500million stolen by the private entities based on exaggerated employment claims and dubious accounting.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Datacenters are absolutely not "job creators." They are necessary for the life we enjoy, they are relatively clean as their major input is electricity and their output is heat. But huge fully functional DCs only need around 20people to run while providing zero local or even state revenue other then property taxes and whatever utility taxes are still applicable to them.

Obviously e-waste is a huge problem, but that is independent of the datacenter itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uber was always more expensive then a taxi, at least in NYC/London. It was originally marketed as a "luxury" transportation option. The cloud was always ~2x more Operation Expenses with the value proposition that you didn't have any Capital Expenses so if you were a startup it was easier to sell-out and get started with lower risk. Streaming is still cheaper then cable, but it is getting shittier.

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