On Feb 13 Matthew Saroff commented on good move from georgia: “Data centers incur enormous infrastructure costs, large transmission lines, etc.As it currently stands, average rate payers are subsidizing this.”
On Feb 07 Anonymous commented on what you do when you are losing: “It's too late; once a hacker has physical access to a system, that system is forever compromised. The entire Treasury system needs to be scrapped…”
On Feb 07 Anonymous commented on its thursday: “Chin up; you're far from alone. Too many of us are waiting until Monday's court hearing to learn of our own fates.”
On Jan 31 Quasit commented on well shit: “I'm so sorry! I hope you find another one soon. ”
On Jan 30 Quasit commented on good move from georgia: “I imagine they'll make that illegal soon. Charging data centers more, I mean - not running them. Unfortunately.”
On Jan 28 Matthew Saroff commented on interesting: “I did not stop reading him. I stopped recommending him.”
On Jan 26 Stephen Montsaroff commented on interesting: “This is why you shouldn't drop people from your reading just because the disagree with you.”
A Jan. 6 conspiracy theory that hasn’t been disproven (Press Watch)
Said conspiracy is that the authorities did not take the threat of
violent protests seriously on January 6, because either, the risks were
dismissed because the protesters were white people, because the people
making the decisions supported the idea of insurrection, or that they
had been ordered to sit on their hands by the Trump White House. It pretty clearly happened.
Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs (Ars Technica) Since this would be a cure, and not a lifelong treatment, if this gets patent exclusivity, I would expect it to be over $10,000.00 a dose, because there is little profit in curing things. The profit is in lifelong treatments.
The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia (The New Republic) How a bunch of tech bros are trying to create Galt's Gulch in a rural California county in violation of the laws governing that county. They want to create a private country that they run as their private demesne.
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