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paulryanrogers commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center   fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam
adamsb6 · 2 hours ago
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.

paulryanrogers · 4 minutes ago
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.

paulryanrogers commented on How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure   blog.rubygems.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/hahahacorn
paulryanrogers · a day ago
So the solution is none? Not better MFA tools?
paulryanrogers commented on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)   cdn.akamai.steamstatic.co... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
raron · 2 days ago
People would go back to piracy.

Exactly as that famous quote says, currently Steam is the better product, but if Valve would go rogue, that could change easily.

> If Steam decided to charge $10/mo

If you think about games already purchased I suspect that would be illegal in many parts of the world.

paulryanrogers · a day ago
Considering how quickly new games become unplayable on PC, it amazes that current circumstances pass as legal. StopKillingGames.com
paulryanrogers commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update   blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst
josteink · 4 days ago
Or support radical activist groups unrelated to software or technology.

Absolutely bonkers.

paulryanrogers · 4 days ago
Like?
paulryanrogers commented on CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations   ips-dc.org/report-executi... · Posted by u/hhs
k_roy · 5 days ago
Seems like calling something low effort is even lower effort.

But hey, let’s chat.

Is this not the opposite of trickle down, with clearly the transfer of wealth upward?

paulryanrogers · 5 days ago
I like the snowball metaphor. Those who start with more get more regardless of the weather. Meanwhile smaller snowballs melt away in bad (warm) times and can't grow nearly as fast even in good (cold) times.
paulryanrogers commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
herpderperator · 6 days ago
Have they fixed the ability to easily transfer your existing Android data to the new Android phone? I find that every time I upgrade, despite choosing the options to transfer apps/settings, that 90% of the apps I open just greet me with the login screen and I have to set everything up completely from scratch. I remember maybe a handful of apps, I think one was Uber, that were able to transfer everything including the login session. That was truly magic. That's how it should be for all apps. I understand banks might have special security requirements and I already know for Google Wallet, your cards need to be reactivated even if they transfer over, but most apps are not banks.
paulryanrogers · 6 days ago
Pixel to Pixel has been smooth for me since the Pixel 4. Haven't don't cross manufacturer for a while.

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paulryanrogers commented on Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version   macrumors.com/2025/08/16/... · Posted by u/mgh2
DrBenCarson · 9 days ago
Cool. App Store extended the true innovation which was a fully capable OS in everyone’s pocket

App Store doesn’t exist without iPhone just like Windows doesn’t exist without the PC

paulryanrogers · 7 days ago
I recall getting apps on my Blackberry and Treo before iPhone existed.
paulryanrogers commented on White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake   wsj.com/tech/intel-us-gov... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
JohnTHaller · 8 days ago
It was a lie, but it was still a campaign to raise taxes on Americans.
paulryanrogers · 8 days ago
To call it a "campaign to raise taxes" I think assumes voters are more informed and open minded they they really are.

My boomer parents genuinely believed Trump had and would continue to reduce their taxes. When confronted with tariff facts they counter with more spin, like "he's just negotiating" or "it'll make the economy so much stronger".

paulryanrogers commented on White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake   wsj.com/tech/intel-us-gov... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
usefulcat · 8 days ago
Consider that the current president campaigned on raising taxes, and was elected anyway.

Perhaps a lot of R voters didn't have a problem with that because they somehow assumed that enacting a bunch of tariffs wouldn't result in higher prices for them.

paulryanrogers · 8 days ago
When did Trump ever campaign on raising taxes?

Perhaps you mean the tariffs which he promised that other countries will pay for?

u/paulryanrogers

KarmaCake day10769December 20, 2014View Original