Do we really hold editorials to the same standard as the rest of the news? These are opinion pieces, you should expect bias, no?
There is a reason they publish opeds right next to hard news. Its not by accident.
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balozi commented on Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties npr.org/2025/10/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/ilamont
balozi commented on Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret source-material.org/amazo... · Posted by u/chhum
Concerns about inconsequential water usage at datacenters is a far more welcome problem for the the industry than the other real issues they could be dealing with. People distracted by water concerns will not notice the very real energy usage and AI ethics/practices issues.
Say what you want but the industry has figured out how to manage public perception and sentiment. Water usage problem is easy to fix, while energy usage is a far tougher nut to crack.
balozi commented on US cities pay too much for buses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
Don't be fooled, paying less won't help much since the cost of a bus is a small part of the costs of running a bus route. about half your costs are the bus driver. The most expensive bus is still only 1/3rd of your hourly cost of running the bus. If a more expensive bus is more reliable that could more than make up for a more expensive bus (I don't have any numbers to do math on though).
Half the costs of running a bus route are the driver's labor. The other half needs to pay for maintenance, the cost of the bus, and all the other overhead.
Federal subsidies don't stop at paying for much of the bus purchase costs, they are also paying for much of the roads and bridges the busses run on. Subsides cover of the operating costs, especially labor and energy. And at the very end, the reason most localities are able to offer free rides or very low cost rides is because federal dollars are subsidizing the final ride fares.
I'll argue that this Woit post is no better. Its lazy. What was the point?
Obviously, the next move is to build and sell the new iPhone Air 2 which has a two-day battery and improved camera system.
balozi commented on America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back molsonhart.com/blog/ameri... · Posted by u/putzdown
America doesn't underestimate it, its president does.
For better or worse the man is exposing the mindboggling scale of deindustrialization that was hidden underneath America's transition to a "knowledge economy". Decades of failed economic policy has led America to this point.
They did. They've giving the UK Government a backdoor to all UK users.
Apple lost here.
Technically, they are leaving the front door open to all interested parties
The Planetary Boundaries framework is so bad, I don’t understand why it’s so popular. Most of the "boundaries" are directly correlated. Most of them are fairly arbitrary.
It’s such an awful tool to discuss the actual very serious issue it underlines. I wish it would just disappear.
Just to be clear, there is nothing magical about most of these boundaries. The situation is not in any way suddenly worse today than yesterday. Some of the axis actually showcases issue which would be a problem at any level. Others are debatable. Thresholds are overall a bad way to think about dynamic systems.
The cynic in me sees people building careers off promotion of pseudo-science, and other on the creation of content around said pseudo-science. Reminds me of string theory for some reason.