9-5 5 days per week sounds wonderful.

"You don't work that hard, I do".

Don't gatekeep.

Don't let antiwork enter the conversation either.

I’m not anti work but I do hate working in an office setting.

Khan had already accused them of abusing monopoly power and filed a lawsuit against them, and had a history of blocking acquisitions. At this time she also had a lawsuit in place seeking to undo the nearly decade old acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp.

The smart thing to do in that environment isn't to push the issue so that years later someone can't write that there wasn't an official challenge. It's to read the room and abandon the deal.

Couldn't you just blame any business non-decision on fear of regulation?

"We were prevented from building a proper Windows phone because we already had such large market share on desktop, and already had an anti-trust against us so our hands were tied"

It's just an argument that creates a Kafka trap

They'll just hire the engineers they need out of the failed iRobot and not compensate the investors / founders for building something worth acqui-hiring.

The existing Roomba revenue stream probably doesn't matter. The expertise or maybe the brand (not a great brand imho) aligns with some company priority.

Well yeah Epyc is little endian

Well if unnamed sources are saying it you know it has to be true.

The error rate is nonzero, but in my experience Amazon will make it right with little friction. A short chat is almost always enough, no labyrinthine phone trees or escalations.

Last time I had to contact Amazon the chat option was no longer anywhere to be found. I gave up and actually called. They were nice enough on the phone but it was a good reminder of how much Amazon’s customer service has degraded.

Yes, but all problems with tainted food are not as visually obvious as mold. After some bad surprises, I've decided to never eat anything I ordered from Amazon.

I have contributed inconsequential lies to clown on a friend and they persisted for years.

In middle school, I pretended my friend was a famous rapper and snuck his name onto random articles. Some of those stuck around really long.

Yes I'm sure "Data Vampires" is an unbiased evaluation of empirical evidence.

Datacenters are not appreciably different than other industrial operations in the scale of their water usage and I'm more curious about how this meme spread than about how evaporative cooling works.

If you don’t trust it, look up videos on YouTube of people whose water has changed color, or who have terrible noise pollution 24/7 now, or whose rural landscape got completely destroyed and paved over. There is real negative impact on people’s lives, ones who will never gain from tech companies getting rich.

Again, is there anything distinctive about data centers, or this industrial facilities in general?

Why would that matter? They aren't building massive multi billion dollar industrial facilities, they are building data centers. Or are you saying the impacts are justified if it is considered an industrial facility?

I am not sure why the question is relevant to my comment. If it weren’t distinctive, what does that change about it being harmful and unfair?

Datacenters isn't the focus here, FAANG datacenters are. Vacuuming up data at an ever increasing rate to monetize and train.

Vampires might be a loaded term, but it might also apply as a conclusion of an unbiased study.

Why Louisiana? It's pretty hot most of the year. Why not northern states or even Canada?

And burning fossil fuels is pretty shady considering how cheap solar has gotten.

Because Louisiana is very rich with natural gas on cheap land, has low regulation, and governor after governor that is down for being a testing ground for new wacky republican policies.

They also placed it near Grand Gulf, and there is a lot of water in that area.

People still want their software to work at night. And last I checked, Louisiana had access to lots of water.

Wait, are you making a “with solar electricity will go away at night” argument?

Because it does? You either have to have a dispatchable energy source to turn on at night and on cloudy days (usually fossil fuels), or storage for 12+ hours. Actually more than 12 hours in case there's extended periods of cloud cover.

Zuck has aligned himself quickly (like the spineless ass kisser he is) , ideologically and in action, to the Republican party. Of course Meta is gonna use fossil fuels and not woke solar.

While they are at it, I am pretty sure they will enable a couple of extra genocides like they did in Myanmar with the extra capacities from that data center.

You should assume that the identifying details in this database are already leaked. The Equifax breach in 2017 exposed about half of all Americans. The National Public Data breach last year included 272 million Social Security numbers.

You can get an inconvenient approximation of challenge/response by freezing your reports with the bureaus and only unfreezing them briefly when applying for new credit.

You can buy Winnie the Pooh merchandise in every mall in China.

You can't use Winnie the Pooh as code to agitate against the government.

But here "Winnie the Pooh" is just calling Xi a lazy authoritarian.

That's an insult, not "agitat[ing] against the government"