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New comment by ecshafer in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

ecshafer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:35:50 +0000

There is also additional risk here. If company X made an unknown superfund site, then company Y develops on it. Is company Y then liable if the superfund site becomes known?

New comment by ecshafer in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

ecshafer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:24:18 +0000

Do these environmental impact studies effectively stop that? could they effectively stop this issue with a more efficient process?

What happens now is that there are a large amount of studies, that pay consultants and organizations to generate thousands of pages of documentation. They then turn around, have some niche issues that they pay to go away. For example was Micron having to purchase a few acres of land 25 miles away as a park for some owls effectively helping stop superfund sites?

This is basically environmentalism security theater and political grifting.

New comment by ecshafer in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

ecshafer — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:55:34 +0000

How much of this issue is self-inflicted? Micron is building a massive fab in Syracuse. They've spent like 4 years seeking approval, lobbying politicians, doing BS "environmental impact studies" (which are mostly just rent seeking and political handouts). They finally started building, but if they had just been able to put shovel in the ground we would already have this fab be producing memory.

New comment by ecshafer in "Google ending ChromeOS support two years early"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:35:05 +0000

The widespread usage of laptops in schools is a massive mistake in the first place. The schools using chromebooks has the same root cause, myopic thinking by administrators.

New comment by ecshafer in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:26:41 +0000

There is no such thing as a victimless crime. Smoking marijuana has many many victims. I have personally seen enough people that smoked themselves stupid or into poverty that it hard for me to see it as a victimless crime. The issue was always that that laws and punishments were too lax.

New comment by ecshafer in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:52:22 +0000

Legalizing sports betting and online gambling was such a massive mistake. They are sleazy immoral industries that profit on suffering.

New comment by ecshafer in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:05:49 +0000

All men, being created by GOD, have certain inalienable rights, like free speech. Whether a country infringes upon those rights or not is a different story. Germany has a history in authoritarianism that seems to persist.

New comment by ecshafer in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:22:24 +0000

What if the private company is "deciding under their own judgement because the VP's roomate from College is a chief of staff and they were told it would be really helpful if they decided in a beneficial way? We saw from the Twitter files that Twitter had an active relationship with members of the Democratic party and agents of the government to decide under their own judgement to ban or downrank certain people and ideas. This led to another concrete example of major outlets being effectively banned (The New York Post) due to the Hunter Biden Laptop issue. This behind the scene collusion is where the "they are a private company" line falls apart.

New comment by ecshafer in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:58:48 +0000

There is only one GOD.

New comment by ecshafer in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

ecshafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:24:42 +0000

The concrete example would be Canada "debanking" the truckers who protested in Ottawa for exercising their GOD given right to free speech. Another concrete example would be Germany having banks close accounts for the AFD and AFD related people.

New comment by ecshafer in "The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent"

ecshafer — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:54:23 +0000

AI is going to make, long term, Software Engineering more important. Getting requirements, user feedback, tests, product vision. These are key differentiators now.

If you can really get a good set of requirements, go and write all of your test cases out, and then throw it at an AI that will one shot it. Its perfect.

New comment by ecshafer in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

ecshafer — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:42:07 +0000

We have this concept in the western world of being presumed innocent until proven guilty. Something like a sexual assault accusation is typically taken extremely seriously (As it should), but this can lead it to being weaponized. Maybe a manager who is a rival for a position you covet, well a sexual assault accusation may make them conveniently go away.

New comment by ecshafer in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

ecshafer — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:46:43 +0000

The only need another $100B and another 20 years and they WILL build the High Speed Rail!

New comment by ecshafer in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

ecshafer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:45:51 +0000

The federalist papers make it pretty clear the intention was not that everyone should vote. The idea of active citizens being the ones who vote is everywhere in Republicanism, whether you look at the early French Republic and their restrictions on the national guard, to constitutionalism in England, or the early American Republic. In Athens, not everyone got a vote. In Rome not everyone got a vote. In cities across Europe following the Magdeburg charter, not everyone got a vote. The original limitation of propertied people in the constitution was the correct move in hindsight. The issue with suffrage for those that are not active and giving a positive impact to the country is exactly what you see happening today, politicians pandering to certain voter groups with hand outs instead of sticking to principles.

New comment by ecshafer in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

ecshafer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:57:49 +0000

They made some Italian group into sanctioned terrorists because, get this, they specifically sought out and provided digital servers to terrorist organizations that aligned with their ideals. You seem to be leaving out that they did not generally host services for the general public, that they specifically only hosted services for organization they politically agree with after a thorough vetting process, AND those groups happened to be terrorist groups.

New comment by ecshafer in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

ecshafer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:04:38 +0000

You remember an individual duel from 20 years ago?

New comment by ecshafer in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

ecshafer — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:12:49 +0000

price discrimination. They want to capture low and high cost agent requests, and different workflows.

New comment by ecshafer in "Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising"

ecshafer — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:05:26 +0000

10xDev is arguing the opposite, NOT replacing students for some cold calculated marketing, and being more authentic for culture and integrity.

New comment by ecshafer in "Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising"

ecshafer — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:03:36 +0000

There was an episode of Scrubs where Turk (Black Male Doctor) is annoyed about always being used in advertisements for everything he was in. They had a gag where his college had him copy and pasted twice in the same picture of an advertisement.

New comment by ecshafer in "Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain"

ecshafer — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:34:57 +0000

> The EU requires political ads to be labeled and restricts how targeted they can be.

This doesn't sound like a good thing. Why shouldn't a political group be able to target people who are going to care the most about an issue/politician with an ad? Basically Meta has too good of a profile, so they aren't able to target ads. I would want to know personally, if Politician X is for/against a policy I feel strongly about.