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Al Christie's avatar

Mixed reaction. I like the favoring of private and microgrids, and the lowering of regulatory barriers, but am disappointed that a carbon tax would even be considered. The "social cost" of carbon is nonsense and totally vulnerable to whatever politicians want to say it is, as an excuse to try to get a carbon tax. The Eu is destroying itself with carbon taxes. CO2 is good for plants and to think that 0.04% CO2 in our atmosphere is harmful is crazy. Also it sounds like Travis actually buys into the idea that it's ok to weaken our grids' reliability with wind and solar, although I'm glad he at least said he's not in favor of subsidies. He doesn't seem to realize that without subsidies, there would be no wind or solar farms, because they make no sense economically.

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EvanP's avatar

AI is on the brink of a massive paradigm shift. A small startup company has realized that because of the way servers have developed under the influence of the windows desktop OS there is massive hardware redundancy and wasted processor cycles in server farms. By writing their own OS optimized for AI they can replace a massive server farm with a few NUCs. They have been using prototypes of their systems to analyze voter databases and uncover massive opportunities for fraud that have been exploited multiple times in recent years to distort election results. Verifiable data, only made available in the last twelve months by using cheap, energy lean AI.

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