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As programmers we don’t make the decisions. If anthropic allows the c suite to fire 1000 people but China only 900 people, then anthropic can only coat 10% more than China to be worthwhile.
Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:24AM (#50349082)
Quite.

The wealthiest Americans have never owned so much of the stock market, with the top 10% now holding a record 93% of US equities, according to Federal Reserve data.

the bottom 50% of Americans owned just 1% of all stocks and mutual fund shares

Academic and electrical evidence does correlate high numbers of flyers with higher vote shares.

https://www.markpack.org.uk/159114/leaflets/

I didn’t say adsl. And the copper was about 900m.

I’ve got some adsl speed at work in some location which are limited to under 8/1, which is fine as they are replacing isdn (which is also being turned off), service is sites. I assume it’s a similar technology to adsl.

From what I can tell, dsl of any type didn’t really take off in America.

Copper dsl remains working just fine - my last place was copper on a cable through the air and was 30 down 8 up. Not bad on wiring installed in the 1960s

No phone signal of course.

So you can point to a nuclear plant built in the last 10 years in the west which is massively cheaper?

If nuclear is cost effective it makes sense to build it for all capacity - in the U.K. that’s about 50GW.

Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:19AM (#50324206)
Have to wait for Mr Fusion l
Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:17AM (#50324195)
A litter of petrol is about 34MJ or about 9.5kWh

It propels a car about 10 miles. About 1 mile per kWh

Charging my electric car via AC at 7kW to replace the power used to drive 90 miles in autumn takes 26kWh according to the meter, so 3.5 miles per kWh.

Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:38AM (#50323972)
That’s typically done with thinks like lacp, not multipath
Nuclear fans on HN don’t get that nuclear was the answer in the 90s, but is not today.

The problems in the U.K. specifically are more about grid capacity (both long distance and local substation level) and nonsense regulations (why can’t I have pluggable battery to go with my pluggable solar) than in generation.

Nuclear can’t provide dispatchable energy when supply is low and demand is high, same problem as renewable.
So you’re saying that nuclear has to be running 100% of the time at its highly expensive price per MWh (“base load”)

And that you can’t scale nuclear to provide all the power as the peaks are only needed rarely.

Which means that when other sources are cheaper (renewables), those must be banned to ensure nuclear gets paid more?

Pretty much, especially with their latest mess with “Zionism is racism” entryism, a leader who can’t lead, and a split between those interested in green subjects and rump Corbynites
Wow when nuclear power was the answer why we’re against it, but now nuclear power is too expensive compared with renewables plus solar they are for it.

How about some useful policies like removing planning constraints for grid expansion and solar farms and compulsory wind farms on golf courses owned by foreign billionaires

Early SNW was great. The problem isn’t too many “weird” episodes, it’s not enough “normal” episodes. In the 90s you could do 3 or 4 curveball episodes as you had 20 normal ones.
Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:16PM (#50297612)
1988 was about peak tv, And TNG writers had Data claim that television would not survive much beyond 2040. Amazing how prescient that turned out to be.
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:24AM (#50270983)
Functionally they are. Allow traffic aiming at this address and this port to arrive on this server.

Not that my WireGuard connection needs nat as it terminates on my router. And I use private ip ranges as I want to be sure that if WireGuard drops out for some reason traffic doesn’t route over the unencrypted path. Defence in depth.

Re:Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:10PM (#50267185)
Microwave took decades from invention to being normal. VHS took weeks. The difference was pornography.
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:41PM (#50266891)
I can’t think of a single time I’ve wanted to connect between two hosts when I haven’t specifically allowed one through a firewall
What does such a package look like for a typical long term employee?
Not the hub. A node in a mesh. Remove yourself from the mesh and traffic reroutes.

Now if you have too many leaches and not enough contributors then you get a problem, but that’s not the same as a single point of failure.

It’s only censorship when a democratic government does it. When an unelected businessman with no oversight and more power than most counties does it isles just property rights.
You have to increase the width of the mesh.
Well yes, if you have 10 people on an island there’s only 240 hours a day. Have 20 people and it’s 480 hours a day.

You’ve then got efficiencies. If you have 5 slaves like the new feudal lords (and wannabe sycophants) want and the them to dig a ditch, if you provide a jcb you will get more ditches done more quickly. Work done per person you control increases which is good for you as you own the output.

The word “government” is the group that governs. People like Musk and Zuck govern their fiefdoms with absolute power, or at best the level of power medieval kings had.

The type of power the wield would be beyond imagination for the most ruthless Roman Emperor

The vast majority of tax take by the us government is tax on income (person invoke tax and payroll tax), not wealth, thus the wealthy can’t be paying the vast majority of tax
Money is also worthless. Money represents control over assets and control over people, and those aren’t zero sum.
Trillion dollar industry vs individual struggling to afford this months rent.

The public can fight Facebook in the same way an infant can fight Muhammad Ali.

That’s an interesting analogy, but it breaks down somewhat when the messages that get through are those chosen by the government (Facebook, Google, etc) rather than people shouting louder.
Everyone and his dog uses VPNs in China.

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