Do we need to update Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness to Sam Vimes **‘Compute’ ** Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness?

Curious how you calculated that? What system load is it based on? Idle? Max?

Very much an estimate because OP didn’t mention what generation DL360 they had, how many CPUs, drives, etc. So I assumed 120W continuous 24/7/365 consumption which is pretty low. Assuming 22 cents per KWh for midwest, 33 cents/KWh for Boston and 44 cents/KWh for California.

OP is likely drawing much more than my estimate.

Just a guess, the mailing address probably specifies which state’s rules its under. Police enforcement might be interesting though.

My point is, you can possibly spend the same money and get better hardware that isn’t so power hungry and have a better experience with your hobby.

“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.

Future headline : “Department of Government Efficiency still completely without staff as those meeting the high requirements to take the job are smart enough to have zero interest in doing the job under those conditions"

Alternate future headline: “Department of Government Efficiency plagued by yet another scandal as its 45th employee is charged with fraud for attempting to personally gain financially from fraud they were perpetrating in the government”.

I was thinking something like this where you can be TOTALLY INSIDE ONE SMALL BUILDING and be in two different cities/states.

The left side of gas station (QuickTrip) is Kansas City, Kansas. The right side of the gas station is Kansas City, Missouri. So cross state lines going from the chip aisle to the soda refrigerators.

I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers

If someone is paying you to host those and covering your costs, go wild! However, as a hobby you may be spending $925/year or more for electricity to run those in the Midwest. $1,387 if you’re living in Boston, $1,850 if you’re living in California.

In one year you may have been able to buy more new power efficient hardware from just what you’re spending on juice.

I have been an IT professional since 1995. Never have I ever had a personal PC that wasn’t either a refurbished laptop or some sort of Frankenstein abomination that I pit together from whatever was on sale and upcycled parts.

I’ve been in the game for about the same amount of time. I stopped doing that about 15 years ago when I saw that the electricity I was paying on older gear was equaling or exceeding the cost of buying newer, faster, and lower power consumption hardware.

They could have lived in a city that straddles a state boundary. Crossing to a different city/state could be done measured a matter of meters/yards.

The appetite for 7nm ICs may be greater than the domestic ability to supply. Just because they can make 10,000 may not mean they can make 10,000,000.

Dunno about you, but I ain’t making >£1000 per day, and looking round Grangemouth nor are many of that workforce. It doesn’t add up. It lacks credibility and still reeks of Jim sabre rattling for more tax rebates

I don’t think you’re parsing the article’s information correctly which is causing you to arrive at the improper maths.

they said the plant is losing £385,000 a day.

This is the total operational shortfall, not the exact amount that is allocated to labour going to wages.

one of the oldest oil refinerys in the world, will close in spring 2025, costing almost three thousand jobs directly and in the supply chain.

The whole supply chain include not only the workers at Grangemouth operating the refinery, but lorry drivers delivering crude to the refinery and finished products out for shipping, dockers doing the same at the shipping port, all workers that process the regulatory compliance paperwork, even companies that supply repair parts/materials to the refinery, food for the canteen, etc.

So that article is saying: After all the costs and profits are tallied there is a shortfall of £385,000 at day. If it closes not only will the workers at the refinery lose their jobs, but many others will that support the refinery (but don’t work in it). This could affect 3000 jobs, some of which are in the refinery, but many are not.

Trump is also planning to increase exports

Every country wants to have more exports. Its not up to a leader of the country directly. You can’t force exports to occur. You have to convince someone from another country to buy something from your country. The exception to this is if you have things other countries want to buy, but you don’t want them to have them (like spaceflight, military goods, or high technology).

A nation’s leader can build mechanisms with other countries that can help convince them to buy such as free trade agreements, etc. However, thats the exact opposite of what trump is doing. Trump wants to put tariffs on imports, thats the opposite of free trade and makes other countries not want to buy from you.

In September, PetroIneos announced that Grangemouth, one of the oldest oil refinerys in the world, will close in spring 2025, costing almost three thousand jobs directly and in the supply chain.

My guess is this: 3000 jobs

If a refinery were built with today’s standards and automation how many workers would be needed for the same refining capacity? Likely a small fraction of the 3000 across the whole supply chain. Labour is expensive.

From trump’s talk before the election, I don’t think they foresee there will be a 2028 election.

There is a whole youtube rabbit hole you can go down showing videos of miniature versions of larger (larger caliber) guns. The smallest I saw was “replica” Civil War Navy revolver that the whole gun was about 6cm long. It was a functional gun that had a powder charge with a projectile.

I think it’s more depressing that the writers of late 1940s or early 1950s Disney comics didn’t understand that as long as you have pencil technology, preserving the “formula” to make an atomic bomb does not require effort.

I think that is a view with the knowledge of hindsight.

In the 1940s and 1950s knowledge about how the atomic bomb was created and where as very limited. It wasn’t until 1994 the primary archives of the Manhattan Project were declassified. Any public knowledge before the was limited to specific releases the government chose. The 40s and 50s were also well before the general knowledge about how nuclear weapons work and that the difficulty is fuel refinement and shaped charges. So the general knowledge of the public (and comic book writers) were probably limited to just chemistry. The basis of what we commonly know as C-4 plastic explosives (used in Hollywood action movies all the time) wasn’t even invented yet until 1950 (Semtex). So new chemistries of explosives were still coming out in the contemporary day of these comic book artists. Its not a stretch to for the artist to think that the atomic bomb was just another type of formula.

Or more realistically, the “formula” was just the word chosen for the Macguffin used to move the comic book story forward.

If you’re talking about actually scaling, like a CAD drawing, then no.

If you’re talking most of the appearance and function, then yes! There is a scale model of a Browning M2 machine gun (which normally fires 50 cal ammo) that fires 22lr instead. It will set you back about $20,000.

“First they came for the Oligarchs and I did not speak out - because I was not an Oligarch, and really because wage inequality is the core problem facing our society so coming for the Oligarchs seemed like a pretty good idea to me.”

Trump’s longstanding advisers, who view Musk as overly assertive and self-promoting.

Sounds like “trumps longstanding advisors” are worried they did all this work to get trump in power to use him are seeing musk come in and begin to use trump instead of them.

Thats part of the social contract. Its crappy that that person was abusing it.