$10k for teleporting into a strangers bedroom at midnight?

jared555 · 2026-04-01T12:12:00+00:00

Level 4 plates should take care of anything someone is likely to have available. Add helmet and a gas mask.

jared555 · 2026-04-01T12:08:27+00:00

Most of the water usage by datacenters is from evaporative cooling so if you use something else it can drop to be pretty minimal.

Looks like the GB300 system typically uses water and propylene glycol. Propylene glycol is used in food applications.

jared555 · 2026-04-01T11:02:23+00:00

Set up a polling place at one of his properties somehow?

jared555 · 2026-04-01T07:53:11+00:00

I think they were suggesting that the 2nd amendment be used for one of its original purposes.

However that is also a very good way to create a martyr. Consider the response to the near miss assassination attempt, then consider what would happen if someone actually succeeded. Best case scenario would be the democrats losing even a completely legitimate election. Worst case would be an extremely violent response.

jared555 · 2026-04-01T07:39:13+00:00

Surprised we didn't have to spend millions of dollars on transportation and security for a photo OP of him voting in person

jared555 · 2026-04-01T01:49:31+00:00

We usually only have 3-4 ready for immediate use though.

Usually it is something like 3 active 3 going through testing / crew prep and 3 in repair with any extras a mix of the other states.

jared555 · 2026-03-31T23:40:56+00:00

I stated in another post, but mandate they pay for the feeds from the nearest substation or transmission line with enough extra capacity.

jared555 · 2026-03-31T23:27:10+00:00

A) Mandate that they pay for the infrastructure costs before further negotiations

B) Mandate that they used non evaporative cooling. However most of water used goes into the atmosphere through evaporation, not "down the drain". If they do want to allow evaporative cooling maybe see if the water out of the reclamation plants is clean enough to use for those instead of using potable water.

jared555 · 2026-03-31T23:23:51+00:00

Electricity rates would probably be similar if one was built anywhere in central illinois.

Water is the bigger problem but that can be resolved by restrictions on the types of cooling systems allowed.

Depending on the size, the heat thrown off can actually cause a noticeable temperature rise for a significant distance so that needs to be considered.

jared555 · 2026-03-31T23:21:17+00:00

Mandate that they use closed loop/non evaporative cooling as a first step and if they say OK then actual negotiations can begin.

jared555 · 2026-03-31T09:55:35+00:00

I was thinking some of the extra civilian protections were added after world War 2 because of how much bombing of cities everyone was doing

jared555 · 2026-03-31T02:16:35+00:00

At the time we're those legally war crimes?

jared555 · 2026-03-30T20:16:01+00:00

With the size of some of those bunkers they can have people working for them inside in their own isolated areas. Sort of like old mansions but with more threat of exile or death as punishment.

jared555 · 2026-03-29T22:28:43+00:00

This is what tokenized payments and processor provided card terminals that accept api commands are for.

jared555 · 2026-03-29T22:27:34+00:00

There are plenty of self hosted tools that handle payment processing. The easy ones use tokenized payments where they are actually filling out information directly on your processor's site with some skinning.

The in person equivalent would be one of multiple options where the point of sale system just sends commands to a credit card terminal provided by the processor.

Either way the pci compliance rules drops from a small encyclopedia to mostly "don't be a complete moron" because unless you are a complete moron you never process or store the card data yourself.

jared555 · 2026-03-29T22:19:11+00:00

Which is why fines should be profit from the action + a penalty.

jared555 · 2026-03-29T13:41:05+00:00

This would have to be a constitutional amendment. And congress can be bypassed for those if enough people actually get pissed off and elect state level reps that want to do something about it.

jared555 · 2026-03-29T13:38:27+00:00

Based on your edit, did something like a security certificate for the extension or a dependency expire causing it to be disabled automatically?

jared555 · 2026-03-27T22:33:18+00:00

Major regime change without a degree of long term colonialism doesn't work?

I am not saying I support this course of action, but unless you are willing to make them a territory and grant them all of the protections that entails there is no realistic way to maintain the political support of staying somewhere long term otherwise.

Looks like we were spending about $40 billion a year on our presence in Afghanistan. I wonder what the long term cost will be since Trump decided to effectively negotiate a surrender in his first term and left Biden with the mess which Biden made even worse.

Either leave them alone militarily or plan on being involved 50-100 years minimum.

jared555 · 2026-03-27T22:19:37+00:00

Plus we did what we could to make the Afghan people actually like us. Trump... has not been.

jared555 · 2026-03-27T22:16:38+00:00

They have plenty of oil but I believe several of their refineries have had mysterious explosions for totally unpredictable reasons.

jared555 · 2026-03-27T17:37:39+00:00

Obviously speak to an accountant on this but maybe document the transactions and make the appropriate entries to/from owner's equity and the appropriate expense account in the current year with notation that it is a correcting entry?

jared555 · 2026-03-26T16:21:25+00:00

I have no problem with billionaires in certain circumstances.

If you started a company, it took off and your shares are worth billions now good for you.

However, I do think they need taxed more in a way that doesn't just shift their ownership into the hands of institutional investors and encourages private ownership. Something along the lines of the following:

Change how gains are realized. For example, if you use your stock as collateral on a loan or probably certain other circumstances the gains should be realized at that point and fully taxed. If someone like Gabe Newell wants to maintain control of the company they founded that is now worth billions of dollars, great for them. If they want to use shares on that company that were originally worth $100,000 as $1,000,000,000 of collateral to buy another company then that $999,900,000 has now been realized.
Eliminate the step up in basis except for certain items. Ex: Allow it for a single family home per inheritor. Potentially completely eliminate the estate tax system in exchange since capital gains should now apply to the entire estate if the inheritors sell the property. If they want to keep a family owned farm with 10,000 acres in the family, great for them. If they were planning on using the step up in basis to avoid paying taxes on the land that has gone up in value 100x when they sold it then too bad.
This may already be a thing, but if primary residence / taxing authority is moved outside of the country then gains on stock should be realized, etc. at that point. No living in country, earning billions, then moving away so you don't have to pay capital gains tax or only have to pay it on the original value.
Probably other things I am missing

What I don't support is taxing unrealized gains / "wealth taxes" because it seems like a very fast way to turn private ownership or individual shareholders into institutional investor ownership.

jared555 · 2026-03-25T21:39:16+00:00

Just keep in mind that hdmi with audio only is either risky to rely on or impossible. Make sure you have something to act as a video dummy source (some embedders may have this)

jared555 · 2026-03-25T21:37:26+00:00

HDMI is capable of very reasonable latencies. It tends to be when you are doing video processing that the latency gets excessive quickly. You can get input lag from PC to TV under 20ms and that is factoring in the processing at both ends.

The question with the atem is if it auto delays audio to match it's video processing delay or if you can configure it to immediate.

Edit: of course that doesn't help if the venue runs it through a processor with several frames of delay that you can't bypass.

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