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This is hardly under the radar, it’s all over the news.

They mean an attempt like this, but one that they manage to keep quiet and out of the press.

I wonder, if I asked the next dozen people I meet, whether they would have any idea about this.

The only people this is relevant to are Albanians. I don't expect an Albanian to know about data centers being built in Texas. Hell, I don't expect Michiganders to know about them.

> The only people this is relevant to are Albanians.

That's a short-sighted view. Nature destruction is relevant to people everywhere. The locals might not even care much (unlike in this case, fortunately).

What if this construction project would wipe out animal species x, y or z? That's a permanent, irreversible loss for the world as a whole.

What if some species loses its breeding ground, decimating a population elsewhere? Or takes out a stop halfway a migration route?

Destruction of nature always has 2nd order effects. Don't ignore just because you don't live there.


For software maybe, but that’s just one industry.

You have very similar mechanics elsewhere though. More people => invariably more communication/HR/information management overhead pretty much regardless of what they do, and you grow the labor supply also (=> more people willing to work shorter hours).

Yes, exactly. Many people fail to ask themselves: what is the economy for?

Sounds like you have only the saleswoman to thank, not the bot.

We've been waiting 40 years for that "one day". I wouldn't bet on it. :(

This doesn't happen without a lot of hard work. Want to help? See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/07/how-i-got-the-uk-government... for inspiration.

Yeah, especially since most Americans don't know how to properly pronounce Claude.

Hmm, Claude Shannon was an American (the model is ostensibly named after him), so maybe how he pronounced it would be the correct pronunciation.

That said, every language on earth will adapt foreign words into its phonology. The alternative would be to adopt the phonology of every language that loaned a word into your language.


"Ukraine's manpower crisis is real. There are few fighting age males left to easily draft." So are they sill not conscripting females? Can't they operate drones too?

Most C/C++ projects I know don't even run tests with ASan/TSan/UBSan before each commit/merge.

Where/what is newest? I see a “new” on the top page, is that what is meant?

Given that that link points to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest , yes.

it’s referring to the page available at /newest - the “new” link leads to it

yes, the "new" anchor links to /newest

What was your point in blogging before? And how is that point gone because of google's behaviour?


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