What are you talking about. Trash is inexpensive, but Americans absolutely pay for it (solid waste utility bill). I think people conceptualize that they have utility bills?
Where Americans are renters and garbage service is hidden in their monthly rent payment, sure, but for Americans who own a home, they have to pay their local jurisdiction a fee for taking away trash and recycling and compost (and batteries and light bulbs). Also sewage and water.
Wat. Almost all Americans either pay someone to deal with their waste or are dependents of someone who pays on their behalf. Do you think we're all burning our trash in barrels or dumping it in the local river or something?
> it's an open conversation around how careful we need to be with the water usage
It's only an "open conversation" because of the complete lack of transparency electricity companies and data center companies are required to give us. Communities are expected to make these decisions without any of the data to know what they're signing up for.
What irks me the most is how prevalent the industry line about water usage "not being a big deal" is on HN. Closed loop systems are probably less than 10% of data centers! Not to mention the fact that even in closed loop systems, you still have to regularly "bleed the lines". That water builds up with the anti-freeze, anti-corrosives, and anti-fungals additives as well as other stuff they pick up along the way including PFAS. Closed loop systems are far from a perfect alternative to the open loop systems that are prevalent. They can use as much as 40% more electricity, have much higher upfront costs, and then you have to have a solution for the toxic sludge problem.
Exactly how a "free market" should work. But it won't work that way because AI is considered a "national security priority" so it will always be bailed out
That sounds like it would be a huge asset for other people making these considerations in their own communities. Would you be open to sharing your work?
Thanks! I'm aware of them and have used them extensively for finding privacy-focused and/or open source alternatives. I wasn't aware I could filter by region, though.
All I really deeply want on this front is for the ability to have my IDE and CLI apps specific colors for specific projects. On mac, being able to 3-finger swipe up to mission control and then swipe down on the app I want has been by far my favorite way to navigate windows. The main problem I have is that the color of the app itself is the main way of telling them apart. I wish I could use a particular VS Code or Terminal theme for just one instance
There's this really cool browser add-on called Adnauseum. It's a layer on top of uBlock Origin. It will visually still hide the ads from you but in the background it actually selectively "clicks" on certain ads and tries to create some sort of alt profile for you
This gets into the topic of data poisoning. Where you are not only defending your own privacy but you are actively poisoning the corporate well and are arguably benefiting others
Most of us aren't paranoid about other "crazy" individuals. We're paranoid about large corporations, authoritarian governments, lobbyists/interest groups, etc.
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